Donald Trump's entire approach, from his personal brand to his governance and foreign policy, is a coherent expression of a strategy focused on perception, repetition, and a disregard for conventional norms. The world, preparing for war after decades of relative peace, is left to wonder how America will eventually « wake up » from this « deconstruction » and what the future holds. Not to forget a skillful exploitation of perception rather than facts, all in the service of a quest for personal power, ”unable to distinguish his personal interests from those of the nation, » as his former National Security Advisor John Bolton so aptly put it…