For those of you whom aren’t psychology nerds, I am going to break down the personality profile of Andrew Tate. He’s actually pretty transparent and frankly a poignant case study. Let me be clear, I am not a therapist or medical doctor, I am not diagnosing any disorder, just speculating about his personality traits based on his behaviour, his own statements, and the facts known about him.

Tate doesn’t see what he does as an act, you have to understand his personality pathology is Dark Triad(Psychopathy, Narcissism, Machiavellianism) but he’s pretty heavily weighted toward Narcissism. Tates Father was an inconsistent, general piece of trash that abandoned and neglected his sons leaving them in poverty, the other formational childhood trauma that set his personality switches to the worst possible settings. Let’s be real Tate was bullied by the posh school-boy aristocracy in the UK for being a ‘Brokey’ and most probably because he was a mulatto American with buck-teeth and Dumbo-ears. We all know how school-children will attack anything they can.

The Narcissist develops a fundamental and unshakeable lack of self-esteem, he literally dedicated his life to trying to achieve material ‘success’ at all costs because he desperately needs outside validation to fill the empty void inside him that can’t be filled.

His response to being bullied was to bulk-up and focus on a combat sport so he could become the bully himself. A man without a positive role model of real masculinity leaned-hard into all of the superficial aspects of manliness because the Psychopathic qualities of his character don’t allow him to have anything but a superficial understanding of regular human emotions.

In addition to shallow affect, Psychopaths display traits including grandiosity, compulsive lying, repeated criminality, parasitic lifestyle, lack of regard for the safety of self and others, and lack of remorse or guilt, among others, but certainly all of these can fairly be said of Tate as demonstrated by the exploitative nature of his self-described criminal enterprise.

The combination of Narcissism and Psychopathy(Malignant Narcissists) are generally those people that most of us would consider evil. Spiteful, vindictive, violent, manipulative; they literally represent a significant portion of prison populations. These people are by nature not repentant and cannot be rehabilitated.

Machiavellianism is just a weird subset of psychopaths that possess the ability and self-discipline to engage in complex long-term schemes and that value ruthlessness and generally espouse might=right and ends-justify-the-means ideologies. While Malignant Narcissists are generally the villains, Dark-Triad personalities are more akin to super-villains.

Make no mistake, that’s what Andrew Tate is, a villain, one of tragically cartoonish bumbling and gall. It seems to boggle the rational mind how Tate could be so foolish as to repeatedly broadcast spontaneous admissions of guilt and details of his actual crimes with fearless impunity, all the while claiming Romanian authorities are too corrupt and ineffective to stop him but it’s easily understood in the light of his Narcissism. Narcissists need to devalue all others in order to compensate for their own lack of esteem, grandiosity also causes them to overestimate their own ability to decieve and manipulate.

Tate literally believes that he is the smartest, greatest, most successful manipulator of all time. He will still believe this when he is penniless, disgraced, and in prison, because he is actually only the master of lying to himself to protect his fragile broken ego.

I could literally go on and on but this is already long so feel free to discuss and literally google the facts, DYOR.