A palace coup with Osama removed from power? I can live with that...
Simple marginalization. This turd is grinding himself down faster than you could chew a pencil down in a sharpener.
Helpful hints are being dropped here and there by unidentified parties; His response to such is more detrimental to him than the assault itself. He must respond to every one of them; It is the nature of the malignant narcissist to publicly defend ones ego.
There are people laughing their bums off about this. Nothing new under this sun, except to those who do not understand what is happening. Toying with malignant narcissists is what some people do. Like playing with kittens. Generation after generation, they always do the same fun things.