The world is in serious danger. The source of the danger is the leader of my own country.
At the risk of repeating myself, I feel a responsibility to keep sounding this alarm. Time is running short before Donald Trump does something we may never recover from. He is more than unfit; he is both deeply malevolent and almost completely dysfunctional.
The President of the United States is a malignant narcissist with a degenerative neurological disorder, very likely to be behavioral frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). This is the most dangerous possible combination of psychological and neurological pathologies because it disables every system that constrains an individual’s behavior.
Here is a case report of this co-morbidity with striking similarities to Trump.
Donald Trump is capable of anything. He has no remorse, no empathy, and no conscience. And he is increasingly unable to function or control his own behavior. His ability to reason, form judgements, and work out even the first-order consequences of his actions are effectively gone.
The president lives in a deepening psychosis—an alternate reality generated by his own grandiose delusions, curated and maintained by his sycophants.
To show how many circumstances have piled up to create such an unfit man, I wrote a thought experiment:
Let’s say you wanted to construct the most dangerous possible man. How would you do it?
You would start with someone naturally stupid, but not so stupid he cannot perform.
You’d place him in a privileged family with sociopathic parents who provided no emotional attachment.
You’d have him be the second son of a father who rejected his first-born as weak—to the point he committed suicide.
You’d raise him to be cruel. You’d introduce him to sadists like Roy Cohn. You’d model belittling women, minorities, and anyone less privileged than he is. You’d break him down until everyday sadism becomes his lifestyle.
By adulthood, you’d have a fully formed malignant narcissist, a psychopath so consumed with his own superiority that he believes everyone else wants to take what he has—a paranoid, Machiavellian sadist with no empathy and no morals.
You’d give him access to deviant criminals like Jeffrey Epstein who cultivated his sexual sadism and collected compromising information.
You’d send him to Moscow to get brainwashed by Soviet intelligence.
You would continuously feed his narcissism by ensuring he’s rescued from every situation—as if by magic.
You’d make him feel legally and financially invulnerable by letting him get away with crime after crime, fraud after fraud, and six bankruptcies.
You’d rescue him from the sewer of his own life by giving him a prime time TV show based on his narcissistic self-image—a show which celebrated his cruelty as business acumen.
You’d let him get away with colluding with a foreign power to steal a presidential election. You’d let him get away with a violent insurrection to try to hold on to power when he lost.
And you’d stand by for four years while he plotted to come back and take his revenge.
However, you haven’t quite completed the path to the worst possible man yet, although you have achieved a rare feat: You have successfully created a messianic narcissist with the nuclear codes. Great start!
But you must take things one step further: you must give him frontal lobe dementia and drain from his brain any remaining ability to reason, make judgements, or take advice. This will destroy his ability to understand the consequences of his actions. His salience network will be disintegrated, making it impossible to tell what matters—even to himself.
You’d surround him with people like Natalie Harp, who are incentivized to conceal his incapacity to function.
You’d fill the federal government and the Pentagon with deviant psychopaths who are perfectly happy to exploit his disorders for profit, ideology, and enjoyment.
Approaching the finish line, you would create a global emergency of his own making. You’d have him repeatedly fail at everything he tries and have his popularity plummet to historic levels. You’d have him be mocked by the entire planet.
Finally, as a last straw, you would threaten his status with losing power in a congressional election—by a monstrous landslide.
That’s how you get the most dangerous man in the world.
Now consider his actions over just the last week:
Trump threatened Los Angeles and San Diego with nuclear destruction by Iran at least three different times, increasing in sadistic detail each time. During the same speeches, he threatened Iran with “ceasing to exist.” When a man with these disorders is fantasizing about using nukes, take him seriously.
Trump has attempted to seize control of the AI industry, and forced people to rebrand it to “Super Intelligence” under penalty of being labeled “THE ENEMY.”
Trump has stopped concealing his lifelong devotion to the Russian state by attempting to solve his self-created diesel shortage by purchasing it from Putin. From a geopolitical and energy perspective, this is a nonsensical deal. It would not put a meaningful dent in the U.S. supply shortage. It’s primary effect would be to give Putin money to fund his war machine against Ukraine.
Finally, Trump has approved a live-streamed execution based on Pete Hegseth’s orders. Here is a manic, deranged Pete Hegseth along with neo-Nazi propagandist Jack Posobiec on the newly-returned USS Lincoln, discussing the killing of Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Hasan by firing squad.
Posobiec: “Has Major Hasan made any final requests?”
Hegseth: “Don’t care.”
This is performative sadism, a mirror of Trump’s inner world expressed through a willing lieutenant. Nidal Hasan is now paralyzed from the waist down. It’s unclear whether they will shoot him on TV in his wheelchair.
As a measure of how far we have fallen from normal, in 2025, there were 17 public executions documented in the entire world, six by the Taliban, and 11 by Iran.
I am not aware of any republic in which beginning the practice of public executions was a good sign for the wellbeing of its people. There has never been an execution broadcast live by a nation-state in human history.
We will finally be “America First”—in brutality, and sadism.
There is no bottom to Donald Trump, or his regime, which has welded itself to his grandiose delusions. The Fall of America is starting to look all too familiar.
“I turned in to the games one mid-day hoping for a little wit and humor there. I was bitterly disappointed. It was really mere butchery. The morning's show was merciful compared to it. Then men were thrown to lions and to bears: but at midday to the audience. There was no escape for them. The slayer was kept fighting until he could be slain. "Kill him! flog him! burn him alive" was the cry…”
—Seneca, describing gladiator games under Nero, Rome, ca. 55 AD
Our Nero is just as cruel and reckless as the original. Trump will happily fiddle while the nation, or the whole world, burns down.
Please do everything in your power to raise awareness about the most dangerous man in the world—to friends, family, and especially politicians. There is no excuse for this situation. Those in power are failing to do their essential duty—to protect us.
It is time to break glass. If we don’t find a way to remove Donald Trump from office, he may find a way to get rid of us.
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Thank you, Jim. You've said the quiet part out loud.
A well reasoned and chilling summation of where we stand, and the danger ahead. It is a sobering assessment. I can't find any fault in your reasoning.
Well done.
I have a good friend who points out much of the greed and cruelty we see has always been there. The belief that every time people thought the end was near they were wrong, therefore they are wrong now has one big hole in it. Things that never happened before, do happen, particularly in technology, which is always applied to war. There were never any nuclear weapons until there were nuclear weapons. Although 9-11 was apparently primitive it was a first, for what is now the "Former US" thanks to the dictator featured in this article. The belief that everything has already happened therefore nothing else will is devoid of reason. People are slashing at each other over who gets what, in a burning house. I am well aware I am repeating myself, but people don't seem to get it.