Psychologist shares startling warning about Trump's newest addiction: 'He gets off on it!'

A prominent psychologist shared a startling warning about President Donald Trump's newest addiction during a live podcast interview on Monday.

Dr. John Gartner, a former professor at Johns Hopkins University, discussed Trump's "rapidly declining" mental state on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles. He argued that Trump's sense of grandiosity is becoming more "inflamed," which has led the president to develop a new addiction to scaring people and starting wars.

"I'm worried that he's going to become addicted or he is becoming addicted to war because he gets off on it," Gartner said. "Remember when he put out that social media thing where they were splicing actual images of the missiles blowing stuff up with video games? They were glorifying it, kind of trivializing it, and having fun with it. They're still showing him videos of blowing stuff up every morning."

Gartner said Trump's addiction to war could stem from his malignant narcissism.

"The thing that people need to understand about malignant narcissists is that they get more pleasure from this, which is the sadism from feeling powerful by harming and destroying and degrading other people and institutions, and in this case, countries," Gartner said. "So my fear is that Donald Trump is getting off on this. He is getting sadistic pleasure from scaring the world and blowing things up."