So says Trump, whose crippling-then-vanishing bone spurs kept him from running into any Viet Cong when his country called, but who is convinced that he would have personally stopped Nikolas Cruz, even if it meant using his bare hands against that AR-15.

This is the deranged narcissist who told us that "I alone understand the problem, and I alone can fix it." Who wins every golf game. Who wins the popular vote despite all evidence to the contrary. Who gets the biggest crowds. Who has the best words. Who gets the best ratings. Who can assault women with impunity simply because he is who he is. Who is faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive.

This is also the man who is using images of Parkland survivors in the hospital to solicit donations to his reelection campaign.

My conscious self understands that Trump's personal insanity is on some level a sideshow that keeps us distracted from the grinding, horrific destruction and damage his administration is inflicting, but it means something that we have a dangerous lunatic as our President and that his very real mental derangement is the public face of our country and the driver of his policy.