A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE DONALD: The King's Megalomania is Nearing its Imperial Zenith
... and here is how the mad king got there.
I read some interesting observations this weekend from a former psychologist at Johns Hopkins University who said that Trump’s psychosis (beyond mere dementia) has reached a stage he describes as “magical thinking.” This is particularly dangerous when narcissism, now running reckless under dementia, reaches the level of megalomania in a person who actually has near absolute power in human terms. (Tell me Trump doesn’t fit every word of the definition provided at that link!) Reaching this level in his narcissism puts Trump in the same dangerous sphere as other supreme evil emperors, such as Nero, Caligula, and Kim Jung Un, who deified themselves, now that Trump is almost daily trying to do the same thing.
Trump CLEARLY sees himself as a global emperor as the talks incessantly about taking over Canada, Greenland, Venezuela, and Cuba and flaunts a map that shows Mexico and all of Central America as being part of a single American nation or empire) that he will bring about, and he clearly envies the adoration and worship that he sees Jesus getting from the “Christians” who are in his closest ring of support, which includes the false prophets who feed his megalomania/delusions of grandeur by telling him over and over how much like Jesus he is and how chosen by God.
His megalomania has finally become so painfully OBVIOUS that, even several of his loudest and most popular (and often obnoxious) supporters are now insisting he be “Twenty-fifthed” before he causes serious damage to the US and the world. (We’ll come to those below.) The Donald’s mad behavior has finally grown so outrageous that many of those with actual Trump Derangement Syndrome can no longer avoid seeing his derangement. (A syndrome where those who go along with the president in his deranged beliefs about his greatness accuse everyone who sees clearly that the Donald is as deranged as a mad duck is accused of being deranged for recognizing something long obvious that they simply don’t WANT to see.)
I’ll let the professor of psychology explain how the Deranged Don’s behavior has culminated in such a crisis that even his strongest supporters are finally pressed to admit Donald is one mad duck:
President Donald Trump has crossed from grandiosity into full-blown psychosis, psychologist Dr. John Gartner has warned.
Gartner, a former professor at Johns Hopkins University, told The Daily Beast Podcast that the 79-year-old president is engaged in “magical thinking….”
“It’s something that, again, we associate with psychosis. We also associate it with young children. Freud called it ‘primary process.’ It’s kind of the most primitive type of thinking, where if you imagine it, it must be true. But this is just magical thinking. Anything that occurs to him—any stray, crazy thought—is true….”
Gartner, who said a few weeks ago that Trump’s mental “deterioration” was accelerating, then mentioned several of Trump’s fanciful social media posts: his since-removed depiction of himself as Jesus Christ, his mock-up as the pope, and his Truth Social post calling himself the “acting president of Venezuela.”
“His grandiosity is so extreme that not only does he want to be the pope and Jesus and the president of Venezuela and the Mullah of Iran—he wants to be all of these things at once. He wants the world to worship him, and he wants to erect massive monuments to praise himself,” he said.
King Donald needs for the Trump ballroom to be the biggest and grandest and most powerfully situated ever. He needs the Arc de Trump to be bigger than the Arc de Triomphe and other magnificent arches celebrating historic victories so it is able to be seen all the way down the Mall from the Capitol. He can’t stand that other emperors had arches and he doesn’t; so, he’ll see to it that he does. He’s always had to put his name in huge letters on almost everything he does. He needs to sign the dollar bill and stimulus checks so his name gets the credit for as much of the money that goes into the hands of the masses as possible so he will earn their adoration with other people’s money. He starts “Trump” accounts with free money for kids so they’ll grow up feeling thankful for all he has given them. Everything he does is a huge upward spiraling circle of praise to him. And now he’s reached the level of aspiring to be worshipped as a deity … even as Jesus, but he hasn’t been able to pull that off … yet. (Or I’m wrong, and he really just wants to be a doctor dressed in ancient Roman garb who heals with orbs of light and has a halo of golden light fringing his golden hair.)
