As the conservative author and broadcaster Charlie Sykes said, it was the week when President Pyromaniac set the White House on fire.
His worst week ever.
In five torrid days, the US president alienated conservatives by savaging his own attorney general; earned a rebuke from the Pentagon over a rushed ban on transgender troops; watched impotently as the Senate dealt a crushing blow to his legislative agenda with the fall of healthcare reform; ousted Priebus; and threw a human grenade – the new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci – into his already dysfunctional White House.
The week when Donald Trump turned a Scout jamboree into something resembling a Hitler Youth rally.
A week when he never sounded more like a fascist dictator.
Donald Trump has only been in office for five months, but to me and I'm sure many others all over the world it seems longer than that. Much longer.
So you can imagine how I felt when I heard that the orange oaf is already making plans to occupy the Oval Office for a full EIGHT years.
And that I might have to endure his insane behaviour for what might seem like forever.
For let's face it, this is insanity.
The front page of the New York Daily News sums up the situation well.
Donald Trump grins moments after the House of Representatives had passed his Trumpcare bill.
While his Republicans prepared to party...
Even though the bill would take health insurance away from at least 24 million Americans.
And condemn many of the poorest and the most vulnerable citizens of that country to a death most miserable.
Well what a difference a day makes. On Thursday Donald Trump was sitting in the cab of a monster truck demanding that Republicans support his plan to replace Obamacare.
Or else.
And when he woke up yesterday morning, he seemed pretty confident his Trumpcare plan would be approved.
But sadly for him, that's as good as it got.
Well there he was in Nashville yesterday, surrounded by his faithful supporters, and bellowing like a beast.
Giving them what they wanted.
Another chance to chant "lock her up" four months after the election.
For they are beasts like him.
I must admit that when I saw Rachel Maddow's breathless promo, for a brief moment I had a vision of Donald Trump in handcuffs.
But sadly, although the leaked tax forms did show that Trump is not a very good businessman.
President Trump wrote off more than $100 million in business losses to reduce his federal taxes in 2005, according to forms made public on Tuesday night:
By claiming losses, Mr. Trump apparently saved millions of dollars in taxes that he would otherwise have owed.
There was so little in those few pages, that one had to wonder whether Trump had leaked them himself.
Ever since he accused Barack Obama of tapping his phone, Donald Trump has been trying to behave himself.
He has toned down his compulsive tweeting. He hasn't made any other outrageous statements.
He's trying to reassure Americans, and the rest of the world, that he's not having a nervous breakdown. And that he can be trusted with the nuclear button.
But sadly for him, this tweet can only have made even more people wonder about his mental state.
He hated Obamacare with a passion, if only because of its name.
He ranted and raved about it during the campaign, he vowed to destroy it the moment he came to office.
But now that he is president, and the Democrats are calling his Republican plan to replace it Trumpcare, he hates that name too.
And it's getting more and more obvious that he doesn't know what he's doing.
