Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. THREAD.

What happened last night—what's happened regularly for an entire presidency—is not a toddler's temper tantrum, and it doesn't resemble one. To call it that is to reinforce the ongoing delusion that we have a problem with one immature, erratic, anomalous man.

In the real world, you will find many, many more white adult men who regularly resemble Trump than you'll ever find children. The rage. The incuriosity. The cruelty. The reflexive dishonesty. These qualities are abundant somewhere in America, and it's sure as hell not children.

He is the apotheosis of white American masculinity.

The "Any Functioning Adult for President" signs make me crazy. Trump has functioned with aplomb in America for his entire adult life in America. America's problem is its white male adults and how well they're allowed to function.

There's nothing childlike about being threatened by the very fact of Barack Obama's very existence. Only white supremacy can account for that. You have to teach a child to behave like a white adult, and unfortunately, we're very good at it.