The psychological profile of a president whose IQ is “off the chart”

The pattern is no longer subtle. It is not policy. It is a pathology manifested as power. Donald Trump rules through a series of shock waves meant to disorient, exhaust, and dominate. One after another, the punches come: mass ICE raids first in Washington, then across America; a world tariff war that penalizes friends and enemies equally; kidnapping Venezuela’s president; threatening to grab Greenland’s resources; launching broadsides against Iran and planning further assaults. The aim is not a strategy. The objective was domination. It is governed by spectacle. And it has a rich tradition. Psychiatrists who study authoritarian leaders caution against the temptation to reduce such leadership to a single diagnosis. The problem is not necessarily that Trump is “crazy,” […]