Why's it so hard for us to say out loud that Trump has lost his mind?

[Fozzledick]

OPINION: Why is it so hard for us to say out loud the blazingly obvious about the president of the United States: that he has utterly lost his mind. If Donald Trump were appointed the principal of your local secondary school tomorrow, you'd have pulled your kids out by Wednesday and he'd be gone by Friday. If he was mayor of your town, you'd pretend to live somewhere else. If he was a dog, you'd be making whispered phone calls to your vet.

I mean, I used to think Ronald Reagan and George W Bush were intellectually sub-par – but, by God, they're Mensa material compared to this guy. Meanwhile, his immediate past predecessor, Barack Obama, is as intellectually far ahead of Trump as it's possible to be while still belonging to the same species.

Let's review just the past few weeks, during which Trump seems to have crammed more abject lunacy than his 44 predecessors managed over the combined 250 years prior.

Sure, there have been terrible presidents before – corrupt, cruel and boorish ones; mendacious, vain, ignorant ones; racists, misogynists, and warmongers; incompetents and dilettantes – but only Trump embodies each and every one of those qualities with such unbridled ferocity. He disgraced the Oval Office by ever setting foot in there; he has been disgracing himself, and anyone that supports him, every day since.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trumps-america/115419803/whys-it-so-hard-for-us-to-say-out-loud-that-trump-has-lost-his-mind

[Skittles]

1. it's not hard for us on DU to say

we've been saying it since Day One

[MiniMe]

5. Saying it since he came down that elevator and talked about the killers and rapists

[OrwellwasRight]

19. Although saying it implies

he at one point was all there. Was he? I mean, in the past three years? There has been a decline, perhaps, but I'm not sure it's not just a result of "feeling his oats" or firing/driving away the semi-reasonable peeps on his staff. He may have been this crazytown on day one.

[lordsummerisle]

2. He's just

facilitating the dismantling of the administrative state in slow motion and in plain sight. And nobody seems to be stopping him. It's even easier for him with the congress essentially on leave for nearly a month and a half...

[smirkymonkey]

3. I think it is finally dawning on other people what we here at DU have known for

a long time. Most interesting excerpt from the article:

"Trump's cognitive decline is palpable and accelerating. Try this exercise if you don't believe me. Tee up YouTube with clips from 10 years ago, then two years ago, then today, and play them in order. It's like watching a guy get drunk at a party. "

He is clearly unfit for office. But until the republicans in the Senate decide to do anything about it, we are stuck with him for at least another year and a half.

[calimary]

14. I Hope To God it's finally dawning on other people out there.!

Better late than ever.

Shows you how much damage and destruction a single attention whore can do.

[Nay]

27. I sat at a luncheon today with three women who are Trumpers -- they still love the

little asshole. They think he's just great.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Same reason so many can't admit that the election was hacked.

Lots of people just can't go there, because not only are the implications frightening, but our Democracy ends up looking so fragile (which it is), and in deep trouble.

[Control-Z]

13. Same for climate deniers

The implications are frightening. Their fear of losing control over something they never controlled in the first place is overwhelming.

[NJCher]

16. I guess

that's one thing the founding fathers never thought of. They got a lot of things right but nothing's perfect and the inability of our country to deal with such issues could very well be our fatal flaw.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Because he never had a mind to "lose."

He has always been stupid, crazy, and hateful. The only ones who don't seem to understand that are his cult followers, and that's mostly due to them being just as stupid, crazy, and hateful as he is. They think that is normal behavior.

[Grasswire2]

7. Germans in the '30s tried to maintain equilibrium, too.

That meme going around says "I have to choose between being well informed and keeping my sanity" is exactly why we can't rid ourselves of him pronto.

To resist strongly enough to demand his ouster NOW, one must stand up to the challenge and not think we can make it happen without full-throated action.

[marble falls]

8. Who's this "us" you speak of???

[lambchopp59]

9. Because I have to take Valium to even try to utter that he's

Wishing I'd had a Quaalude to take every time, working as a caregiver who must enter patient's rooms that has FOX Noise on.
Never fails to make me shudder.

[calimary]

15. Any chance of changing the channel when the patient is asleep

or otherwise not paying attention?

Just a thought.

[lambchopp59]

24. Guilty as charged

Although I'll do that before I wake them up to do what I have to do, just to maintain my sanity for the moment. They never notice.

[delisen]

10. Trump has behaved badly for decades.

I don't know that he has just recently "lost his mind."

[The Liberal Lion]

11. I don't think he's insane

I think he knows exactly what he is doing, and he is doing it on behalf of putin.
He only seems insane because no normal American president would act like him. Even the half-wit W. Bush loved America in his own way. trump does not love America, he loves Russia, specifically putin.
Is he an asshole with no right to be in our White House? yes. Insane? Nope.

[Lady_Chat]

18. Agree, not insane. But he's a liar, a con man, a self serving egotist, and just plain cruel.

I think he's a coward too. The only thing he loves is himself and the almighty dollar.

[LudwigPastorius]

12. Maybe because we don't want to admit that...

we were bested by a foreign power in the installation of a mentally ill puppet?

Or, we don't want to admit that almost 63 million American citizens were dumb enough to be fooled into voting for him, or worse, knew exactly that he was a vicious racist and vile bigot, and wanted that leading the country

We still want to believe we're the best-est, free-est, smart-est country on the planet. Most of us still cling to American exceptionalism: we're superior to the rest of the world.

We can't stand the thought that the only exceptional thing left about our country is the swell standard of living, enormous military firepower, and the sheer stupidity we have exhibited by handing over the levers of government to a few rich people and some powerful corporations.

[smirkymonkey]

17. +1000

[The Liberal Lion]

20. Strong point

*1

[3catwoman3]

21. "...while still belonging to the same species." Questionable.

I've said elsewhere that I think he is one of the aliens in disguise from the Men In Black movies.

[DFW]

22. Because that would be admitting that we thought he had one to begin with. n/t

[pnwmom]

23. Because he's the same crazy guy he was in 2016. What's different today? n/t

[HipChick]

25. The US is without leadership...

[Sacramento999]

26. It's not hard he is a wacko

[trixie2]

28. I wake up screaming those words every morning

Keep hoping it was a nightmare, but no.