Just a little segue: Many people became interested in how the AI imagined Trump’s Jesus image, putting something in there of which, perhaps, Trump was not aware. In the light that the lines of perspective follow into the background behind Orange Jesus (or the “Great Pumpkin,” as I like to call him now that he’s totally bat-guano insane, as his biggest have supporters agreed over the past week or two) is an image of a demonic entity that stands behind him. Usually the silhouettes in the light behind a glorified person represent the entity that sent him or show what is coming along in his wake. So, think about that for fun!
Gartner then turned to some of Trump’s capital-area vanity projects [ever emperor has to have vanity projects] as further evidence, like the planned ‘Arc de Trump’ across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial and the White House ballroom that he will reportedly name after himself. Trump also put his name on the Kennedy Center and the U.S. Institute for Peace, and is planning on appearing on gold currency.
“The ways in which he’s been pressuring various states to rename their airports and their train stations and their tunnels after him,” Gartner continued, were signs that Trump “wants the world to worship him as a god.”
The great danger is this: When the megalomaniac is continually denied his deified status by those who most worship him (and the whole rest of the world) and sees his status denigrated even by his former supporters, as is now happening in a crescendoing chorus, and when the emperor is denied the victories in war that he has already proclaimed, he eventually will become enraged that the world is not recognizing his exalted status as God’s chosen and is even mocking his claims, and then he will become even wilder in attempts to prove his power over all—to prove his claims of greatness.
This is the man who controls nuclear-powered greatness at his fingertips, who was put in place by the majority of American voters. The world will never forgive Americans for what happens next because the majority chose him after already getting four years to test him.
Meanwhile, the political situation for Trump—bad polling on the economy and Democrats having a real chance at regaining both the House and the Senate in the midterms, for instance—makes him like a “wounded animal,” Gartner said. But that isn’t great for anyone.
Here we get to the case of concern I just made.
“A cornered, wounded animal is the most vicious and dangerous kind of animal there is, and that’s where he is right now,” he said. “So what I’m worried about is, even if we win both houses of Congress, he’s still the commander in chief, and he’s still getting off on the omnipotent destructiveness and power of blowing things up.”
But, look, this psychologist is obviously a Democrat, and the opinion of a psychologist who has never actually met with the president to diagnose him should not be given too much regard, except that in this case it makes total sense out of what we are seeing, and it even squares with the calls by MegaMAGA influencers (until they just couldn’t stand him any longer) to quickly get him out of office on the basis that he is now more obviously insane than Joe Biden ever was, even on one of his worst days of wandering and shaking hands with curtains and falling over on his bicycle.
So, let’s turn to the calls to 25 him, rather than just take the doctor’s word for it.
Two major MAGA Trump takedowns
Two of the biggest supporters to turn solidly against Trump and plead for his ouster, which I’ve recently mentioned, are Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones. They’ve blown up even more since I last brought them up.
Tucker particularly is incensed by Trump’s now obvious religious manipulations. Carlson now points to a similarity between Trump and a wannabe Jesus that I’ve briefly called attention to in the past for those who keep saying he is God’s appointed because I’ve found the connection compelling for sometime:
Tucker Carlson suggests Trump might be the ANTICHRIST after President shared AI image of himself as Jesus….
He called out a Truth Social post from Trump on Thursday showing him being embraced by Jesus, with Carlson claiming the image aligned with warnings from the Bible.
Carlson said the Bible cautions a figure like Trump could emerge in the future, described as a ‘man of lawlessness’ - or the ‘antichrist’ - who leads people against religion.
He suggested Trump matches the scripture’s description of this entity, as a ‘man who will oppose and exalt himself over everything that is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple proclaiming himself to be God.’
‘He will pose as God,’ Carlson continued. ‘He will mock other Gods, and put himself in their place.’
Carlson said other passages in the Bible also warn about similar ‘antichrist’ characteristics, including the ‘coming of a King who will do as he pleases.’
The Bible verse says the antichrist will ‘exalt and magnify himself above every God’, which Carlson said represented Trump’s posts ‘mocking’ Christianity.
