Decision Makers: A personality profile of Donald Trump

Prepared using Margaret H. Hermann’s methodology for political personality profiling, which seeks to understand how a leader’s beliefs, values and attitudes shape their decision-making and predict future actions based on past responses and behavioural patterns.

Bio

Name: Donald John Trump

Position: 45th and 47th President of the United States

Age: 79 (DOB 14 June 1946)

Place of Birth: Queens, New York City

Profile Compiled: March 2025

Key takeaways

• Early Influences: Trump’s upbringing under a strict and success-driven father shaped his personality, fostering a drive for wealth, power, and admiration.
• Moral Detachment: Exposure to questionable business practices in his early environment may have normalised ethically ambiguous behaviour.
• Hallmark Bullying Behaviour: Trump’s public aggression reflects a need for dominance, a lack of empathy, and frustration-aggression dynamics.
• Dark Triad Traits: Trump exhibits traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, contributing to manipulative and aggressive behaviour.
• Leadership Style: High self-confidence, strong belief in control, and high conceptual complexity define Trump’s leadership, but high distrust and low task motivation undermine effective governance.

Leadership traits

An assessment of Trump’s key leadership traits based on an 8,344-word dataset from nine different speeches and interviews with Trump conducted between December 2016 and February 2025.

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