General Discussion

He doesn't want anyone else involved in making decisions, even though others do the actual work while he golfs. He's a micromanager, but unfortunately he's stupid and ignorant and doesn't want to learn anything or take anybody's advice, so he does his micromanaging on the basis of what he thinks, based on what he wants to happen and whatever he might have picked up on Fox "News." But in his addled mind nobody but him should be managing anything, and whatever he decides is correct and must be done. During the eighteenth century there was a concept of the enlightened despot, an authoritarian leader who ruled on the basis of Enlightenment ideas based on science and logic, and who strengthened his authority by improving the lives of his subjects. Frederick the Great exemplified the enlightened despot, writing that his "principal occupation is to combat ignorance and prejudice ... to enlighten minds, cultivate morality, and to make people as happy as it suits human nature, and as the means at my disposal permit." Trump is the polar opposite of an enlightened despot. He's a crooked real estate developer turned benighted despot whose principal occupation is to further ignorance and prejudice, to corrupt minds, cultivate violence, and to make people as unhappy and himself as happy as possible.