ego

During her interview she asked him if his children were unnecessary casualties of his ego.

But senators are people, which is to say they too have egos and a desire to feel needed and appreciated.

I don't think I expected totalitarianism to come in service of one very petty narcissist's wounded ego but it appears that that's what's happening.

But Trump always cared about having his ego regularly fluffed over boring matters of governance, and this tendency appears to have worsened with age.

The real purpose here is to insulate the snowflake-fragile egos of men who cannot feel mighty unless a woman pretends — or is forced to pretend — that she's weak.