Dear Leader

Yes, yes, we were right about Trump.  Whoopee.  Gives me no pleasure to say that.

There are two stories that are worth noting about our national descent into madness.  The first involves Kingpin cosplay enthusiast and acting AG, Matt Whitaker.  Trump fired racist hobbit Jeff Sessions because Sessions insisted on acting like a racist AG rather than as Trump's personal lawyer.  To be clear, Trump was fine with him as a racist AG, he just wanted "his own Roy Cohn."  Whitaker, who is as much an open sewer of public corruption as most late-stage Trumpistas, still feels bound by bits and scraps of law. Trump will not be able to find an AG who is corrupt enough for him, which will be like a hot knife into his gaping narcissistic wound.

Next, we have rumors that Trump wants to fire Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve.  Powell was one of Trump's few non-bonkers appointments, similar to Mattis or McMaster.  If he were to fire Powell, the tumult that we have seen in the stock markets these past weeks would look tame by comparison.  Trumponomics have already caused pain through his trade wars, his regressive GOP tax cut and now the government shutdown.  If he fires the Chairman of the Fed, all hell will break loose.

The basic reason why he's upset with a toady like Whitaker and a non-toady like Powell is that they don't show sufficient obeisance to Dear Leader, Hair Furor. 

Trump is a Cult of Personality that only he and the small sliver of deranged supporters believe in.