Is he just playing a big game of chicken - or is he utterly mad?

[NRaleighLiberal]

Daily - DAILY - he pushes the envelope - through tweets, deeds, idiotic statements and speeches. He is so disconnected, so into power, perhaps so insulated by wealth - is this just one big practical joke he is playing on the world.....

Because if not, he is dangerously insane and all bets are off.

[Girard442]

1. Reminds me a bit of the character Rorschach in "Watchmen".

Rorschach had exactly one attitude for all occasions -- scary berserk.

He was nominally a good guy though.

[tonyt53]

2. he cares about one thing - his name. He has also been proven to not be very good at chicken.

[onecaliberal]

3. He's psychotic

[saidsimplesimon]

4. He is insane.

A sibling of another mother for Qaddafi, Hussein and Idi Amen.

The current Mr. President is trying to break our will to speak truth to power. He lives in a fantasy world of the "Red Queen" from Alice in Wonderland. He speaks like the autocrats of daesh, while seated on a golden flusser as he tweets with the intent of creating mayham and disorder.

[Wounded Bear]

5. I don't think those options are mutually exclusive...

[smirkymonkey]

6. He's drunk on power.

It's going to his head. He was fucking bat-shit crazy before, but becoming president has made it worse. And the fact that nobody is holding him accountable for his actions is just adding fuel to the fire. Someone needs to stop him in his tracks before he sets the world on fire.

[GoCubsGo]

7. He is the monkey with a machine gun.

It's possible he is utterly mad. Personally, I believe he's suffering from the late stages of untreated syphilis. But, he has also shown, time and time again, that he doesn't have a goddamn clue as to how any government works. Not just the federal government. Combine that with his diseased brain and he's like the chimp who was handed an AK-47, and he just apes others and flails about, wreaking havoc.

[barbtries]

8. i think it could be both.

i think his actions, tweets, statements, are all broadcasting a consciousness of guilt; because he knows he's guilty as hell, he pushes harder and harder to make it all go away.

what's got me scared is if he succeeds. it could happen. look at what he's gotten away with already. look at how he's president. this was inconceivable, so much of it was simply inconceivable. and here we are.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. This behavior was tolerated on the local and state level.

No one could stop him. The question is, will we have the resolve to enforce whatever procedure that allows us to remove him from office now that he's screwing up the country?

Sometimes I think this if our Rubicon.

[bronxiteforever]

10. Narcissistic Personality Disorder with a large helping of stupid.

The man is the most unread president in our lifetimes. Due to the lack of curiosity over decades, his higher reasoning functions have never developed. Then add the massive case of NPD and you have 45,

[cbdo2007]

11. He knows it is big ratings. Just like on his tv show, everyone tunes in to watch the crazy

people, not the boring, intelligent people.

I completely get why Trump is why he is...he's a deranged lunatic...what I don't understand are all of the people in congress and on his staff that are so entangled in his fantasy world that they are ruining their own lives as well. Many of them will be completely unemployable after this is over, and many in congress are going to lose seats in 2018, it is inevitable (if they aren't in jail).

[tinrobot]

12. Both

You can be insane and play chicken.