Dan McAdams: I think so. The staff turnover in the White House is higher under Trump than under any other president in recent history. There are a number of reasons for this. One of the most important is that Trump is extremely volatile. It’s hard to predict what he’ll do from one day to the next. Working for such a person is next to impossible.

Dan McAdams is a professor of psychology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Looking back at my 2016 article, I now think there’s something deeper than Trump’s narcissism – something that fully explains it. Trump is what I call the episodic man. I think that explains the high staff turnover in his government.

What do you mean by “episodic man”?

That is the central thesis of my new book on Donald Trump, “The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump”. Episodic man means that Trump lives exclusively in the immediate episode, in this moment, in the here and now. He wakes up every morning and is ready to fight to win. For this he does everything: lying, cheating – everything that is necessary. Then he goes back to bed, wakes up the next day and starts fighting and winning all over again. Yet every day is a different episode for him. They do not fit into any story or narrative. He doesn’t live continuously from day to day like most of us do.

It must be hard to work for someone like that.

When you deal with someone like that, you never know what will happen next. Maybe everything is going great on Tuesday because you did something that helped him win that specific day. But on Thursday he may have to win in a different way. And if you can’t do that, you’re out. It is not possible to adjust to Trump because, unlike most of us, he hardly remembers what happened yesterday or the day before, nor does he think about the future, as almost everyone else does. Most of us develop the story of our life as we live. Trump doesn’t. He cannot therefore develop any long-term strategies.

America votes in 2020 why Trump could win despite lousy polls

For Trump there is only one goal: to win. That’s all it is about. Of course, he knows the election is imminent. In such a way he can definitely take a longer-term perspective. But he is unable to develop a sustainable plan for political strategies. Take the Covid crisis, the greatest health emergency in generations for the United States and the world. Trump is unable to address this challenge because it would require a long-term plan. So in February and March when the crisis hit the United States, Trump said it would all be over tomorrow. “This is only a passing moment” – he really said that. This is how he sees life, as a passing moment, and you have to fight to win today. But when you are dealing with the virus, you need long-term concepts that not only work from one day to the next, but from month to month, maybe from year to year. He can’t do that. He has no idea how to do that. He doesn’t let his experts and employees work like that either. Instead, he disempowers them all and fights to win that one day.

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