Basalt Day, 9th of Childwinter, 526 M.E. (Castor): “I don't need international law.” In a interview with the New York Times, the Stable Genius boasted about his reputation for unpredictability and willingness to resort to military action. "Let them hate me, so long as they fear me," he told the Times.

No, just kidding, that second quote is from the Roman Emperor Caligula, the insane, murderous tyrant who demanded and received worship as a living god (the first quote was the Stable Genius). Caligula delighted in humiliating the Senate and nominated his horse to be a consul. Over the course of his short reign, he became increasingly self-indulgent, cruel, sadistic, extravagant, and sexually perverted, and not unlike the Stable Genius, he had a fondness for grandiose, costly building projects, intended to entertain the masses but considered by many to be wasteful.

Asked if there were limits on his authority to strike, invade, or coerce other nations, the Stable Genius told the Times, “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” When pressed on whether the U.S. still had to follow international law, he shrugged it off, saying “It depends what your definition of international law is.” 

When asked why he felt he needed to acquire Greenland, he said, “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success. I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document.”  

Even nuclear arms control didn’t faze him. Asked about the imminent expiration of a key treaty with Russia, he shrugged: “If it expires, it expires.”

After a surprise military raid on Venezuela, threatened attacks on other countries, and yanking the United States out of dozens of international agreements, the Stable Genius is openly saying the rules only apply to him if he feels like it. His interview made perfectly clear that he views laws as optional and alliances as expendable, and that power flows from only one source - him.

As his mind dissolves, the malignant narcissism that characterized him in his first term has descended into full-blown megalomania. We've gone from rule by mad King George III to Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, also called Caligula.