Our petulant president

Donald Trump is childish, ignorant, and incompetent. That's why he's so dangerous.

President Trump.
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With each new juicy and jaw-dropping anecdote from Bob Woodward's bombshell book Fear: Trump in the White House, which will be released next week, the truth about President Trump becomes ever more clear: He is the most unprepared and unworthy president in American history.

This is a man who reportedly called his own attorney general "mentally retarded," with the accent of a "dumb Southerner"; who felt condemning white supremacists was his "biggest f---ing mistake"; and who rather casually mused about want to "f---ing kill" Syria's Bashar al-Assad. (Trump, of course, says the whole book is full of "made up frauds, a con on the public.")

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Brian Rosenwald

Brian Rosenwald is a Resident Senior Fellow at the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania, co-editor of Made by History at the Washington Post, and author of Talk Radio's America, forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2019.