He's clearly an abnormal president and person. What is scariest, and what we have to monitor, is how very infectious this sort of "leading by deception" is. Now we have Mike Pompeo, saying Trump didn't say something he clearly did say. The quote (he denied) was verbatim. Look at what this respected civil servant has been reduced to doing. He has to make a shameless liar of himself to protect his child president. Sure, Pompeo is to be held responsible for his own behavior, but he is protecting the world's most powerful person, as is his duty. It's perverse, on the part of the child president... a perverse, passive aggressive molestation of Pompeo's honor and conscience.
Any Game of Thrones fans here? What of the moral question of "The Dog" riding down the butcher's boy? Real life is sometimes not as exciting as romantic fiction, but art mirrors life...