Paul Krugman, this morning, on Trump's "insecure-ego death spiral"

[highplainsdem]

Several linked tweets starting with this one:

Link to tweet

Back in the old days -- in other words, last week -- the great fear was that Trump would be normalized, wrapped in dignity of his office 1/

Not happening. Instead, we have a sort of insecure-ego death spiral underway. Being installed by Comey and Putin, it seems, isn't enough 2/

He wants acclaim, and can't stand any ego damage over small crowds, popular vote, Mexico not being willing to pay for wall 3/

So he lashes out -- and each time destroys even more of the respect he craves, leading to further lashing out. All this in one week! 4/

It's hard even to imagine what comes next. After all, this guy commands the world's most powerful military. 5/

Maybe the Senate can pacify him by making his horse a consul, or something? 6/

[Cha]

1. Paul Krugman thinks he's insane.. I agree.

[dalton99a]

2. Incidentally there was a horse named DJ Trump

Yep, owned by him

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. DeeJay tRump sounds like fertile ground for a great parody dance video . . . nt

[PatSeg]

21. Ah, maybe when Trump

appears to be speaking in the "third person", he is referring to the horse?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

46. Never look a gift horse in the mouth ...

... and all that ...

[GliderGuider]

3. Nice Caligula reference!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitatus

[rzemanfl]

15. I have been making Caligula references for days. I've been copied. SAD!

[Cosmocat]

29. I got a chuckle out of that

nm

[highplainsdem]

40. Agree.

[FSogol]

4. Making his horse a consul is a reference to the insane Roman emperor, Caligula who

made his favorite horse, Incitatus, his chief consul. Inncitatus had his own house with a marble stall and ivory manger. He wore jewels and had his own staff.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. People with tiny hands.....

don't like horses. Known fact.

[FSogol]

9. Aren't horses measured in hands? A horse measured with Trumpy's hands would be 27 hands in lieu of

the normal 15 or 16.

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. Yes they are. A Hand is typically 4 inches.....

which means that if Trump DID have a horse, it would be the most incredibly tall horse ever. Seriously. Bigly tall. Really. I have the bestest, tallest horses. And I have 1.5 million of them. Pictures don't lie.

[rzemanfl]

16. With all the horseshit of the past week, I believe this. n/t

[annabanana]

23. HA! . . . .n/t

[elehhhhna]

27. The problem is that Putin is Caligula and Trump is Incitatus

[FSogol]

28. LOL, in his gold-leafed marble stable.

[manicraven]

34. Stop horsing around! LOL

[denbot]

5. K&R

Nice.

[livetohike]

6. Just in one week. Seems much, much longer. Watch for the tweets over

today's march. "Much larger than the women's march" etc. He's sick and needs to be deposed.

[manicraven]

35. Yes! He is mentally ill.

[Lucinda]

10. KNR

[Botany]

11. Trump is nuttier than a squirrel turd.

War with China over oil wells in the Pacific .... fine

Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem .... gasoline on fire.

Freeze Federal worker hires and make it more costly for middle class people to buy homes .....
aka try to crash the economy

Cucumbers @ $2.50 and gasoline up $.50/gallon to pay for an unneeded wall?

*******

For God's sake he didn't win the election ..... he cheated.

We are really fucked.

[rzemanfl]

18. Stealing "nuttier than a squirrel turd."

Unless you PM me the copyright.

[Botany]

37. Feel Free to use it .... it is not mine

http://www.kalanlp.com/index.php/uncensored/products/decor/metal-signs/nuttier-than-a-squirrel-turd-metal-sign.html

[madokie]

19. You got it covered pretty good

WE. ARE. FUCKED, BIGLY!

[Botany]

39. Sadly I just covered a small part of the horrors of President Trump

No science at the EPA and the USDA?

Trump is Russian spy/asset

[manicraven]

36. Great comments! It's like having a 2-year-old who skipped his nap

in control: he lashes out, he kicks and screams, he's demanding, he won't listen, he grabs all the toys...

[Botany]

38. The man is bat shit crazy

He talked about the size of his dick @ a republican primary debate.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

48. And wants to fuck his own daughter.

That man is truly sick.

[highplainsdem]

44. Perfect comparison.

[CaptainTruth]

13. I've been saying Trump is our Caligula. Glad to see others notice the similarity too. nt

[world wide wally]

14. Caligula had bigger hands

[Fast Walker 52]

31. Caligula was eventually assassinated by his Praetorian guard

however the Roman Republic was still fucked after that

[Javaman]

17. people really need to start fucking with him..

telling him that he has a great singing voice and that he should sing the national anthem on TV

shit like that.

bait the fucker into situations that make him look like the colossal fuckwit that he is.

[annabanana]

24. I'm sure he has a lovely voice..

Don't you Donald sweetie?

[spooky3]

25. Hahaha!

[lapislzi]

33. He seems to be doing a fine job on his own.

He is a self-replicating fuck-up, defying all known laws of physics.

[dlk]

20. Trump is the Republican Party Gift that Will Continue Giving

We should not ever forget -- all of the horrors of president Trump have been bestowed upon the American people courtesy of the Republican Party.

[highplainsdem]

43. And if there was ever any gift that should be regifted...

[LittleGirl]

22. I remember vividly on 9th of Nov

with tears in my eyes that I was hoping that we would never have to see that assface again. I just wanted him to disappear.
gaaaa

[Plucketeer]

26. Doing what I can

I intend to send the Ass-Hat-in-Chief a post card a day until he's gone. Post cards festooned with needles designed to POP egos.

[Fast Walker 52]

30. yes, this is my fear too-- it's going to get worse!

and it's hard to see it ending well, unless he completely has a mental breakdown (and how would we know?)

[Fast Walker 52]

32. Please spread the #TrumpisInsane hashtag on twitter!

[Hekate]

41. Bless Krugman. "Have the Senate make his horse a consul"

I'll take my laughs where I can get them.

[workinclasszero]

42. "make his horse a consul"

Caligula yeah.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

45. Trump's pathology is exponential. nt

[oasis]

49. Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Meltdown dead ahead.