Trump Might Be Going Insane

 OK. More insane. 

Trump, for whatever reason, hitched his brand to being anti-war in some vague notional way. The problem is that authoritarians are always violence prone, and while he seemed content to visit violence upon American cities like Los Angeles, he seemed unable to help himself when Israel started bombing Iran.

I wrote that the mission seemed a tactical success but a strategic failure. It seems now that it wasn't even really a tactical success. Iranian nuclear capabilities have been damaged but hardly "obliterated" as Trump keeps shouting into whatever social media feed he can shove his greasy maw into. 

What's more, Trump's bizarre "ceasefire" announcement seems kind of deranged. Like so many of his bullshit screeds, Trump seems to think he can just repeat an untruth until it becomes true. Certainly for his cult, that is accurate, but that's not the way reality works. Most Americans seem to be unsupportive of the strikes, because America seems to be justifiably wary of another Middle Eastern war. 

Look at it this way:

- His big beautiful birthday parade was upstaged by millions of Americans protesting his policies.
- He's underwater on every issue, including deportations.
- His big beautiful bill looks to be in some trouble, but I'm not hopeful that it will die. Republicans always rally to do the worst thing possible.
- He launched attacks on Iran that appear not to have worked and according to multiple reports occurred because he liked what he saw on Fox News about the IDF strikes and wanted to piggyback on that success.
- He's bizarrely fixated on winning the Nobel Peace Prize (because Obama won it) and the idea is so laughable that it has to drive him insane.

Basically, we have a man whose baseline state is stupidity and malignant narcissism, who is experiencing cognitive decline. He thought his re-election would lead to every pony he could possibly imagine, and that isn't happening. He's suffering from repeated public embarrassments and humiliations that typically do not go well for narcissists. 

He wants to be king, but he has to actually do the job of being president every once in a while and that's hard.

Seems to be sort of decompensating before our eyes.