I found the 2005 documentary, Grizzly Man, the story of a dude intent on befriending bears in Alaska, riveting. Spoiler alert: It ends with him getting eaten.

I still remember walking out of the Capital Theater thinking, “That was the most intimate portrayal of mental illness I’ve ever seen.” Up close and personal with someone in serious need of help.

Fast forward to this morning. Hit Masters swimming hard. Then recovery in the form of coffee and oatmeal. With apples, raisins, avocados, eggs, and pumpkin seed goodness mixed in. Grabbed the coffee and Mount Oatmeal and headed upstairs to eat in front of the t.v. Oh, the market’s up. Oh, the Lakers are winning. Oh, damn, the President is riffing on “having predicted everything”.

It’s no coincidence that a few days ago the Paper of Record wrote that the President was caught completely off guard by the closing of the Strait of Hormuz. He said he not only predicted that the Strait of Hormuz would be closed, but also that Osama bin Laden was going to knock down the World Trade Center a year before it happened. And not just that, but he predicted “everything”.

Several assassinations, schoolchildren are killed in mass along with many other civilians, US servicemen and women are injured and killed, energy prices tank European economies, longstanding allies are further alienated. And the President’s primary concern is to bolster himself.

It’s impossible to exaggerate the level of insecurity. Something that, I suspect, we’d have to trace back 75 years to understand even a little.

This is Grizzly Man level mental illness. But this dude isn’t sleeping in a tent surrounded by bears in the Alaskan wilderness. He’s the Commander-in-Chief. This story will not end well either.