QOTD -- "Self-Medication From A Sundowning President"

 

The wonderful Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, writing in Substack, about the crazed and ignorant Malignant Fascists's trade war on Canada:

'There have been many trade conflicts in history, some of them more destructive than the US-Canada fight. But I don’t think there has ever been a dispute this stupid.

Bear in mind that this crisis is entirely gratuitous. Canada has done nothing wrong. Even if one buys into Trumpian nonsense about how every nation that sells us more than it buys is ripping us off, Canada isn’t a villain. Last year Canada did run a modest trade surplus with the United States in goods, but more than half of this imbalance was offset by a U.S. surplus in services. Overall trade between our nations was almost balanced.

So what is this about? Clearly, we’re looking at a symptom of deranged Trump syndrome. As Trump’s failures, from soaring fuel prices to plunging approval, multiply, he is doubling down on his disrespect for and attempted bullying of our northern neighbor and former ally. That is, you should think of this conflict not as something reflecting U.S. national interests, but as a form of self-medication from a sundowning president." (our emphasis)

Almost all of what animates the sick, narcissistic Malignant Fascist is his insatiable need to be praised and liked, regardless of whether the interests of the U.S. are at stake. When he's rejected, he lashes out in a fit of narcissistic wound.  He's a national security threat, but no one in his MAGAt cult will call for his removal.