Trump has lost his political superpower

HOW LOW CAN President Donald Trump go?

- NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON

One answer is his Thanksgiving Day social media screed, trashing America as “divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at”, because of the immigration policies of leaders like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, whom he called “seriously retarded”. (This was after two National Guardsmen were shot, one fatally, by an Afghan refugee in an ambush attack near the White House.)

Another is “quiet, Piggy”, the derogatory insult Trump directed at a Bloomberg White House correspondent after she questioned him about what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein, just one of the many slights Trump has recently hurled at women who ask him tough questions.

And there was Trump’s suggestion that execution could be a punishment for six Democratic senators who reminded military members that they must refuse unlawful orders. “This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???” Trump wrote in a post. “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” (Unsurprisingly, death threats against the lawmakers increased after Trump’s rant.)