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By Jamelle Bouie

Opinion Columnist

For President Trump, the United States is little more than his personal playground, Mar-a-Lago gone national.

In his mind, the nation has become his private property and he is entitled to do with it what he pleases. Accordingly, Trump seems to lack any sense of obligation or responsibility to the public. His chaotic and haphazard policymaking — if you can even call it that — is as disrespectful to the American people as any imaginable insult.