For the narcissist, nothing can be his fault, and evidence of his own shortcomings can be exceptionally difficult to reconcile. Instead, the real fault must lie somewhere else, with anyone else. Sometimes, therapy helps. But Donald Trump might not need outside help. He could simply ask himself for the solution. He wrote it, after all, in his 2007 book Trump 101: The Way to Success.

"A guy used to call me and complain about everybody and their brother," Trump wrote. "To listen to him you would think that the entire world was against him and that he never made a mistake in his life. From day one, nothing was ever his fault; everyone else was to blame."

These are actual words written by Trump—or by his co-writer Meredith McIver.

It was difficult to fully process the sheer projection we were treated to Monday night as Melania Trump gave her appraisal of that infamous Access Hollywood tape. Her husband, a mere impressionable boy of 59 at the time, wasn't to blame for his comments, she told CNN's Anderson Cooper. The devil made him do it. Or, in this case, the devil's earthly host in the form of Billy Bush.

"He was led on, egged on, from the host to say dirty and bad stuff," she said.

Bush wasn't acting alone either, she said.

"It was the media, it was NBC, it was Access Hollywood, it was left-wing media," she said. "It was hour after hour bashing him. They want to influence the American people about how to vote."

This is, of course, bullshit. But for the Trump campaign, which maintains a list of conspiring rogues that has grown to an almost Arya Stark-like mantra, it's completely unsurprising.

There is scarcely enough space on this page to cover even a fraction of the people, institutions, and inanimate objects that are to blame for Donald Trump's misfortunes. You'd need somewhere in the vicinity of, say, 33,000-plus tweets to catalogue them. A recent tweet alluded to the prospect of widespread voter fraud working to steal the election from him. Not long thereafter, he pointed to a story about FBI director James Comey conspiring to cover up the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.

On and on it goes: The media is rigging the election, the Department of Justice is in on the con, journalists are showering Clinton with cash, voter fraud is rampant, the sexual assault accusers are "making up" stories to discredit him. Saturday Night Live and The New York Times are likewise taken to task. This, all in the space of the last couple of days.

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"@THEREALMOGUL: 41% of American voters believe the election could be "stolen" from DonaldTrump due to widespread voter fraud. - Politico" — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2016

In recent months, we have seen Trump blame his debate struggles on a microphone, attempt to shift his history of assaulting women onto Bill Clinton, blame Hillary for Anthony Weiner's sexts, point the finger at "international banking elites," and claim, without any hint of irony or self-awareness, that it was actually Hillary Clinton's campaign that started the birther movement. It would all be darkly hilarious if it weren't very likely the machinations of a man who appears to be in the grips of a mental breakdown.

"In truth," Trump wrote in the book, "he was his own biggest blind spot, and, sad to say, he eventually became a total loser because he never remedied his biggest problem—himself."

There's more.

"When things go wrong, look at yourself first," Trump wrote. "Don't instinctively blame others or the circumstances—or use them to cover your behind," he wrote. "Be the leader; stand tall, and take the hit," he wrote. "If you accept the glory, be willing to accept the blame."

It's unclear if he ever read the book he may or may not have even written. He probably should get around to that.

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