IT'S ALL ABOUT TRUMP

Understanding the Chaos: It’s Always About Donald J. Trump

Across the country, there’s a palpable sense of confusion, unease, and dread. People of all political leanings ask the same questions: What’s happening? What’s next? What are we supposed to do? Every day seems to bring a new shock, twist, and norm shattered. There’s no clear plan. No steady leadership. Just endless volatility.

But the truth is simpler than we’d like to believe. The uncertainty isn’t due to some complex, high-level strategy. It’s not part of a master plan with hidden gears and genius manipulation. The answer is much more straightforward, even if it’s more terrifying in its implications:

It’s all about Donald J. Trump.

It always has been.

From the moment he descended that golden escalator, Trump made it clear: he is the center of his universe and intends to make himself the center of ours. He doesn’t govern. He doesn’t lead. He manipulates, dictates, and dominates. He doesn’t pursue policies for the common good—he pursues power for the personal glory it brings him.

A Malignant Narcissist with Global Aspirations

Donald Trump exhibits the hallmarks of malignant narcissism—an extreme mix of narcissism, paranoia, aggression, and grandiosity. He shows no empathy, real connection to others, humility, or curiosity. He needs constant affirmation, absolute loyalty, and total control.

He fancies himself a ruler. A king. A strongman. Maybe even a god. In his mind, laws are for other people. Truth is negotiable. Reality is a tool to be shaped, not respected. And history? That’s just the set dressing for his show.

The confusion we feel isn’t because we don’t understand Trump. We keep trying to understand him like a normal political figure. He’s not. He’s not a traditional conservative, a populist in the real sense, or a nationalist with a structured ideology.

He’s a man obsessed only with his own power, image, and survival.

Unpredictability as a Weapon

The only constant in Trump’s world is that he will do whatever he wants if he thinks it benefits him. That means today’s enemy may be tomorrow’s ally. Those laws are suggestions. That loyalty is temporary and conditional, and that truth is another tool in his belt.

He thrives in confusion because it lets him be the only fixed point. Everyone must react to him, orbit him, interpret him. In this way, he exerts control even when he does nothing. He keeps the public, the press, and even his allies and enemies guessing.

But you don’t need to guess. You only need to remember that whatever happens next will be about Donald J. Trump.

He will fire, insult, pardon, destroy, praise, attack, or abandon anyone at any time as long as it feeds his need for dominance. He will surround himself with sycophants. He will dismantle institutions. He will break norms. He will tear down the scaffolding of democracy itself if it means he can rule the ruins.

What Do We Do Now?

We must stop asking, “Why would he do that?” and “What’s the strategy?” There is no strategy except self-service. We must stop pretending this is politics as usual and start calling it what it is: a slow and deliberate authoritarian takeover wrapped in the personality cult of one man.

We must resist normalization, stay informed, engaged, and organized, protect institutions, defend truth, elevate real leadership, and be prepared for anything.

Because while no one knows exactly what Trump will do next, we do know one thing for sure:

Whatever it is, it will be about Trump. Always Trump. Only Trump.

And that, in itself, is the greatest threat democracy has ever faced from within.

William James Spriggs