demented

“Too many times I’ve done an interview where I say something with my eyes crossed, in a weird demented joke accent, and it’s the headline, sounding totally sincere,” she says.

"I think people at home's hearts are sinking at the prospect of going back in time like a demented moth towards the hard-Brexit flame," she added.

He acted deranged and demented on the campaign trail and it changed nothing.

Is it a case of rote journalistic convention that turns Trump’s demented ravings into something resembling the blandly acceptable “policy statements” of a typical gladhanding pol?

Trump denies it, and his minions called Woodward demented and deranged.