March 4 Open Thread: Only Now Are Trump’s Friends Worried

The headlines have been chilling. Lots of outlets are running stories that claim Trump’s friends are starting to worry about his mental state. Oh, great. That basically means “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” At least with Nixon, it wasn’t until years later that we learned he was talking to the portraits on the walls. Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, continue to play the same fiddle tune Nero did all those years ago.

Nixon also had the common sense not to indulge his fantasies to others, something Trump is incapable of doing, so yesterday he mused that China might have the right idea with this president-for-life thing.

This Virginia Heffernan story is about how shady skank Ivanka Trump is just as bad as her father, but its real value is in laying out the connections between the “legitimate world” of the U.S. and its allies and the “corrupt world” of kleptocratic Third-World nations plus Russia.

[Sen. Sheldon] Whitehouse sketched a new bipolar world order, in which the so-called legitimate world, which includes the United States, is not at war with, but rather deeply enmeshed in, the corrupt one, where governments are built on bribery, kleptocracy, electoral fraud, slush funds, legal plunder and nepotism.

Some guy shot and killed himself outside the White House yesterday. Unfortunately, it was the wrong guy.

Now I know why they keep Devin Nunes around — even Trump looks sane by comparison. After Steven Colbert ripped him as a “failed clone of Steve Carrell,” Nunes whimpered to Fox News that Colbert was a danger to the country because “conservatives are under attack.” Oh, you got that part right, buddy. Better run away. Try Russia. I hear they’re hiring.