How to cope with the chaos

Donald Trump is incapable of allowing tensions and stresses to ease without creating new ones.

- Robert Reich American Voices Tribune Content Agency

Case in point: After meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping this past week, he announced that China and the United States — the most significant and second-largest economies in the world — will deescalate the trade war.

Sounds good, I suppose (until you realize that the two nations are now back to where they were before Trump created the trade war in the first place).

Not content to calm any waters, Trump also announces that the United States will immediately restart nuclear weapons testing, after not doing so for more than 30 years. Why? He doesn’t explain except to say “other nations” are doing so. (None of the world’s three major military powers has conducted a nuclear weapons test since 1996, but they will if the U.S. resumes.)

The mad would-be king cannot abide even a moment of calm. He thrives on crises, emergencies, chaos, disarray — all of which give him more power, if we let them.