A former economic adviser to President George W. Bush told Republican lawmakers on Tuesday that Donald Trump's Chinese trade adversaries think he's 'a 10-out-of-10 narcissist.'
Larry Lindsey, who chaired the National Economic Council during Bush's first two years in office, told top GOP House members and committee chairmen that he engaged a pair of psychiatrists to evaluate the president, according to Politico.
Lindsey, who was invited to talk to Republican leaders by Trump ally and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, attributed Trump's 'total' narcissism to his childhood.
The president, he claimed, had a mother who 'didn’t pay him adequate attention,' Politico reported.
China believes President Donald Trump is a '10-out-of-10 narcissist,' according to a former Bush-era economic adviser who spoke to Republican congressional leaders on Tuesday
Larry Lindsey claimed to have engaged a pair of psychiatrists to evaluate Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, but didn't say if they provided the analysis of what the Chinese think of the U.S. president
Xi is engaged in a tit-for-tat battle with Trump over trade, involving tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods
The newspaper's report, included in one of its afternoon email newsletters, did not say if the psychiatrists' findings lined up with China's view of Trump, or if one informed the other.
Asked if he could connect the dots or untangle the nonsequitur, Politico spokesman Brad Dayspring told DailyMail.com: 'Think you would have to ask Larry Lindsey to do that.'
A spokesperson at Lindsey's consultancy did not respond to a request for clarification.
Trump is embroiled in a protracted trade was with China's president Xi Jinping that shows ho sign of slowing down. Each country has levied punitive tariffs on hundreds of
