How time does fly, eh? It was June 15, 2015. For We, the People, here in the US of A it started out “normal” enough. The national news of the previous day reported on Jeb Bush announcing he was going to run for President in 2016. The Supreme Court was mulling over the Affordable Care Act subsidies. The Office of Personnel Management reported on having been hacked, affecting 14 million people. Rachel Dolezal resigned as Spokane NAACP leader after reports revealed she was white (!) The nation was reeling from the most recent mass shooting at a church in South Carolina, which initiated debate on Confederate symbols. L.A. enacted a $15 an hour minimum wage.

Oh, and the U.S. military bombed Libya in response to an al-Qaeda leader accused of attacking an Algerian gas plant, causing the deaths of 38 foreign hostages in 2013. The attack was one of those those “surgical” strikes that took out its al-Qaeda target, along with several civilians. In other words, June 15, 2015 was just another day of global, national and regional happenings that did not effect approximately 99.999999% of the people around the world.

Then came June 16, 2015. That is the day in which one single human being out of the 7.4 billion humans on Earth at that time made a headline-catching announcement. This person was very well known at the time, being the host of a highly-rated reality show. He was also the man behind several failed businesses. This person, prior to 6-15-2015, had also been accused of sexual misconduct, although not charged or found liable in any of the accusations. His most serious legal problems in 2015 related to fraud charges involving a university named after him. Several defamation suits had been filed against this person. He hosted that reality show from its inception in 2004 until 2015. NBC, the network broadcasting the program, clearly chose to ignore his rather unflattering personal and legal issues as long as his ratings were high. And the ratings were massive, garnering 20.7 million viewers in its first season. This person left his lucrative gig with NBC in 2015 before that aforementioned headline-catching announcement alluded to earlier: he, like Jeb Bush, also wanted to run for President.

A lot of people found this announcement to be laughable. He was a reality TV host with significant charfacter flaws and legal challenges. He blustered and boasted, condescended and insulted. Kind of cartoonish. Seriously? President? So undignified! However, the media ate it up. The head of CBS News admitted he did not appear to be good for the country, but he sure is good for our ratings.

Now, 3,939 days later, he is President of the United States, for the second time, though not elected in consecutive terms. As of today, in 2026, he has been charged and convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud, as well as a civil conviction of sexual assault. Regardless, he is still POTUS. After losing the 2020 election, he and his hardcore followers attempted to overthrow the government to remain in office. He failed to succeed in that attempt. Nonetheless, he is again POTUS.

As counter-intuitive as such an unethical, morally challenged man becoming POTUS once let alone two times, that is the discombobulating, dumbfounding reality for a majority of the country that has never voted for him. His many naysayers–almost 4,000 days later–are now enduring the consequences of such a dubious person being seemingly bereft of any reasoning, above any law.

All I have written here is based on fact. As such, he being POTUS makes zero sense. Zero. Bereft of any logical, practical, political reasoning. The last 10-plus years have accumulatively been an assault on common sense, and overall sensibility. The alarming facts that preceded his announcement on 6-15-2015, and the unflattering facts that have followed, when objectively appraised, are now a weighed down by a daily dose of dytopia.

I would label this mindset Psychopathia POTUS-pathia, a nascent form of mental illness. Many must have it. How did this happen? Why did this happen? Will it please end?! Many may begin to feel they need to vent with a professional therapist. Would this condition, isolated from the many stresses of life-at-large in the braoder picture, be treatable? Any more so than constant wars, mass shootings, xenophobia, mysogeny, racism, transphobia, voter supression, genocide, rising gas, food and housing costs. Given how many people are already showing symptoms of those aforementioned, well documented stress points, the coverage specific to Psychopathia POTUS-pathia may be too difficult to isolate. Are there enough clinical psychologists who could possibly explain to the tens of millions with this condition how to cope with it? The approximate 100,000 licensed clinical pyschologists in the U.S. would each have thousands of patients! Untenable. The shrinks may likey need treatment themselves, assuming they see the same unreal reality as their patients do. This condition is unchartered psychological territory. It didn’t exist until relatively recently. Are there any articles about the matter in Pub Med? Cause and effects? Any clinical trials on it yet?

It’s just that ONE guy out of 340 million people in the U.S. who induces the condition. How can that be? Treat it? The system would be overwhelmed! Would the health insurance system collapse under the massive weight of such demand? Petition denied!

Instead, try yoga, Tai chi, Qigong, Reiki, music therapy, meditation, acupuncture, mindful breathing, gardening, Tarot or Oracle cards. Skydiving. Base jumping. Hang gliding. Street luge. Read a good book. I’d recommend something by Vonnegut. Stay away from All the President’s Men. It has a most ridiculous ending. Based of fact but it’s now been moved to the fiction section of your local library.