Harry and Meghan branded 'narcissists,' likened to Kanye West, Trump and Elon Musk - New York Post

What bash Prince Harry and Meghan Markle person successful communal with the likes of Donald Trump, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried?

According to Politico Magazine exertion Joanna Weiss, they are each attention-seeking narcissists who person overstayed their invited — and immoderate person gotten their conscionable deserts.

In her latest sentiment piece, titled “2022 Is the Year We All Finally Got Tired of Narcissists,” Weiss makes the statement that by doggedly pursuing the limelight, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex person gone from sympathetic figures to sources of annoyance — not dissimilar immoderate of the different larger-than-life nationalist figures who person fallen from grace.

Politico exertion Joanna Weiss argues that the docuseries “Harry and Meghan” exposes the erstwhile royal mates arsenic fame-hungry narcissists. Netflix

Meghan appears successful the documentary, which was made arsenic portion of her and Harry’s $100 cardinal improvement woody with Netflix. Netflix

“My earthy sympathy for the mates started turning to irritation, and it occurred to maine that ego has its limits,” Weiss writes, referring to her acquisition of watching the erstwhile royal couple’s Netflix documentary, “Harry and Meghan.”

“And it struck maine that the overreach that led to the Sussexes’ critically panned mega-series is the aforesaid impulse that turned Elon Musk into a panic connected Twitter, that prompted Ye to up the ante of outrageous behaviour until helium crossed the enactment into blatant antisemitism, that sent Bankman-Fried from the apical of the satellite to a Bahamian jail,” she adds.

Weiss conceded that portion the Sussexes aerial immoderate “legitimate complaints” successful their six-part docuseries, which premiered earlier this month, she laments that those are “wedged betwixt glamour shots from footage of Meghan getting fitted for ballgowns to a immense postulation of flattering photos and videos they took during their royal exit, seemingly preparing for a photogenic tell-all.”

Another notorious narcissist, according to Weiss, is Kanye West, who suffered a autumn from grace aft making a litany of anti-Semitic remarks. GC Images

Weiss argues that the brace made immoderate astute choices upon their exit from the British royal family, including signing a reported $100 cardinal improvement woody with Netflix and landing a reported $20 cardinal beforehand for Harry’s tell-all memoir, “Spare,” but according to the Politico editor, their documentary did them a disservice by exposing their “vanity” to the world.

Weiss, however, admits that portion Harry and Meghan whitethorn beryllium “tiresome,” they are “benign” compared to immoderate of the world’s astir notorious narcissists, including West, present known arsenic Ye, who saw his fame curdle to infamy and his lucrative Adidas woody dissolve into bladed aerial aft spewing a litany of anti-Semitic remarks.

Wunderkind FTX laminitis Sam Bankman-Fried has been charged with fraud and wealth laundering. AP

Theranos laminitis Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11 years successful situation for fraud connected November 18, 2022.Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Weiss besides makes the lawsuit that 2022 has been a banner twelvemonth for narcissists’ comeuppance, with disgraced Theranos laminitis Holmes and cryptocurrency wunderkind Bankman-Fried some rocked by cataclysmic reversals of fortune.

“The much adulation they got, the much melodramatic the fall,” Weiss writes.

Holmes, who had acceptable retired to disrupt medicine with her innovative blood-testing institution — but did not person the exertion to really marque it hap — was convicted of fraud and sentenced successful November to 11 years successful prison.

Bankman-Fried, the laminitis of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was going to revolutionize finance. Instead, he was arrested successful the Bahamas last week aft being indicted connected fraud, wealth laundering and conspiracy charges for allegedly moving a Ponzi strategy that swindled investors.

And past determination is Musk, who was displaced arsenic the world’s wealthiest antheral aft his chaotic takeover of Twitter, which sparked an exodus of users from the societal media level and caused shares of 1 of his different companies, Tesla, to tumble 30% this month.

The bombastic billionaire seemed to person reached his nadir past week erstwhile helium asked Twitter users to measurement successful connected whether helium should measurement down arsenic CEO, and much than 57% voted “yes.” Musk said helium would comply with the results of the poll arsenic soon arsenic helium finds idiosyncratic “stupid enough” to regenerate him.

According to Weiss, this twelvemonth besides has been peculiarly atrocious for different salient “narcissist,” Trump, who recovered himself mired successful investigations, saw his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, raided by FBI agents and suffered done disastrous midterm elections, wherever the immense bulk of his hand-picked candidates lost.

To apical it each off, the House January 6 prime committee earlier this period made transgression referrals for the 45th president stemming from his relation successful the thwarted insurrection.

Billionaire Elon Musk saw his luck shrink pursuing his chaotic takeover of Twitter.NTB/AFP via Getty Images

Donald Trump had a atrocious twelvemonth marked by the Jan. 6 hearings, the Mar-a-Lago raid and disastrous midterm elections. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag

“If Trump is nary longer invincible, his allies of convenience yet person crushed to disregard him,” the nonfiction states. “And for Trump, there’s thing worse than being ignored.”

But according to Weiss, Trump’s lawsuit could service arsenic a teachable moment. When helium unveiled a enactment of NFTs featuring creator renderings of the erstwhile big of “The Apprentice” dressed arsenic a superhero, an astronaut and a cowboy, helium was brutally mocked by his critics and protagonist alike — but 45,000 of the arguably cringey NFTs inactive sold retired successful little than 24 hours.

Weiss believes determination is an important acquisition to beryllium drawn from that: “It’s hard to number immoderate narcissist out; it’s not successful their quality to springiness up the stage, adjacent successful exile, sometimes from jail. When they privation attention, they get creative.”