It's simply not possible to imagine any American president in any of our living lifetimes observe an angry mob occupy the Capitol, and decide that he shouldn't be a visible and vocal leader the following day.

What even is the job of POTUS if not to be leading this very moment?

The easiest thing in the world to imagine is GWB or Obama standing in the hallway at the Capitol with some officers, observing the wreckage, and giving a serious, determined, and detailed account of his plan for a federal response.

Like, does the president seriously not have any policy changes in mind in the wake of this? Even a complete idiot politician could easily gin up those answers.

You know who couldn't: someone who simply doesn't care, or even worse, actually likes what happened.

Trump did two things yesterday that, IMO, deserve removal from office: refusal to call in the National Guard, and a ridiculous tweet and video essentially excusing the riots because the election was stolen from him.

But today, add another: total shirking of crisis duty.