What a great bit of news to pick up, NCD. Describes Trump in a nutshell. The "Sue!" attitude is probably the one part of "The Art of the Deal" that came from Trump's core rather than being extrapolated from nonsense by Tony Schwartz.

All kayfabe all of the time. "Wacky upstart causing chaos" is what he does and what he admires? Throw a bomb and let others work on the new mess. (The opposite of the executive manager of "The Apprentice" that he played as an actor that some may have voted for.)

Think of it going way back: how someone like Jesse Jackson running for president appealed to him, to now Boris Johnson. He admires Putin and Kim-Jong Un not for their authoritarian management skills but because you never know what they are up to? Despises the establishment faces of either U.S. party. Hates "the rules" of nitpickers like Jeff Sessions.

For him, it's like the U.S. president role is "king of the world" ala a boy king in the movies where the child monarch says something wacky and all the underlings scramble to execute it? I suspect this is what Rex Tillerson saw when he used "moron" and McMaster when he used "idiot" with "the brain of a kindergartner".

I think of how people who have met him in person before the presidential run say he can be very charming one on one. He sidles up to someone he sees as having power or potential and loves sharing ideas on how to get wacky. He basically tried to transact with Teresa May like he did with Stormy Daniels or the journalists on the "Pussy" tape or so many times recounted on the radio with Howard Stern. Hey did you ever think of doing this wacky thing? It would be yuge! Big ratings! An orderly world not for him, upset the status quo however you can. Agitator, and more accurately: troll.