and there does not seem to be effective effort to remove him.
But then we get Pence. God help us all.

Senility? He's not dozing through cabinet meetings or showing signs of memory decline. Yes, dad had Alzheimer's and son might just have early signs.

But it would take a professional separate them out from signs and symptoms of very long-term mental disorder. Itm, anyone who refuses to consider decades of indicators of personality disorder is, frankly, being silly. Trump wasn't born 2 years ago. He has 50 years of well documented history.

I mention this because, frankly, personality disorder, with behaviors like the narcissistic rages we've witnessed, is FAR more dangerous to us than just snoozing through meetings and not knowing whether to stick the spoon in the mouth or the ear.

I don’t know if he has cognitive decline without testing. He certainly exhibits some weird behaviors at times. He never had to be in front the whole world like this and The Apprentice was scripted. I think he is more like a cornered rabid raccoon.

This deranged individual’s illness has him enthralled with being the center of attention, and he has managed to force us all to be unwilling participants in his psychodrama.

I agree that he is like a cornered raccoon, but in a strange, sick way, it makes it all the more exciting for him.

This would be a horrible scenario if he were running a deli or managing a vacuum cleaner repair shop, but he is president of the USA. The world, however, has seen madmen leaders before. Left unchecked, it will not end well.

Cher

slide into Alzheimer's. I see the same in him. Not a professional, just anecdotal, but he makes my hair stand on end.

Also too, he's been a colossal, developmentally-challenged asshole his entire life.

My Mom became very paranoid when the Alzheimer's/Dementia started to get a strangle grip on her brain.

Trump has all the earmarks of a extremist right wing loon. Not sure why this is news.

Trump is an example of the same extremist right wing ideology found in the birchers, patriot movement, constitutionalists, KKK, Tea Party, etc.

The "alt-right" is a rebranded version of the same nuttery going back to the oldest conservative christian terrorist organization in this country.

The New World Order and other Jewish conspiracies are now the "globalist" threat. Same conspiracy repackaged. Take the Klansman out of his sheets and put him in a suit.

"Deep State", the same, more rebranded right wing conspiracy theory ideology.

Everyone is out to get conservatives, gays, liberals, socialists, the poor, brown folks, illegals, Muslims, communists, alien lizardmen, etc.

Trump is just another fellow traveller.

Her program and panel today were excellent, as they often are.

He's clearly not a "thinker" or a details person as is typical of the leaders of some closely-held or family businesses who are used to declaring things into existence. He's also showing some decline due to age.

But, I think a lot of what is attributed to crazy or paranoid is actually calculated to undermine democratic institutions and to inoculate him with the base as the truth inevitably comes out. Hell, there's enough out there already to end any other administration but he lives on.

I believe Moore is doing the same thing in AL. The right knows they have 25-30% of the electorate that will no longer believe in the legitimacy of elections because Moore said so. Those people will be more than willing to support subverting the democratic process if their guy is going to win because, after all, elections results are fake news anyway.

I just wrote just about the same thing several days.

I believe he is paranoid but it's not completely delusional. He knows what he's guilty of. Flynn was the one advisor he was worried would flip the most. He knows Mueller is 10 steps ahead of him.

It's a subconscious reaction to legitimate fear, yes likely gets slightly delusional, but also calculated to justify a future action, to himself and the public.

Hitler became increasingly paranoid too. Not crazy. He was losing. But not completely rational too. Is Trump Hitler? No. But he's extraordinarily high spectrum narcissist like him.

and knows the end is nigh.

that I don't think we can call it 'deluded'.

The Holiday Friday dump about eliminating more Obama regulations re: Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling regulations, the firing of the AIDS commission, anything Obama ever did continues to get stripped from the books, etc. So much bullshit that no one can keep up, because he's got us all fixated on whether he's starting a war with NK first, or Iran. Meanwhile, he can do these EOs on a Friday afternoon and nobody hears about it.

As she said, if you're proud of this stuff, you don't do it on a Friday afternoon before a Holiday. Trump (his ghost writer) stated clearly in "Art of the Deal" that if someone wrongs you (ie: Obama's ridiculing him at the Correspondent's Dinner) then you MUST exact revenge. That's all Trump cares about, regardless of how many people get hurt.

He is a very sick man.

Not just him, but the whole cabal. Because they will point to him and say everything was his doing, even though he was out of his mind.

