Mainstream WeeklyIf there is one thing common between US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanyahu and our very dear Prime Minister Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi it is megalomania.
The Oxford English dictionary describes a megalomaniac as a person with an inflated sense of self-importance, power, and grandiosity, often believing himself to be superior, with extraordinary abilities, and an obsessive need for control, stemming from psychological condition like narcissistic personality disorder.
The other trait common to all three of these megalomaniacs is their desire not to ever let go of power and the top decision-making chair. That is, neither Trump nor Bibi and least of all Narendrabhai would want to ever relinquish power and step down voluntarily.
Trump has already hinted that he deserves one more term in office, the American Constitution, restricting only two terms for a President be damned. His facile logic that he was unfairly made to step down from the Oval after his first term to make way for the Democrat nominee Joe Biden whose victory at the hustings Trump refused to accept. And so, he deserves one more term in office.
In January 2025, Representative Andy Ogles introduced a resolution in the US Congress, proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow a president to serve a third term, provided that their first two are non-consecutive. The language of the bill was intended to specifically allow Donald Trump to serve a third term, as he is the only living president who is currently serving a non-consecutive second term.
While it is doubtful that such an amendment would pass through the muster, it clearly demonstrates Trump’s desire to bypass the 22nd Amendment of the American Constitution somehow and remain firmly in the White House.
The only exception to this rule was Franklin D. Roosevelt who ran for three terms and even got elected for a fourth term, though within 82 days of reoccupying the White House he died. But Roosevelt was elected for the first term in 1940 in the midst of Second World War and the world was facing an existential crisis. That was used by his supporters to push for bypassing the 22nd Constitutional Amendment.
So, the world in War and turmoil, could be the best possible opportunity for supporters like Andy Ogles, to push for a third term for Donald Trump. Which means, Trump can cite the current middle east crisis by attacking Iran and in turn Iran retaliating and targeting US bases in the Arab and Gulf regions as good enough reason for him to continue in this extraordinary situation. This prospective alternative could be more ominous but not entirely implausible, going by his mental makeup. After Iran and keeping the Middle east on the boil for next three years, he could turn his attention to the next door Cuba, then maybe Canada and why forget Greenland. Trump has clearly mentioned his desire to extend his empire to all these above-mentioned sovereign nations. In fact, Geopolitical Economy (GE) Editor Ben Norton has carried in his latest video report the speech of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, virtually number two in US administration addressing the leaders of the western nations, after launching the assault on Iran how the decolonisation process initiated by western nations freeing most countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America was an ungodly act under the influence of the Communists and it is time for the western civilisation to partner with the US to recolonise and fully exploit the resources of the colonies as was done for centuries to ensure prosperity of the West. As Rubio finished his address he was welcomed by a loud thunder of applause.
Actually, with Epstein files unravelling the dark secrets also raising a finger at Trump’s past he has to keep the world on a boil, lest the uproar over the sleaze and perversion, exploiting little children drowns all the protestations of Trump and his other accomplices. Creating successive crises appears to be a smart way of keeping at bay all his critics.
Next is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who seems to be holding the strings puppeteering successive US Presidents, be it Democrat Joe Biden who proudly announced "I am a Zionist" or the incumbent Donald Trump. Every time the US administration makes feeble noise of negotiating with Iran, Bibi flies to Washington and next you see US abandoning any deal and striking Iran. It happened in June last year and yet again on February 28, when Israel and US launched a joint operation to turn Iran into yet another Gaza. Here again Itamar Ben-Gvir Israeli Minister of National Security and Bezalel Yoel Smotrich, the Minister of Finance and the leader of the National Religious Party