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The President is a Madman
We have a madman in charge of the executive. There is no other way to put it. The President of the United States has never acted normally. He sees himself more like a king, or a strong man than a democratically elected president. He’s never been humbled by the fact that he only has power because of a Constitutional quirk, the Electoral college. He has never tried to expand his base beyond the white supremacists who love him and adore him. Or the religious right that prays for his health and to keep demons at bay.
The president is also concerned, like any strongman, with his image. He wants to appear strong. The word is a mainstay of his vocabulary. So it was no surprise he insisted on a glorious return to the White House. One that looked and felt like a propaganda piece. The White House has acknowledged as much. He needed to look the part for both international and national allies.
What many of us saw was a man gasping for air at the Truman portico. He is sick, and he looks sick. From what his niece told CNN, a disease is a form of weakness for the president. Then there was the amazing Vanity Fair piece where the family kept Fred Trump under the illusion that he was still working after he got Alzheimers, by signing blank papers. Look carefully at the photos released by the White House from Walter Reed. Donald Trump was signing blank papers, maintaining the fiction that he…