“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump told a reporter in 2015. “I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off… You don’t have time to take time off.”

And of course his word is his bond, right? Not! So every week it’s back to the nuthouse where the Donald feels right at home. Where gut instincts rule supreme and all the pretty people fawn over him and make him feel whole again.

    James M. Ridgway, Jr.

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    Jim Ridgway, Jr. is a military writer and author of the recently republished American Civil War narrative, “Apprentice Killers: The War of Lincoln and Davis.”

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