Trump’s Dreamworld: A President in the Mirror of His Own Myths

In the digital agora of the 21st century, where words fly like arrows through the air of social media, the voice of a man rises once again - one who has never ceased to cast himself as the savior of a world in decline: Donald J. Trump. His latest tweet, a rhetorical monument of pathos, polemics, and post-factual self-assurance, once again reveals the architecture of his dreamworld - a realm in which he alone is the architect of order, reconstruction, and national greatness.

With dramatic flair, Trump declares he has “sent in the troops” to Los Angeles to prevent an apocalypse - a vision reminiscent of biblical firestorms, of cities consumed in the wrath of the gods. But in Trump’s narrative, it is not divine wrath that fuels the flames, but human failure: an “incompetent governor,” a “failing mayor,” a bureaucratic quagmire obstructing the rebuilding of 25,000 homes. Only the federal government - in other words, he himself - has delivered. The federal permitting process is complete, while city and state permits are “disastrously behind schedule.”

This narrative is more than a political statement. It is a mosaic of self-glorification, blame-shifting, and a deep mistrust of institutions beyond his direct control. In Trump’s world, reality is malleable, a stage play in which he is always the hero - the savior, the builder, the final bulwark against chaos.

But what remains when the curtain of this performance is lifted? A city that is not burning, but struggling. A country that is not collapsing, but grappling - with crises, with bureaucracy, with itself. And a former president who tries to shape the world in 280 characters: grand, simple, black and white.

Trump’s dreamworld is no place for nuance. It is a hall of mirrors in which every reflection shows only him - larger, more powerful, infallible. But the longer one looks, the clearer it becomes: it is not the world that refuses him. It is he who refuses the world.