I mean he just intends to keep escalating and then do it anyway. It honestly doesn’t matter how we respond, he’s going to do it. Violence is the only thing he knows, and it makes him even angrier to be ignored or not get the violent response he wants.

This is a man who Bill Barr had to dangle the prospect of killing death row inmates like keys to a toddler to keep Trump focused on anything at all. He needed the “treat” of getting to kill someone just to be able to focus at all, and that was before he had completely succumbed to dementia.