Donald Trump: Another man-baby in grown-up spaces?

Among the many things that Donald Trump has been called in the course of an increasingly intemperate campaign, the latest lob by comedian Jon Stewart is probably the most serious: that the bombastic billionaire is actually a man-baby. The simple explanation would be that Stewart was merely using a more comprehensible translation of the French term enfant terrible for the benefit of the US audience of a podcast.

He was probably not alluding to the more serious psychological term paraphilic infantilism, or adult baby syndrome, whose sufferers often wear diapers and use feeding bottles as part of a babyhood fetish. The Republican candidate does display immature tendencies, but no one believes that he will eventually set new norms for presidential attire and cuisine if he does make it to the White House.

Maybe this early warning will not only lead to deeper scrutiny of all candidates for such crucial weaknesses, it will also prompt the protagonists — especially one as volatile as Trump — to clean up their act.

For, there is nothing more nightmarish than the prospect of the nuclear button (which has never been equipped with a child-proofing mechanism) being within reach of a man-baby — or a woman-baby — in the throes of a tantrum. After all, the man-baby in North Korea has given rise to such apprehensions already