Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer presidents who aren't certifiably insane.

[Fast Walker 52]

This interview was freaking bonkers.

Trump insisted that he could have “very, very easily” won the popular vote in the election — which concluded more than 11 weeks ago — had he simply tried. He again suggested that Democrat Hillary Clinton won the popular vote because of widespread voter fraud, of which there is no evidence. He hinted that he thinks voter fraud might have also helped elect former president Barack Obama, whose favorability ratings were higher than his on Inauguration Day. He justified some of his unsubstantiated claims by saying that millions of his supporters agree with him. He did acknowledge that his own approval rating is “pretty bad,” but he blamed that on the media.

Trump plugged an “extraordinary poll” that he said found that people “loved and liked” his inaugural address. He again claimed to have “the biggest crowd in the history of inaugural speeches” and accused the media of demeaning his supporters by underreporting turnout. Trump also took credit for the Dow Jones industrial average closing above 20,000 for the first time on Wednesday, referred to a former rival as “one of the combatants that I fought to get here” and said that a recent visitor told him that their meeting “was the single greatest meeting I've ever had with anybody.”

Even some of the discussion of policy seemed to come back to the fight for popularity, with Trump summing up his plan to replace the Affordable Care Act in this place: “Millions of people will be happy. Right now, you have millions and millions and millions of people that are unhappy.”

Four times, the president referred to himself in the third-person.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/26/in-his-first-major-tv-interview-as-president-trump-is-endlessly-obsessed-about-his-popularity/?utm_term=.44354bb90226

Fuck. Where are the men in the white coats???

On the other hand, he has taken the Russian treason story out of the news...

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. And the comments from his fans will either make you question your sanity

or make you want to break something.

[Fast Walker 52]

3. Yes but good thing is most comments I saw said how insane he is

[Cha]

4. Old School

[Jim Beard]

5. I am wondering what drugs he is taking. The doctors will give him anything.

I think he is taking some form of speed that is keeping his brain scrambled.

[Freethinker65]

7. Namenda?

[madokie]

6. Its way past time for the men in white coats

we're at rubber room time now


This mutherfuker is certifiable

[Snarkoleptic]

9. Rubber room AND rubber sheets.

[Fast Walker 52]

12. LOL!!!

[gademocrat7]

8. The nightmare continues.

The damage inflicted by this maniac is horrifying.

[Demit]

10. He also said his speech at the CIA was a home run.

And that no, he didn't bring his own supporters, and that it was CIA employees who were clapping & screaming, and that they gave him a standing ovation that lasted a long time.

[Fast Walker 52]

11. Yes-- possibly the craziest part!!!

“That speech was a home run,” Trump told ABC News just a few minutes into his first major television interview since moving into the White House. “See what Fox said. They said it was one of the great speeches. They showed the people applauding and screaming. … I got a standing ovation. In fact, they said it was the biggest standing ovation since Peyton Manning had won the Super Bowl, and they said it was equal. I got a standing ovation. It lasted for a long period of time.”

[ginnyinWI]

13. Distract, distract, distract!

He does this automatically now. Create a fuss that the news channels will spend time covering.

Not that it isn't worth noting, but let's also focus on the real damage he's doing with these executive orders. Less sound-bite worthy, but more important.

[Fast Walker 52]

19. but I'm not sure that most of the executive orders really do much except show his priorities

doesn't he really need congressional support and $$$ for many of these things or make agreements with pother parties for things like the pipelines?

[ginnyinWI]

20. seems to me, yes, the Congress

should be able to undo a lot of it.

Right now he's making a big show of things for his base, and pretending that ALL of us have already been on board with all of it!

[Fast Walker 52]

21. so freaking obnoxious-- did you see in the ABC interview how he said he couldn't hear the

women's march inside the WhiteHouse? Right.


If true, obviously, symbolic.

[ginnyinWI]

24. I remember Nixon in the White House

Seems like the protesters were there non-stop over the Vietnam War. This is the first guy we've had who compares to Tricky Dicky. Mentally disturbed, paraniod, and an egomaniac.

[IronLionZion]

14. Illegal voters if they repeal the 19th and 15th amendments

Because minorities and women are obviously illegal.

And minorities must be immigrants, even if born here.

[gordianot]

15. There was Nixon but it was too much alcohol at the end.

Full blown paranoia got him in that mess.

[manicraven]

16. Some are saying this behavior of tRump is strategy; I say he's nuts.

Am I sensing that his zealot followers are beginning to admit that a mentally unwell person is in the White House? At some point, doesn't it become too embarrassing even for them to claim otherwise? And, when will the GOP take action? This is on them if they fail to remove the crazy guy from the presidency. They'll have Pence as president, so what's the hold up? Dislike Pence's policies but at least he's not sick and dangerous.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Both. He thrashes around, says both sides of issues & if something sticks it becomes his strategy.nt

[Fast Walker 52]

18. that's what he did during the campaign and it "worked"

It's not going to work for the presidency.

[Skittles]

29. define "sick and dangerous"

repukes are DRUNK ON POWER; they DO NOT CARE about WE THE PEOPLE - that makes them SICK AND DANGEROUS

[Fast Walker 52]

22. Long post from Booman on Trump's mental issues

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2017/1/26/124128/765

[loyalsister]

23. Look at the shiny object

instead of the forthcoming assault on voting rights. These are not mental health issues. We are dumb if we fall for it and chase that rabbit.

[ginnyinWI]

25. Yes it is a distraction.

But that doesn't mean it isn't also true.

He is mentally disturbed and also very dangerous. Because he really, really knows how to play the media! That is his best skill.

[loyalsister]

26. Yeah

If that makes you feel better to lower him to having characteristics some the lowest peopole you have known and something you don't want to be. I'm sure any republican would love the irony of trying to exploit an imagined disability after calling him out for his mocking.

[madaboutharry]

27. When you see the words written down it really hits you

just how sick and disturbed he is.

The republicans know this. The media knows this.

The media is now using the word lie. When will someone have the courage to use the word insane?

[Skittles]

28. HEY TRUMP VOTERS

THAT SICK ORANGE FUCK CARES MORE ABOUT HIS POPULARITY THAN HE CARES ABOUT AMERICA

what does that say about *YOU*???