The excitement surrounding the flipping of Mike Flynn, with the former national security advisor purportedly ready to finger the doofus sons, the son-in-law, and ultimately big daddy himself, has pretty much overwhelmed the other news of the past week. Which is a shame, since the last seven days have been so surreal, so utterly compelling, so downright nutty that the Daily News was moved to offer this headline on Wednesday: “Donald Trump Is a Madman.”

Could it only have been last Monday that the increasingly unhinged commander in chief tweeted, “We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!” Results of that contest have yet to be tallied, but never mind—that same day, Trump was at a ceremony to honor the heroic Navajo code talkers, where he took the opportunity to free-associate and repeat his racial slur against Senator Elizabeth Warren. “You were here long before any of us were here,” he told the honorees. “Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas.” (No, they don’t. President. It is only you who has ever called her that.)

But even as the stunning inappropriateness of this epithet sunk in, here comes Wednesday! That morning, the president took it upon himself to repost three viciously (and purported fake) anti-Muslim videos that originated with the neofascist, white supremacist organization Britain First. Even Prime Minister Theresa May, about whom it is difficult to find anything good to say, responded, in a statement from her office, “The British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far-right, which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents—decency, tolerance, and respect. It is wrong for the President to have done this.”

These supremely unamusing developments were leavened by some genuinely funny stuff. The New York Times is reporting that Trump is now questioning whether it is his own voice on the notorious Access Hollywood tapes. Um, hello? Was that not you, Mr. President, who in a video released by your campaign in October 2016 said, “I’ve said and done things that I regret and the words released today on this more-than-a-decade-old video are one of them,” adding that he was “wrong and I apologize.” And was that not the real Melania a few days later telling Anderson Cooper that former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush egged her husband on “to say dirty and bad stuff”?