O.K. Well, that IS sounding increasingly appropriate! As I said all of last year, for those who want to claim Trump is God’s appointed or his anointed, the question remains “appointed for what?” If they are right that he is appointed by God (and I am hardly implying he actually is), then I’ve said he must be God’s appointed wrecking ball for America (and likely the whole world.) It must be demolition time—the nearing of Judgment Day.
If he’s not the big guy, himself, because he’s a lot odler and more crippled than I though the Antichrist would be and a lot more orange, then he certainly fits the actual descriptions given.
Here was the latest deification alignment Trump posted:
Ah, the two share the halo as Jesus comforts the poor hero who has been denied his due adoration. The Donald is presented as being God’s glorious Trump card to bring victory. What a cult!
Carlson concluded in his episode that while he was previously an ardent Trump supporter, the president has driven him away with his religious social media posts about himself.
You’re awfully late in figuring it out Carlson; but, at least, you finally did and are speaking out because Trump’s lunacy has grown along its long-familiar lines toward a climax that goes further than you can go along with him, which is where I’ve said this will go.
‘To a lot of Christians, these predictions in both the Old and New Testament seem to fit what we are watching,’ he said.
‘Here is a leader who is mocking the Gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of Gods, and exalting himself above them.’
‘Could this be the antichrist?’ he questioned….
Carlson was one of Fox News’s biggest stars until his abrupt firing in 2023 and was once close to Trump, whose views he was credited with strongly influencing.
Trump, at least, seems to be auditioning for the role.
The Alex Jones feud also intensified this week.
Watching Jones’s site is disorienting because, at least when I watch it, all the videos keep trying to start themselves and play over the top of each other in a cacophony that matches the current MAGA chaos. Apparently every viewpoint Jones expresses is so important that you should listen to all of them at once!
Another oddity that isn’t really odd for Jones is that he argues against Trump’s insanity via conspiracy theories of his own, and he’s got so many of them that he just alludes to as if they are established facts, that I think the critic is as unstable as his subject. Still, the two former friends and golfing buddies, if I recall, both of whom were staunch Trump supporters (one of them—Trump—still is) are now ripping each other to shreds in video volleys.
Here is where it gets weird. The president criticized Alex Jones because Jones, he pointed out, is a bankrupt loser. Jones fired back that Trump is bankrupt loser three times over. (Actually the Trump number of bankruptcies is six time, so the president, by his owns standard is a six-time loser.) Anyway, the president goes after Alex like a schoolyard bully, and bankruptcies were, I guess, his best material for name calling that day. It was sort of like yelling. “Oh yeah, well you’re as ugly as my mother!”
According to the video below, that includes that schoolyard fight, Trump has completely killed MAGA:
The two videos presented there are a fascinating brawl. In the second one, Jones points out that Trump has lost 80% of the indepedent vote and that Republicans are going to massively lose the nest election, but Trump doesn’t care. Jones also lays out how Trump is doing the reverse of nearly everything he promised to his MAGA supporters: (No kidding. Who said that all along?)
He’s committing political suicide for our own movement, and he’s turning against all the major pillars of the movement. Blocking RFK Junior trying to get rid of all the poison shots all of a sudden…. Why?
Jones gives his reasons for Trump’s “change” based on conspiracies he believes are driving the “new Trump.” I’ll give mine based on the old Trump! I don’t need any conspiracy to explain what is happening: Trump is delusional exactly as the doctor described, so he believes he can pull off all the things he has said he will easily accomplish because he is undefeatable in his own eyes because he’s so great and powered that even God has chosen him. Trump doesn’t even see his power as coming from God. He sees God as having chosen him as an affirmation of his own greatness … the man God needed to get the job done.
Understand how the mainframe of a megalomaniac works, and you see this isn’t change to a different kind of thing; this is change along a path of continuity! Everything Trump has set his mind to, as his prophet Paula White-Cain has assured him, will be a huge success; so, in his belief, “his people” will practically worship him for it once they see the success and will deeply regret they ever doubted him. In fact, I’m sure some of his people haven’t turned from him precisely because they fear that is how it will turn out. So will many others when they see how great he is. Trump doesn’t believe he has to do what his supporters want. He is greater than they are, and they will come to revere his greatness and apologize for their failed loyalty, becoming more loyal than ever.
