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Keith Olbermann: Donald Trump Is Not Of Sound Mind And Must Resign
Oliver Wendell Holmes famously summed up Franklin Roosevelt as a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament. Trump has a third-class intellect and a third-class temperament. The frightening surreality of what has happened to the United States has only begun to sink in.
Trump’s Presidency Is the Twilight Zone Episode About a Terrifying 6-Year-Old
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here".
Keith Olbermann: Donald Trump Is Not Of Sound Mind And Must Resign
Oliver Wendell Holmes famously summed up Franklin Roosevelt as a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament. Trump has a third-class intellect and a third-class temperament. The frightening surreality of what has happened to the United States has only begun to sink in.
Trump’s Presidency Is the Twilight Zone Episode About a Terrifying 6-Year-Old
If there was some
lingering hope among Republican professionals that Donald Trump would somehow,
as the old cliché has it, “grow” into the office, his first 48 hours as
president dispelled it immediately. The White House is already jittery with
fright at the unpredictability of a childlike figure who has been handed
terrifying powers, like the famous Twilight Zone episode about
a 6-year-old-boy with magical abilities.
The evidence for
Trump’s unfitness for office comes from Republicans themselves, who discuss the
president in the most patronizing terms. The managerial catastrophe begins with
the fact that Trump knows extremely little about public policy. Because he
knows so little about government, Trump gives incoherent or contradictory
statements that leave even his allies confused about his beliefs.
“Senior
Congressional Republicans have privately told several people that Trump seems
to have no clarity on where he stands on many issues,” reported Maggie
Haberman recently. Many of them simply dismiss his statements as empty
puffery. After Trump said he would cut regulation by 75 percent, one Republican
member of Congress told John Harwood, “[T]hat’s Trump just making a large number.”
There is little prospect this will change, because Trump lacks the attention
span to read anything of substance. Something as long as a book is out of the question. Even memos strain his mental capacity.
Trump is committed to reading as little as possible. This is not an insult. “As
little as possible” is Trump’s own account of his reading habits. “I like
bullets or I like as little as possible. I don’t need, you know, 200-page
reports on something that can be handled on a page,” he tells Axios.
Trump’s inability to
read anything of length has unfortunately freed him up for hours of channel
surfing. But his addiction to television reinforces other character weaknesses:
his wild mood swings and irritability. “One person who frequently talks to
Trump said aides have to push back privately against his worst impulses in the
White House, like the news conference idea, and have to control information
that may infuriate him,” reports Josh Dawsey. “He gets bored and likes to watch TV, this person
said, so it is important to minimize that.”... read more:
The president is a 70-year-old child whose TV time must be closely
monitored — because any news story that upsets his ego will trigger a temper
tantrum followed by irrational demands that his indulgent, overwhelmed
guardians will be helpless to refuse. Or so Donald Trump’s
aides keep confiding to the nearest available reporter. On Sunday, one of the
president’s confidantes told Politico that his staffers have to “control information
that may infuriate him,” a task made difficult by the fact that the leader of
the free world “gets bored and likes to watch TV.”.. read more:
