A lot about Trump doesn't add up at all

You have to give it to Donald Trump.

- Maureen Dowd

The man is a marvel at multitasking. In one sensational swoop, he was able to set the global economy reeling, shatter our alliances, shred our standing in the world, tank consumer confidence, and tart up the Oval Office, turning it into Caesars Palace on the Potomac.

And yet he still managed to find time to brag about winning his Jupiter golf club's championship and sign an executive order relaxing restrictions on water pressure from shower heads. He also ordered an investigation of an election security official he had fired four years ago for having the temerity to acknowledge that the 2020 election was not stolen.

“We're living in a bizarro world where heroes are being targeted and scoundrels are in a position to target them,’ David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist, told me.

Mr Trump is also consumed with terms of surrender for top law firms and Ivy League universities in his quest to get even with those he feels went after him unfairly or embraced wokeness too avidly.

“Revenge is the oxygen that keeps him afloat,’ said Tim O’Brien, the Trump biographer.

And he has surrounded himself with small people who elaborately flatter him and puff him up in risible cabinet meetings.

The Emperor of Chaos told us to “BE COOL” as markets cratered and people got “yippy,’ as Mr Trump put it. But how is that possible when everything is so unstable?