The sad part is they are the enablers who powered him into a psychosis this deep by excusing all his lies and failures to deliver all along and believing him through every betrayal:
no repeal and replace of Obamacare;
Mexico not paying for the wall at all, not even through tariffs;
US businesses paying all import and export tariffs, not Mexico;
the total amount of tariffs offset by price adjustments from foreign suppliers, just 6%;
the rushed delivery of a vaccine that most of MAGA hates while trying continually to get them honor him for it as his number-one success;
now, the starting of multiple wars; iflation showing up from the tariffs. The Epstein files buried and over redacted, especially the parts about Trump and the perps;
catering almost entirely to his buddy billionaires;
walking all over every law in the constitution if he decides he wants to.
On and on it went, and for most of it, they stayed with him in blind loyalty AND excused it in endless arguments! So, they taught him he can do whatever he wants (until now). As a result, Trump believes they will come around when they see his huge successes. If not, he doesn’t need them. He’s already literally said that to them.
Jone’s continues:
But this isn’t about his attack on me. It’s about the true craziness of all this. He has all these Neocon sychophants … praising him and saying how great he is…. So, here is where we are at right now, Ladies and Gentleman. We are at a crossroads, and Trump is committing political suicide…. No one who has any brain cells can deny that fact….
Jones keep saying this is “a new Trump,” but this is completely the Trump I and many other always saw, just emboldened and empowered by his supporters who didn’t care if he ruled by decree and didn’t care if he skirted laws however he could get away with, running free and becoming his own worst self. It’s the same self—same traits but now unrestrained because he’ll never face another election anyway.
This is the always arrogant Trump:
the Trump who always said he’d like be a czar’
the Trump who openly admired some of the ways Hitler ruled, if not Hitler’s hatred for the Jews;
the Trump who has always berated his critics, made fun of people who he hired as being morons without ever owning the fact that he was the common denominator in hiring all of them;
the Trump who has lied multiple times a day, claiming whatever he wants to believe;
the Trump who has profiteered directly off the presidency since the first year of his first term in ways MAGA would never tolerate from Biden;
But now he is completely unbridled by having no shot at another election, so completely unhinged. So, he’s going to play it for all the personal power and personal gain he can while he has the opportunity. AND NO ONE IS REINING HIM IN!
He’s spent years sucking up every praise from every cabinet sycophant, as we saw when the televised parts of cabinet meetings turn into a massive round-table boot-licking session; and he’s inhaled all of that praise deep into the core of his ego as the hot air it needed to inflate. They fed the monster and this is what you get. They helped create him by accepting the endless lies, believing them, covering for them, claiming it was 4-D chess, etc.
If you think I’m being too harsh, just remember that all of my lighter criticism about Trump over the past years, when I was accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome have come so clearly true that most of his biggest followers have turned on him and are calling him crazy. Now that I’m going even further because I see this as all going to go insanely further, I suspect I’ll get some of the same kind of criticism, but watch where this goes.
It’s all going to wind up even worse than I’ve describe so far until even most of those who stand by him now will wonder how on earth he became such a monster. The answer is THEY fed the beast. They fed it until it became a monster; but guess, what, the ravenous monster that has grown so great on such praise becomes a raging monster when you stop feeding it. Feed a wild bear over and over, and see what happens to the seemingly friendly bear when you stop feeding it entirely.
When the president’s war doesn’t go how he believes it will go, and he cannot make the madness end, watch how wild he gets as Iran makes him look like a loser. When his economy completely collapses and inflation reaches 10%, and gas prices have been over $5 a gallon for a year and his supporters leave him bit by bit because they cannot afford to live anymore and turn on him as failure and a liar, watch how enraged the beast gets for not getting the worship it so craves!
