Is Trump losing the plot?

2 months ago7 min read

One year into his unprecedented second term, Donald Trump stands before the world more unconstrained and politically isolated than ever. His recent two-hour press conference, a rambling monologue that careened from gas prices to his Queens childhood, was less a state of the union and more a stream of consciousness, underscoring a presidency increasingly untethered from conventional political reality.This follows a similarly bizarre primetime address just a month prior, a pattern that reveals a leader not merely flailing against political gravity but seemingly oblivious to it. While his approval ratings languish at historic lows, Trump’s actions suggest a dangerous pivot: from a president aware of his unpopularity to one convinced his public relations team, not his policies, are to blame.The context is a series of escalating provocations, from renewed threats against Greenland—citing the Nobel Peace Prize as a bizarre rationale—to the proposed ‘Board of Peace,’ a quasi-UN structure with himself at its apex. As Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warns of a ‘rupture’ in the US-led world order ahead of Trump’s Davos appearance, the short-term calculus is clear.Trump believes he can act with total impunity, whether in menacing foreign nations or deploying federal force against American cities like Minneapolis. Yet this aggressive assertion of power masks a fundamental weakness: an inability to change the public’s deep-seated disapproval.With midterms approaching, there is no indication of a strategic correction, only a deepening conviction in his own narrative. The danger is no longer a president merely losing the plot, but one who has authored an entirely different script, with consequences both at home and for an international system buckling under the strain.

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