« When Trump started bombing Iran, he thought the war would be as brief and victorious as his recent operation in Venezuela—and was surprised (as was his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth) that the Iranians resisted (even though his intelligence advisers and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had warned that they would). Last week, after laying waste to their critical infrastructure, Trump was stunned by the Iranians’ persistent refusal to surrender. “Why wouldn’t they call?” he wondered aloud to a Time magazine reporter. “We just blew up their three big bridges last night!”
Trump is so accustomed to “winning” in various other stare-downs—against Congress, media execs, university presidents, and others—that he is startled when a foe doesn’t fold. He takes the defiance as an insult and the public insult as an embarrassment. »
— Fred Kaplan at Slate.
Trump is a nepo baby who got everything he wanted. His smart older sister even did his homework for him because he was too dumb and lazy.
He got several hundred million dollars from Daddy Fred and mostly squandered that on bad investments and stupid projects.
Importantly, the Trump Organization is a private company. Trump never had to cooperate with a board of directors or investors the way a president of a corporation does. So nobody has been around who could question Trump's ideas or actions.
So we have a narcissist running the country who feels accountable to nobody and nothing. That's a big problem in a democracy which depends on consultation and cooperation.
