I agree that his overall project is not based on naivete but on a desire for power and control. However, because he is a narcissist, what he is having trouble understanding is why this cannot be accepted by everybody all over the world, that is, why he's not getting the praise and adulation he expected when he started publicly bashing the US, as president thereof.
He wasn't naive so much as blinded by his own narcissism. He thought that as soon as he made it clear that he despises the US and all it stands for and that as soon as he distanced himself from it and presented himself, with his Muslim-Marxist orientation, as the main project, the world would fall down and worship because this is what most of them wanted. He's puzzled as to why this hasn't happened yet.
IMO, the narcissist is, by his very nature, naive. Most folks, as they grow up, are forced by circumstances (i.e. school/job/mate) to carefully examine themselves and life to rid themselves of their erroneous ideas about life (their naivete).
As a narcissist, Obama can't do that or he would learn that he is just a standard issue human and not a god/demigod.
Somewhere along the line, a young narcissist has to make a choice...he must choose reality (and let that reality pound some humility into him) or he must choose the fantasy that he is a deity and avoid all things that will threaten that view (and remain naive as to how the world really operates). He can't have it both ways.
It is obvious which path Obama chose.
I for one thought that there was no way that Chicago would get the bid, making it the third time in 32 years that the Summer Olympics would be held in the US. And maybe most Americans don't understand how loved Brazilians are in the sports world, mainly due to their enthusiastic and warm fans who support Brazilian football, the most respected and successful in the world's most popular sport. Pele was worth ten Obamas when it comes to convincing the IOC to vote for Rio. And the fact that South America has never hosted the Olympics really made it no contest.
Chicago received 18 votes out of 94. I just don't believe that the Chicago team did not know generally how the vote totals stood. Obama was the Hail Mary pass. It didn't work. Obama was the tool of the Chicago political machine and he went on this suicide mission to placate them even if it meant humiliating himself and the office of the President. That is the scary part to me. Who else has leverage over this guy?