One component of Malignant Narcissism is SADISM. People don’t fathom how deeply Trump is driven by it. They will soon. Especially now, as his desperation grows and fear of losing aggregates with fear of dying. In normal people, sadistic impulses are offset by caring emotion. Trump has none of that. He is a Black Hole. He enjoys inflicting chaos on the world and actually takes glee from others' suffering. He defames women he's raped. He pokes fun at others' disabilities. He peddles fear. He induces outrage. He demands fealty or else. And speaking of "or else," he now makes threats multiple times a day, and does so every single day. He sees enemies in ALL conflict and disagreement and sees it as competition and part of a zero-sum game - he has to win AND they have to lose - and THAT, is the ultimate underpinning of sadistic posture. Of course, he didn't care when he botched Covid and it led to massive unnecessary deaths. Of course, he didn't care when he bombed 170 Iranian schoolchildren and rationalized it as an acceptable casualty of war. And of course, he refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill to benefit Americans, preferring to dangle the humanitarian benefit for additional partisan gain. And - did you see the venom with which he attacked another female journalist yesterday when she simply grilled him on his fake $5000 payments? He literally doesn't care about humanitarian consequence. He literally doesn't feel empathy, shame, or contrition. And I am literally using the term literally - correctly. Let's NEVER forget - he didn't just foment an insurrection, he savored it - even more so as it grew violent. Even Epstein once claimed that Trump was evil and liked to f*ck the wives of his closest friends. He is well into the desperation stage - and we know this because he's begging and he's bribing. After desperation comes panic. Normalize him at our collective peril. He is The Joker.