29.03.2026, Moscow.
Dealing with US President Donald Trump one must take into account that he is a seriously mentally ill person suffering from delusions of grandeur which he fuels by all means, and that reality means nothing for him, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, philosopher and political scientist Sergey Kurginyan said on March 20 on the Conversation with a Sage program on Radio Zvezda.
According to the political scientist, Trump will call any outcome his great victory, because the American myth is more important than the reality for him. The political scientist called Trump an accentuated personality whose actions are dominated by delusions of grandeur and desire to be praised.
“I cannot say that Trump is completely insane. He is very smart, sometimes pragmatic etc. But he is definitely an accentuated personality. He is a personality for whom his delusions of grandeur and being praised by everyone are nearly the dominant of his activity. Perhaps he is sometimes smart, sometimes pragmatic, and sometimes thievish together with his family members. But this does not prevent this ecstatic nature having nothing to do with reality: we won here, we won there, ‘with one blow, we slay seven,’” Kurginyan explained.
The political scientist noted that our diplomats are doing right when they use this peculiarity of the US president’s personality to “trick” Trump, but he warned: there must be no illusion that the Ukrainian-Russian matters are not a priority for him as everything can change any moment because of his unstable mind.
“Some time ago Zelensky said he would be friends with Russia and even something like ‘Vladimir Putin, please let us become part of Russia.’ Later he became the bloodiest anti-Russian leader. The same thing will happen with Trump,” the philosopher explained.
The political scientist urged to ignore what Trump says because his words are senseless due to his insanity.
“He is delusional, you see? He is delusional. He may pursue his family capital through crypto-currency at one level of his personality, elections on another level of his personality, and his personal insanity on a third level. And insanity will eventually dominate,” Kurginyan explained.
The philosopher urged to avoid transposing one’s own reasonable mind onto delusional personalities, and he reminded that Joseph Stalin did not believe that Adolf Hitler would attack the Soviet Union exactly because he failed to understand the irrational nature of the Fuhrer.
According to the expert, the problem goes far beyond the historical example involving Stalin. Any rationality and any pragmatism mistakenly attribute the same quality to opponents with whom relations are developed, either confrontational or peaceful. The political scientist called this a fundamental mistake, because we cannot understand the motives of those who are accentuated, i.e. delusional to certain extent, if we suppose that they are as normal as ourselves. He warned that Trump can go against Russia any moment, because he would “feel hurt, or decide he is not treated polite enough, or think he is underpaid some tribute.”
Kurginyan pointed out growing fanaticism behind apparent pragmatism, and he referred to the example of radical Jewish organizations that insist that a temple must be built in place of the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount. “If a single stone is damaged in Al-Aqsa – just one stone! – the whole Islamic world will unite in its hatred against Israel. Is this what Israel needs?” the political scientist noted.
The political scientist doubted the nature of pragmatism itself, and he posed a question what the real motives of people are, i.e. whether they are Biblical, misinterpreted Biblical, or absolutely different, and also what the actual forces stand behind them. He also expressed doubt that Trump is independent calling him a stooge.
“Who is this Trump? Whose stooge is Trump? He is a person with an obvious message, ‘I am not independent. I am a mad show-off who clearly knows what to do when a signal comes,’” he said.
According to the philosopher, the current reality is multi-layered, and its danger is exactly in its imperfectly reasonable nature, which applies to Vladimir Zelensky as well as many others. In contrast to a “stupid and disgusting thug” Pyotr Poroshenko (included on the list of terrorists and extremists in Russia), whose thoughts were predictable and clear, Zelensky, just like Trump, is controlled by pulses from the unconscious, sometimes supported by drugs or something else.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
