I was hoping Trump wouldn't be quite so insane but enough time has passed to compare him, not to the Roman emperor Tiberius, as I thought he would be comparable to in the best case, that would still be bad, but to his successor Caligula, a depressing scenario to be sure, lamented daily by tens of thousands of truthful commentators.

Every country has problems, strengths, weaknesses, obviously, and one of the strengths of the United States during my lifetime, a strength which I've always admired while loosely following American politics, has been its ability to mock it leaders in creative ways while said leaders accept their fate.

There are many countries where you can't call the leader a jackass, or a huge asshole, or a fool, or an idiot, in public, without having to worry about having your head cut off or waking up the next morning in prison awaiting a trial that will never come.

But you can do that in the United States and the leaders generally accept it, as far as I know. It's an American thing to do.  Free speech, freedom of the press. I don't know if posing with the president's decapitated head is a good way to go about it, but the freedom to do such a thing is built into the nation's sincere sense of pride and purpose, and if Trump hadn't been such a huge asshole, the severity of the stunt likely would have been less gruesome.

Griffin would have done something else had she chosen to do anything at all.

Nevertheless, consider Trump's autocratic pretensions and note Griffin's (vulgar) comedic genius.

Trump's quite sensitive for a world leader who acts like a raging bull.

He dishes, constantly, but he can't take. He seems to think he's still on television and trying to increase his audience but he's obviously running a volatile country while consistently making comments that increase tensions rather than build consensus.

That's plain old shitty from so many different perspectives.

Caligula would have just killed the commentators. He liked the arts too and wanted to feel like he was contributing and wow bob wow you had to make him feel like he was if you didn't want to plain and simply die.

Some of Claudius's best lines in the BBC's I, Claudius (yes, that's where I'm getting my source material) come from his desperate attempts to appease the mad emperor, and Trump really seems mad, the criticism is making him crazier and crazier, and everyone in the entire world can bluntly see it.

But George W. Bush took it like a man (can't use person here, sorry, when you're discussing raging bulls, you use raging bull terminology. Or at least I do).

That was THE ONLY thing I liked about Bush. I couldn't believe what people were saying about him when he was president but he took the massive barrage of multitudinous daily insults with dignity and poise that was truly remarkable.

And that's another strange thing about Trump's presidency.

He's making George W., George W. Bush, seem wise and statesmanlike, crafty and resilient.

If Trump has achieved one seemingly impossible unexpected goal, it's that historians, when writing essays about the republican party years from now, won't be vilifying Bush as much as they otherwise likely would have been, Trump has altered Bush's legacy, just as Caligula altered Tiberius's.

The United States isn't Turkmenistan, which seems to annoy Trump, it's a highly advanced conscientious democratic country with a rich history of civil action and a high degree of public scrutiny.

If you express yourself wildly on Twitter while governing the country without ever considering the potential fallout you are going to appear incredibly ridiculous all the time, even if you're a nice guy like Jimmy Carter, or chill and cool like Dwayne Johnson.

If you have trouble taking it, don't get into politics, where no matter what you say you're going to have to take it on a regular basis, and whatever you dish out in your defence only increases the pain.

Still hoping the economy is saved and they stop building the wall, but things are looking big time bleak at the moment and it's frightening, holy crap.

The only solace I can find is in the theory that sometimes people have to take a big step back to take a giant leap forward. That's my interpretation of post-Stephen Harper Canada anyways, even if the Liberals seem more worried about image than integrity sometimes.

I'm hearing horrible things about Theresa May as well.  She wouldn't even take part in televised debates. That's cowardly. Prime Ministers should be able to defend their values in public for at least a sustained 90 minutes.

Love Corbyn.

Cherishing my nightly glass of red wine.

Good books and good film.

Friends and family.

And a late sleep-in tomorrow.

I'm not afraid to read the headlines anymore like I was in January, but with Trump's insanity who knows what the hell tomorrow will bring.

Perhaps he'll just start focusing on governing.

Leave pop culture behind.

And be a president.

Or resign.

Maybe he should resign?

He could resign too.

That's also a possibility.