You’ll recall that the title of our weekly wrap last week was “Different Week, Same Joke.”

Here’s what we said last Friday:

Another week and the same joke continues to apply: this was the worst week for the Trump administration since last week.

Well, this week easily eclipsed last week as the craziest 5-day stretch yet for Trump and for an administration that has careened completely off the tracks. It was also a terrible week for stocks. Specifically, this was the worst week for the Nasdaq since January 2016.

Let’s just call it minus 1,500 on the Dow since the immediate knee-jerk spike post-Fed:

VIX highest since March 2:

Hide the women and children.

Since Monday, Trump:

Then, in a fitting end to a characteristically insane week, he held a press conference before signing the bill that he initially threatened to veto and used that press conference to talk up America’s military in a comically absurd rant the highlights of which include the following:

“Total stealth. They’re hard to find, they’re hard to see, therefore they’re hard to beat. It’s very tough to beat a plane when you can’t see it.” pic.twitter.com/yXBePQiOtD

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) March 23, 2018

Again – crazy. Completely, and totally crazy. No one has used that kind of language to talk about America’s nuclear arsenal since the goddamn Cold War.