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According to the Atlantic<\/u>, President Donald Trump is \u201craging\u201d toward his \u201cruin.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is the assessment of Atlantic editor and speechwriter to three Republican presidents Peter Wehner, who noted that there was something appropriately symbolic to Trump\u2019s \u201cgarish, lurid, and crass\u201d UFC birthday bash, which Wehner described as \u201cthe apotheosis of his administration.\u201d <\/p>\n

Writes Wehner, \u201cIt was Trump\u2019s version of the Roman imperial games \u2014 state-sponsored brutality as public entertainment, staged to please the emperor and his courtiers, desecrating a public space… But the regime \u2014 and the 80-year-old man who leads it \u2014 is breaking apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s UFC event, he said, was a manifestation of the president\u2019s second-term goal of ruling without restraint, an impulse that created \u201csomething new and frightening: a psychotic state. The administration is consistently detached from reality; the normal policy process we have seen in past administrations is nonexistent in this one. No one around the president even hints that anything he does is inappropriate, unpopular, or unwise\u2026 Trump, left on his own without adult supervision, has lurched from blunder to catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wehner offers a laundry list of examples, from the war Trump lost to Iran, to his fracturing of NATO, to his wide-ranging economic calamities, to his unprecedented self-enrichment. He notes that Trump has \u201cgutted\u201d American medical research capabilities, destroyed its humanitarian missions, weaponized the Justice Department, transformed ICE into a domestic paramilitary force, shredded due process, put \u201can anti-vaccine activist\u201d in charge of public health, and put \u201ca fool\u201d in charge of the world\u2019s most powerful military.<\/p>\n

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In response, writes Wehner, \u201cTrump\u2019s approval ratings have cratered. Consumer confidence has fallen to historic lows. Public sentiment is in \u2018complete collapse<\/u>\u2019 on key issues. The mood of ordinary Americans has soured, with many more dissatisfied than satisfied. For the first time, we\u2019re seeing signs that Republicans in Congress may resist the will of the president. And Trump\u2019s MAGA coalition, which until now has been cult-like in its loyalty, is fracturing and turning on itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then there is the matter of age.\u201d According to Wehner, there is plenty of behavioral and physical evidence for Trump\u2019s decline: \u201cHis need for adulation is more desperate than in the past; the vanity projects are more grandiose. He\u2019s more disinhibited and impulsive. His rage is more easily triggered, and his displays of temper less intentional and less strategic. He\u2019s more detached than ever from reality.\u201d His \u201cmeandering soliloquies during Cabinet meetings\u2026 The increasing number of deranged, middle-of-the-night Truth Social posts. The fury and indignation at routine questions from the press. And the steady narrowing of his vocabulary, his simplified syntax and reliance on a small number of stock phrases and superlatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wehner suspects that \u201cwhat must be especially hard on Trump, a man of renowned vanity, are the signs of physical decay \u2014 his bruised hands that makeup cannot wholly conceal, his swollen ankles, his stooped posture and slowed gait, his weight, and his face turning the color of a Halloween pumpkin. It is as if these are the outward signs of inward ruin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t going to end well,\u201d Wehner concludes. \u201cTrump is seeing the world he has wounded turn against him. He\u2019s discovering that the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. And like another old ruler, vain and volatile, who divided his kingdom and whose reign ended in ruin, Donald Trump is bellowing at the storm, raging at his enemies, raging into the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

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