The jelly consensus so far appears to be that he was nuts all along. I do believe he was an unfathomable ego maniac from the start, but I’m not sure he was insane. But it is beginning to look like he has lost his grip on reality. To my knowledge, no other President in history has behaved this way. I have read that Truman and Eisenhower both had a disdain for each other, that Truman was vocal in his dislike for Ike, and that Ike was rude and distant with Truman at the inauguration. But things still went off smoothly with none of this nonsense. Going to be an interesting January, fore shore.