Such behavior has led many to question Trump’s sanity and to offer the President some labels in turn, including “unhinged,” “lunatic,” and “clearly insane.”
But as a long-standing critic of Donald Trump’s leadership impact, and as someone who has known him for over 30 years, I assert that he is no “crazier” than he ever was. Trump’s penchant for exaggeration, self-promotion, and misrepresentation is hardly new.
And nearly a decade ago, the book edited by psychiatrist Bandy Lee entitled The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, produced 27 mental health experts who questioned Trump’s fitness for high office. These experts suggested Trump showed signs of narcissism, sociopathic tendencies, and a fixation on the haunting legacy of his punishing father.
Built a century ago by cereal heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post, the 20-acre property with its 126-room, 62,500-square-foot Gilded Age mansion seemed to be the ideal venue to launch a new high-end resort. At the time, I thought Trump’s grandiose visions for Mar-a-Lago were unrealistically fanciful. Surely this scheme would go the way of his failed casinos, airlines, and other imploded ventures. I was wrong.
Episode after episode, I was alarmed by how Trump treated women. And I also challenged the premise that a leader’s success should be anchored on a contestant's ability to get their own team members “fired.” However, my warnings fell on deaf ears.
After years of tension, Trump and I buried the hatchet once he changed the premise of The Apprentice to feature fallen celebrities who no one would care to emulate as leaders. This was the origin of his shift towards The Celebrity Apprentice.
In fact, in the spring of 2015, Trump called me often as he considered his candidacy for the presidency. I advised against it.
I was a longstanding Hillary Clinton supporter, as he knew, and as he had been. I told Trump that I suspected he would earn no more than 20% of votes and that his campaign would implode like Ross Perot’s. Again, I was wrong. I underestimated him.
Perhaps for comic relief, I was often invited to a salon-style dinner of largely deep-pocketed GOP financiers in the Connecticut home of later Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow. As we went around the room during one of these post-dinner discussions in August 2015, everyone was asked to guess who would win the GOP nomination.
I believe Trump to be a mercurial, vain, self-promoting purveyor of glitz. He has made his name beyond a checkered New York real estate career marked by multiple bankruptcies by bringing a certain view of class to the masses, with a simple but brutalizing recipe for success that seemed accessible to all. He was fully self-aware and deliberate in his actions then, and I believe he is now too.
As I document in my book, Trump’s Ten Commandments, Trump always relies on the same unorthodox disruptive tactics. His greed, grandiosity, divisiveness, and shifting agenda methods are not new.
Similarly, his divide-and-conquer tactics have successfully decimated any dissent within the GOP. All other national leaders try to draw the nation together in times of tragedy, but Trump uses them to create foils and to finger-point. This is not because he has gone mad. It is because it keeps working for him.
The only thing Trump seems to worry about losing more than money is the durability of his pride and reputation. His insatiable desire to brand everything—from boats, to ballrooms, to bills—exceeds some of the most egomaniacal leaders in history, but these are not new qualities.
Donald Trump is unpopular in large parts of the nation and mocked around much of the world. But in many ways, he is no different from other unorthodox figures seeking fame and immortality. In my book The Hero’s Farewell, I documented how this mythical quest for immortality is common across cultures, continents, sectors, and centuries among those who seek folk hero status. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, about the severed head of a self-worshipping pharaoh, helplessly buried and forgotten in the desert’s sands of time, with an adjacent plague warning that warns wanderers to fear him, reminds us of the futility of this goal. This is why I ultimately believe that while Trump’s dangerous lifelong “megalomania” may not endear him to many, it does not indicate insanity either. Instead, it indicates a clear pattern.
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