The bag man in the featured image is how the Kaiser of Chaos perceives himself. It’s called The Brains. Instead, Trump is brainless. Government by social media post is idiotic, especially with a war raging. He called the Iran War an excursion the other day, making it sound like Gilligan’s Island or some such shit. That didn’t turn out too well, rich guy Thurston Howell was stuck with lovable ninny Gilligan for 99 episodes. If only we could banish President Pennywise to an island, any island.

Cartoonist Thomas Nast was the scourge of the corrupt politicians of his day. The Brains was his take on Boss Tweed, leader of New York’s Tammany Hall. Nast’s work appeared in Harper’s Weekly. Today, I quote Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic, which was around when Nast was excoriating crooks and liars.

Applebaum understands how the Insult Comedian’s pea brain works. The QOTD comes from a piece called Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done:

“Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.

He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before.”

That’s why I call him the Kaiser of Chaos. In the immortal words of Nicole Byer, Applebaum:

Trump has driven many of us to drink as well as despair. Don’t let the bastard wear you down.

Repeat after me: Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

The last word goes to The Kinks: