Unfortunately, however, the fun stops shortly after that point when one recalls that the outright insanity is not only destroying the White House and much of the District of Columbia. It also means engaging in wars against otherwise non-threatening adversaries that waste trillions in taxpayer dollars while doing terrible damage to the United States and also creating economic and political catastrophes that might well wreck much of the world as is happening with Iran right now.

Last week there occurred a stream of typical fulminations from Trump directed against Iran linked to Israeli sourced "intelligence" that the Persians are planning to assassinate him. Iran had already been on the receiving end of typical Trump "negotiating skills" in the wake of renewal of fighting around the Strait of Hormuz, highlighted by the president's referral to the Iranian leadership as "scum." A normal person in a position of power would know when to put on the brakes to try to find a way out of the potentially disastrous conflict, but that is not Trump's way.