Can someone explain Donald Trump's EXTREME level of narcissism? [View all]

[Jacquette]

I get narcissism, I do. We are all narcissistic and devoted to self. To a degree. What I'm not understanding is how does such extreme narcissism co-exist with...reality? And how does one function?

At a certain point even if you think you're the 2nd coming of Caesar, Einstein and Henry VIII all rolled into one, reality...LIFE.. quickly shows you: Nah, son. When they fail what do they tell themselves? When they are humiliated and embarrassed by their own actions..DEMONSTRABLY your own actions..how do you look at that and go--not my fault.

Ex: when DT shoved the Montenegro Amb. to get in front for the photo op & then stood there like the cock o the walk with that insufferably smug thing he does with his mouth--Does he not look at the footage of that later and SEE what everybody else sees?

I can't process it or understand it. I used to think...he's joking or bullshitting; he CANNOT really be this way. I don't have a frame of reference for it.