40 Days And Nights Of Donald Trump
Richard North Patterson, Contributor
Novelist and contributing opinion writer
03/01/2017 07:37 am ET | Updated 2 hours ago
A hundred days is the traditional measure of a new presidency. But sufficient for this president is the biblical metaphor for infinite woe. Each day evokes the CAT scan of a disordered brain, encasing President Trump’s psyche in an endless hall of mirrors. And now his maladies are ours:
Grandiosity. Lies. Impulsiveness. Anger. Unreasoning defensiveness. Consuming self-involvement. Craving for admiration. Lack of empathy. An inability to distinguish reality from his own needs. So striking is his behavior that numerous mental health professionals publicly opined that Trump’s mental state “makes him incapable of serving safely as president.”
Little wonder. According to The Washington Post, two-thirds of his factual assertions have been completely false. Transparently, the concept of objective fact threatens his sense of self. And so Trump pits lies against truth in a Darwinian struggle to reshape our communal reality.
Some of this is risible. Much is not: He claims that 3 million illegal immigrants voted. He demeans our intelligence agencies. He asserts that the media covers up terrorism. He claims that immigrants go unvetted. Little matter if he believes his own lies, or merely wants us to. Trump is transforming the presidency into a soundstage for mendacity and paranoia.
“Never has honorable journalism been more essential — or more fraught with challenge and complexity.
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I have always liked his work as a novelist. This is a spot on read.
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