In 1965, Fletcher Knebel published "Night of Camp David," a potboiler about a president gone mad.
The novel was reissued in 2018, with the suggestion that there was some similarity between its unstable, paranoid President Mark Hollenbach and an unstable, paranoid President Donald Trump.
The comparison seemed strained at the time, but has become more plausible as Trump's behavior becomes increasingly erratic and detached from reality -- per the threats to Denmark over Greenland and the text to the prime minister of Norway ("Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus ...").
The Trump that we are now seeing seems more volatile and irrational than first-term Trump, even more than Trump of six or three months ago, as if we have suddenly entered some kind of free-fall.
"Crazy" is an inevitably imprecise term, but other than frothing at the mouth or waving his fist at the clouds, it is difficult to think how a crazy person would behave that is much different than how Trump is behaving. Age and bitterness appear to have compounded the narcissism and egomania to produce derangement.
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Source: https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/feb/02/commentary-night-of-mar-a-lago/
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