Yes, there is more going on here. There is the narrow-minded, spoiled rich kid fantasy: a man who dreams of domination, who mistakes fear for respect, who wants the world to cower at his name. There is a power addict who values spectacle over decency and loyalty over law.
But Trump himself isn’t the core problem. He’s a type. People like him have always existed. He is unique in only one way: wealth plus power. America gave him that power twice. The second time wasn’t an accident. It was a moral failure. A rejection of American values. The very mob rule the founders warned us about.
The cult and its enablers are the danger.
Blaming Denmark for not awarding a peace prize is absurd. The Nobel Peace Prize is not a national award to be handed out by a country. It was created by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, specifically to offset the legacy of destruction he helped unleash. That context matters. Reality matters.
But Trump and the cult can’t see that. They don’t want to.
Here’s what should alarm people: this is the same man who said Mexico “wasn’t sending their best.” The same man now flirting with deploying the National Guard, even the military, because people buy into his narrative. Not evidence. Not law. A story.
That’s the throughline.
To Trump and the roughly 30% who follow him blindly, none of this is real. It’s a plot. A hero arc. A grievance saga. Republican fan fiction.
And like most fan fiction, it ignores facts, bends reality, and escalates the stakes for drama.
Denmark didn’t deny him a rightful prize. Mexico isn’t “sending” anyone. Migrants are coming on their own. No one is eating pets. None of it is happening.
But stories believed deeply enough become dangerous.
It is time to stop indulging them. It is time to invoke the 25th Amendment. It is time for the Senate to remember its role and reassert its authority. It is time for the nonsense to end.
McClure Magazine 
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