FAKE PRESIDENT

Donald Trump has a bizarre psychological habit: He spontaneously accuses people of possessing the faults that rightly belong in his column.

He's a liar, but he accuses others of lying all the time.

He's apparently so stupid he's gone around the horn and declared himself smart. ("I'm a very stable genius.") And from that shaky platform he declares other folks to be low-IQ people.

Asked if he will go on Twitter and disparage the NATO memorandum he just signed, he says other people do that, not him.

His reputation is in tatters—as history will undoubtedly show—but he accuses others (like the FBI) of disintegrating right in front of the world.

And everybody knows it.

See, he's not the only person who sees these alleged defects. He claims everybody knows what he's saying is true.

There's been no collusion with Russia, and everybody knows it.

By first insulting, then staging a happy-fest meeting with Kim Jong-un, Trump single-handedly saved the world from nuclear holocaust, and everybody says he should get a Nobel Peace Prize for doing it.

In Charlottesville, Virginia, where the "alt-left" collided with neo-Nazis, there was bad behavior on "many sides" and everybody knows it. Even the cynical reporters who call him on it know he's right.

Nobody should ever criticize the man because everybody knows he's perfect and beyond criticism.

Ipso-flipso, all attempts at criticism are fake news, pure and simple. And the perpetrators also know they are the Enemy of the People.

The other day, before the NATO meeting, Trump accused Germany of being controlled by Russia because the two countries have agreed to build a natural gas pipeline beneath the Baltic.

Is he just trying to preempt an accusation that he is in the thrall of Vladimir Putin?

Trump calls the man a competitor, not an enemy. He says he will confront Putin about meddling in the 2016 election, but expects the man to deny it, which will probably close the matter. Thank God.

(Everybody knows the Russians are blameless, right? What about Hillary's private email server, the poor thing hacked so many times it belongs in a horror movie? Are we making any progress getting that monstrous woman in federal custody?)

Trump apparently wants the Putin meeting to take place behind closed doors, just the two men and their translators. Sounds pretty lovey-dovey.

Maybe we can expect a pipeline of our own—in about nine months. Or whatever is the natural gestation period of the wild pipe.