Born with an elongated pure golden spoon gyrating in and out of his oral cavity, Donald John Trump suffers from a mental disorder that does not appear currently in the psychiatric nomenclature. Possibly following his presidency, however, it might be listed in the next incarnation of TheDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Professional clinical psychiatrists and psychologists diagnosed Donald Trump with mental conditions in their 2017bookThe Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Additionally, his niece, trained psychologist Mary Trump, said he shows clear signs of narcissistic and sociopathic personality disorders. But we can also add another mental ailment to the list. Related Is President Trump really a humanitarian with a big heart? Lets take a look. Entitlement, though one of the conditions of narcissism, in the case of Donald Trump, has extended to what I term Grand Entitlement Disorder. Its a condition in which the individual truly believes they were born with special privileges and abilities far beyond those of mere mortals.In royal spheres, this is called the Divine Right of Kings, the idea that God had chosen certain individuals and their lineage to sit upon the thrones of kingdoms to rule as they please, and even to plunder and pillage while amassing the spoils for their own personal gain. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Recontextualized in the realm of a president within a constitutional democratic republic, like the United States, this belief was clearly articulated by the 37thU.S. President, Richard Milhous Nixon, when he told British reporter David Frost in a 1977 televised interview, If the president does it, its not illegal.The difference, though, between the attitudes, actions, and political philosophies of Nixon and Trump, is that the former president understood and respected his nations founding documents, and especially the Constitution, whereas, the latter president neither understands nor respects any document other than those he asks others to compose for him, most specifically, his hastily written and often contradictory executive orders. While Nixon attempted to hide or cover up his extra-constitutional misdeeds, Trump openly and publicly acts out his disdain for the rule of law.Trump has been aided and abetted by the Republican Party-led Congress. Individual Republicans have supported his policies no matter how extreme or out of bounds because they understand that standing up to Trump would probably end with the loss of their seats in the next election cycle.The highest court in the land, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision inTrump v. United Stateson July 1, 2024, virtually validated this presidents divine rights by providing broad presidential immunity. The court declared that a president is immune from prosecution when exercising the core powers of the presidency. Immunity means that a personcannotbe prosecuted. Although the majority of justices did not outline precisely what these core powers were nor what would be considered outside of them as an unofficial act, there is no higher or stronger an example of a core power than whats outlined in Article II, Section II of the U.S. Constitution stating that the President shall be the Commander in Chief.During arguments on this case in front of the Supreme Court, Justices asked Trumps lawyers whether a President could dispatch a Navy SEAL Team to kill his political enemies. The courts ruling seemed to have answered its own question in the affirmative.If a president, acting in accordance with their official capacity, orders the military to kill other Americans judges, elected officials, reporters, your neighbor they can do so, and that president would be immune from accountability under criminal law. The Supreme Court, composed of three Trump-nominated justices, practically elevated the presidency to a virtual monarchy as a chief executive officer above the law. Now that many of the constitutional guardrails have been obliterated, Donald Trumps Grand Entitlement Disorder runs rampant:No more following the Constitutions anti-corruption emoluments clause.No more restraints under thePosse Comitatus Actthat had prohibited federal armed forces from acting as civilian law enforcement officers in the U.S. to execute laws. No more need for due process under the law.No more reluctance to construct inhumane prison gulags in the United States and to deport undocumented immigrants to similar facilities in other countries for detainment and severe punishment.No more worrying about siding with our enemies or standing with our allies. No more concern about using the office of the presidency for financial enrichment.No more requirement that the president have even a basic understanding of economic policy before singularly imposing obsessive and random tariffs.No more need to refrain from politicizing the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Weather Service, or any and all government departments. No more concern about the federal government taking over and influencing private companies and educational institutions.No more concern about harassing the free press or attempting to close media outlets.No more requirements to conduct free and fair elections but instead, permission to fraudulently flaunt Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to determine elections through gerrymandering by race, thereby inflicting federal control over state elections. No more restraint against prosecuting the prosecutors and law firms who investigated and prosecuted the president during his first term.No more hesitancy to downplay and whitewash U.S. history as represented in federal museums.No more hesitancy over harassing leaders of other countries into relinquishing their territories to the United States or other invading countries. No more concern over the physical health of the U.S. public.No more worries about acting on and speaking out against insider trading on Wall Street.No more need to understand the fine art of diplomacy when attempting to make deals with international leaders. No more requirement for the president or any administration spokesperson to tell the truth or show transparency on any topic or action.No more apprehensions about advancing policies that further pollute the environment with abandonment.No more need to hire experts in specialized subject fields for administration jobs, including cabinet secretaries and federal judges. No more worries about using and misusing people and being as mean and nasty as possible to foes and former friends alike.No more attempts to engage in civil and respectful political debates.No more trepidation about openly supporting and advocating for an overarching patriarchal, heteronationalist, Christian, white supremacist power structure. No more requirement for the chief executive to understand anything about anything!The nations founders, in their desire to break away from a monarchical and tyrannical system, established a government for the people and by the people. In so doing, they established three co-equal branches of government with each branch accountable to the others.Unfortunately, they did not foresee the breakdown of this system of government that they developed, nor could they have envisaged in tandem the ascendency of a Donald John Trump and his imperial presidency. Trump truly believes that he is entitled to any and all titles he deems appropriate: from His Majesty the King to Nobel Laureate and Doctor of Economics, and from Director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to God Almighty.But as the old proverb reminds us, The higher they fly, the harder they fall.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.