TRUMP'S QUESTIONABLE MENTAL CONDITION

Donald Trump on MORNING JOE: a program the president now hates because they tell the truth.

 

Many of those in the White House believe Trump is not well. 

 

I have been saying for months that Donald Trump was a mental case.  I have said that, ever since he came down his gold plated escalator in his Trump Towers to announce that he was a 2016 presidential candidate.  Well, based on recent examples of strange behavior, now people are asking if perhaps Trump is in the initial phases of Alzheimer’s. Trump was slurring his speech in a recent announcement and he is now scheduled for a medical exam by his military physicians at Walter Reed Hospital.  White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that President Trump will undergo a physical exam in January

 

I was surprised when I learned that the president of the United States "is not required" to have an annual physical.  The decision to have an exam is totally up to the president.  But even Trump’s own personal physician is changing the bizarre statement he made during the 2016 campaign that: “If elected, Donald Trump would be the healthiest president to ever enter the White House.”  He now says that he was under pressure for a statement by the Trump campaign and the statement didn’t come out the way it should have…..YA THINK?

 

After observing the president over this past year, I more than seriously question his Doctor’s original statement, and apparently so do a number of other observers.

 

One of his issues could be Trump’s diet of fast food.  One of Trump’s White House associates has said that Trump’s four basic food groups are: “McDonalds, KFC, Pizza and Diet Coke”.  Trump does not drink alcohol, but recently while traveling, he consumed two Big Mac’s, two Filet of Fish sandwiches and a chocolate shake.  In that one meal, he had consumed a total of 2,600 calories, and that was just for lunch.  Trump is more of a junk-food junkie than was Bill Clinton, who eventually ended up having a quadruple bypass surgery.

 

But I digress.

 

You will recall how Trump spent much of his campaign rhetoric questioning Hillary’s stamina to be president of the United States. But it is now Trump’s own fitness that is being scrutinized by his friends and foes alike. After Trump spent recent weeks creating a level of chaos in Washington, Capitol Hill politicians and media outlets are quietly questioning whether Trump is fit for the highest office in the land. Most of us have been saying that he isn’t fit, but unfortunately, we are stuck with him for the time being.  That the commander in chief slurred his way through the end of a speech on Jerusalem, that was just the latest in a string of strange incidents.

 

The truth is that many of those around him in the White House believe Trump is not well.  Some White House insiders have told Vanity Fair magazine that Trump is “unraveling” mentally.  Even Trump's favorite, regular early-morning paper, the New York Daily News, in an editorial they said that “the President of the United States is profoundly unstable. He is mad. He is, by any honest layman’s definition, mentally unwell and is viciously lashing out.”

 

Now, that is a conclusion that was reached long ago by many of the president’s own staff. More than a few politicians and reporters across Washington have privately shared those fears.  But because he is the president, no one wants to be the one that goes on record pointing that out.  Therefore, this less than capable narcissist will continue to take the country down the drain.  Hopeful the Mueller investigation will be able to put it to a stop.  But would that just mean we could get Mike Pence.  No one is sure that would be much of an improvement.

I have never been a big fan of Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), but he did openly question Trump’s competence and suggested that administration officials are doing little more than quote: “Running an adult day care center.” This chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee also expressed fear that the president’s erratic behavior is putting the United States “on the path to World War III.”

 

Some WAPO opinion writers are becoming very bold in their criticism of the president.  Op-ed writer, Jennifer Rubin has offered the probability of an eventual impeachment of Trump or of the Congress enacting the 25th Amendment in this Trump era.

 

To show how open this attitude is about the president, even Trump's own national security adviser, H.R. McMaster was reported to have said that, “Trump has the mind of a kindergartner.”  You have probably heard that three individuals have said that after a meeting at the Pentagon, the Secretay of State, Rex Tillerson was heard to have called the president a “moron”.  To this day, the Secretary has not denied that he had  called the president a moron.

 

A highly recognizable Republican, Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s former campaign manager said just last week that “the question of his [Trump’s] fitness, of his stability is in the air.”

 

Schmidt is right. With the pace of the headlines detailing Trump’s bizarre behavior continuing, so, too, are questions about his well-being.

 

The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman, along with The Post’s, Robert Costa, both described Trump’s recent behavior as “unmoored.” She told CNN, “Something is unleashed with him lately. I don’t know what is causing it. I don’t know how to describe it.” Haberman’s long history covering Trump makes her searing observations highly troubling.

 

As another example, the president has spent the past few weeks insulting the United States’ closest allies, re-tweeting anti-Muslim videos from far-right activists,  He also has given us racist slurs at a ceremony honoring Native American veterans.  He has privately embraced conspiracy theories related to his “Access Hollywood” tape and of course, again about Barack Obama’s birthplace.  He has since slandered CNN International, and is now pushing another bizarre conspiracy theory.

 

Any Fortune 500 company would have fired a chief executive exhibiting Trump’s erratic behavior. Unfortunately, the current Washington GOP leaders are strategically positioned to limit the damage and they seem to be frozen by their political fear.

 

The president’s meltdown has come at an extremely perilous time.  National security insiders have been fretting about the possibility of a war on the Korean Peninsula, and now with the president’s announcement about Jerusalem being the Capital of Israel, who knows what we are in for from that part of the world?  Administration sources have admitted that their greatest fear is their own commander in chief’s instability.

 

Back in August 2016, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough reported on “Morning Joe” that then-candidate Trump had horrified foreign policy briefers by how he mentioned the option of using nuclear weapons on countries such as North Korea and Iran.

 

During an interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball, Trump refused to rule out the use of nuclear weapons in Europe and the Middle East. Mika had grimly warned viewers that a Trump presidency could lead to nuclear war.   She seems to have possibly been proven correct.

 

Let’s face the facts.  If the Republicans don’t find their bearings soon, it may be America’s safety and security that will be the next to go.

 

There was another terrorist Attack in New York's Port Authority Terminal.  Is this the beginning of that loss of safety and Security?

 

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