I come on at minute 15.20

The personality defects of Donald J. Trump have been the subject of amateur psychology in mass media since his first presidential electoral campaign in 2016. The trait that has been most discussed was and is narcissism.

Google’s AI Search has the following to say about this issue:

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Numerous mental health professionals and critics have publicly suggested that Donald Trump exhibits traits consistent with

narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), and paranoid personality disorder, often grouping them under the term “malignant narcissism“. These claims, primarily argued by psychologists and psychiatrists, cite patterns of grandiosity, lack of empathy, need for admiration, and impulsivity.

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This portrait of Trump is the product of specialists operating in our secular culture.

However, this is Easter Sunday and I think it entirely appropriate to approach the issue from a Christian binary analytical framework of Good and Evil, God and Satan.  This is all the more relevant because Trump professes to take religion seriously. Key members of his administration, like Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, are zealous Believers and speak publicly of their religion.

In this context and considering the Easter Sunday dateline of this message to the Community, I say that Trump and the senior members of his Administration have stepped right out of Dostoevsky’s novel The Possessed.  They are Evil Incarnate, they are possessed by Satan in their support of Israeli genocide in Gaza and now in the vicious, inhuman violence they are directing against the Iranian people. Listening to Trump’s daily diatribes, his bloody threats against Tehran, it  strains belief that these words are coming from our top elected official. 

And so I conclude : shame on the United States if this man is not impeached and removed from office, sent to face the International Court of Justice for war crimes.

Amen

Earlier today I wrote about the questions put to me by News X World for an interview that took place at 12.30 Brussels time. These questions prompted me to organize my thinking about Sergei Lavrov’s latest remarks on how the Iran war may be expanding outside the Middle East and poses a great danger to world peace, and also to think about the Ukraine drone strikes that yesterday seriously damaged Russia’s oil export installations in Ust-Luga, Leningrad oblast. The drones arrived from Estonian territory and the question arises: what if anything Russia will now do to retaliate against Estonia.

I have just received and am pleased to share the link to this podcast: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDuAfVEKS0Y

I use the opportunity also to share one other podcast link which I just received from my good friend Ray McGovern. This podcast contains the presentation he and colleagues made in the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. last Thursday, 26 March about the lies and deception that the Pentagon and intelligence agencies have fed to the American public to justify never ending wars going back to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Ray comes on in minute 15. Special attention is given to what motivated Donald Trump to launch the war against Iran on 28 February 2026. Within his talk, Ray put up on the screen a pre-recorded 10 minute message from fellow member of the activist group VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) Karen Kwiatkowski that is engrossing.

As readers of my website know very well, I very rarely use this platform to promote articles or podcasts of others. Today I make an exception and strongly urge the Community to watch the interview with Professor John Mearsheimer conducted by Judge Andrew Napolitano on Judging Freedom in the past hour. Watch to the very end, please, since the discussion goes beyond analysis of Trump’s desperate self-inflicted situation or of the chances of success of the land invasion of Iran that Trump is now threatening. It goes where others fear to tread: here Mearsheimer speaks of the absolute silence of America’s liberal minded professoriate with respect to the US-enabled genocide that Israel has been conducting in Gaza, to their absolute silence about the gross violation of international law that the United States has committed in its savage war of aggression on Iran that it did not even bother to justify by reference to some real or imagined provocation.

I salute Professor Mearsheimer for courageously pronouncing what I have been thinking for some time but hesitated to say publicly: namely that if a Nuremberg style tribunal were to be conducted to hear the case of the foregoing offenses of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, both would be sentenced to death by hanging.

Bravo!

Discussio

Dear readers, you probably have not heard the news that I have posted above as the title for this brief essay, but then you are not in the press pool of NewsX World and I am doing your listening for you there.

Similarly, you did not hear previously and probably do not even know today that yesterday a Russian state-owned widebody jet landed in Kennedy Airport in New York carrying a delegation of Russian parliamentarians from the State Duma headed by Vyacheslav Nikonov, a veteran legislator, consummate diplomat with extensive foreign experience.  This trip may be called a ‘timid exploratory mission’ reestablishing ties between Russian and American medium level politicians that were long ago broken off by the American side per Dmitry Peskov’s description of it earlier today. This may not be newsworthy in the same sense as a president-to-president summit, but it is a promising development nonetheless, a straw in the wind.

And which way is the wind blowing?  For that, let us return to my headline above. Quite remarkable news if true. And it would appear to justify President Putin’s insistence in the face of substantial opposition from his own foreign policy establishment, including his Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that it pays to negotiate with and to draw closer to Donald Trump however repugnant, however contradictory the man may be.

Make no mistake about it: the Russian establishment now considers Trump to be the fool’s fool. They see his conduct of the war of aggression on Iran as disastrous and likely to go very badly for him if indeed he attempts to put feet on the ground on Kharg island or elsewhere in Iran.

I note in passing, that the Russian political establishment, like its American counterpart points to Trump’s reliance on Mossad, on Israeli intelligence for setting his expectations when he decided to embark on his Iran war. What we see here is that despite its reputation as being the most competent as well as bloodiest intel operation in the world, despite its demonstrated ability to blow up hundreds of its enemies with explosive pagers and the like, this same Mossad is worthless for political and military analysis, for setting strategy against chosen enemies.  Worthless! 

Of course, if Trump proceeds with his threat/promise to Zelensky and the Ukrainian president agrees to leave the Donbas, that will drive an enormous wedge between the United States and Europe, between and among Member States of the EU itself.

NB – the podcast of The Bulletin program on News X World which we recorded 20 minutes ago will likely become available later today and I will post it here at that time.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2026