The most dangerous thing about Donald Trump is that we have become so used to his abhorrent behavior that we treat it as normal.

He routinely insults female reporters as “dumb” or “stupid” when he doesn’t like the questions he is asked. And the barrage of social media posts spewing nightly from the White House has lost impact with its relentless regularity.

But the non-stop craziness has blinded us to the obvious. The truth that is hiding in very plain sight every day.

Our president is losing his mind.

The dam that was holding a 79-year-old’s thoughts and actions in check has broken. His disinhibited behavior is no longer that of a cogent, albeit untraditional, leader. He is an old man rambling about his swimming pools and his ballrooms while the world burns.

He is asked about the war he started in Iran and talks about a “fat slob” friend who discovered cheap GLP-1 drugs and how it was a “genius” plan to shut down the Strait of Hormuz (and consequently, the world’s oil supply).

To acknowledge that much is concerning in a nation that, despite some evidence to the contrary since January 2025, still retains some checks and balances.

The Democratic Party, crushed into paralysis by Trump’s second election victory, finally seems to have gotten its s--t together. The courts are holding firm (sometimes), and there is reason to believe that the American public will come to its senses in November.

But as Trump arrives in Beijing to meet Xi Jinping, the most powerful leader in the world—one........

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