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      Usually, if you’re at the level of being elected President, part of what you care about is how you’ll be written up when history is written. It’s a form of immortality, and most people don’t want to be Herostratus

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        But if you have narcissistic personality disorder you are perfect and awesome and know for certain historians will vindicate you. In other words, he cannot imagine being thought of poorly for anything he does.