Trump's 'narcissism' only thing saving US, says top director Donald Trump's "malignant narcissism" is the only thing stopping the US president plunging the country into a foreign war, according to cult American director Richard Linklater. The acclaimed maker of "Boyhood", "Dazed and Confused", "Slacker" and the trilogy of romantic hits that began with "Before Sunrise", said that Trump is "instinctually averse to war because it would put the attention somewhere else and not on him." Hollywood star Ethan Hawke, who has acted in many of Linklater hits, echoed his fears at the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the director's career at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. "We have such a failure of our political and spiritual leadership right now," the actor told AFP.\\n IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES