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Keraunos · 36-40, M
The answer usually seems to be to hang tight and wait for the next one.
If it's any comfort at all, we've survived wackier by far, Trump is actually probably somewhere nearer the middle of the bell curve on that metric as far as American presidents go. E.g.: John Quincy Adams once used federal funding to try to prove Earth is hollow, Nixon was known to wander around the White House naked late at night in fits of anxiety, LBJ's personality was basically everything half the country seems to dislike about Trump's on crack, and Coolidge would often attend gatherings as president while remaining completely silent and ignoring anybody who tried to speak with him whatsoever.
That's not even getting into matters of policy that have had serious consequences on the world, on which metric virtually all of them have done something fucked up beyond reason and comprehension more than once. If half of these men had been alive in the age of social media and invited the same degree of media scrutiny as Trump has so far, we'd probably be so callused to it all by now that we'd just shrug it off and say, "Such is life in America."
If it's any comfort at all, we've survived wackier by far, Trump is actually probably somewhere nearer the middle of the bell curve on that metric as far as American presidents go. E.g.: John Quincy Adams once used federal funding to try to prove Earth is hollow, Nixon was known to wander around the White House naked late at night in fits of anxiety, LBJ's personality was basically everything half the country seems to dislike about Trump's on crack, and Coolidge would often attend gatherings as president while remaining completely silent and ignoring anybody who tried to speak with him whatsoever.
That's not even getting into matters of policy that have had serious consequences on the world, on which metric virtually all of them have done something fucked up beyond reason and comprehension more than once. If half of these men had been alive in the age of social media and invited the same degree of media scrutiny as Trump has so far, we'd probably be so callused to it all by now that we'd just shrug it off and say, "Such is life in America."