To counteract the pretty-much unanimous consensus among sentient beings that this Iran affair has been a Total Loss for the insecure narcissist.

I suspect he couldn't be doing cocaine regularly w/o anyone spilling the beans about it, but Rx stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin can also be ground up and insufflated, and he could probably get away with that w/o people tattling if he just does so out of their sight.

IIRC people who worked on The Apprentice have said Trump was huffing Adderall at the time. And he acts like someone who's strung out on amphetamines, in so many ways, even today. I've been around enough amphetamine abuse to know the signs, put it like that.

I think it is reasonable to assume that when he was running with the Epstein crowd
he was doing cocaine. At some point he switched to adderall.
White House drug list from his first term indicates the doctors there give
Trump and his staff whatever drugs they want.

I don't think it is a given that we would know what drugs Trump is doing.
People in DC are doing all kinds of drugs, sex, you name it.
What happens inside the beltway stays in the beltway.

Cocaine is a stimulant so can look like amphetamine, both flood the brain with dopamine.

The reason I ask is because of how short-lasting cocaine is. Someone strung out on blow needs to be roping rails like every 30-60 minutes to maintain. It's a constant roller-coaster of up/down, you're sidled up to the mirror pretty much constantly. OTOH, ADHD drugs, being amphetamines, are like a steady 12-24 hour buzz. WAAAAY easier to maintain for someone in Trump's shoes. A couple of fat stripes of addies in the AM will tide one over until the next morning (or maybe pop a pill or five during the day since people are watching you all the time, so huffing could be impractical).

I mean, he seems strung out on stimulants of some kind and his nose sounds fucked up lately so, I understand the gravitation towards coke given those facts. But given his job, and his known past history, I'd suspect he's huffing Adderall (or similar ADHD drug) over cocaine because a doctor would Rx him Adderall, but no doctor would ever Rx the POTUS cocaine, and a POTUS is under watch way too much of the time to ever cop illegal drugs himself.

AND Trump in particular pisses a whole lot of people off, fires them for bullshit reasons, etc. If he was known to be procuring and snorting cocaine, someone he's pissed off would've ratted him out by now.

Of course, I cannot rule out BOTH amphetamines and coke, wherein the amphetamines are the "daily", and the coke is the "occasional party drug, whenever Don Jr. stops by" type of thing. That's also a possibility.

And yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right about him doing blow (maybe with Epstein) in his younger days, to be clear. In that famous pic of him, Melania, GM and JE, Melania looks blasted out of her tree!

Huge amounts of every psychotropic drug you can imagine.

Plus we can imagine the illegal drugs his spawn can supply him with.

Of course Trump could be bipolar and he doesn't need drugs to be manic.

I think he is doing more than one drug.

I know how coke users act, and I know how speed users act. I also know what one can and cannot get away with when it comes to furtive drug-taking. As such, I'd lay big odds the man is not currently a heavy coke user. He could very well be a heavy amphetamine user. You can trust my judgement or not, and I suppose perhaps time will tell

Another sign of dementia. Memories of the past, but not the present.

And he obviously hasn't a shred of self-awareness, can't imagine that everybody else (including a lot of GOPers, though they won't admit it) thinks he's juvenile, undignified, obnoxious and a huge embarrassment. And he doesn't realize that if you're really that great you don't need to brag about it all the time.

Precisely.

Some tiny, never-to-be-acknowledged part of him knows he is a huge phony. If he were as secure in his opinion of himself as he likes top pretend he is, he wouldn't be so petty and vengeful, and criticism would roll off him like the proverbial water off a duck's back.

They all sit at a big table, and each take their turn praising Dear Leader in a display so craven, so obsequious, so sycophantic, that it would make the North Korean leader blush. Or vomit.

Good effin grief!

I just made that up. Please use it.

Rolls off the tongue rather nicely!

(Just had to jump back in and say so!)

Sure fits THIS guy.