Donald Trump’s cosmic meltdown

| 4:13 pm EDT October 7, 2017
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Donald Trump went a day an a half without tweeting anything, meaning that either his staff hid his phone inside the Constitution where he’d never find it, or he was so overwhelmed by his mounting problems that he simply passed out. Today he’s back on Twitter with a vengeance, going so far off the deep end it’s clear he is indeed cracking under the pressure – and that he’s hiding something.

Trump spent the morning attacking late night talk show hosts for telling too many jokes about him, or something, as his tweets weren’t particularly coherent. By the afternoon, he decided to take his meltdown mode in a more serious and potentially lethal direction. Trump tweeted “Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid hasn’t worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!”

The trouble, beyond the fact that he typed “makings fools”: that was the end of his message. Unless he’s still very slowly typing a followup tweet or passed out in the process, he’s not even going to tell us what he thinks that one thing is. Military action? Angrier tweets? Harsher nicknames? We already know Trump is an empty shirt when it comes to military action. He fired missiles aimed at doing minimal damage to a Syrian air base that had already been evacuated. He dropped the “mother of all bombs” in a portion of Afghanistan where it had no impact.

Donald Trump isn’t going to war with North Korea. In addition the fact that there is no possible strategic way to win such a war, or even wage such a war without instantly dragging other nearby countries into it, Trump is simply too lazy to want to be a wartime president. Instead he’s content to stage cosmic meltdowns about North Korea on Twitter. Moreover, every time he starts tweeting about that particular topic, it means he’s trying to distract from yet another scandal he knows is about to explode.