Trump insider said he ‘legit has PTSD’ because he watches shooting video on repeat. Here’s what experts say

Donald Trump’s behavior in recent weeks has reportedly raised concerns in his camp that he could be suffering from PTSD, as he is said to be replaying the clip of the assassination attempt “over and over again.”

“He’s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the head — over and over and over again,” a Republican close to the Trump campaign told Vanity Fairlast week.

They added: “He may actually legit have PTSD.”

“He’s been through a lot,” a campaign official added to the outlet, referring to how the shooting continues to weigh on Trump’s mind.

So does Trump really have undiagnosed PTSD from the near-death experience?

The Independent spoke to some experts to find out.

Rather than PTSD, one top expert said that Trump’s habit for rewatching the moment he was shot is more likely a sign of the former president’s “narcissism.”

“If he is going back and watching this – and this is my opinion – he’s not watching this in the vein of PTSD, he’s watching this in a vein of ‘look at this event that happened to me, I took a bullet for democracy’,” Dr Seth Norrholm, a PTSD specialist and director of the neuroscience center for anxiety, stress and trauma at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, told The Independent.

“For him, it’s more about revisiting his own battle in the context of military service.”

He added: “Put simply, narcissism overshadowed the post-traumatic response.”

Norrholm defines a narcissist as someone with “an elevated sense of importance, who doesn’t think the rules apply to them”. A narcissist might use “deceit and trickery to get ahead in life” and can often display “elements of sociopathy.”

Norrholm pointed to Trump’s behavior in the immediate aftermath of