Trump hoped COVID Would Take Out John Bolton: As if we needed more proof of his malignant narcissism

From HUFFPOST reporting on revelations in a soon to be published book “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History” by Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta.

Trump Reportedly Hoped COVID-19 Would Take Out John Bolton

The ex-president also reportedly mocked people sick with the coronavirus, according to a new book from The Washington Post’s Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta.

Months before being hospitalized with COVID-19 himself, Trump reportedly “waved his hands in front of his face, as if to jokingly ward off any flying virus particles” after then-National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow had stifled a cough in a meeting.

Trump then reportedly cracked a smile, said he was “just kidding” because Kudlow would “never get COVID” and would “defeat it with his optimism.”

“John Bolton,” Trump reportedly continued. “Hopefully COVID takes out John.”

Trump was being serious with his comment, according to Abutaleb and Paletta’s sources for the book

According to an article in The Guardian Bolton when asked by Axios reacted with wry wit when he heard abut this:

When asked by Axios about the quote, Bolton said: “Fooled me – I thought he was relying on his lawyers.”

If Trump was "merely" a preening grandiose narcissist, someone who would make the emperor from the New Clothes fairy tale look humble, he'd just be a noxious joke. He’d probably make you sick but he wouldn’t literally kill you.

Instead he's what numerous mental health professionals have described as a malignant narcissist. Below is the first page of many of a web search for Trump malignant narcissist.

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There are two definitions of malignant. Malignant narcissism doesn't mean the narcissism of a person has metastasized like a virulent spreading cancer. The word malignant is meant to mean malevolent and evil. In fact, the eminent social psychologist Erich Fromm, who coined the term in 1964, describes it as a "severe mental sickness" representing "the quintessence of evil". He characterized the condition as "the most severe pathology and the root of the most vicious destructiveness and inhumanity" ^Wikipedia

It means that extreme narcissism is combined with sociopathy and includes total lack of empathy. These people sadistically enjoying watching people suffer or causing them emotional or physical pain (think caged kids at the border), and death (see “Trump is intent on killing more Americans to feed his malignant narcissism”). They are paranoid, and totally lack the ability to be self-aware.

One of the aspects of Trump’s personality is that he makes no attempt to mask his evil. He’s like Boris Badenov. He revels in it. As the books come out  based on insider reports I think we will see more and more accounts like this one about John Bolton.