We previously analysed Trump’s fantasy about stopping six wars. He now claims eight. He appears to believe he is infallible. Whatever he says is true, whatever he wants he can achieve. Now he has decided he wants Greenland and is threatening to impose increased tariffs on any country that does not help him get it.

The BBC records that, in a text message to Norway’s prime minister in 18 January, US President Donald Trump wrote:

Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper’ for the US. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland

Trump may or may not be aware that an independent committee, not the government of Norway, awards the Nobel Peace Prize, but he certainly isn’t worried by such minor details.

Perhaps the best word to describe Trump is MEGALOMANIAC which the Cambridge Dictionary describes as

Someone who has an unnaturally strong wish for power and control, or thinks that they are much more important and powerful than they really are.

Lee Siegel wrote in The New Statesman on 5 January that:

Trump is obsessed with geopolitics because he believes he is king of the world. This isn’t a joke, and it isn’t a “feature” of his personality. An American president’s uncontrolled, virulent megalomania is an historical catastrophe. For Trump, using America’s unique economic and military might to cow other countries – any gangster could do it – is proof of his divine talent and skills.

A page published on 19 January in CounterPunch written by Melvin Goodman calls him “Poster Child for Megalomania”:

The mainstream media continues to describe Donald Trump as an “isolationist,” or a “neo-conservative,” or more recently as an “imperialist.” These terms are irrelevant; the term that should be applied is “megalomaniac” or “narcissist.” These terms fit Trump and help to understand the threat he poses to the peace and security of the United States and much of the global community.

In the book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump published in 2019, 37 psychiatrists and mental health experts assessed Trump and came to the conclusion that:

perhaps the most dangerous reason that Trump is not controlled is that the American president is now almost a despotic ruler when it comes to foreign policy. Congress has abdicated its responsibilities to declare war and oversee major foreign policy decisions. This is the tragedy of the U.S. pursuit of hegemonic global power after World War II. American wars, drone strikes, covert operations, and much else in foreign policy have essentially taken on the character of a one-man show, and, with Trump, a horrifyingly dangerous one at that.

The authors warned of Trump’s severe mental impairments and the dire threat they pose to American and global safety being without any effective control over his actions

There can be no doubt he is a grave danger to the peace of the world.