What happens when a narcissist has his ego crushed?

[fightforfreedom]

We are about to find out. Trump is 100% ego and he is losing and losing and losing. He is losing political power, he is losing followers, he is losing financially, legally. His brain is going to come apart at the seams. He will most likely lash out with uncontrolled revenge. He will most likely make things worse for himself and those who he blames for his mistakes.

Trump is heading for a very bad ending.

[Turbineguy]

1. Maybe Putin will take him in.

[Zambero]

4. Putin is done with his useful idiot

Trump and Trumpism served Putin well, to the detriment of our country, but it has played out. He has more than enough problems of his own making to deal with.

[JHB]

17. The new Trump Palace Siberia:

[harumph]

23. Ah, but what a view!

[secondwind]

2. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy....

[LuvLoogie]

3. I think he's all id.

But DeSantis is all ego.

[CrispyQ]

5. I hope he does serious damage to the Republican Party.

The kind that will take several election cycles to recover from.

[Major Nikon]

16. Trump isn't the problem. He's a symptom of a much larger problem.

During the time period when Pence was telling Trump to go fuck himself with his insurrection plan, the orange dipshit said, and Pence quotes, "You are too honest, people will hate you." As shocking as this sounds, the worst of it is he was 100% correct. You look at candidates like Pence and Cheney and while politically they are still douchebags, at least they have some measurable amount of integrity, and their electorate hate them for it. For years we spoke of the party of moral bankruptcy and this is exactly the end game of that. They are now completely void of morality, honesty, integrity, and decency. All of those things can and should be independent of ideology, but we find ourselves in a time where the opposite of those things are the core of the GQP. That core is rotten and it will still be rotten when Trump is long gone.

[RobinA]

19. Yup

Trump is a canary in a coal mine. Lots of people, including me, thought there was no way he could be elected. Wrong!!! Lots of other people thought he would straighten up and fly right once he got nominated/elected/inaugurated. Wrong!!! The only thing that mitigated some Trumpian damage was his utter incompetence. With the next Trump we may not be so lucky.

[Diamond_Dog]

6. He deserves it all and then some. No sympathy from me whatsoever.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. He will always have his magats. He'll never want for a meal. . . nt

[Turbineguy]

11. Luckily for him

his tastes run to prison food.

[dalton99a]

8. I pray God give him strength to carry on

and to fight and destroy all his real and perceived enemies in the Republican Party

[mn9driver]

9. He will find someone to blame for his sad.

It will never be his fault. Check with Melania on how that works.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. If you use the Titanic as a metaphor,

Trump is the iceberg that stops the ship, and then it turns into some abominable ice creature takes everyone down to the depth of the slurpy seas.

[agingdem]

12. he's the poster boy for the Dunning Kruger effect..

incapable of admitting defeat, never the cause of a calamity, always the victim and the hero, impervious to insults and threats, enthralled with his own perceived brilliance, seeks the total destruction of his enemies...he's a pathological self absorbed malignant narcissist..he ain't going nowhere...

[Silent3]

26. A lot of what you say is true, but "impervious to insults and threats" doesn't hold

Trump, like many narcissists, is keenly sensitive to insults and threats. Attacks on his ego make him lash out furiously. Much of that fury is because, even in a mind as dim as Trump's, there's a part of that mind that knows he isn't as great as he likes to believe. Lashing out at others is the mechanism for beating that part of himself down.

[agingdem]

27. I tend to think Trump interprets insults as

jealousy on the part of his detractors...they want to take away his power/control/money and he will not allow that to happen (think stolen documents...mine mine mine)..revenge is his weapon of choice..decimate the non-believers, grind them down with profanity, childish names and reveal long hidden destructive secrets..as long as he is center-stage, as long as the media is consumed with Trump, and as long as they don't misspell his name, he will be with us..

[sarcasmo]

14. Lindsey Graham is gonna find out.

[brewens]

15. The money actually drying up for Trump and his kids will be fun to watch.

None of them have any real skills to earn the sort of money they have been used to. We'll see just how desperate they will get and how low they will stoop to keep things going.

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. We already found out on January 6 2021

But yes, another violent inciting outburst is sure to come.

[nolabear]

20. Narcissistic rage. Thank goodness he has no more power.

He managed to stay delusional long enough not to have a breakdown while he had the ability to do more harm than he did.

[phoenix_rising]

21. Time for popcorn

Sit back and enjoy the trainwreck we’ve all been waiting for. 🍿

[Mr. Ected]

22. Unless the DOJ makes something happen to him, nothing will

He will not shut up. He will not back down. He will remain on attack mode (regardless of whether it's a Dem or a Rep or a prosecutor doing the attacking against him). The media will not redirect its fawning attention.

Only death will end the Trump saga. Not politics, not prosecution. Only death.

[Orrex]

24. Maybe he'll stroke out and die on live national TV

A stroke so massive that it pops his eyes from his skull and blows off the top of his head.

[Midnight Writer]

25. They lash out and double down. I (unfortunately) have a lot of experience dealing with these types.

They can be very charming, but there is always a thistle in their kiss.