Trump's immorality - lies, lack of Empathy and irresponsibility; Consequences for the world

U.S. President Donald Trump seems to have specialized in bombastic statements that exaggerate certain facts and situations, distorting truth and reality. This became particularly evident over the past two weeks following the outbreak of the conflict in Iran, which Trump described as a "simple trip,” even though, as a result of the U.S.-Israel bombings, thousands of people-including American citizens-lost their lives.

Whenever Donald Trump speaks publicly about global issues, the immediate reaction is often to label him as "crazy,” despite the fact that he has, for the second time, become president of the world's most powerful country, the United States. In reality, Trump seems intent on rewriting the world-not through argument, but through forceful statements and actions, as he did in Gaza at the end of the Israel-Hamas conflict, and now in Iran.

Donald Trump does not govern; he is a showman. It is worth noting his statement, "I play with people's fantasies,” as well as his well-known actions: renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, requesting that the U.S. regain control of the Panama Canal, expressing the desire to integrate Canada as the 51st U.S. state, and his obsession with acquiring Greenland by any means from a NATO ally, Denmark.

From a moral standpoint, experts describe people who make such statements as deceitful, irresponsible toward others, low in empathy, prone to using people as instruments, morally egocentric, and flexible in their relationship with the truth. Applied to the leader of the world's greatest power, these traits can have serious consequences globally.

For the U.S., Trump's astonishing statements can lead to polarization, weakening of institutions, political and economic instability, and a deterioration of civic culture, according to market experts' analyses. Globally, the president's statements can provoke diplomatic unpredictability, geopolitical tensions, economic disruption, and undermine international norms. Thus, the behavior and decisions of the American leader affect not only his own country but also global stability and security, due to the irresponsibility and lack of moral empathy he displays.

In other words, truth no longer matters in the American president's view; what counts are reactions. Not reality, but the impact of what Donald Trump does and says. It does not matter whether his statements are coherent; what matters is that each of his declarations captures the attention of everyone-from Los Angeles and Seattle to Beijing, Seoul, or Tokyo, from Oslo and Moscow to Melbourne or Auckland. He achieves this because leaders of democratic states analyze him according to moral and legal standards developed over the past 80 years, while Donald Trump respects none of these. He holds all the cards, while others do not, as he conveyed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and as he now tries to convey to the new leaders in Tehran, after previous leaders failed to understand the message and lost their lives following the bombings carried out by Israeli and U.S. air forces.

To illustrate the true picture of Donald Trump, we stop at a few examples:

• 1. Trump as Pope

May 3, 2025. Trump posts on his official page on the Truth Social network, as well as on his page on the X network and on the White House, a picture of himself as Pope. Asked later by the American media who he would like to be the successor to Pope Francis, Trump replies: "I would like to be Pope, that would be my number one choice."

Was it a simple joke? No, but a declaration of symbolic occupation. Through it, Donald Trump has directly entered (or invaded) the most sacred space, which he is desecrating and which he wants to dominate.

Immediately, the whole world reacts, and this is exactly what Donald Trump wants. While the crowd of Catholic believers goes hysterical and Western leaders laugh at him, Trump gains important points regarding his image at a global level.

• 2. Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize

In the last quarter of last year, Donald Trump made a real global lobby so that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 would be awarded to him and not to someone else. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some leaders from the Gulf region joined in the chorus of Trump's lobbyists, who argued that the American president should be declared the winner. Bad luck! The Nobel Committee decided to award this prize to Venezuelan dissident Maria Corina Machado.

However, on January 9, 2026, during a podcast on an American television, Donald Trump says that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

"I should receive the Nobel Peace Prize for all eight and a quarter wars that I have ended."

Eight and a quarter?! Seriously? No, but strategically, because the number does not matter, but the impression created. The exaggeration in his speech is seen worldwide as evidence, an argument for the prize, and the evidence becomes truth, which turns into narrative. And the latter turns into power. While journalists check the number of wars Donald Trump has ended, the American president gets and checks reactions, which means that he also wins.

• 3. Greenland, the American president's desire

Over the past year, Donald Trump has referred several times to the fact that Greenland should become part of the US, because Denmark is incapable of administering it and defending it from Russian and Chinese influences. European leaders have rallied around Denmark, and even, at the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, sent troops to Greenland to increase the security of that island.

