“Donald Trump reportedly took time out from his 2024 presidential campaign to try to help one of his closest allies get ‘laid’ at his Mar-a-Lago resort,” the Daily Beast reports.

“Zeteo reports that Trump was curiously eager to help his newly divorced friend Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, who featured as the Grim Reaper in a bizarre AI-generated video posted by the president, improve his luck with women. He even offered to be Vought’s ‘wingman’ at the Palm Beach resort.”

Paul Krugman: “Trump’s disconnect from reality is uniquely destructive. No previous president has tried to overturn an election, sought to use the military against U.S. citizens, or sought to use the Justice Department as his own personal vendetta machine. The difference is that he’s the first president to live in an autocratic bubble, surrounded by a cult of personality within which nobody dares to criticize him, tell him uncomfortable truths or refuse to engage in blatantly illegal acts.”

“Furthermore, Trump is clearly getting worse, growing even more out of touch with each passing week. Regardless of whether it’s advancing age or growing frustration, even Trump, I think, realizes that his efforts to suppress all opposition are running into serious resistance. Putting out an AI video of himself dumping shit on protestors suggests panic, not strength. But his claims about what’s happening in America and the world keep getting stranger and wilder.”

“And Trump’s denial of reality is already having devastating consequences for America, with more to come.”