Here's how Thursday played out for the orange clown:  Donald Trump's lead defense attorney in the Russia investigation quit, he announced unexpected and unpopular tariffs on Chinese imports which tanked the Dow Jones more than 720 points, and his National Security Advisor quit.  Naturally, Trump replace him with one of the least-respected loose cannons available.

As one of the "adults in the room", H.R. McMaster had clashed with Trump several times over policy and military aggression, and was seen as one of the voices arguing against idiotic ideas such as a nuclear first strike on North Korea or bombing Iran.  The official White House line is that the two had agreed "for some time" and McMaster would step down as some point.

"The timeline was expedited as they both felt it was important to have the new team in place, instead of constant speculation," read a White House statement, "This was not related to any one moment or incident, rather it was the result of ongoing conversations between the two."

Succeeding McMaster as National Security Advisor is former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, a dangerously inept war hawk with anger management issues whose disastrous run at the UN saw international cooperation with US policy goals grind to a halt.

In recent years, John Bolton irrationally opposes the Iran Nuclear deal, and has called for the bombing of Iran and North Korea.  "Given the gaps in US intelligence about North Korea, we should not wait until the very last minute," Bolton wrote, "That would risk striking after the North has deliverable nuclear weapons, a much more dangerous situation."  In other words, we don't know what's there so we better bomb it just to be sure.  This would seem to be a ready-made conflict with Trump's supposed plan to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the Panmunjom border village, ensuring more internal chaos in the Trump administration.

Bolton's modus operandi isn't the "Madman Theory" in which one side appears to be ready to go to war at the drop of a hat, so as to frighten the other side into concessions.  He really does want to bomb the crap out of everything and force regime change on other countries.  He got his wish once before, as a founding member of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) which spent the 1990s calling for war with Iraq.  George W. Bush became president in 2001 and adopted PNAC world view along with hiring most PNAC founders.  Bolton forcefully argued that Iraq had WMDs - "we are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction," as he put in one 2002 speech. 

And we know how well that went - it was conclusively proven that Saddam had no WMD, and estimates of civilians casualties in a country that didn't attack the US first range from 150,000 to a million.  The disaster also led to the birth of Islamic State and the viral spread of terrorism throughout Asia and Europe.  Australia hasn't been immune, either.  It so bad that Donald Trump in 2013 tweeted, "All former Bush administration officials should have zero standing on Syria.  Iraq was a waste of blood & treasure."

During the Bush administration, then-undersecretary of state Bolton for some reason grew convinced that Cuba was developing a chemical weapons program to supply bio-weapons to rogue regimes.  It wasn't true - the alleged chemical weapons factory was a medical facility producing vaccines, and the US government knew this.  Bolton tried to fire two state department staffers who opposed his plan to bomb the factory, anyway.

Bolton is also known for the abusive treatment of his subordinates, and once "joked" about knocking 10 stories off the UN building in New York.  He once stalked and harassed a woman on a US foreign aid project in Kyrgyzstan.

Unlike other times when even Republicans banded together to oppose Bolton's nominations to various jobs in Republican administration, there will be no confirmation hearings.  The role of National Security Advisor does not require the US Congress' approval, so he's already got the job.