Simon Tisdall has hit the nail on the head in writing that if Donald Trump were merely a private individual, his current behaviour and manner of speech would be acknowledged as simply a result of ageing, and a loss of inhibitions (“Donald Trump is a superspreader of a craziness that has split the United States in two”, Comment).
However, as Tisdall says, such behaviour is not acceptable in an individual who is asking the American people to elect them as a leader on the world stage.
