'Arson and chaos': Trump has 'no motivation' other than being 'center of it all': expert

A former Republican political consultant believes Donald Trump has "no motivation" during his second term other than being the "center of it all".

The Lincoln Project founder, Rick Wilson, appeared on MS Now to speak on Trump's tactics during his second term. The president has seemingly split the GOP in recent weeks over his administration's approach to the economy, healthcare, and the release of Jeffrey Epstein's files.

Wilson believes "arson and chaos" are the aims of Trump this time around, with the 79-year-old not even accounting for a political legacy with some of his decisions. The Lincoln Project founder said political commentators calling Trump a "lame duck" had consistently "underscored the risk Trump poses because he does not care."

Wilson continued, "He does not care about tradition, law, the long history of America's peaceful transfer of power, none of that matters to him. This second term has also given him a sense of autonomy he didn't have in the first term, to violate whatever he wants to violate, whether it's the constitution, the rule of law, or good taste in the White House."

The clear difference between the first term and second term for Trump comes in looking at what the president is now doing, Wilson says. He explained, "The president is not going to look at the last two years of his term and say, 'I'm going to wind down, plan the presidential library, it'll be nice, I'll play a lot of golf.'

"He's going to look at how he burns it all down, how he continues to control the greatest grift he's ever had with his family enormously profiting off of crypto deals, off of real estate deals with foreign powers, all these business arrangements that they're suddenly in because he's fully weaponised and exploited the power of the Oval Office.

"And I don't think he has any motivation right now other than arson, other than chaos, he's not a guy who has ever said 'I want a legacy of dignity and I want to be considered a great and meaningful president', he just wants to be the center of it all, and if he can't be, I predict he's going to be more chaotic and much more dangerous."