And all of that is going to happen because no leading Republicans in power are even thinking about removing him from office—at least, not that they let on. They are that corrupt and power-hungry themselves. If the Republicans don’t get the balls to remove him from office on grounds of insanity because too many die-hard MAGA supporters just cannot admit they’ve been had and that Trump is the deranged one, after all their claims to the contrary, then that is where this is going.
For a guy who says this isn’t about him, Jones can’t stop himself from going back to the personal brawl:
It’s so unhinged! He’s the guy who had all these countless bankruptcies for casinos and hotels and, you know, basically these pump and dumps; but then he looks at ME that was basically shut down by a million-and-a-half dollar judgment…
Yes, Alex for propagating baldfaced lies that damaged the lives of others with ZERO evidential backing that you could present in court to support your outrageous claims.
… that was totally rigged, and now he’s siding with the people that attacked him against myself and others; so, this is the new Trump.
No, Alex, this is the Trump you loved whenever he did that to the people you hate. You just now get to see what it feels like when he does it to you because he always goes after anyone who breaks fealty with him. This is Trump being Trump when you stop feeding the bear!
Jones goes on to speculate he must have made some deal with the globalists above him, such as the Rothschilds, and that he’s sabotaging the midterms at their behest, in order to have changed like this—the usual kind completely evidence-free conspiracy claims that got Jones taken to court in the first place. He’s learned nothing!
Now, Jones does that to Trump, as Jones has always done to others, including the people connected to Sandy Hook, while he complained that Trump is doing to him what Trump has always done to others. What a convoluted, spiraling world of mutual insanity circles as those with conspiracy-laden brains turn on each other and rip each other to shreds.
I told Trump I don’t want to attack him. But we have to because it’s so crazy what he’s doing.
And you’re crazy, too, Alex! This is how these thing, founded on lies and hatred and support for deranged people so long as you think they are going against the right people and so long as you believe their lies … this is how they fall apart, and all parties turn on each other in a MegaMAGA Meltdown.
Taking the 25th
At this point, all of the following Red Hat Elites are calling for Trump’s decapitation via the 25th amendment:
Alex Jones thinks he is leading the way among the MAGA defectors; but here is what happens to those who pointed out the truth all along when they claim someone like Jones is awfully late to the party:
People caught up in the MAGA madness never admit that they are the ones who powered Trump all the way to the presidency, even as others warned them that Trump was deranged. They don’t ever admit they were wrong for accusing those who pointed out Trump’s obvious and DEEP character flaws all along the way of being the ones who were deranged. Like Trump, they always have to be right.
At least many do; but I suppose I’m glad, regardless, that they are seeing a glint of the light, albeit long after they put the devil in power and inflated him with their adoration and voted empowerment from a blighted soul into the beast he is today. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and the’ve have allowed him to have absolute power by doing nothing to restrain him at anything he tries to do.
Just wait until it gets worse, and it will until most of the rest of MAGA turn late, too, yet never thank those who tried to point out the danger all along the way. Instead, Jones, attacks Ruby for being mean to him, when she points out the truth about how hard he tried for years to excuse all of Trumps worse traits and even claim they were 4D strengths as she tried all along the way to show him otherwise on his own show.
Conservative commentator Candace Owens wrote on X: ‘The 25th amendment needs to be invoked. He is a genocidal lunatic. Our Congress and military need to intervene. We are beyond madness.’ Owens had previously been a vocal Trump supporter throughout his first and second terms, making her rebuke one of the more striking defections of the week.
Former GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene—long considered one of Trump’s most ardent congressional allies—posted: ‘25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilisation. This is evil and madness.’
Former homeland security official Miles Taylor wrote on X that people who helped elect Trump were now warning he is ‘demented’, naming Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, Alex Jones and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Dan Bilzerian, a prominent Trump backer on social media, posted that Trump ‘is an extreme narcissist, he’s going to nuke Iran because his ego can’t handle that he’s losing the war and his lies will be exposed. 25th amendment.’
Former GOP Representative Joe Walsh posted: ‘His Easter morning post. And just 2 days ago, one of his religious advisers compared him to Jesus Christ. He will forever be a stain on this country. And the world. 25th Amendment. Now.’
