I’m often asked how you can spot a narcissist. Here’s my standard list:

• Brag or show off
• Name-dropping
• Name brands or flashy possessions
• Look at themselves in the mirror a lot
• Turn the conversation back to him/herself
• Insults others
• Declarations about being the “best” or “great” without details
• Emphasizes his/her status

I wrote that list two years ago — long before Donald Trump started running for president. Yet it could have been written just for him. As others have pointed out, the Donald is a textbook case of narcissistic personality. He is clearly functioning well and thus can’t be classified as having narcissistic personality disorder, the clinical-level form, which by definition only describes someone whose traits are causing them difficulty. Trump, instead, displays narcissism as a personality trait — the type we focus on in The Narcissism Epidemic.

Here’s the question: Is Trump’s narcissism a cover for insecurity? This is…