Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says there’s no more room for doubt: President Donald Trump’s United Nations address confirms he’s deep into what Krugman calls his “sundowning” period.
The former New York Times columnist pointed to Trump’s demand that diplomats accept a rebrand of artificial intelligence as evidence the president has lost his grip on reality.
“The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much, now here and after officially called superintelligence, changing the name,” Trump told the General Assembly. “The use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake, it makes it sound fake.”
Most coverage of the speech focused on Trump’s “belligerence’ toward global cooperation or its many falsehoods, Krugman wrote on Substack, but he argued that misses the larger and more important story.
“Isn’t the bigger story the fact that the leader of what used to be the world’s most powerful nation — I say ‘used to be’ because America’s power is collapsing before our eyes — has clearly and undeniably lost his mind?” he wrote.
Krugman noted he first raised the “sundowning” comparison eight months ago and said nothing since has changed his assessment — a warning he’s repeated in recent months. He argued that makes Trump more dangerous, not less, especially if Republicans lose Congress in the midterms.
Even stripped of legislative power, Krugman warned, “Mad King Donald” won’t accept blame. “He won’t feel that he has failed America, he will believe that America has failed him and try to punish the nation accordingly,” Krugman wrote, predicting Trump would turn vindictively on both Democrats and ordinary Americans.
Should Democrats retake the White House in 2028, Krugman cautioned, they’d inherit “a badly damaged nation.”
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