Throughout the election and in the immediate aftermath of the election, I kept saying that Donald Trump would end up starting a war on Twitter. I believe that even more today. Trump’s inability to simply STOP TWEETING is going to cause major repercussions in the days, weeks, months and years to come. He is a Twitter troll, a childish, immature bully and an unhinged fantasist. First story: Trump is still so mad that Hillary Clinton has a multi-point lead in the popular vote. Over the weekend, he went on an Twitter rant about how “millions” of people illegally voted for Hillary Clinton. He literally has nothing to back up that claim. But he’s running with it. Late last night, he was tweeting about it again:

.@CNN is so embarrassed by their total (100%) support of Hillary Clinton, and yet her loss in a landslide, that they don't know what to do. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016

She didn’t lose in a “landslide.” She won the popular vote by millions of votes. But now we know that Donald Trump is just sitting at home, watching CNN and seething… because he’s the president-elect.

There was also this disturbing tweet bright and early this morning (does he get up early just to tweet?):

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016

So if you exercise your First Amendment rights as a citizen of America, you should lose your citizenship and/or be thrown in jail. Got it.

There’s been a lot of conversation about how Trump’s unhinged tweets are actually a feint, a distraction from the larger stories about his hundreds or thousands of conflicts of interest around the world, his self-dealing foundation, his shady business practices and his blatant violations of ethics rules and existing laws, not to mention the turmoil within his transition team. To which I say… I don’t think Trump is that smart. Don’t paint him a maniacal genius. He is not. While we should not underestimate the damage he will do to our nation and all of us, we should also not build him up as an untouchable madman. ALL of this is awful. All of it. Maybe the unhinged tweets are the best way to clarify that to the largest group of people.