The madness is contagious – and nowhere has this been more in evidence than in the two-week ceasefire with Iran
T
he Madness of King Donald. Unless you’ve spent most of the last few years on a silent retreat – and who could blame you? – it can’t have escaped you that the American president is both not that bright and borderline sociopathic. A lethal combination. Posting “Open the Fuckin’ Strait you crazy bastards or you’ll be living in Hell” on his social media account is not the action of a well man. Certainly not when the Middle East is on a knife-edge.
But what you may have missed is that the madness is contagious. It also affects many of those who come in contact with him. Trying to deal with the madness makes them mad too, as they try to behave as if things that are most definitely not normal are all quite usual. All in a day’s work. And nowhere has this been more in evidence than with the two-week ceasefire. A ceasefire in which no one is able to agree on what precisely – if anything – had been negotiated and which Israel has taken to mean it can continue to bomb Lebanon.
Now it will come as no surprise that those closest to Trump in the White House are affected. That’s part of the deal. It’s when his advisers show signs of sanity that the president gets twitchy and decides to fire them. Which make secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, perfectly safe for now.
