In trying to understand US President Donald Trump, the proposition has been put that he is sultanistic. In many respects, Trump’s second presidency does appear to be “sultanistic”.
Sultanism requires all individuals, groups and institutions to be subject to what appears to be the unpredictable and despotic intervention of the ruler who does not operate according to an ideology or a plan. Sultanism is, in this respect, a form of authoritarianism notable for the personal presence of the ruler in all elements of governance.
Sultanistic or neo-fascist? President Trump and 21st century ideology By Damien Kingsbury