Peter, that quote sums it up. Like most autocrats, Trump governs through chaos and distractions. Chaos and distraction is child’s play. Here’s one. On January 20th, if every journalist wrote about nothing but Trump’s tiny crowd size, the man would become so paralyzed with narcissistic rage that Americans might get one day of peace.

The problem is that you don't want to feed his drama because then we are not talking about his tariff war and tax cuts for billionaires. But...you also have to take his autocratic threats seriously.

Just think...If he directed all his chaos-making toward China and Russia instead of our allies, then we might call his distractions brilliant. Americans have to remember his motives: Money. Always money for his dynasty. He's planning a second Saudi Arabian Trump tower right now and it barely got a mention in the news.