A week ago I made the case that this administration is obsessed with Barack Obama. Then the subject proved my whole thesis in real time.

Obama went on the All the Smoke podcast this week and described the fixation, calm and amused: "I obviously have a room in his head. A suite in his head." Said when he was president he didn't have time to worry about a predecessor — they're gone, I've got work to do.

A normal person accused of obsession ignores it. Instead, that Saturday, Trump posted side-by-side photos of himself and Obama as young men. He answered the obsession accusation by posting about the man he was accused of obsessing over. He didn't disprove the suite — he redecorated it.

And it collapsed instantly. He mislabeled his own age — claimed 20 in a photo from his 1964 yearbook when he was 17. The internet said the young Oba ...