More on Orange Nero's lack of self-confidence

I wrote in August of last year that while Trump is arrogant, he has no confidence in himself: "My conception of confidence is Stoic: it is inwardly focused self-awareness that can not be affected by external circumstances. Trump does not have this: he has arrogance (false confidence) - and much of it." Today Paul Campos has written a post that expresses similar sentiment:

Of all the very many disturbing things about Trump, the single most disturbing to me is that he might actually be more emotionally than intellectually disabled. He’s genuinely desperate to win the Nobel Peace Prize that went to a Venezuelan woman (DEI!) this morning, because the essence of a narcissistic void is that the pseudo-person that inhabits it is utterly incapable of feeling any sense of internal validation or self-worth. Trump NEEDS this prize, and all the other prizes, including the Michigan Man of the Year Award for example, because his internal sense of self-worth is utterly non-existent. An even minimally well adjusted and liminally mature adult realizes at least on some level some of the time that prizes and fame and worldly success are transitory illusions, that all is vanity, that suffering is caused by desire, and so forth.

Obviously the sort of person who wins all the prizes, accumulates Smaug-like hordes of wealth, is named president of this and chairman of that etc, is not likely to spend much time contemplating that everything is dust in the wind, and that success walks hand in hand with failure along Hollywood Boulevard.