This narcissism is typical of how Trump reacts to American suffering. When the foreclosure crisis and the recession destroyed the American economy, he thought only of how he would profit, saying, “People have been talking about the end of the cycle for 12 years, and I’m excited if it is. I’ve always made more money in bad markets than in good markets.”4 His predatory mind-set is evident in his obsession with nuclear weapons, which he believes can be used to create profitable catastrophes, and also evident in his interest in causing civilian deaths abroad. When told in 2018 that the CIA had
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