The Madness of King Donald: A Washington lawyer named George Conway has been Twitter campaigning to convince America that the President of the United States is mentally ill and getting worse.

  Conway tweeted, “It doesn’t take a person with an advanced degree in psychology to see Trump’s narcissism and lack of empathy, his vindictiveness and pathological lying, his impulsivity and callousness, his inability to be guided by norms, or his shamelessness and dehumanization of those who do not abide by his wishes.” 

  It’s not surprising that someone in the swamp would think Trump is crazy, but George Conway shares a bed — well for now let’s say he shares a home — with one of Trump’s closest defenders and advisers, Kellyanne Conway. She’s one of the primary representatives who goes on television after the President tells a lie and says he didn’t tell a lie.

  George posted a list of the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder he says apply to Trump; Grandiosity (check), Fantasies of unlimited success (check), Believes he’s special (check), Requires excessive admiration (check).

  We don’t know what she says at home, but Kellyanne told reporters yesterday that, “No, I don’t share those concerns” that the President is mentally ill.

  Trump is so shocking that he’s lost the ability to shock. He posted 50 tweets over this past weekend, pumping up his record and attacking enemies, including the late Sen. John McCain.

  George Conway says of the President, “Don’t assume that the things he says and does are part of a rational plan or strategy, because they seldom are. Consider them as a product of his pathologies, and they make perfect sense.”

  Peter Wehner writes for The Atlanticthat, “The real danger in so desensitizing ourselves to Trump’s tweets is that we normalize deviant behavior and begin to accept what is unacceptable.” He says, “A culture lives or dies based on its allegiance to unwritten rules of conduct and unstated norms, on the signals sent about what kind of conduct constitutes good character and honor and what kind of conduct constitutes dishonor and corruption.”

Petrofire:A fire spewing clouds of black smoke at a Houston area petrochemical terminal is expected to burn for two or three more days. Company officials say there’s no danger to the public, which means that people who live in the area should stop breathing the air.

Cyclone:As many as 1,000 people may have died in a cyclone that hit Mozambique a week ago. They are still accounting for the dead and missing. The city of Beira in central Mozambique bore the brunt of the damage with flash floods and roads washed away.

The News Roundup:Dutch authorities have arrested a suspect in the killings of three people on a tram in the city of Utrecht yesterday. The man arrested is a Turkish immigrant. Police say they believe the shooting was an act of terrorism. — Nevermind. After years of recommending that older people take a daily low-dose aspirin to help prevent heart attacks, researchers now say it’s not necessary and people over 70 shouldn’t take it. — Campaigning for president in the Republican state of Mississippi, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the US needs to get rid of the electoral college, the odd American institution that allowed Donald Trump to win the presidency with a minority of the popular vote. How many votes do you think she won with that idea in a Trump state?

Tweet Twit:California’s RepublicanRep. Devin Nunes, who has the former chair of the intelligence committee buried evidence of Russian election meddling through social media, has sued Twitter, claiming that two anonymous Twitter accounts were used to damage his chances of re-election.

  He’s demanding more than $250 million, alleging that the defendants engaged in “negligence, defamation per se, insulting words, and civil conspiracy.” In the suit, Nunes accuses Twitter of having a “political agenda” by allowing the two anonymous accounts—“Devin Nunes’ Mom” and “Devin Nunes’ Cow” to attack, defame, and demean him. The suit alleges the two Twitter accounts “engaged in a vicious defamation campaign against Nunes that lasted over a year.” 

  The lawsuit also claims Twitter “shadow-banned” Nunes, essentially hiding his tweets while featuring his critics.

  Twitter says they don’t do that. Also, under current law, social media companies cannot be held responsible for what’s posted by their users. 

Tabloid News:The mistress of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was sold out by her own brother for $200,000 to the National Enquirer, The Wall Street Journalreports. The paper says Michael Sanchez, who has acted as a manager for Lauren Sanchez, a former television personality, accepted payment to reveal intimate texts between his sister and Bezos.

 The Enquirer ended up publishing an 11-page spread, which exploded Bezos’s shaky marriage. Bezos commissioned an investigation to learn where the Enquirerobtained its material and the tabloid threatened to publish nude selfies of the billionaire in retaliation. Bezos said he’d prefer to “roll this log over” and see what comes out. What came out was his girlfriend’s brother.

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