philip giraldi begins this article with a line that had me trying to give the orange man a rightful korean name, like kim jun trump, our glorious leader. the arrogance of the trump is beyond measure;

Even when you begin to think that it can’t get any worse with Donald J. Trump as President of the United States the Orangeman does something that is so stupid and so reflective of a man who thinks only about himself that it makes one’s shudder in disbelief. Last week included some completely bizarre performances that could lead to nuclear war while also falsely promoting that our leader is a “man of peace.” That is in spite of the fact that it has become hard to imagine that Trump can even pronounce the word “peace” without an interpreter or the five letter word flashing up in boldface on his teleprompter screen. Let’s start with several recent developments about which there can be no real debate, though motive and expectations can be reasonably disputed. Consider for a moment the performance of a man who knows little beyond how to curse and harangue those who disagree with him as well as any skill beyond how to scribble a version of his own name in large letters with a marker pen.

Trump met last week with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and also with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which will be discussed in due course below, but somehow the absurdity of what really interests him and fills his time as president of the United States of America is what immediately comes to mind for the reader. That would be the various subsets of his glorification of himself far beyond any point that might be considered either dignified or befitting for someone who holds high office and is in theory responsible for the safety and well-being of the citizens of the country that elected him...........more...........