He is not just joking. He is not just trolling.

He is not owning the libs. He is not simply toying with the mainstream media.

He is not playing 3-D chess.

He is not a master of the art of the deal. He is not a business genius. He is not a political savant.

He is not a peacemaker. He does not believe in “America first” or even know what it means. And he has no intention of making America “great again.”

No matter who you are, no matter how close you are to him, he does not represent you or even care about your interests.

No. He’s none of the good or great things the slavering fluffers in his Cabinet or on his White House staff make him out to be. And none of the defenses his enablers on Capitol Hill and in the press and across the country have used in the past work any longer.

He is just a dangerous lunatic moron who has become the most powerful man in the world.

And if you do not recognize that, you are part of the problem.

That was never clearer than during the past couple of days.

Take the note Trump reportedly sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store. In it, Trump asserted that because Norway did not give him the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped “8 Wars PLUS,” he no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of Peace.”

He went on to imply that, because Denmark could not protect Greenland from Russia or China, because he questioned their “right of ownership,” and because he has done “more for NATO than any other person since its founding” that “the World is not secure unless we have complete and Total Control of Greenland.” It was not simply one of the strangest diplomatic messages ever sent; it was the kind of symptom of mental illness that typically gets people sent away to a quiet place where they can receive much-needed psychiatric care for a long, long time.

It was so full of errors and lies that it is hard to tell which are........

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