President Donald Trump is illuminated by a camera flash as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House, on Sunday. Mark Schiefelbein/AP

No one wants to cross the commander in chief.

Presidents therefore get used to hearing only what they want to hear. And Oval Office bubbles have rarely been as impermeable as the one around Donald Trump, with his Cabinet of yes-men and yes-women and the hero worship of conservative media.

This is a president who blasts suspected cartel speedboats out of the oceans in what critics say are extrajudicial killings. He sends troops into American cities . He ripped down the historic White House East Wing — just because he could.

Trump’s projection of omnipotence is reaching new heights as the misery of the government shutdown deepens. Tearing

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