By now, the world already knows about Donald Trump, current president of the United States, has tested positive for Covid-19. [1] "Trump’s diagnosis, which came hours after he predicted that 'the end of the pandemic is in sight.'" [2]
"American voters view Donald Trump as having traits associated with sadistic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder, according to new research published in Clinical Psychological Science. The study found that even those who personally voted for Trump perceived him as having a highly disordered personality." [3]
Narcissism is not consonant with the virtue of humility. Many leaders, regardless of title, religious and non-religious, in both secular and non-secular worlds seem to have quite a bit of narcissism and an excess of pride. They tend to have an abundance of confidence in themselves without the slightest degree of compunction, and without giving the slightest thought of the need to perform periodic examinations of conscience, thereby putting themselves above God.
The time when the proudest people are most humbled is when they meet death, when they see their power extinguish before their eyes. The lucky ones get to have a taste of humility when illness befall them when they can no longer expect to function as they would normally. Should they recover, it will be difficult for many of them to forget about their brush with death. One could only hope that such an experience would give them the opportunity to repent and to humble themselves before God, while reminding themselves these words of Christ [4]:
“Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above.
[2] Ibid., quoted without hyperlink.
[3] https://www.psypost.org/2020/04/trump-perceived-as-abnormally-sadistic-and-narcissistic-by-both-conservatives-and-liberals-study-finds-56646, quoted without hyperlink.
[4] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+19%3A10-11&version=NIV, quoted in part without paragraph numbers.
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