Self-proclaimed asshole

When someone knows they're an asshole, they're a self-proclaimed asshole. A self-actualized anything is someone who does not yet know who they are, they're still trying to find themselves to find out why people in the world can be well, assholes.

Everyone considered Tommy a narcissistic coward except Tommy. Tommy considered himself an asshole, or as Tommy liked to call it, a self-proclaimed asshole.