We hear said of Trump a cliché in public life: “Let Trump be Trump.” Well, whoever has been saying this got their wish, for today we had a glimpse of the real Trump at his meeting with congressional leaders – another meltdown. We’ve heard that this sort of thing occurs regularly in the privacy of the White House, but now we are seeing it in the open in temper-tantrums that have become his only form of discourse.

I don’t know why this is. Maybe he awakened one day and decided “No more Mr. Nice-guy,” decided to remove the costume of civilization which has made him uncomfortable for so many years. That may be the case, but I am inclined to think that he is coming more unglued. I think of President Truman’s advice: “If you can’t stand the heat, say out of the kitchen.” Trump is now in the kitchen due to revelation upon revelation of his incompetence and dishonesty. So either he will leave the kitchen by following Nixon’s example and resigning or he will stay in the ever-hotter kitchen and suffer increasingly frequent and severe meltdowns. I am afraid to think what this socio-path may do now.