"Shoot to kill." What better describes Trump?
His entire life's raison d'etre is violence. At an early age picking on very young children, his fascination with knives that got him sent to military school where he was again a bully, to his love of wrestling and boxing, to his security guards beating up protestors in front of Trump Tower, to his cheating contractors and gloating over getting away with it, cheating on his fake "university,' cheating on funds he promised to veterans and kids with cancer, to his accusations and convictions for rape (rape is about power and violence, not sex) his wishes to cops to go rogue:
"When you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough. I said, please don't be too nice. Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over, like, don't hit their head and they've just killed somebody - don't hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, okay?" - Trump to police officers, Suffolk County Community College, 28 July 2017.
(NB: The crowd of police officers erupted in cheers.)
"I think this is important for people to understand. I'm worried that (Trump's) going to become addicted, or he is becoming addicted, to war. Because he gets off on it. ...To be frightening millions of people is intoxicating to him. To show how powerful he is is intoxicating to him. To destroy things is intoxicating to him." - Former John Hopkins professor, Dr. John Gartner discussing Trump's "rapidly declining" mental state, 06 April 2026
Trump's addiction to violence stems from his malignant narcissism.
"The thing that people need to understand about malignant narcissists is that they get more pleasure from this, which is the sadism from feeling powerful by harming and destroying and degrading other people and institutions." - Gartner.