Unpredictable, impulsive and lover of surprise effects, President Donald Trump continues to change his mind for his national policy as an international. To the point of impacting the future of millions of people. But what are these permanent reversals hide? Amélie Boukhobza, psychologist, deciphers this atypical personality.
An impossible president to follow
It is difficult to predict what Donald Trump will say or do the next day, even the next time. A resolved position on a hot topic can shatter 24 hours later – without justification or decline. In recent days have still demonstrated it, with its unexpected position against Iran and its ambition to want to suddenly change the regime in place (a project that its government contradicted a few hours earlier). This behavior, which has become his signature, arouses both perplexity as concern. Internationally, each turnaround feeds mistrust. How to negotiate, dialogue, cooperate with a man whose speech is as changing?
The most striking at Donald Trump is the intensity and frequency of reversals. To the point that some wonder if he is still able to exercise political power. “”Each decision, each statement seems to come out of a mood more than a constructed vision ” Analysis Amélie Boukhobza, psychologist. “And in a tense global context, this chronic unpredictability sows disorder”.
Because he is not just a changing man: he is a man who changes by projecting his omnipotence. Which claims everything and its opposite with such a conviction that one ends up doubting his own perception.
A narcissistic operation or a cognitive decline?
For psychologist Amélie Boukhobza, this type of constant turnaround is not necessarily a calculated strategy. It can be part of a deeply anchored psychic functioning, nourished by marked narcissistic features, a compulsive need for attention and an unstable relationship to the truth.
“What matters to this type of personality, she explains, It is not consistency, but the effect produced. The immediate power exerted on the other. “
An observation shared by the American psychologist John Gartner, who goes even further. In the columns of Mirrorhe said in April 2024: “Trump is very manic. He has enormous energy. But behind this facade, he has dementia.”
So … is it pathological or not? “Difficult to decide without assessment” assures our psychologist. “”But when unpredictability becomes constant, when decisions seem guided by moods more than by a constructed thought, it is often the sign of a psychic functioning in difficulty indeed “.
How to react to such a personality?
Faced with such a personality, the key is neither pending a rational logic, nor in the argued debate. It is first to understand the mechanisms at stake: the quest for domination, the need to be right, provocation as a means of affirmation.
Amélie Boukhobza sums up: “We must not be sucked in confusion or denial. You have to keep a clear position. And above all, do not take for yourself what only speaks of the other.”
In other words: faced with this type of profile, personal anchoring, lucidity and limits are the best ramparts. Simpler than saying when the person is on the front of the international scene …