A former top aide to President George W. Bush has warned that President Donald Trump has shown signs that he's spiraling.
David Frum, staff writer for The Atlantic and host of The David Frum Show podcast, revealed how Trump's retribution attack on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, latest Venezuela actions and his response to the fatal killing of Renee Good at the hands of ICE agent Jonathan Ross have showed "the menacing crises the Trump presidency is inflicting on the United States and its own movement to start 2026."
"ICE seems to be acting more and more not like a proper federal law-enforcement agency, with all the high professionalism and exacting standards that Americans rightfully expect and usually get from federal law enforcement," Frum wrote. "It’s acting like an armed MAGA militia, like the armed force of a political party, occupying part of the country and part of the voting population on behalf of another part of the country and another bloc of the voting population."
Frum argued that despite Trump's outlandish comments, his words should be taken seriously.
"This seems part of a quickening spiral, but it’s not all," Frum said. "The president has been issuing other kinds of crazy commands and fatwas into the economy, decreeing with no legal authority that credit card rates be cut, talking about American oil companies that he’s trying to bully into crazy and unprofitable investments in Venezuela. Over the weekend, he issued a Truth Social post in which he described himself as the “Acting President of Venezuela,” which is kind of a spoof, but also a scene out of Woody Allen’s Bananas where the aging authoritarian president seems to be losing his marbles. He’s not the acting president of Venezuela. No American president should even joke about such a thing. But this one may not be joking."