Do you think that pleased Dona ld Trump and made him give up his dream? No way.

Here is what Donald Trump said on January 12, 2026, according to the American press: "I will not allow Russia or China to settle in Greenland, let that happen. One way or another, we will have Greenland". The American president makes it clear what he has said over the past year, that if necessary he will even resort to the military option of annexing the island in question.

Donald Trump does not negotiate, but imposes a framework in which the outcome is already fixed, which is meant to show everyone that he holds the power. While world leaders wonder how Trump will annex Greenland and if he will do it, the American president has already won that territory in the eyes of ordinary people who absorb his every statement, more or less crazy.

• 4. The Iran War, a „Simple Excursion”

March 9, 2026, a week after the start of the Iran War. Donald Trump tells American reporters that American participation in this conflict is a "short-term trip."

Basically, in the opinion of the American president, although thousands of people have died in the conflict so far, including several Americans, and several thousand others have been injured, the war has turned into a vacation. It is the label that Donald Trump puts on a cruel reality, a label that turns into perception, and then into acceptance. Even if those around him tell him that this is not true, Donald Trump is able to say that their opinion does not matter.

Two days later, on March 11, 2026, Donald Trump maintains his statement and states that US participation in the Middle East conflict is "a trip that will keep us away from war."

Basically, the American president claims that you are making war so that you do not make war. Is this a contradiction? In Donald Trump's opinion, no, but a reframing, in which logic no longer matters, only the formulation is important. As long as this sounds good, everything is working according to plan or faster than the plan drawn up for the war in Iran.

And to make sure everything goes as he wants, on March 15, Donald Trump adds, regarding the bombing by American forces of Kharg Island, where Iran has one of its largest refineries: "We could hit it a few more times, just for fun."

Fun?! Here we are no longer talking about hyperbole, but about a controlled shock, in which the seriousness of the bombing disappears and only the media spectacle offered by the American president remains. And fear for the citizens of Iran.

• 5. Cuba, the future possession of the USA?

The most recent "feat" of the "crazy" American president that we are dissecting in this article dates back to yesterday.

Donald Trump has said he would have the "honor" to take control of Cuba, as his administration suffocates the communist regime in Havana with a fuel embargo.

Addressing journalists accredited to the White House, Donald Trump said of Cuba: "I think I can do whatever I want with it. Whether I liberate it or take it, I think I can do whatever I want with it. Do you want to know the truth? It's a very weak nation right now, a failed nation. They have no money, they have no oil, they have nothing. They have beautiful land, beautiful landscapes, it's a beautiful island."

The above statement is the essence of the Trump Administration, in which power is confused with the personal will of the American president, for whom public institutions are objects of decoration, rules and international law are optional, who is not shy about testing any limits and for whom everything becomes negotiable, including reality.

What can others do in these conditions, whether we are talking about political leaders, analysts or journalists who follow and analyze Donald Trump's statements? If they try to contradict him, they will amplify his reactions. If they ironize him, they will validate him in the eyes of the ordinary citizens of this world. If they become indignant, they will provide Trump with the necessary ammunition, because the American president does not lie, but, in his opinion, reconfigures everything, does not make mistakes, but tests, does not exaggerate, but optimizes.

While other global leaders debate whether Trump is right or not, the American president changes the rules by which it is determined who is right. And then it is no longer about Trump, but about everyone else, who does not understand his game.

• Conclusion

In such a paradigm, the essential question is no longer whether Donald Trump is right or not, but whether the world still operates according to the classical criteria of truth and reason. Because, in the logic that Trump imposes, truth is no longer a stable benchmark, but a variable that is shaped according to impact, reaction and perception.

And here, in fact, lies the great rupture: Trump is not an exception to the system, but the signal that the system itself has changed. That politics is no longer about construction, but about narrative dominance. That leaders no longer seek consensus, but control of attention. And that power no longer belongs on who is right, but on who manages to redefine what it means to be "right". In this game, Donald Trump is not an accident. He is the product and, at the same time, the engine of a world in which reality is no longer discovered, but manufactured in real time. And those who continue to judge him with the old tools only confirm one thing: that it is not Trump who is breaking the rules, but that the rest of the world has not yet understood that the rules are no longer the same.