The wittiest response to Trump’s rambling and incoherent Davos speech came from comedian Andy Borowitz, who specialises in a witty spoof headline every morning. Today’s said it all:

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Tom Nichols of The Atlantic wrote that

”No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and deeply dangerous.”

It is. But it sparks another thought — about Joe Biden. For at least six months before the 2024 election we know that the people around him in the White House knew that his mental frailty was such that they should protect him from external scrutiny as much as possible. And in that they were mostly successful.

Now, Trump’s minders and enablers know that they have exactly the same problem with their boss. Because of his personality, though, they cannot keep him out of the public eye: his chronic narcissism makes that impossible. And the Davos shambles demonstrates the consequences of that. There will be more of this as the year progresses and the mid-term elections loom. This could mean that the MAGA strategy will now be to sabotage those elections, probably by using ICE to foment so much chaos that they have to be postponed on the grounds of a national emergency.