Perhaps the media’s greatest failure over the past decade has been that, instead of highlighting Donald Trump’s bizarre and outrageous behavior, it has tried to “sanewash” it. Whether this was intentional or not, journalists have done a huge disservice to America by ignoring something that is glaringly obvious: The president of the United States is insane. We won’t be part of it. Therefore, one of our New Year’s resolutions is that we will never normalize Trump.

In other words, we won’t pretend that he is anything other than a severely disturbed individual who is mentally unwell and unfit to run the country. And why would we? He is proving it to us on a daily basis.

Take his frequent social media meltdowns.

While other people were out having fun on New Year’s Eve, the president spent his time firing off a few posts on Truth Social.

One of them targeted actor George Clooney and his wife, Amal, who were in the news this week for having been granted French citizenship.

Clooney has drawn Trump’s ire for being a critic of his and, even though it is hardly surprising that a Hollywood actor would oppose a Republican, this is a slight the president apparently cannot forget.

In a social media post that included his trademark misspellings and childish nicknames for his adversaries, Trump called out one of the movie industry’s biggest stars.

“Clooney got more publicity for politics than he did for his very few, and totally mediocre, movies,” Trump said of the Academy Award-winning actor, who has starred in more than 50 movies, including 16 whose box office total exceeded $100 million. “He wasn’t a movie star at all, he was just an average guy who complained, constantly, about common sense in politics.”

The fact that the president cannot let any perceived slight go is a real problem. While Clooney likely won’t care, Trump’s vindictiveness has real-life consequences for regular Americans.

For example, he vetoed legislation this week that would have funded a drinking water project in Colorado, a state that is on the president’s naughty list.

Not only did he lose the Centennial State three times, the president also does not like that he cannot pardon Tina Peters, a fellow 2020 election conspiracy theorist who is serving a nine-year sentence in prison for providing unauthorized access to a voting machine in an effort to prove Trump’s Big Lie.

Since she was convicted of state charges, a presidential veto is meaningless in her case.

However, the famously vindictive Trump can put pressure on Colorado, for example by using the first veto of his second term to block the drinking water project, which passed Congress unanimously, or by withholding federal funding.

On Wednesday, he left no doubt that his actions are politically motivated.

First, in an interview with Politico, he went off on Gov. Jared Polis (D) when asked why he vetoed a popular project.

Later, he called Gov. Jared Polis (D) a “scumbag” in a social media post, and wished him and Daniel Rubinstein, the Republican district attorney who prosecuted Peters, “only the worst. May they rot in Hell.”

In a separate post, he called Democrats “a bunch of cheaters and thieves that never want to do what’s good for America.”

Obviously, none of this is normal or acceptable behavior, yet many news organizations just gloss over these kinds of statements as though they don’t matter.

Even at the risk of repeating ourselves, we are not going to do that because it would be an abdication of our duty to inform the public if we didn’t call out the president for being petty, vindictive, thin-skinned, and just plain nuts.