{"id":1994,"date":"2026-06-20T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:07:25","slug":"delusional-trump-may-be-too-far-gone-to-see-his-own-limits-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"‘Delusional’ Trump may be too far gone to see his own limits: Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump\u2019s arrogance and braggadocio appear to be without bounds, but does he really believe his own claims of supreme power? That was the subject of debate on CNN\u2019s \u201cThe Arena\u201d Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

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The panel consensus, however, could not confirm that he wasn\u2019t nuts.<\/p>\n

Trump recently stated during an \u201cAxios Show\u201d interview that there are now “no limits” to his power since he started a war with Iran. As CNN host Pamela Brown argued, he now claims \u201che’s more powerful than some of history’s most brutal dictators like Hitler and Stalin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are only two possibilities,\u201d argued Dispatch co-founder Jonah Goldberg. \u201cEither he believes it or he’s just saying it. And I’m not sure which one is better. \u2026 it’s a dumb thing to get obsessed about on his part. It reflects his utter lack of ability to draw distinctions between good and bad. He only measures things on the metric and the rubric of power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that he doesn’t recognize the actual limits on his power, as evidenced by the deal that he was forced to get into, is a sign of delusion that I think is going to create more problems in foreign policy and maybe domestic policy going forward,\u201d Goldberg added. \u201cBecause if he doesn’t actually see the limits on his power, then he’s going to make the same mistakes again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Panelist Lulu Garcia Navarro, host of \u201cthe Interview,\u201d said she couldn\u2019t see in Trump\u2019s head but could only hope he doesn\u2019t believe his megalomaniacal claims.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re trying to understand how delusional is Donald Trump? \u2026 Like, does he believe his own press or is the kind of reality that he has created around himself where everyone is constantly kowtowing to him, everyone is constantly serving his ego? Or does he actually realize that there are things that he has to do? \u2026 He has entered the second administration with this feeling of being having absolute power. \u2026 And so I don’t know the answer to that,\u201d she confessed. \u201cI have given up a long time ago trying to understand Trump’s psyche.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he’s just messaging,\u201d Navarro then declared with some hesitation. \u201cI think he’s messaging to everybody. He’s never going to admit that he is not numero uno and he can do whatever he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

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