Trump is not a politician. This is crucial to understand. He is not even a dictator in the classical sense. Dictators build systems, ideologies, cults of the future. Trump builds nothing. He reacts. Like a hysterical reality-show host who was never switched off after the commercials.
What we are seeing is a clinical type: a narcissist with a psychopathic core. A man for whom the world is a mirror and power is a remote control. He presses buttons not to achieve goals, but to provoke reactions: likes, screams, fear, hysteria. If there’s no reaction, he turns up the volume. If that doesn’t work, he smashes the set.
Everything else follows from this.
He doesn’t need victory — he needs effect.
He doesn’t care about policy — he cares about the image.
He doesn’t give a damn about consequences — he lives in an eternal “now,” like a child holding a grenade.
A psychopath in power is not an ideology. It’s an accident.
The world is used to dealing with rational enemies: cynics, fanatics, cold strategists. With them, you can bargain, threaten, build balances.
With a psychopath — you can’t.
A psychopath doesn’t read agreements.
A psychopath doesn’t fear reputation.
A psychopath doesn’t feel guilt.
He feels only one thing: humiliation or triumph. There is no third option.
That’s why any compromise with Trump is perceived as weakness. Any concession is an invitation to strike harder. Any pause is a chance to start another scandal, another fire, another “episode.”
This isn’t politics — it’s a serial.
America has become a hostage to its own television.
Trump is a product of the screen. He thinks not in terms of statehood, but in show formats: conflict, villain, victim, cliffhanger. War, for him, is not a tragedy but a special episode. Democracy is boring procedure that hurts ratings. Law is a script that can be rewritten if the audience isn’t responding.
The most terrifying thing is this: America allowed this creature to take reality hostage.
Institutions that were supposed to stop him began bargaining with him. Media that were supposed to expose him began profiting from him. Voters who were supposed to think began cheering — like for a team, a fighter, an idol.
That’s how the psychopath ended up on the throne. Not because he is strong, but because those around him turned out to be weak.
So what should the world do?
First — stop hoping he will “come to his senses.”
A psychopath doesn’t mature. He ages — and becomes more dangerous.
Second — stop playing along.
Every reply tweet, every diplomatic curtsy, every frightened comment is his fuel. He feeds on attention like fire feeds on oxygen.
Third — speak to him in the language of boundaries, not expectations.
Not “we hope,” but “this is the line.”
Not “we are concerned,” but “these are the consequences.”
And most importantly — prepare for the worst . Because a psychopath in power always goes all in. He has no future — only the next move.
Trump is not an anomaly. He is a symptom.
A symptom of a civilization that confused freedom with clownery, democracy with a show, and strength with brute arrogance.
And if the world does not learn to treat such symptoms firmly and cold-bloodedly, the next psychopath will be louder, dumber — and even closer to the red button.