The Madness of King Donald

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/andrew-sullivan-the-madness-of-king-donald.html

Narcism is a recognized mental illness.

If trump had listened to Sally Yates, his 2 biggest mistakes would have never existed. @movingsideways

This President stuff is harder than you thought ain't it Agent Orange. LOL

Donald J. Trump will not let North Korea distract him from his war with Nordstrom.
- Andy Borowitz


Everyone in the GOP is now cordially invited to STFU about how "careless" Hillary was with classified info. - goldengateblond


I demand to see your papers, said the guy who won't produce his tax returns. - LOLGOP


If Obama had held a security meeting in public, Fox would have renamed itself the "Obama Impeachment Network." - Tea Pain


Somewhere in Heaven...
Abraham Lincoln: The people who claim to be my followers just totally misquoted me.
Jesus: You don't say. - John Fugelsang

Trump is 100% certain there was voter fraud in 2016. That's why he stopped the recounts in WI, PA and MI.- Tea Pain


Trump Says He Has Been Treated Very Unfairly By People Who Wrote Constitution. - Andy Borowit

Steve Bannon's liver urgently needs a human transplant. - John Fugelsang


Melania sits on a golden toilet crying with her eyes closed and silently prays that the next deportation raid will be for her. - Warren Holstein

Thanks for the grins as always, polecat. Love the one about Bannon's liver.

Here's a comment from the article, by Shaun N:

"The election of Trump was and is a monstrous failure of American democracy. To be a successful liberal democracy, a state must have an informed and intelligent public. The US has large parts of the public who simply don't fit that bill. But there is also a lot more going on. The Republican Party itself is simply unfit to govern. It has deliberately played to racism for almost the last 60 years; Trump's innovation in this respect was that he said openly what Republicans were saying with dog whistles. But the party that is unfit to govern -that has no ideas other than deregulation, cut taxes, and make it easier for the rich to get richer (along with massive military spending and no concern with deficits so long as its a Republican running them up) - is now in charge of most of the government and a majority of states. It's no wonder the US is circling the toilet.

I would not exaggerate the extent or nature of Trump's victory. He lost the popular vote by 3 million votes; he won in three states because of 70,000 votes. Yes, the white working class is hurting (not that anyone ever cares about the African American or Hispanic working classes that have been hurting much more, much longer) but the best predictor for voting Trump was whether or not someone believed Obama was a Muslim. The influence of racism is quite apparent in the Trump vote, as it is in every American election. Yes, deal with the economic pain of those getting left behind; that should go without saying, though I note that Obama's efforts to help these people were cynically blocked by the Republicans.

Trump's inability to grasp reality is horrifying. If he is mentally ill, as seems very possible, then he is the most dangerous man in the world. He has enormous power and no relationship with reality to temper that power. He is thin-skinned. His insecurity and self-doubt bleed from him. To compensate, he refuses to admit that he is wrong, refuses to admit that he makes mistakes. He I is profoundly ignorant and has no capacity or interest in actually learning what he doesn't know. Trump is a disaster already and he is just getting started."