Donald Trump is an anti-politician

Whatever most politicians usually do, the U.S. president will do the opposite. Trump is a political aberration, which means his actions can’t be predicted with any certainty. This is what makes him a true agent of chaos.
Whereas once U.S. President Donald Trump was simply an unorthodox, combative populist demagogue, he now seems to be a wildly unpredictable megalomaniac, who is deluded by grandeur and obsessed with dominating and bullying the entire world.

OAKVILLE, ONT.—On the TV show The Simpsons, when nuclear power-plant owner Montgomery Burns hatches a mad plan to blot out the sun, his employee, Waylon Smithers, frets that Burns had “crossed that line between everyday villainy and cartoonish super-villainy.”...

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