megalomaniac
Speech parts
1. megalomaniac - Noun
2. megalomaniac - Adjective
Meaning
a pathological egotist
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Foto: Casey Neistat told viewers that he was speaking up because Donald Trump was a „megalomaniac driven by nothing but ego.“
Others saw Solano López as a paranoid megalomaniac, a man who wanted to be the "Napoleon of South America", willing to reduce his country to ruin and his countrymen to beggars in his vain quest for glory.
However, in the political realm, historians debate whether Napoleon was "an enlightened despot who laid the foundations of modern Europe or, instead, a megalomaniac who wrought greater misery than any man before the coming of Hitler."
In a fearless move, Pogo's creator Walt Kelly took on Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, caricaturing him as a bobcat named Simple J. Malarkey, a megalomaniac who was bent on taking over the characters' birdwatching club and rooting out all undesirables.
Noam Chomsky is right in calling him a "sociopathic megalomaniac" whose only allegiance is to himself, "great wealth and corporate power."
At the start of the game, the company’s highest executive is President Shinra, a megalomaniac who regularly patronizes a slum’s brothel to indulge in fetishistic role-play while dressed up like a king.