That may all be true, but I don't know that it all goes back to his parents or childhood. I think some of it has to do with the culture of competition and "winning" especially as it relates to boys and men.

Winning is everything to dt, even if he has to lie, cheat or steal just so he can say he won.

He had to declare "we won" on the first day of this current war. And look at how he has to insert himself into the photo with the teams who win the championship games! Just bizarre.

But our culture is saturated with sports competitions and who "wins" or comes out on top. It's reported on the news every day - morning, noon and night. And how can he let someone else get more attention than he does?! Whether it's Fauci or Putin or Netanyahu... he needs to insert himself into every picture, saying ONLY HE can fix it, or end all wars....

But sports and life has rules, judges and referees. He has no use for that if it gets in his way of "winning" or taking center stage, no matter what it is. He cannot accept or stand to be a "loser" nor to be ignored. So he seems to equate everything to winning or losing, and when he talks about the "art of the deal"... it has to be a deal where HE comes out on top.

And that's why he doesn't know how to get out of this war. He HAS to be seen as coming out on top or "winning" something that is not winnable. He had even talked about not getting into unending or unwinnable wars, but he got sucked in by Netanyahu after he was feeling like he was on a roll after going into Venezuela. All Netanyahu had to do was appeal to his ego and suck him in, just as with Putin and others. They all know exactly how to play him, including the wealthy oligarchs who want fewer rules or regulations to restrain them.

I knew something was terribly wrong when immediately after he took office this time, he stood up there during the inauguration with all those oligarchs and started talking about "the golden age" and "taking" Greenland, Canada and Panama. Apparently he has been around guys like Putin too long and thinks he has to compete with them now.

Putin's war will not end well for him or Russia, and things will not end well for trump, nor for us, unless we cut him off and get him and his cronies, handlers and leeches OUT of our government.