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Can you call it "Mad man theory" when the president is just a mad man? Takes by Jamelle Bouie
April 5, 2026.
Donald Trump celebrated Easter Sunday with a deranged and genuinely frightening message promising war crimes if Tehran does not bend to his demands. The post was a reminder that by any reasonable measure the president of the United States has completely lost his mind and his instability threatens the safety of the world. Unfortunately, our political system — and the Republican Party in particular — is too broken to do anything about it.