“The Three Donald Trumps Speak” by New York Times columnist Gail Collins: Previously she said two alternate personalities, but now she says three.

Last month (see previous post) Collins said, “Have you ever noticed that [Donald Trump] tends to refer to the hero of all his stories as 'Trump'? Perhaps he thinks of 'Trump' as a separate person.”

But now she says he has three personalities:

“Unscripted Trump is the one who obsesses about crowd size and expresses complete astonishment that constructing a national health care plan is hard. That’s the one we worry will start a nuclear war.”

“Reasonable Chatting Trump is the one who had pre-speech gatherings with journalists in which he mused about passing immigration law reform and making the Dreamers legal. Everyone was very excited until it became clear this had no relation to anything he was actually planning to say in public…He’s…totally open to all your suggestions, nod frequently and leave you with the impression that you’ve scored a huge breakthrough. But he will not remember a thing that you discussed.”

“Somewhat Normal Republican Trump, the guy with the teleprompter.”

Note multiple personality’s cardinal feature of amnesia (memory gaps): Reasonable Chatting Trump “will not remember a thing that you discussed.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/opinion/the-three-donald-trumps-speak.html?_r=0