It's a good time to restate: Trump CANNOT and DOES NOT see beyond himself - EVER. He is NOT strategic - he is transactional. He does not think, he feels. He's an amalgamation of impulses and cravings. Freud would call him a "human id." He is now owned by his disorders. What I mean by that, is that his impulses and cravings outweigh even his self-interests. This is why it often seems as though he is trying to lose. He simply cannot pivot, he will almost always double down, he sees enemies in all disagreements, and he can never shut up or stop. In his addled mind, there is no you or me. There is no America. There are no high prices. There is no future of the planet. There is only him, right now, in a zero-sum game. There is only his grandiosity, and again - his impulses and his cravings, and they comprise his reality. And if you're a reporter not reporting his reality, stay away. This is a dangerous malignant narcissist, impatient and defiant, old and fearful of his own mortality, frustrated that he's no longer able to force-feed his concocted reality, and terrified that all he is and all he ever said he was, could be exposed and crumble like a House of Cards, forever. He knows he is in decline, and he knows he is losing. He WILL get worse, and - footnote to Republicans - he will NOT want to go down alone.