Presumably, the US President wanted audiences around the world to associate him with victory and success; a Roman emperor waving to adoring citizens. Instead, the incident only confirmed his pathological need to be loved.
Trump speaks with Chelsea’s Robert Sanchez as his teammates celebrate after winning the Fifa Club World Cup (Photo: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters)
Take his bid for the presidency in the first place – or rather, bids. While his 2016, 2020 and 2024 campaigns are seared into our collective consciousness, many forget that Trump unsuccessfully attempted to run in 2000 as a candidate for the Reform Party.
To be clear, I’m not touting this as evidence of moral decline – rather, of a man who will say anything if he thinks it will garner him approval. In 2016, that weathervane pointed in a distinctly less liberal direction, with Trump wasting no time in amending his message accordingly.
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Although he undoubtedly excels at it, such transparently spineless behaviour isn’t unique to the President: over the course of your life, you will surely have encountered others whose opinions seem to oscillate radically depending on who they’re talking to. But there’s only so much damage an attention-seeking people-pleaser can do in an office or at a pub; in the world’s most powerful job, on the other hand, such behaviour can (and does) have globally catastrophic consequences.
Vowing to end both the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza conflicts within days of taking office, to say that Trump overpromised about his second term is something of an overstatement. While it’s hard to imagine that even Trump believed his own rhetoric, clearly the prospective adoration for delivering literal world peace was too much to resist. Trouble is, as all narcissists eventually discover, time comes to deliver on one’s outlandish promises.
Every human needs to be loved, even the US president. Yet the more drastic the lengths he goes to, the more repulsive and incoherent he becomes. His insistence on lifting other peoples’ (literal and metaphorical) trophies would be sad, if it weren’t tearing the planet apart.
As it stands, his best chance of garnering affection from much of the world would be to step down and shut up – but if his record’s anything to go by, that’s unlikely.
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