President Donald Trump's presidency has hit a breaking point, an analyst said on Monday.
The New Republic's editor Michael Tomasky described how Trump's plummeting economy and rising prices of oil amid the Iran war have revealed how out of touch the president has been with Americans and their growing concerns.
"The presidency of Donald Trump is now officially in collapse," Tomasky wrote. "His war is … not exactly a disaster, but it sure isn’t the cakewalk he envisioned when he sprang it on the American people and the world with no notice on February 28. His firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi because she wasn’t sycophantic enough indicates a man who is utterly incapable of understanding anything about how democracy is supposed to work. His economy is a wreck and may well get worse. His proposed budget, especially the half-trillion-dollar increase to the Pentagon, is wildly out of whack with the priorities of the public."
Trump's most recent moves show how his presidency "is in total free fall."
"But on top of all that, Trump’s purchase on reality, tenuous at the best of times, is slipping fast," Tomasky explained.
The president's logic for military action in Iran could also lead to further, more serious problems for the United States.
"I also never understood why anyone believed that he wouldn’t start dumb wars if the circumstances, in his mind, warranted doing so," Tomasky wrote. "The one fundamental fact about Donald Trump is, as my late friend and great Trump chronicler Wayne Barrett famously put it, he’ll say whatever he needs to say to wriggle through the next 10 minutes. He said what he said about wars to get elected. Period. Anyone who believed otherwise was, frankly, an idiot. And so now here we are, with Trump mocking Allah and likely this week to commit acts defined as war crimes under the Geneva Convention."
"A loyal army of followers, a huge disinformation network, and a party of soul-selling cowards can crowd out facts for a long time," Tomasky added. "But eventually, reality catches up. It’s finally happening. I’d say we should celebrate. But there now arises the question of how he’ll react as reality closes in on him. I fear we haven’t begun to see the worst."