Good morning. The big story so far in 2026, is not Venezuela, Greenland, Jerome Powell, ICE oversteps, high prices, or health care. It's ALL of them. And they're all accompanied by rage, defiance, and gaslighting.
What this signifies, is that Trump's malice is now off the charts, his lawlessness is more brazen, and - it no longer satiates his narcissistic thirst to threaten his "individual" political enemies; he has graduated to threatening entire populations, and the world order, with use of the paramilitary ICE, or the actual military, and use the media to amplify it and cover it up.
This is the natural progression of a malignant narcissist whose raging Cluster B personality disorders have combined with his severely declining health, making it more difficult for him to feel grandiosity, unless - he ups the stakes.
And he NEEDS to feel grandiosity. It is what defines him. He wants to rewrite history, win awards, and if it were up to him, he'd name EVERYTHING after him.
Malignant narcissists are behaviorally incurable; they ALWAYS get worse; and they never want to go down alone.
Trump hates. He hates that his polling is in the tank. He hates that he cannot force feed his reality as effectively as he once did. He hates it every time someone in the GOP stands up to him or comments against him. He hates any aspect of the system that imposes control on him (like The Fed). What he really hates are the Epstein files and the fact that they loom and swirl; THE thing he desperately needs to cover up.
But the thing he hates most in the world, that most drives his escalation of malice … is his own decline.
BREAKING: Donald Trump just announced he is opening a brand new resort in Saudi Arabia. I’m glad he’s focused on the things Americans need to make their life better!
🚨 JUST IN: Jacob Frey: If this were about immigration enforcement, ICE wouldn’t be flooding Minneapolis. There are far more undocumented people in Florida, Texas, and Utah.
Why Minnesota? Politics. We have Democratic leadership.
Minneapolis and St. Paul each have ~600 officers. ICE and Border Patrol are now in the thousands, draining local resources, costing millions in overtime, hurting small businesses, and scaring families.
This isn’t public safety. It’s unconstitutional political targeting.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
Everything Trump is doing now is a dry run for the fall. ICE storming our streets, using the USPS to make time stamps inaccurate in order to be better challenged in court, threatening to seize voting machines, destroying Fed independence by threatening Jerome Powell...
Trump bloviates endlessly, makes threats repeatedly, and uses hyperbole constantly. Not all his bloviations, threats, and hyperbole are legit. Some are trial balloons.
But if America was healthy, a president threatening a NATO country would be instant grounds for impeachment.
Every President before Trump deported way more people than him and there was none of this. This is an authoritarian takeover and Donald Trump is at war with the American people.
Trump was installed to crash the dollar and give Putin Ukraine. PERIOD. The way they did it was by blackmailing him. Just like Epstein had cameras in every room
Psychopathologies as aberrant as Trump's are neither controllable nor curable. He cannot see beyond himself. EVER. He cannot feel empathy, shame, or contrition. I'm not saying that he WON'T feel those emotions, I'm saying that he CAN'T!
He's comprised ONLY of impulses, cravings, rage, greed, and malice. Underlying this composition are three things: fear of humiliation, desire for legitimacy, and need to portray grandiosity.
But he's also old and ill and weakened. And narcissists, when confronted by their own mortality and vulnerability, get more dangerous. As Trump feels the sand exiting the hourglass, it sets forth an urgency in him to proclaim his grandiosity now, while he still can, and to proclaim it in a bigger bolder way.
This is why his oratory has become more extreme, his grifts more substantial, and his threats and designs more global.
His main fear - humiliation - is the exposure of a lifetime of secrets and lies - the two most significant secrets being very topical now - Epstein and Putin. He's likely compromised by both and wants to distract from them.
There is no easy answer. His pathology is cemented. Left to his own devices, he'll burn it all down.
To the extent there is an answer, it comes from resistance with strength and exposure of weakness ... and numbers. The more loudly truth is spoken, the better it counters the gaslighting, which has become increasingly absurd. The more clearly the GOP feels they're losing constituent support, the more their calculus changes about distancing from his most extreme designs sooner.
And - the more Trump's highly disordered pathologies become more widely understood and evidenced, the greater the chance that America withstands whatever nefariousness is assuredly being planned for the midterms.
When you feel anxiety and outrage, temper it with focus and perspective:
Remember that he's flailing. He's compromised. He's diminished. And he's nuts.
LP Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens says there will absolutely be more violence from ICE, because right now Republicans are unwilling to stand up and say that shooting a woman in the face without justification is wrong.
Watch the full MSNOW clip below.
You know who else went door to door? Hitler's Nazis who arrested my friend Werner Reich when he was 14 years old and put him in 3 death camps. He lectured till the day he died to warn us about THIS
Trump has remade U.S.A. in his image and now we are a predator nation. We can stop him but not without a fight. He got away with his sexual predation because he surrounds himself with immoral enablers (Fox News, GOP, his own family). MAGA is for white trash cowards & killers.