Trump’s biggest downfall is his need to be loved ...Middle East

Donald Trump is extraordinary – just not in the way he wants you to think he is. Latest case in point: crashing Chelsea’s trophy lift at the Club World Cup final in New Jersey as crowds booed. 

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. 

That hunger is arguably Trump’s defining characteristic – and the pain and harm he has wrought around the world, proof of how far he will go in search of it. The last thing I’m trying to evoke is sympathy for the man. Nonetheless, viewed through the prism of that desperate, aching need, a lot of Trump’s most bizarre behaviour begins to make sense. 

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.

Quite unlike the party of the same name running roughshod over UK politics at the moment, elements of Trump’s first platform were distinctly progressive – stated aims included achieving universal healthcare and a wealth tax, besides his trademark anti-immigration rhetoric.

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.

Trump’s tantrums have largely blended into one by this point, but many of his most seismic have come about in response to seeming less popular than he would like. His reaction to losing the 2020 election, for instance, was followed by rioters attacking the Capitol. More recently, the parade for the US army’s 250th anniversary, coinciding with Trump’s birthday, was on the scale of “a medium-sized town’s July 4th celebration”, according to The Independent – but not if you ask the man of the hour, who insists it was the event of the century.

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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.

Rip up climate agreements – wouldn’t want to upset the fossil fuellers! Ditch Roe v Wade – the evangelicals aren’t keen on reproductive autonomy, and they’ve got more money than women. As for war, let’s see which way the tide is flowing, shall we?

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.

Of course, both harrowing conflicts rumble on, not least because Trump seems to crave the approval of ruthless leaders and dictators just as much as his voting public.

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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