{"id":71269,"date":"2026-04-09T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/why-colluding-with-king-donalds-insanity-is-the-only-game-in-town-john-crace\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:58:16","slug":"why-colluding-with-king-donalds-insanity-is-the-only-game-in-town-john-crace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/why-colluding-with-king-donalds-insanity-is-the-only-game-in-town-john-crace\/","title":{"rendered":"Why colluding with King Donald\u2019s insanity is the only game in town | John Crace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The madness is contagious \u2013 and nowhere has this been more in evidence than in the two-week ceasefire with Iran<\/p>\n<p>The Madness of King Donald. Unless you\u2019ve spent most of the last few years on a silent retreat \u2013 and who could blame you? \u2013 it can\u2019t have escaped you that the American president is both not that bright and borderline sociopathic. A lethal combination. Posting \u201cOpen the Fuckin\u2019 Strait you crazy bastards or you\u2019ll be living in Hell\u201d on his social media account is not the action of a well man. Certainly not when the Middle East is on a knife-edge.<\/p>\n<p>But what you may have missed is that the madness is contagious. It also affects many of those who come in contact with him. Trying to deal with the madness makes them mad too, as they try to behave as if things that are most definitely not normal are all quite usual. All in a day\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/apr\/09\/donald-trump-insanity-ceasefire-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The madness is contagious \u2013 and nowhere has this been more in evidence than in the two-week ceasefire with Iran The Madness of King Donald. Unless you\u2019ve spent most of the last few years on a silent retreat \u2013 and who could blame you? \u2013 it can\u2019t have escaped you that the American president is &#8230; <a title=\"Why colluding with King Donald\u2019s insanity is the only game in town | John Crace\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/why-colluding-with-king-donalds-insanity-is-the-only-game-in-town-john-crace\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why colluding with King Donald\u2019s insanity is the only game in town | John Crace\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}