“Donald Trump Is the Best Ever President in the History of the Cosmos!” by Frank Bruni in today’s New York Times: “His strategy is fiction. His strategy is lies.”

My past posts on President Trump were prompted by his history of using pseudonyms—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_of_Donald_Trump. Pseudonyms are a recurrent topic in my discussion of the multiple personality trait of fiction writers, because, in multiple personality, the names of alternate personalities are pseudonyms. Search “pseudonyms.”

Another recurrent topic in my discussion of multiple personality in fiction writers is lying, because some people with multiple personality have a history, even since childhood (when multiple personality starts) of being considered liars. Search “lying” to see past posts on fiction writers, multiple personality, and lying.

I liked today’s essay by New York Times columnist, Frank Bruni, because he combines the two issues of fiction and lying: “His strategy is fiction. His strategy is lies.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/opinion/sunday/trump-lies.html.

It is an old joke among fiction writers that they are professional liars. However, for the president of the United States to be a professional liar is no joke. But what is it?

Other than pseudonyms, lying, unpredictability, and self-contradiction, there is Trump’s alternating personal appearance. One day he is gray; the next day he is blond; the next day he is gray; the next day he is blond. You don’t see something like that with most men. Is he bisexual, transgender, or multiple personality? Is it a conscious manipulation of his image for political purposes? Or a quirk of his hair stylist?

Since not all professional liars, people who use pseudonyms, or people who alter their appearance have multiple personality, I am still undecided about Trump, but multiple personality should be in the differential diagnosis (the list of diagnoses under consideration).