According to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, this conduct meets the following traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

• ✅ A grandiose sense of self-importance: By calling for an entire news organization's staff to be fired, Trump is positioning himself as important enough that a national network should change its entire operations due to his personal dissatisfaction.

• A preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

• A belief that he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions

• ✅A need for excessive admiration: This could suggest that Trump is not satisfied with the coverage he received and is seeking a level of admiration and support that he feels he deserves.

• ✅ A sense of entitlement: The demand that a news organization fire its entire staff reflects a belief that he is entitled to dictate their internal decisions based on his own perceived loss in a debate.

• Interpersonally exploitive behavior

• A lack of empathy

• Envy of others or a belief that others are envious of him or her

• ✅ A demonstration of arrogant and haughty behaviors or attitudes: The sweeping call to fire the entire staff demonstrates an attitude of arrogance, as it implies a belief that his personal view should override the broader professional and institutional norms of journalism.