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There is a good likelihood that whoever comes after him will be a lot more competent.

CoughVanceCough. He is bright & very smart, powerful, and young. His Munich speech for example, even though too many of my EU fellow citizens (and representatives as well) dismissed it as non-sense and mean, was quite articulated (very hypocritical too, but that's not the point) and, well, quite informative on what the USA want to do and what the USA will do.

And so is Bessent, in a less rhetorician way even though I don't imagine him becoming a leader but that's just my gut feeling ;)

I’m not American so have given up trying to understand the actions of a mad man.

The issue is not that it's the action of one mad man.

The dude has been elected by a lot of people thinking that his ideas were the way to go. To me that's the real issue. Trump himself could vanish he would as quickly be replaced by some variant with very similar ideas... And that wouldn't change much (save maybe that this other person would be less orange and less illiterate? Maybe)

I wake up every day between 4-5AM (I like how quiet the city is this early in the morning, it's my favorite working time), and I never needed much sleep to begin with, so I may not be the best suited to tell you how to sleep better but:

• Does it happen yearly? Change of season can do a lot...
• As other have suggested: stress is a frequent explanation.
• Have you changed anything in your evening habits? I don't know, more screen, new food, new anything? Or stopped doing something else?

I've got popcorn, anyone want some?