And it is not only you and I worried about the president’s mental stability. According to Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” the book that has so gotten under the president’s skin and into his mind, those closest to him also worry about his mental health.

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Trump was so bothered by the book that he took to Twitter over the weekend to defend himself against the damaging portrait it contains: that of a mentally unstable simpleton.

Trump wrote that “throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart” and then upped the self-accolades by writing that being elected would “qualify as not smart, but genius … and a very stable genius at that!”

Whatever you say, Wile E. Coyote.

The truth is that it appears that most of the conservative architecture in this country — members of the administration, members of Congress, Fox News, the Republican National Committee, and Trump’s die-hard base — are all engaged in an exercise to defend, excuse, protect and absolve a man and his behaviors, which may well do irreparable damage to the country.

They have learned to praise him in order to steady him. His weakness is an unending need for affirmation. Anyone who provides it, he abides. It’s simple. Also sad. Actually, pathetic.