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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Why colluding with King Donald’s insanity is the only game in town

Trump at lectern with Hegseth to side
Donald Trump in the briefing room at the White House earlier this week. ‘The Donald doesn’t just hate the UK. He’s got it in for Nato too.’ Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

The Madness of King Donald. Unless you’ve spent most of the last few years on a silent retreat – and who could blame you? – it can’t have escaped you that the American president is both not that bright and borderline sociopathic. A lethal combination. Posting “Open the Fuckin’ Strait you crazy bastards or you’ll be living in Hell” on his social media account is not the action of a well man. Certainly not when the Middle East is on a knife-edge.

But what you may have missed is that the madness is contagious. It also affects many of those who come in contact with him. Trying to deal with the madness makes them mad too, as they try to behave as if things that are most definitely not normal are all quite usual. All in a day’s work.

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