Today, the president* went to McDill Air Force Base to chat with some of the members of the military of whom he is the commander-in-chief, god help the civilized world. His basic pitch to them is the same as his basic pitch to everyone these days—to wit, was that an awesome campaign or what?

"That's so nice. A lot of spirit. We have tremendous spirit. We had a wonderful election, didn't we?"

Then it was time to discuss the terrorist threat.

"To these forces of death and desiccation, America and it's allies will defeat you. We will defeat them. We will defeat Radical Islamic terrorism. The challenges facing our nation are very large — very, very large. We are up against an emery that celebrates death and worships destruction. Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland, as they did on 9/11, from Boston to Orlando to San Bernadino."

Not a single one of the terrorists involved in the referenced attacks came from any of the seven countries named in his executive order. Neither were any of them five-month old babies who needed heart surgeries.

"It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it… They have their reasons and you understand that."

Got that? There are terrorist attacks happening and the media not only are not reporting them, they don't want to report them because reasons. There probably was a massive truck bombing right at the end of your street last night and it didn't even make the local evening news because the anchor team of Todd Coiffure and Kim Kimclone are secretly sympathetic to ISIS and kept the news from you. Before we go to Tony al-Baghdadi with tonight's weather, here's a word from the great folks down at Caliphate Trucks.

This is madness. Worse, this is madness presented as leadership to the people who may have to react and respond to actual acts of actual terrorism, and who have bigger problems with which to cope than whether or not the C-in-C's elevator goes all the way to the penthouse. I have absolutely no idea what would go through the mind of a rookie airman who hears this fantastical drivel and wonders how he has come under the command of a guy who seems to be channeling Alex Jones through the fillings in his teeth. It's every day now, and I can't even imagine what a critical mass of this craziness would look like, and I'm pretty sure I don't want to know.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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