Has Trump Gone Hypermaniacal?

Has Trump Gone Hypermaniacal?

Trump has always been egomaniacal, where everything is about him. After he was elected to the Presidency, his ego grew to the status of megalomaniacal. Trump acts like he owns every company in the US, and can arrange tariffs, without consulting with the vast number of affected companies. From day one, he could pressure them to cancel their deals for outsourcing manufacturing, while his family kept manufacturing abroad. Now, Trump can cancel international trade agreements on his own, and today threatened to cancel all trade with any country that did not eliminate all trade barriers. He thought this up on the plane trip to the G-7 conference, after Fox News commentator and now the US Chief Economist Larry Kudlow suggested it. As far as we know, Trump consulted with nobody about this. Trump must have realized that his previous statements about negotiating trade deals for every item with every country in my the world was a bit overblown.

Recently, Trump’s Personal Counsel, Rudy Giuliani, has filled Trump’s head with his new superpowers of being above the law. Trump can pardon himself. Trump can even murder the head of the FBI and not be charged, just impeached. Trump even encouraged his campaign event audience two years ago to agree that Trump could murder someone on Fifth Avenue (presumably in front of the Trump Tower) and the audience would let him get away with this.

Trump can pardon anybody he wants for any crime, without standard judicial review by the Justice Department. So what if others convicted of the same crime are even considered for equal treatment under the law. This is now an easy way to get a “win” by pardoning someone popular, or related to someone popular, or from a minority group.

This new level of expanded Global Ownership or Dominance deserves a new level of maniacal delirium, and I follow standard scientific superlative sequencing in calling it “Hypermania”, and its sole practitioner ‘Hypermaniacal’.

Maybe Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, and Napoleon aspired to this status or mania.

We well remember when President George W. Bush first met Vladimir Putin, looked him in the eye, and saw into his soul. He never lived that down. Now, Trump has said today that he would know within the first minute of his meeting with Kim Jong-Un whether he would denuclearize. “Just my touch, my feel” Trump said, according to the New York Times. “That’s what I do.” He then said he would only start a dialogue, and many meetings would follow. Since Trump doesn’t speak Korean, or know anything of the Kim regimes’ norms of behavior, this is nonsense. Plus, one minute is hardly enough time for Trump to get through one of his comical extended handshakes.

Update:  Actually, looking it up, Bush really was more on than off.  Here is the quote;  “I looked the man in the eye.  I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.  We had a very good dialogue.  I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country.”  Of course, we wouldn’t agree that the dictatorship and aggression that Putin foresaw was really in the best interest of the people of Russia.

Putin and Trump is like a Russian doll, a riddle within a riddle. Putin revealed that he has regular talks with Trump. Trump would never bother to inform the American people about this. One wonders, if Trump’s request for the G-7 to restore Russia, is some sort of a payoff on Russia’s help in the 2016 election, or possibly a prepayment for help in the 2018 and 2020 election. No evidence for anything in the future, but Trump has never admitted or condemned Russia’s actions in hacking emails or influencing social media. We know that Trump never condemns dictators, and wishes that he had the powers that they have. More Hypermania.

About Dennis SILVERMAN

I am a retired Professor of Physics and Astronomy at U C Irvine. For two decades I have been active in learning about energy and the environment, and in reporting on those topics for a decade. For the last four years I have added science policy. Lately, I have been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic of our times.
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