Paul Ryan didn’t think Trump would win. No shame in that, neither did most of the country, even most that voted for Trump. We are near certain that Trump didn’t think he was going to win, he looked terrified at his acceptance speech, and scared.

But once Trump did win, Ryan knew enough to figure out how he was going to deal with Trump, someone so unique that Ryan had no idea how it could work. According to Business Insider, which has a copy of Bob Woodward’s new book Peril, the book includes reporting on the fact that a doctor sent Ryan several research articles on the keys to working with someone with a narcissistic personality disorder. The book says that Ryan spent weeks studying them, sure that Trump had the disorder. (No shit?)

According to the book (And article), the biggest confrontation took place after Charlottesville, where Trump simply refused to condemn the entirety of the white supremacist side because… why else? They supported him.

According to “Peril,” Trump called Ryan afterward and blew up at him over the statement, shouting, “You’re not in the foxhole with me!”

(NARCISSIST, YOU NEED TO BE LOYAL TO ME AT ALL TIMES)

“Are you finished?” Ryan reportedly yelled back. “May I have some time to speak now? You’re the president of the United States. You have a moral leadership obligation to get this right and not declare there is a moral equivalency here.”

But Trump refused to back down, saying, “These people love me. These are my people. I can’t backstab the people who support me,” according to the book.

When Ryan pointed out that there were white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the crowd, Trump conceded, “Well, yeah, there’s some bad people. I get that. I’m not for that. I‘m against all that. But there’s some of those people who are for me. Some of them are good people.”

There you have your narcissist. They support me, that makes them good people. Of course. Even though they’re awful people, if Trump doesn’t return their love, he’s stabbing them in the back. In reality, Trump stabs people in the back all the time, the problem is that he’d lose votes from that type of people.

At least Ryan was well-studied on why it was that Trump would take such a strong stand on behalf of the racists at Charlottesville.

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