"Judging from those posts [attacking the pope and making himself Jesus], the commander in chief is in distress. No one can say for sure what is causing the president’s bizarre behavior. Perhaps Trump’s narcissistic insistence that he is always successful in everything he undertakes is feeling the sting and strain of multiple public failures," (continued in /2)

~ Tom Nichols

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-pope-post-truth-social/686802/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweNo33wuHWV4Tdf5cppid2dI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Trump’s Dark Night on Truth Social

Attacking the pope was only part of the president’s disturbing night on Truth Social.

The Atlantic

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"including the collapse of his campaign to dislodge the Iranian regime, plummeting approval ratings, the decline of the U.S. economy, and, on Sunday, the crushing defeat of one of his favorite fellow authoritarians, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán.

But whatever is driving this decline in Trump’s self-control, Americans must not shrug off the president’s latest implosion."

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"They should recover their ability to be outraged; more to the point, they must demand that their elected representatives ask questions about the course of the war and whether Trump still has the capacity to fulfill his constitutional duty as commander in chief....

The American people must not look away, as they have done so often in the past."

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"They must pay attention to the president’s deterioration, and insist that the House and Senate start acting like functioning branches of the government by asking the White House to explain what is happening, without insults or evasions, before the eyes of the country and the world."

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"With the House back in session today, Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top-ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, introduced a bill to establish an independent commission to evaluate the president’s mental state."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-14-2026

April 14, 2026

There are signs the political game has changed in the United States since Hungarian voters rejected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s leadership on Sunday, April 12.

Letters from an American