If you think too hard about the fact that the world’s most highly armed nuclear superpower is governed by the whims of a demented cheeseburger-addled lunatic, you’ll go completely insane. All previous presidents have recognized that the power of the office is underlined by using it carefully and in a focused manner, and not, say, issuing edicts like a mad king.
But Donald Trump is redefining what a president can be, gives whatever bizarre order springs to his mind, and nobody has the spine to tell him it’s a terrible idea. For example, dog butcher Kristi Noem gave a speech today in which she revealed that the entire border wall has been ordered to be painted black – and said order was “specifically at the request of the president”:
