The Nervous Breakdown President

Tariffs are on. Tariffs are off. Then on again. Ten percent. Twenty-five. Forty. Two hundred. Back to fifty.

Vladimir Putin is a nice guy. Then he’s not. Bibi Netanyahu? Not a nice guy—until suddenly he is.

We’re withholding arms from Ukraine. No, wait—we’re sending them.

What we’re witnessing is not policy. It’s not strategy. It’s not even chaos in the traditional political sense.

It's a public nervous breakdown of the most powerful individual on the planet.

I’m not a psychologist. But to my untrained eye, trump doesn’t belong in the White House—he belongs in a hospital ward.

When someone is in the midst of a nervous breakdown, they’re in severe mental distress. The stress can cause irrational thinking, paranoia, mood swings, verbal incoherence, sleep disruption, difficulty with basic decision-making, and disconnection from reality. It often looks like someone struggling to function in daily life, stumbling through tasks they once handled with ease.

Sound familiar?

And here’s the thing: there’s a known set of guidelines for how to treat someone going through a breakdown :

1. Create a calm, quiet environment. Remove stressors, noise, and triggers.

2. Keep the person comfortable and secure.

3. Stay calm yourself. Your composure can help stabilize them.

4. Offer non-judgmental listening. Avoid confrontation.

5. Validate their feelings. Offer support, not challenge.

6. Avoid criticism or shaming. That only escalates the situation.

Now think about how successful foreign leaders and domestic allies have handled trump in public settings. They’re not conducting diplomacy. They’re managing a psychological crisis.

Bibi’s figured it out. So has Zelensky. Macron too. Even Keir Starmer and Mexico’s Sheinbaum seem to get it. These leaders aren’t negotiating with a peer. They’re keeping the environment "safe" for a volatile man with immense power.

His advisors and enablers are caregivers.

And the media? They’re not just failing to call this out—they’re participating in the performance. They play a part, obsessing over his outbursts, his latest contradictions, his every move. They shouldn't be broadcasting his daily inane, babbling media scrums. But when they do, they should be followed by panels of psychiatrists and mental health professionals, not political pundits. 

This isn’t policy inconsistency. This isn’t political posturing. This is instability playing out on a global stage, and too many institutions are complicit in pretending it’s entertainment.

He's not getting help. He’s surrounded by people whose jobs and ambitions depend on him staying upright. One prediction I can make with confidence is that it’s going to get worse. The only thing I can't say is how bad the consequences will be.