Trump is like a child. Anyone he dislike at the moment is the “worst ever” at everything. And everything he happens to like at the moment is “wonderful” and “great”. And his criteria for liking someone is often if they think highly of him. Putin, for example, is “great” because he complimented Trump.
This is why I’m a little suspicious of Trump’s “make America Great again!” slogan. Because I suspect Trump definition of America being Great can be as simple as “America where everyone loves Trump.” Because I’m pretty sure if Trump visited Cuba and they gave a great welcome ceremony and acted like they think he’s great he’d come back to US and tell us how “wonderful” and “great” Cuba is.
Astute observation on your part.
It seems as though everything Trump does trails back to making him look good in order to feed his gynormous ego.
He prefers the glitz in his physical life and that rolls over into his mental life in that he has to have everyone cow tow to him.
You get that aspect out of whack by reminding him of his own record and he will attempt to sue the crap out of you.
Now this sounds like the making of a tyrant to me.
But that's just me.
I also call them like I see them, probably the only trait I share with The Thumper.