Problem is, whether he was serious or not, that kind of bluster from any head of state is, in fact, unhinged. Yet the people who surround POTUS will never outrightly tell him that because they’d get fired. The “friendly” media outlets immediately find some way to spin it that says “this isn’t as bad as it sounds….in fact, it’s brilliant….4D chess and such. And the base eagerly eats it all up. A shocking percentage of our countrymen have seemingly lost the ability to identify the absurd.