@maddad

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You've nailed it. A perfect example of the limited and repetitive 'reasoning' of the #TrumpVirus' big, beautiful, uh, brain...

AKA #psychopathology &/or #BrainSpurs coupled with #megalomania / #delusion

(continued from /19)

"forgotten the gender of two world leaders, including one he helped put in place; and forgotten the “drill, baby, drill” line he has used endlessly, instead slurring out a bizarre three-word motto used by a New York City energy company in the 1950s."

#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism #megalomania #CognitiveDecline
/20

"I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but President Donald Trump, the guy who catapulted America into a war of choice with Iran, doesn't seem like he’s doing well in the think-y/speak-y cognitive department.

In just the past few days, the leader of our new mission-less war has: boasted of a conversation with a former president that doesn’t seem to have happened;" (continued)

~ Rex Huppke

#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism #megalomania #CognitiveDecline
/19

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/18/trump-iran-cognitive-decline/89197688007/

"Instead of receiving intelligence briefings, President Trump is watching Fox. And what he heard last night was his most influential aide, Stephen Miller, telling Laura Ingraham that 'President Trump has calculated through every permutation and every degree of strategy,' and that we are en route to 'an overwhelming victory."”

~ William Kristol

#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism #megalomania
/18

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/someone-needs-to-tell-trump-the-truth-iran-war-oil-gas-prices-allies-threats

"The job of the inner sanctum is not really to advise on sensible policy, even on the eve of war. It is to repeat the leader’s lies, screen out objective and expert feedback that might conflict with the leader’s will, and create and enforce a version of reality that benefits him."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism #megalomania
/16

https://lucid.substack.com/p/engineered-ignorance-hubris-and-the

"There is no thought process into what any of this means long-term. It's not coordinated regime change. It's obliteration or just 'bomb them until they're less of a threat.' The Washington Post asked about the plan, a US official responded: 'Whatever.' ... Reality is not a constraint."

~ Jason Sattler

#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism #megalomania
/15

https://thecause.substack.com/p/our-confusion-about-whats-going-on