8 August 2026

 

Kim Jon-un feels tucked away in cut off North Korea.  Vladimir Putin is a dictator set on taking over as much of the former Soviet Union as death and destruction will allow him.  Benjamin Netanyahu is evil personified, determined to see the resurrection of an ever-growing Israel while he commits genocide in his neighbouring states.

Xi Jinping holds the top three posts in China – General Secretary of the CCP, President of the PRC and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.  He has removed the time constraints on the presidency.  One could say he’s a dictator.  But the land he wants to possess outside China at the moment is Tawain, and he’s quite canny about getting what he wants.  China exports massively to the rest of the world, and if we don’t poke that hornet’s nest, he should keep his military out of our way.

But there is one person who captures the attention of the rest of the world.  Donald Trump.  His actions demonstrate his desire to be a dictator, even if he meets restrictions from courts here and there.  Sometimes a court order to prevent something works, other times Trump ignores it and goes ahead anyway.  Using tariffs is a glaring example of that.

However, clownlike as Trump may appear, he could be the most dangerous would-be dictator in the world.  He has a lot of power; the USA used to be the strongest and most influential country in the world; he has a vast military (if depleting) at his disposal.

And he is totally amoral.

If at some level he knows the difference between right and wrong, it doesn’t stop him doing what he wants.  Perhaps he can still perceive that certain actions need to be hidden under lies or distractions, so he gets away with them more easily.  I’m not sure.  I think any sense he has in that way is disappearing.

The fact that he had the east wing of the White House demolished during the night suggests he knew people wouldn’t like it.  Nevertheless, he knew they’d notice it had gone when daylight came, and that didn’t bother him.

Many psychologists and psychiatrists have diagnosed Trump as having a malignant narcissistic personality disorder.  “Over 41,000 mental health experts signed petitions in 2017 asserting he is psychologically unfit due to narcissism mixed with antisocial and paranoid traits.”  Larry Kotlikoff, 9.1.26, Substack.

I have seen Dr John Gartner, a former Johns Hopkins assistant professor, state this with confidence on the Daily Beast podcast more than once.  He also explains how Trump is clearly showing progressive signs of frontal lobe dementia, which is eroding any inhibitions.  Plus he diagnoses him with sadism.

Jonathan Lemire of the Atlantic wrote about Trump’s aging, commenting how he more often appears in front of the camera seated at the Resolute Desk rather than from behind a podium.  He was also very concerned about Trump’s social media activity.  “In December, he posted 160 times in a single night. His Truth Social account regularly features late-night barrages containing misinformation, including false claims about the 2020 election, racist content depicting the Obamas, and apocalyptic threats toward Iran.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called Trump "an extremely sick person," while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries termed him "unhinged." (Travis /Gettys, Raw Story, May 2026)

On an episode of “Fast Politics”, hosted by Molly Jong-Fast, Trump’s niece Mary, a psychologist, discussed her uncle’s concerning and growing habit of blurting out whatever came to his mind during speeches.  An example she gave was during Lindsey Graham’s funeral as Trump was giving a eulogy.  He added “not everybody” liked Graham.  Totally inappropriate.

Mary Trump explained that her uncle did used to be able to read the room.  When he was booed by his MAGA supporters for praising the COVID-19 vaccine he was savvy enough not to say that again.  Mary pointe out he doesn’t have the ability to do that now, that he’s losing his impulse control.”

Added to the considered expert work of many in the field of psychology, we can all see that something is very wrong with Trump, in a way that I believe makes him a threat to the US, and to the world, as President.

Start wherever you like, but I’d suggest the blowing up of small boats near Venezuela with the excuse that the people in them were drug smugglers and a threat to US citizens.  There is no way that a country with as big a military as America could not track the boats by satellite and be ready to arrest the people when it came ashore.  It would save the lives, and it would ensure the providing of evidence by seizing the drugs in the boat.

As far as I know, drug-smuggling doesn’t demand the death sentence, and certainly not without evidence and a fair trial first.

Demonstrating further Trump’s (and Hegseth’s) cruelty was the time when a boat was not fully sunk, and survivors clung to the wreckage.  It is strictly against international law to kill people in that situation.  The law demands they be rescued.

Then we must remember Trump ordered his military to capture Venezuela’s President and bring him to the US.  Proof that this was not done to change the regime lies in the fact that Trump didn’t call for the leader of the opposition to take over the post, but the deputy, the second-in-command to the President, was allowed to take over control of the country with the same ethos.

Trump shows no embarrassment about doing this, and indeed likes to boast about how much oil he is taking from Venezuela.

He’s not bothered what people think about his saying that Canada and Greenland should be absorbed into the United States of America and remains shameless in his blockading of Cuba so that supplies and oil cannot get to the people, thus causing loss of electricity, even though that threatens the lives of hospital patients having to go without monitoring, chemotherapy and the like.  Trump just doesn’t care.

In his first term Trump was impeached for preventing military aid getting to Ukraine while Russia threatened to attack again (having taken Crimea in 2014).  The threated war now rages and still Trump does little to help Ukraine.  He has often said that Ukraine shouldn’t have started the war, when the rest of the world knows that it was Russia who invaded.  He seemed to be relenting a little when he said Ukraine would be licensed to build American-designed weapons.  But then he changed his mind again before it happened.

When he ordered Iran to be attacked, he never officially declared his intentions, nor the fact that he was going to be fighting in alliance with Israel.  Israel had already proven itself capable of genocide, and that continues.  Trump doesn’t even permit criticism of the cruelty Netanyahu’s followers and troops show towards Palestinians, whether in Gaza or in the West Bank.  Nor has he apologised for the killing of children in the school the US bombed in Iran near the start of the war.  He constantly says a deal is to be made, or that it has been made and the US has won.  He has his navy block part of the Strait of Hormuz, while saying he has made Iran agree to allowing the free flow of maritime traffic there.

With no declaration of war at the beginning, there was no statement of purpose.  He has included regime change in Iran, preventing Iran being able to ever make a nuclear weapon, and keeping the Strait open.  He declares success, then that he must bomb them some more.  He says Iran has not a single plane or ship left but then attacks the country further to rid it of its war machinery.  None of what he says makes sense.  And now Trump is declaring there is no shortage of US weapons, when those in a position to know say stocks are depleting rapidly.

Put all this lack of concern for human life alongside the action of his ICE agents and Border Force, with the shooting, incidental deaths, splitting up of families and cruelty to children, and it is plain to see a very dangerous man with too much power.

Yet he has used AI to depict himself as Jesus and all sorts of superheroes.  Just this week he posted a picture of himself with others in military uniforms, showing Trump wearing the most medals.  He is in fact a draft dodger and has not spent a minute in the military.

Someone recently posted a transcript of part of one of Trump’s speeches on social media.  It is clear that the words put together in that order just do not make sense.

How can a formerly civilized country allow this man to be its head of state?