Rude Pundit: The President is a sick old man who is being taken advantage of by people around him.

[58Sunliner]

16. BS. He's malevolent, and will be till the day he drops dead.

He deserves no sympathy. He's been using people his whole life. The fact that he is old and possibly ill with a disease or neurological decline like dementia, which ironically, the symptoms are much the same for a malignant narcissist as one in decline from dementia, is just a precipitate to his eventual end. Malignant narcissists don't age well. Had he not taken office he would have had less stress, which may have made life more manageable for him. While campaigning he got up and just said whatever grandiose piece of crap that made him feel special, fed his black hole of an ego, thinking when he was president, he could be king. And all the people, especially Obama, would pay. In order to maintain his narcissistic fantasies, in the face of conflict and opposition, he resorts to lies and attacks. Business as usual. He plays the victim.