To me, one of the craziest things about our crazy times are polls that indicate one-third of Americans still approve of Donald Trump's performance as president even though the man proves every day to be ignorant, inept and corrupt. He lies constantly and when questioned about a particularly absurd statement, will deny he ever said it — despite evidence to the contrary.

One can only conclude Trump supporters are well-indoctrinated members of a cult and no longer in touch with reality.

Ordinarily, someone who fit a description of Donald J. Trump would be reviled, a person who could not be elected dog-catcher, must less president. He constantly brags about himself, though he has the vocabulary and the educational know-how of a fourth grader, refers to himself in the third person, has racist tendencies and a blatantly low opinion of women. He gets his information from right-wing television networks and gutless sycophants.

He operates like a mob boss, demanding loyalty from associates and exacting vengeance on anyone who does not toe the line. He fawns over tyrants, obviously fantasizes about being King Donald. He claims to care about America, but his every act and utterance proves he cares only about himself.

So I find myself frequently daydreaming about how things would be in 2026 if Kamala Harris occupied the White House. What follows is only a short list:

• For openers, the White House would be intact, not minus the East Wing. There would be a rose garden, not an outdoor eating area better suited for a McDonald's. The Oval Office wouldn't look like something decorated by Auric Goldfinger. And there'd be no false claim that any previous president ever said we needed a ballroom, unless maybe William Howard Taft complained he wanted a place to show off his dance moves.

• There'd be no war with Iran. The Strait of Hormuz wouldn't have been closed and we wouldn't be paying nearly five dollars for a gallon of gasoline.

• Our president wouldn't be posting AI-created videos showing herself piloting a plane that dropped excrement on protesting Americans.

• There wouldn't be any "No Kings" protests.

• Our president wouldn't post videos portraying herself as Jesus. Or Rambo. Or a member of the United States hockey team.

• We'd have a president who remained awake during cabinet meetings and functions at the White House.

• Our vice president wouldn't be Alfred E. Newman Jr.

• There would have been no price-raising illegal tariffs, nor would we have to repay companies billions of dollars for money collected from these illegal tariffs.

• We'd still be getting along with our NATO allies and not supporting dictators.

• There'd be no "big, beautiful bill" that deprived or increased the cost of medical coverage for millions of Americans.

• Government agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, Center of Disease Control, Internal Revenue Service and the National Institute of Health would be fully functional.

• Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti would be alive and ICE agents wouldn't be arresting more American citizens than illegal aliens with criminal records.

• There would still be the United States Agency for International Development. And, according to a Boston University study, the deaths of 600,000 people would have been prevented.

• There's be no giant pictures of our president hanging on buildings, making the District of Columbia look like a city in North Korea.

• The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts would still be the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

• There's be no $13 million no-bid contract awarded to a company with no previous experience to overhaul the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool which Donald Trump assures us will be "waterproof." Say what?

• We wouldn't have a president who already increased personal wealth by an estimated $4 billion.

• Pete Hegseth would still be at Fox News. The Department of Defense would not be renamed the Department of War.

• We would not have a president who claimed to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, or a president who falsely claimed to have settled six, eight or even ten wars, including one that never took place — between Albania and Azerbaijan

• We wouldn't have a president who frequently insulted women reporters by calling them stupid and ugly and snarling, "Quiet, piggy!"

• We wouldn't have been introduced to the new math that says it is possible to reduce drug prices by 1,500 percent, nor would we have a president who ever said we won the Revolutionary War because our army captured all of the airports? Or that our stealth fighter planes are invisible.

• There would be no attempt to use taxpayer money to establish a $1.8 billion slush fund for convicted criminals, some of whom tried to overturn an election and threatened to hang our vice president.

• We wouldn't have a president who should be serving a life sentence in prison for organizing that attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.

• There'd be no war of words between the president and Pope Leo.

• We'd have a president who was not mentioned in the Epstein Files.

• Possession of Greenland would not be deemed vital to United States security.

• There be no talk of making Canada our 51st state.

• No one would have suggested changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

• Nor would there be an effort to rig future elections by denying millions of citizens of their right to vote.

• Our president would not have a phobia about wind turbines, claiming they are the leading cause of bird deaths. (Sorry, but the biggest threat to birds, by far, is ... cats.)

• Kash Patel would not be director of the FBI.

• The justice department would not have been ripped apart by Pam Bondi, who defined habeas corpus as the president's right to do anything he wanted.

• You might never find our president on a golf course.

• Nor would there be a nightly stream of lies and childish illustrations coming from the White House via the hilariously misnamed Truth Social.

• We wouldn't celebrate the nation's 250th birthday with an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event on the lawn of the White House.

• There would be no clown cabinet, and all the appointed members would still have their jobs. Kristi Noem would have remained in South Dakota and Robert Kennedy Jr. would be looking for roadkill, not advising us about vaccines.

• We'd have a president whose every statement did not have to be fact-checked and one who knew the difference between a necessity and a whim.

• Someone could poke fun at the president without being threatened with arrest, the cancellation of a program or the loss of a broadcasting license.

• Most importantly, we wouldn't be ashamed of the person who occupied our nation's highest office or be frightened because this person had the authority to order the use of our nuclear weapons.