In looking up the definition of the word "surreal," I found this wonderful description on vocabulary.com:

"If you see a goldfish fly out of a melting clock and offer you tango lessons, you’re having a surreal experience!"

With Donald Trump again running for president, everyone in the United States is experiencing the most surreal experience of them all.

"DELUSIONAL DONNY" astounds us daily with his remarks. He has been doing it since before he was somehow elected president in 2016, after which he demonstrated he was as painfully unqualified to lead our nation as he is to run a business. He earned the distinction of being named our worst president ever.

Yet he's baaaaack, this man who:

• Invited Vladimir Putin to invade a NATO country. Any NATO country, then assured the Russian tyrant the United States would do nothing to help our allies.

• Threatened "a bloodbath" should he lose the 2024 election, then repeated the threat days later.

• Confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi, and claimed Haley was in charge of security on January 6, 1981, day of the one of the most shameful incidents in our history, an insurrection encouraged and endorsed by Trump.

• After several people who participated in this failed coup were arrested, tried, convicted, and imprisoned, praised the rioters as "patriots" and referred to them as "hostages" and promised to pardon them if he is elected.

• Often confuses Joe Biden with Barack Obama, then claims he did so on purpose.

• Warned that President Biden would get us into World War Two.

• Referred to Argentina as a person.

• Thinks that stealth airplanes are invisible.

• As president, suggested fighting the coronavirus by injecting people with a disinfectant.

• Once praised our Revolutionary War army for capturing all the airports.

• Claims power-generating windmills are killing great numbers of whales.

• Insist that, as a general rule, people aren't able to take showers, and that they have to flush toilets ten times.

• Claimed you need a photo ID to buy a loaf of bread.

• Warned that banks are out to de-bank its customers, whatever that means.

• Said that when he's president, anyone caught with an illegal alien in his home would be deported.

• Bragged he could disable a magnet by dropping a glass of water on it.

• Read the word "Yosemite" and pronounced it, "Yo Semite."

• Created the word "amonymous" when he meant "anonymous."

THE LIST of Trump gaffes goes on and on. "Amonymous" and the mix-up in Iowa when he confused Sioux City for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, are easily dismissed. Although he is the ultimate narcissist, he sometimes seems bored with himself during his monotonous speeches. In that condition, his brain freezes, preventing him from completing sentences and saying multi-syllable words. The man appears to have a dangerously short attention span.

Much of the media and all of his supporters in Congress and on Fox News dismiss his moronic remarks. "That's just Trump being Trump," is a popular reaction. Certainly it's the favorite of South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham, who nine years ago believed Trump was a danger to the country.

It's time to take the man seriously, to hold him responsible for his outrageous statements, and to consider just how crazy Trump really is. Start with his belief that he won the 2020 election. Not only that, he says won in a landslide.

Anyone with half a brain knows Trump lost, and that his many claims of fraud have been dismissed. (The only fraud found so far involved Republicans who attempted to cast illegal votes for Trump.) Recounts and investigations have only added slightly to Joe Biden's margin of victory that was more than seven million votes.

THOSE WHO believe Trump isn't delusional will wink and tell you he knows there was no fraud in he 2020 election, and that he keeps his big lie alive in order to stir up cult members willing to believe ridiculous conspiracy theories.

(On that score, I heard two Trump supporters in a YouTube video claim the coronavirus pandemic — they called it "the plandemic" — was a hoax perpetrated by enemies of Trump. Tell that to relatives of people who died.)

But let's consider Trump actually believes he won in 2020 and that he even carried California, when, in fact, he lost there by an incredible five million votes.

Anyone else making such a claim would be dismissed as crazy, but Trump's ravings are often greeted with a shrug. We should view him for what he is — the village idiot.

TRUMP ALSO has an annoying habit of taking credit for things that didn't happen, but won't own up to what did happen during his last year as president. Instead, he says he did a wonderful job in regard to the pandemic.

He could be the poster child for the road-rage generation, a me-me-me personality with no understanding and tolerance of others

What's truly frightening is how many people continue to support him. It's shameful what has happened to the Republican party and how many GOP members of the House of Representatives and the Senate would probably drink Trump's Kool-Aid. All share Trump's tendency to whine and complain about problems they have no interest in solving.

Instead Trump is selling bibles that include copies of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, another attempt to marry church and state. It wasn't long ago that crackpot Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert advocated a Bible test to determine if a citizen may be allowed to vote.

Trump, realizing not all Christians would go that far, has launched a campaign aimed at Catholics and Jews, telling them how wrong it is for them to even consider voting for a Democrat. What's particularly odd is that Trump displays no belief in God or in Christian values. He violates a commandment every time he opens his mouth.

"DELUSIONAL DONNY" is like the Hans Christian Andersen emperor who walked around naked, expecting his subjects to admire his new clothes. Fox propagandist Sean Hannity certainly admires that wardrobe, and often asks, "Are you better off now under Joe Biden than you were when Donald Trump was president?"

Only in a surreal world would the answer be "No." In the real world, the election of Joe Biden signaled the end of a national nightmare. No rational person wants a second Trump administration, for surely it would be worse than the first.