Donald Trump is, and forgive us if you've heard this before but when the Nobel Prize for Obviousness comes around next year we want to make damn sure we're in the running, mentally unfit for office. He proved that yet again only hours after being inaugurated, and it would have ripple effects throughout the weekend.
Mr. Trump grew increasingly angry on Inauguration Day after reading a series of Twitter messages pointing out that the size of his inaugural crowd did not rival that of Mr. Obama’s in 2009. But he spent his Friday night in a whirlwind of celebration and affirmation. When he awoke on Saturday morning, after his first night in the Executive Mansion, the glow was gone, several people close to him said, and the new president was filled anew with a sense of injury.
And it was this "sense of injury", also known in less polite circles as a pouting infantile tantrum, that led him to order new press secretary Sean Spicer to go out and lie outright to the nation's assembled television cameras. The pictures were faked! The media is in on it! We did too have a crowd more bigly than Obama's! (This was not a tough sell; the Times reports that Spicer was more than eager to launch the attack and apparently voiced no qualms over how it would require him to brazenly lie about something any semi-functioning American with a television set would immediately know was a lie.)
Normally a press secretary, or anyone else with a rice grain's worth of remaining integrity, would politely refuse to knowingly, intentionally lie to the American public about something so transparently stupid—but this would presume there is anyone on Trump's entire White House staff who has any such integrity. As Reince Priebus took to the Sunday shows to re-assert Spicer's claims, and as Kellyanne Conway took to the shows to argue that Spicer was presenting "alternative facts", the Trump team has long since excised anyone with such scruples. The whole team went along with the obvious lie, even as interviewers and reporters looked at them with the same look you might give a dog when you're trying to decide whether they've gone rabid.
So that's how Donald Trump spent Day One of his presidency—obsessing over tweets that made him look bad, as a person with severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder naturally would, and ordering his White House staff to prepare a propaganda campaign disputing the reality everybody witnessed and claiming something that would make Donald Trump personally feel better.
This man is not going to make it through four years. It's impossible. The only remaining question is how the remainder of the Republican Party will be responding to his various lies, breakdowns, propaganda efforts and obvious detachments from reality. So far, however, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell remain firmly in the accidental fascist's pocket; there is no remaining integrity in their own offices, either.