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by Jon Levine | 7:27 am, June 6th, 2017
On Tuesday, the gang over at Morning Joe spent about 30 minutes suggesting the President of the United States is mentally unstable. A lot of words like anxious, afraid, and crazy were bandied about.
In addition to those superlatives, however, was another theme carped on directly by Joe Scarborough and historian Jon Meacham: Memory. The two men both said that the presidents recent behavior suggested something was specifically amiss with his memory.
The clip above opens with show regular Steve Rattner arguing that Trumps behavior was unlike anything hes ever seen. This is all loony toons, he said.
This is so unbalanced. This is so. He is not well, said Scarborough. You actually had yesterday the President of the United States attacking the Justice Department his Justice Department for a decision he signed off on. Its almost as if he doesnt remember he signed off on it. Its almost as if he doesnt remember all the things he said about making it a better executive order. Thats interesting.
A few minutes later, Meacham picked up on the theme as well. After comparing Trump to late stage Nixon and dropping the term Shakespearian mad king, the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer said this:
I dont know about his long term memory, but I know he has no short term memory
Whether he remembers that he signed off on this new order or not, hes assuming that the rest of us, or at least a significant number of the rest of us are either too slow or too perverse to remember it as well.
more + video:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/morning-joe-says-trump-unfit-for-office-openly-question-his-memory/
dchill
(38,505 posts)for a Republican President. Well-known fact.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Right about now.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)Which is more dangerous? A happy lunatic or an unhappy one? Trump is clearly the latter.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)starts saying the president is mentally deranged, it's pretty much the beginning of the end. You can't go home again from there. No attempt by his addled PR team can undo teh crazy. Nothing can be normalized. If he's plain nuts, then everything falls apart.
This is still the beginning. The rest of the media has to join in, overtly, and not just politely pointing out discrepancies. But this is a faster route to impeachment than complex legal and investigative routes, which are difficult to make the public understand and can drag on for years. (Though we must continue to pursue those investigative routes for criminality and/or unconstitutionality.)
The bottom line is, the president is mentally unstable, and therefore unfit for office. Which we knew before the election ... but hey.
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)It's not as if Trump is acting out of character. He's been like this for decades.
leftstreet
(36,109 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)bresue
(1,007 posts)Faltering and possible crash!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Someone at Bloomberg finally noticed President Trump's proclivity for setting indefinite deadlines: "Two weeks" or "soon" or "we're working on this and you'll see."
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks
I think the reason for this is two-fold: First, his background in property development is that some parts of a project get ahead or or lag behind others. The attorneys all say, "I'll get that for you in two weeks" because they don't have it now, and they're too busy with other stuff to pay attention to getting the permit or checking the regulations or whatever to respond right this second. In two weeks, maybe they'll be less busy (ha!), or they set up a couple of automatic reminders and actually make good on their promise.
Second, this is Trump's way of saying mañana, which is to say "never." He hopes that in two or three weeks, you'll forget all about his promise. He's not wrong a lot of the time. The media don't seem too interested in holding Trump accountable for his statements, or they don't lend his statements any more credibility than Trump does. They play the game right along with him.
Hopefully, that's about to change.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)It's not early stage.
Anyone who has seen it in a relative and is not completely wearing political blinders recognizes it.