Former GOP Representative Adam Kinzinger posted: ‘This is absolutely insane and 25th amendment grounds in and of itself.’
The combined list of Republicans calling for the 25th:
Candace Owens — conservative commentator
Marjorie Taylor Greene — former GOP Representative
Alex Jones — right-wing media figure
Joe Walsh — former GOP Representative
Adam Kinzinger — former GOP Representative
Ty Cobb — former White House counsel under Trump
Scott McConnell — founding editor of The American Conservative magazine
Dan Bilzerian — social media personality and former Trump backer
Miles Taylor — former Department of Homeland Security official
Conspiracy hell
MAGA was raised on a constant diet of conspiracy theories. Some, of course, were true. That’s why I share them sometimes when I think they provide credible evidence. Many have been based on leaps of logic that connect the dots but with no evidence to support why the dots should connect that way. Instead, the mere fact that you can connect them that certain way and create a certain picture is all the evidence you need—just a credible theory.
So, it is no surprise that MAGA is now melting down by every party throwing new conspiracies about each other at each other, mostly based on things inferred based on things that look suspicious—the kind of “evidence” the infamous Sidney Powell Kraken case was built on, which Trump’s Supreme Court immediately threw out as garbaged based on mere grounds for suspicion. What some people don’t get is that “grounds for suspicion” are not court-worthy evidence. “Ground for suspicion” are the things that tell you where to start looking to try to find solid evidence. This is the stuff faulty conspiracy theories are mostly made of: This looks suspiciously like this.
One area where we see that kind of unravelling suddenly exploding is in the Trump assassination attempt. As former MAGA members turn on their Liar-in-Chief they’re having to reinvent his godlike quasi resurrection where Jesus miraculously spared him from an assassins bullet. I personally don’t doubt he was actually shot because it is the most straightforward of all the stories. Not hard to believe that some dumb kid would do that and got that far when you have the likes of Kash “Klown” Patel running the FBI!
In recent weeks, criticism of President Donald Trump from within his own support base has reached a fever pitch. Amid that backlash, a new conspiracy theory has taken hold online. Some of Trump’s biggest supporters are now claiming, without evidence, that the 2024 assassination attempt against him was staged. The theory marks a sharp shift from earlier reactions that framed his survival as almost divine. Now, parts of the MAGA movement are questioning whether the incident itself was real.
My point is not what version of the story is true—whether a kid acted on his own and got himself killed or whether Trump faked his own assassination as a publicity stunt or any other view. My point is just how quickly the former MAGAites who built up from QAnon conspiracies about reptilian Clintons eating babies in a pizzeria are now applying the same art against Trump. They, too, are turning on the one who betrayed them by doing the same thing to him they did to those who were his original enemies when they helped get Trump into office.
A whirlwind of lies is throwing MAGA all over the place. In the mix there may be some truths, too; but this is how lies upon lies and delusions upon delusions fall apart in madness everywhere.
And here is how insane it is:
As Trump’s hold over his base has waned, some prominent voices have begun promoting claims that the attack was staged. Comedian Tim Dillon said on his show, “I think that maybe it was staged,” suggesting Trump should admit it was done “to show people how important it was to vote for me.”
You can read the story linked below to see the variety of new conspiracies that are becoming the new facts of MAGA, all of them contradicting each other, as they compete to ascend.
Think I’m wrong about the explosion of insanity as the champion, himself explodes? Probably better wait until the end of the year to come back here and comment on how it never went as badly as I said it would go from here because the mad king will grow madder still as his flock turns against their own self-appointed messiah, who may also be God’s wrecking ball for the world, as I’ve claimed all along.
Wait to tell me how wrong I was until after it clearly turns out that he wasn’t a wrecking ball. If not God’s, then his own wrecking ball. How fitting already is his destruction of the East Wing of the White House, as I said it would be on the day the wrecking ball was swinging. Trump will demolish the world before he ever admits he was wrong about all of his imperial madness, and he’ll get there before MAGA melts down far enough to finally gain the numbers necessary to stop him.
That’s where this ends.
