Saturday, January 10, 2026

Truth To Power: How Cognitive Decline Explains Trump's Actions

10 Jan 2026 | Donald Trump’s latest foreign policy decisions - an illegal raid in Venezuela, threats against Colombia, renewed talk of taking Greenland by force, and the seizure of a Russian-flagged tanker - don’t resemble strategy. They are erratic, impulsive, and dangerously destabilising. In this video, I examine Trump’s behaviour through a European lens, drawing on medical and psychological literature around cognitive decline, frontotemporal dementia, and malignant narcissism. Not to diagnose, but to understand the patterns driving US actions that now threaten global stability.


FA! – Mark