For months now, the world has been puzzling over the meaning of some of Donald Trump’s late-night, AI-generated, social media ramblings. And recently they’ve become increasingly bizarre, many of them depicting himself as various historical, pop culture, or heroic figures: Elvis, Jesus, and Superman, to name just a few.

But the most puzzling to me were the recent ones of himself interacting with George Washington, like a couple of soulmates uniting through the wonders of time travel to co-create a brave new world.

Now, I don’t claim to understand how Trump’s mind works — nor would I want to! But I may have hit upon a possible reason for the spate of George Washington hallucinations: he simply Googled the wrong George. Maybe he wasn’t trying to channel the first President of the United States at all; it’s conceivable that the one he wanted — the ruling George with whom he feels a close kinship — is actually Britain’s King George III . . . popularly referred to, for good reason, as “Mad King George.”

George III was the longest-reigning British monarch of his time, and to this day remains the longest-reigning male monarch in British history, having inherited the throne upon his father’s death in 1760. With his wife, Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, he had 15 children, and saw his country through numerous military conflicts throughout Europe and elsewhere — including the loss of the North American colonies following the American War of Independence (1765 – 1783), and the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo (1815).

It wasn’t until later in life that he began exhibiting signs of mental illness. At first intermittent, the condition eventually became permanent, and he suffered a final relapse in 1810, after which his eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, was named Prince Regent and later became King George IV.

While the exact nature of George III’s mental illness has never been determined, medical experts and historians have suggested that his symptoms were consistent with either bipolar disorder or a condition of the nervous system known as porphyria, which can cause both mental and physical symptoms.

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Like George III, Donald Trump led a long and active life before exhibiting acute signs of both physical and mental anomalies. Both were large men, militaristic, believed in large families, and were partly of German ancestry. And both would, if they could, have remained rulers forever.

Is it too much of a stretch, then, to think that perhaps George III is the George that Trump has actually been trying to contact in his nocturnal fantasy world? Or even . . . if you believe in reincarnation . . .

Well, perhaps that’s taking it a bit too far, even for Donald Trump.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
8/19/26