Can someone drag that dead horse over here? And get my whip, too.

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Sorry, but I can’t pass this up. 

Two weeks ago, Faux President Donald J. Trump announced that his budget bill was moving smoothly through Congress. Unfortunately for him, there is no budget bill. There’s a page of talking points that his budget director used to talk about the budget…but there is no bill moving through Congress. It’s also not moving through the West Wing or the East Wing or the Department of Water and Sewer or the Mall of America.

The budget bill isn’t moving anywhere right now because there is no budget bill. What’s more, the president doesn’t write the budget bill. That would be Congress…and they haven’t done that yet.

Then yesterday, Trump held a ceremony where he pretended to sign a massive infrastructure bill, complete with an introduction from VP Mike Pence and a round of applause at the end. I hear that he even handed out pens to the crowd. But wait! You guessed it. There is no infrastructure bill. What he signed was actually a list of “principles” on air traffic control that has nothing to do with infrastructure, really, and is certainly not a bill.

Do you see what’s happening yet? This shallow, vacuous, narcissistic, paranoid con man who was accidentally elected president is in way over his head. He is so desperate for adulation and applause and pats on the back and reality-show-style “winning” that he’s making stuff up to make it look like he’s getting things done.

He is not.

And finally, if the phony legislation isn't enough to make you shake your head, today we got the coup de crazy. Remember that $110 billion arms deal Trump announced while visiting Saudi Arabia last month? "It's fake news," according to The Brookings Institution, the nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C

“I’ve spoken to contacts in the defense business and on (Capitol) Hill, and all of them say the same thing: There is no $110 billion deal,” wrote Bruce Riedel, Brookings’ senior fellow for foreign policy. “Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many are offers that the defense industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday, (but) so far nothing has been notified to the Senate for review.”

According to Riedel, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency – the arms sales wing of the Pentagon – calls these so-called agreements “intended sales.” Not only that, he says, but none of them could be considered “new” because they all were initiated during the Obama administration.

“What the Saudis and the administration did is put together a notional package of the Saudi wish list of possible deals and portray that as a deal,” Riedel wrote. “Even then the numbers don’t add up. It’s fake news.” Moreover, he added, it’s unlikely that the Saudis could even pay for a $110 billion deal any longer because of low oil prices and their two-year-old war in Yemen.

So all of this once again begs the question: Just how crazy does someone have to be before he is proven unfit to be president of the United States? How long can someone continue to make up lies, distortions, alternative facts, phony legislation, fake deals and his own private reality before somebody does something about it?

I guess we’ll know if Trump starts tweeting that his phantom budget bill has been approved or his infrastructure program has begun or the first shipment of Black Hawk helicopters and Multi-Mission Surface Combatant Vessels has been delivered to Riyadh.

By the way, the Multi-Mission Surface Combatant Vessel that Trump claims to have sold to the Saudis is a type of frigate that’s derivative of a vessel the U.S. Navy uses. There’s one problem with this particular ship: It doesn’t actually exist yet, either. At least, not outside of the mind of Donald J. Trump.