What did Donald Trump do today?

He stayed up late on a posting binge and then slept through the work day.

Last night, and into early this morning, Trump went on a posting binge to his private microblogging service that might charitably be described as "manic" and more accurately as a "meltdown." To take one example as representative, the 79-year-old current president of the United States retweeted a conspiracy theory that former First Lady Michelle Obama was the secret power behind the throne of the Biden administration.

All told, Trump made about 150 posts of that nature between 7 p.m. and midnight.

Today, the only event on his schedule was a Cabinet meeting, followed by a brief announcement. He slept through much of it, even when the speaker was sitting right next to him and directly addressing him by name, closing his eyes slowly and nodding before occasionally startling awake, over and over and over again. 

Trump's inability to make it through meetings without nodding off, along with his general physical and mental decline, has been more and more directly addressed in the media lately. He's reacted badly to that coverage, but it hasn't stopped it from continuing to happen.

The only point Trump appeared less dozy was during his own remarks, which were incoherent and unfiltered even by his standards. Among other things, he went on a racist rant about "garbage" Americans who came to the United States as refugees from Somalia, said that "affordability" for everyday items was a "con job," lied for the umpteenth time about gas prices, and tried to explain away his pardon of a former president of Honduras who helped the Sinaloa cartel traffick more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

Why does this matter?

• This is not someone who is mentally, emotionally, or physically able to carry out the duties of the presidency.   

• Anybody in any other job would be fired for this.