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In WSJ Peggy Noonan spells it out for us:

Shall we be rude? Oh, let’s. Everyone knows Donald Trump is a mental case, including I believe Donald Trump. Why else does he keep insisting he is an “extremely stable genius”? It’s as if he knows a lot of people are certain he’s neither.

It would be nice here to say, “I don’t mean mental case. I mean his mind is a raucous TV funhouse; that he is immature, unserious, and at the mercy of poor impulse control; that he doesn’t exercise power intelligently but emotionally, and with an eye, always to personal needs.” But mental case will do.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/everyone-knows-the-truth-about-politics-11568391426

I really like how In the second paragraph she shows off here rhetorical skills, by playing with a word and its meaning.