Day eighty-three, Donald dropped the “Mother of All Bombs”—the most powerful conventional bomb in the American arsenal—into a cave network in Afghanistan. He was obsessed with it. He fixated on it for weeks afterward, and his retelling of the story seemed to edge out his constant recounting of Election Night for a time. If anyone went to his offices, he’d regale them by saying, “I was sitting there with my chocolate cake and they came in and told me, ‘We’re going to do it!’ and I gave the approval. I told them they could drop the ‘mother of all bombs. . . .’ ” He kept repeating it, almost like
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