Quote of the day wherein Donald Trump relives the night he bested Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College:

“We won incredible states. We won Wisconsin. We won Michigan. We won Pennsylvania. We won North Carolina. We won South Carolina. We won Florida. What a run. You remember the evening that we won?
… That was one of the greatest nights in the history of television.
 … It was one of the highest rated evenings in the history of television. You add up all those networks.” – Donald Trump at Minneapolis campaign rally

Jonathan Chait observed that Trump, an indefatigable TV-watcher, always bored with his prepared remarks, delights in going off script to talk about himself as mediated through coverage in the media, especially on television. In Minneapolis yesterday, Trump name-checked many Fox News on-air personalities who flatter him and raved about high TV ratings for his 2016 election victory.

Earlier this week, George Conway reviewed episode after episode of Trump’s erratic and abnormal behavior that renders him incapable of fulfilling the duties of the presidency. The Constitution anticipated that the president would act as a fiduciary on behalf of the country. Based on what we’ve seen, this hasn’t occurred to Trump, who can’t avert his gaze from himself.

While Conway places (as an organizing device) Trump’s observable behavior within the diagnostic criteria for narcissism and sociopathy, he sets aside the issue of a medical diagnosis. What we – the public, not mental health professionals – have witnessed in plain sight demonstrates Trump’s unfitness to serve as president.

Trump is obsessed with sustaining a self-image as exceedingly superior others, who in turn – he is convinced – conspicuously admire him. He perceives every occasion, every decision, everything that comes before him as important only insofar as it casts him in a special light.

While I’m not on board with Conway’s insistence the Congress must call on psychologists and psychiatrists to affirm Trump’s incapacity, I credit him with making the case that Trump can’t safeguard the public interest, because he is impaired by an inescapable self-regard:

“From the evidence, it appears that he simply can’t stop himself from putting his own interests above the nation’s.”

(Image: @realDonaldTrump on Twitter.)