I read the following in RAWSTORY:
This is a quote from David Ignatius on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today:
One way to read what happened yesterday is the one person who could nominate Donald Trump effectively for the Nobel Peace Prize is Volodymyr Zelenskyy. That’s the one nomination that might really carry some weight in Oslo.
And if Zelenskyy truly is convinced that the president who spoke with him, not to the United Nations General Assembly, is the real man, that’s going to be, you know, as Zelenskyy put it about Trump, maybe a game changer. That’s, forgive a cynical view of what happened, but that may be behind it.
Trump clinically isn’t a multiple personality (When I was in practice I had experience treating patients with this diagnosias - now called dissociative identity disorder (see Wiki), but he might as well be.) With these individuals, what they both think and do at any given time depends on which personality, called an alter, is in control of thoughts and behaviors. At times the other personalities actually have amnesia for the periods the present personality is in control. Sometimes alters are aware of what happens when they are not in control.
Without delving into what, if any, actual psychiatric diagnoses Trump shows signs of having (I’ve already done that), I want to be clear that while he is erratic and contradicts himself and often seems to express different sides or aspects of his personality, I have seen no indications that he has this diagnosis. If he did it would explain just about all of his vacillating and sometimes extreme, irrational, and bizarre behavior.
Trump is rightfully described as “transactional.” Thus it is very possible that when he measures the pros vs the cons for him he may decide to honor his promise to Zelensky.
Is getting the Nobel Peace Prize so important to him that he’d risk pissing off Putin? Every Ukrainian and Russian soldier hopes so because their lives depend on it.
