For a 79-year-old narcissist, postponing problems is the same as solving them. If the costs come due after such a person is gone, they just don’t care. There is no tomorrow. There is only your today. Time stops when you do.

For a 79-year-old narcissist, patriotism and public service are empty words. What matters is only how you feel, how you are treated, what’s in it for you.

For a 79-year-old narcissist, decency is a meaningless abstraction. Compassion is beyond comprehension, something you hear of but do not understand.

It is therefore dangerous to entrust the fate of nations to such a man. It is not that such traits might lead him to betray his country—he was never committed to his country to begin with. Or his wives. Or his children. Or his business partners. Or his political allies

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