Trump is in full self-pity mode. He tells Coast Guard graduates, “No politician in history — and I say this with great surety — has been treated worse or more unfairly.” Was this actually a scripted line? He seems to have forgotten four assassinated presidents, the abuse heaped on Abraham Lincoln by his opponents, Trump’s own birther frenzy seeking to delegitimize President Barack Obama, the anger directed at Gerald Ford for pardoning Richard Nixon … well, you get the idea. The supreme narcissist with zero knowledge of history imagines himself as the greatest victim in history. The Coast Guard deserves a better commander in chief than this whiny blowhard.

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Trump — angry, unhinged, petulant, impulsive — ventures overseas tomorrow on a trip to Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Vatican, followed by meetings in Belgium and Italy (with the Group of 7). Trump reportedly is “dreading” his trip. No wonder. This is a man who retreats to one of his resorts virtually every weekend and who had to fly home for the night during the presidential campaign. He clings to the familiar, where his ego will not be bruised, where sycophants surround him and where he feels like the big man on campus. Even the most adventurous and self-disciplined presidents know the rigors of official travel, complete with strange food, disrupted sleep schedules, antagonistic foreign press and American press eager to search for flubs. For Trump, this must be terrifying.

In his grandiose self-regard, Trump has prepared a speech on Islam in Saudi Arabia. Did someone think this was a good idea? Here’s the man who has unsuccessfully tried to ram through a ban on Muslim travel, who belittled the parents of a slain Muslim soldier, who falsely claimed that American Muslims in large numbers celebrated after 9/11 and who has ridiculed Germany for taking in so many Syrian refugees. Trump, who cannot correctly identify a verse from his own Christian Bible (“two Corinthians”), will take it upon himself to lecture Muslims. This should be — well, horrifying.