The meeting was a sign of things to come. In a single stroke, the president had shown himself to be an insecure, narcissistic liar who lived in an alternate reality, as well as someone who believed that only white people were truly American. His blustering, fact-free Twitter persona wasn’t a pretense or a performance: he really believed the twisted conspiracy theories he harvested from the dark corners of the internet. Pelosi almost felt sorry for him, and worried about the prospects for collaboration. How could you get anything done with someone so divorced from reality?