This poor decision making is compounded by their rigidity, inability to admit mistakes, accept responsibility, and admit defeat. When malignant narcissists are humiliated by a loss they change the rules of engagement to their psychic benefit without any connection to reality.
Malignant narcissists always escalate and get worse. With each inevitable misstep and failure, their mistrust, paranoia, fear and isolation increase. The solution is to seek greater total control. They see their only option is to become more cruel and ruthless. The danger mounts/
This is Trump’s inner world projected onto the physical one we inhabit.
Trump controls the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
Malignant narcissists demand fealty, punish dissent, and severely penalize anyone who questions their authority or exposes their flaws, mistakes or lack of knowledge.
Their drives are dominated by self-interest, maintaining control and dominance, and getting pleasure from creating hostility and conflict. They deliberately escalate petty disagreements to outright conflicts to wars to validate their perceived power and control over people.
Malignant narcissists create chaos with lies, triangulation, double talk, strategic ambiguity, and contradictory statements to hide and deflect from their incompetence, and keep their enablers off balance with gaslighting and cognitive dissonance.
Psychopaths are characterized by the ease with which they lie, the smooth disregard and lack of concern they show for being caught in a lie, the expertise by which they mold the narrative to suit their manipulations, and the absence of any emotional connection to their deceit.
Psychopaths are characterized by the ease with which they lie, the smooth disregard and lack of concern they show for being caught in a lie, the expertise by which they mold the narrative to suit their manipulations, and the absence of any emotional connection to their deceit.
Generally, saboteurs don't broadcast their actions, unless, of course, they're malignant narcissists.
Malignant narcissists have poor strategic decision making. Their grandiosity, paranoia, impulsivity, lack of expertise, and psychopathic deficiencies in thought processing, foreseeing consequences and absence of conscience make them unable to objectively assess risks.