People who project like this would never admit it, but they know themselves deep down it's a sign of deep insecurity and fear that they will be called out on all the shit wrong with themselves. I hate Trump more than maybe any other person on Earth, but he's basically become a Golem of narcissistic hate and greed. Or maybe it's a concept way over the head of someone like Trump, but deep down I think he knows what a piece of shit he is, but he can't escape it at this point and the only tactic going forward is to NEVER admit you're wrong about anything and always act like you are superior to everyone else even when that's obviously insane. Projection is one of the most childish tactics where you try to point out non-existent traits in other people that really you possess far more of yourself. It acts like a super weak buffer that, ironically, works if your fan base is so dumb they can't even understand the basic concept of how that works. Authoritarian regimes don't work on intelligent regimes for the most part. At least the ones that aren't brutally violent towards their own people.