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On Tuesday, a conservative journalist offered a stark assessment of President Donald Trump\u2019s recent behavior, writing that the Commander in Chief has \u201cdrifted further from reality.\u201d What\u2019s more, the White House agenda has been thrown into increasing chaos as a growing number of people \u201cwake up\u201d to his lies.<\/p>\n

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This is according to Bulwark<\/u> contributor Andrew Egger, who writes, \u201cIt\u2019s been stranger than usual, watching Donald Trump operate this week. The president has long lived on a different planet from the rest of us \u2014 a world defined by his own personal information bubble of yes-men and online fans shouting his praises. But it\u2019s rarely been so clear just how far Trump\u2019s planet is from our reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Egger notes the example of the war with Iran, explaining, \u201cTo hear the president tell it, America is forever on the verge of total victory. He is perpetually giving the mullahs one last, last, last chance to surrender before he turns their country into a parking lot \u2014 then inventing some pretext to call off the attack, pretending Iran has waved some secret white flag and is ready to make a deal.\u201d But after several such cycles, \u201cIran is barely bothering even to participate in this charade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump did it again over the weekend, threatening to bomb Iran using \u201cMilitary Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II,\u201d before calling it off with claims that a deal had been struck that would open the Strait of Hormuz and end the Iranian nuclear program. As Egger writes, \u201cWe\u2019ve seen this movie before: What Trump is describing is essentially the memorandum of understanding that he signed back in June, which has been out of force for weeks. This time, however, his assertions are even more fanciful: No such deal exists, and no talks are ongoing.\u201d Iran said as much, which \u201cled to another tantrum<\/u> from Trump, who called Iran \u2018unbelievably duplicitous\u2019 in a post yesterday, but declined to resume his threats of devastating military action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Egger also raises the example of Trump\u2019s Reflecting Pool debacle, which blew up in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro\u2019s face over the past week. As Egger explains, \u201cAfter contriving a government-wide effort to lie that the pool\u2019s lining had been damaged by vandals, including ex-Olympian David Hearn, the administration quietly dropped the charges<\/u> and admitted what had been obvious all along: The lining had been faultily installed. But this was not obvious to everyone. Donald Trump spent yesterday spinning up a totally different tale: that Hearn was guilty, that a hostile judge in the case had been \u2018really vicious,\u2019 and that his handpicked D.C. prosecutor had simply wilted under the pressure. Pirro \u2018choked,\u2019 he complained to reporters<\/u>. She had \u2018folded like an umbrella.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cPirro could never have done anything else,\u201d notes Egger. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t going to risk getting herself disbarred over hallucinated damage to the Reflecting Pool. But her position in the White House now dangles by a thread. Trump dressed her down in a phone call Saturday, then summoned her to the White House yesterday evening for more recriminations. Whether Pirro will survive the trip back to our planet remains to be seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time you look, Trump seems to have drifted further from our reality,\u201d writes Egger. \u201cHis poll numbers have never been worse, but don\u2019t try to tell him that: \u2018My REAL Polling Numbers,\u2019 he insisted<\/u> yesterday, \u2018are the best they have ever been.\u2019\u201d Egger goes on to list a litany of examples from the different reality on \u201cTrump\u2019s planet:\u201d the constant AI slop posts, reposts of articles from March declaring how well the war is going, lying brags about his golf game, and more. <\/p>\n

\u201cTrump has spent a decade trying to drag us along the path of his own suspended reality,\u201d Egger concludes, \u201cbut something has snapped; the real world has moved back onto its own course. Trump\u2019s planet \u2014 where America is the hottest country in the world, Iran has been brought to its knees, vandals who destroyed the Reflecting Pool will be brought to justice, and he is extraordinarily popular and oh so good at golf \u2014 is so far from Earth it can no longer be seen with the naked eye. And as more and more people begin to wake up to this fact, the president is making no effort to reverse thrust. Already his world cannot be seen except through our most powerful telescopes; soon we may be unable to see him at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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