I was telling my neighbor Swamp Rabbit that Bizarro World is defined in Wikipedia as “a fictional planet appearing in American comic books where “everything is ‘reversed’ in some way, with heroes being villains and vice versa, and beauty being hated while ugliness is embraced.”

“Sounds like a place where Donald Trump is in charge,” Swamp Rabbit said. “Did them comic book writers have him in mind when they invented it?”

The Bizarro World concept caught on in popular culture in the 1960s, I told him. Trump has spent his whole life learning to navigate that world, a trick that involves subverting the logical order of things and convincing people that what’s good is bad, what’s right is wrong and what’s true is false. It’s a world where everything is broken.

“Trump became the president of Bizarro World eight years ago,” I noted. “The people who voted for him were voting to become citizens of that world. They have no intention of returning to our world, no matter how deranged Trump becomes. The problem is that Trump, now that he’s back in office, is trying again to impose the Bizarro World on the rest of us.”

Swamp Rabbit suggested that the media should use a Bizarro World dictionary to keep up with Trump’s reversals. An excellent idea, I told him. This might help them report the news more clearly. My mangy neighbor quickly came up with some terms Trump uses and what those terms mean in Bizarro World:

“I ain’t hardly got started yet,” Swamp Rabbit said. “It’s gonna be a really big book.”

Footnote: For a sitcom version of Bizarro World, try the “Seinfeld” episode in which the show’s main characters, all of them neurotic twits, interact with “normal” doubles of themselves.