But the rest of them have no excuse (ignorance? following orders? nope and nope.)

Where tRump is concerned I wii be satisfied with him out of office, thoroughly disgraced, and a big chunk of his net worth seized or frozen under RICO.

does not mean people don't hate you.

She often says he is getting nuttier by the minute and most of her panel guests agree 100%. Nixon was super paranoid and carried a grudge (never one to forgive and forget) and was full of hatred which brought him down. The Fucking Moron is far worse and is not nearly as bright as Nixon was. This makes him more dangerous domestically and internationally.

I'd have told them they were crazy. Not anymore. I am not sold on her politics, but I respect her for not towing the party line, and speaking out against Trump's bullshit.

It's mostly the same people. Only now, they feel more free to be the bigots and misogynists they always were. The few decent ones, like Wallace, left the party. But the rest are still there in all their hateful glory. They just became more emboldened than they were back then.

Repubs and with the Dems at events. Many Repubs don't want to be associated with these RWNJs.

Yes, the RWNJs are out of the closet now, and they were hiding out before. I wish we could put that toothpaste back in the tube. Whatever you say about W, and there is a lot of bad shit to say, he wasn't a racist.

Not so sure about that. With a mommy like Babs....

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No delusion involved.

Dont rule out. He's just a stupid fucking asshole

the tranquilizer dart?

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She has impressed me as now being a moderate republican. She actually sounds rational and appalled by what is going on in our country.

She was the one with the RNC credit card who spent 150-thousand dollars on outfits for Sarah so Sarah could look "presidential". Or something.

She must have hated that particular job requirement.

What if they are, for all the right reasons? Can't paranoia also be a manifestation of guilt? I remember this old saying:

"Just because you think they are all out to get you does not mean they aren't!"

I think Bob Mueller & gang is out to get him. Justice is out to get him. Because he is a friggin' crook, and they know it.

Let's get real here...

If DOJ were just Sessions and Trump's loyal minions, HRC and BHO would both be under indictment. The DOJ and FBI in particular are law enforcement officials first and foremost. They will follow an investigation where it leads once they are clued in on violations. It's very likely that many in the "deep state" were not Obama fans, but he gave them little reason to investigate and when they did, there wasn't enough to make any case to go further.

He wants an armed army out there just in case any Republicans with integrity start doing their job.

He knows he and his family and associates are guilty as hell. He's keeping his first line of defense primed and paranoid.

He is a pathological liar and schemer who has mostly gotten away with it his entire life. He's just never had all his 'issues' examined so closely before.

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I lean towards the latter. He knows that attempts to undermine DOJ is his best way to deal with the Mueller investigation. As they say, the best defense is a good offense. I don't think, from a substantive point of view, his attacks constitute a "good offense". But politically they work for him by giving his base something to hold onto.

The delusion is that he might think he can get away with it.

That is why I think he keeps saying, "no collusion, no collusion" . He wants people to think there was no collusion! And he absolutely knows that there was collusion between his campaign and Russia and probably between him personally and Russia.

If I were in his position I'd think people were after me too, and I would be right!

I hope it’s not paranoia.

who know this man is a threat, and if there are those in government/congress that do not want cause a panic in the American people for bringing his mental state to the forefront is doing a grave injustice to us all.

And haven't LOTS of people been saying so?

Does Nicolle Wallace think that we don't all already know? The real problem is that those who are immediately around Trump are happily protecting him from anything resembling reality. To the extreme detriment of all of the rest of us.

does he own?
That's the tipoff!

Bullshit! America is suffering from this. If he is senile, he has been that way all his life. He has been the same bigotted, stupid, carnival barker his entire life. And he is our president. What is wrong with America. Russia helped him, but it is bigotry, misogyny, and racism that caused him to be elected. A black man and then a woman for president. Too much hatred in America to let that happen.

Which they should be. Trump knows what is up which is why he fired Comey

....in classic propaganda. Will they believe the big lie....yeah, they will.

the closer all those millions of goobers with their 10s of millions of guns and 100s of millions of rounds of ammo are to having their collective heads explode. I have seen their hate and loathing during my 45+ years of visiting the family farm in the Ozarks.... it's real and it's going to be ugly in my opinion.

namely, that it's his habit to lie all the time about everything.

That said, mental illness or dementia shouldn't be ruled out either.