The very stable genius, nine years later

In January 2018, after a book questioned his mental fitness, the president of the United States sat down and wrote his own diagnosis. “My two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” he tweeted. “I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius. And a very stable genius at that!” He was 71 years old. Nearly nine years and one reelection later, the self-assessment has not moved an inch. The facts around it have. Start with the war he promised would never happen. Trump campaigned twice on ending American wars, not starting them. In January, the US military struck targets across Venezuela and extracted President Nicolás Maduro, who now sits in a New York jail […]