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I heard Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC earlier today say this and my jaw dropped. I just found an article with the video so I thought I'd share.
Republicans Close To Trump Say President Is Showing Signs Of Mental Illness
By Jason Easley on Mon, Mar 20th, 2017 at 2:18 pm
Republican strategist and MSNBC contributor Nicolle Wallace said that people outside of the administration who have spent time with Trump said that the president is showing signs of paranoia and delusion over his belief that Obama wiretapped him.
Wallace said, I sense that they have no plans today of walking away from this claim. This is still the presidents belief. Some folks still close to the president, but not on the White House staff said its a word I cant say on family-friendly TV, but the initials are B and S. Another person who spent time with the president this weekend in Florida said it was signs of paranoia and delusion around this idea that hes so right. Interestingly, he has sought to have people outside the government corroborate this wiretapping claim, which either suggests this observation of paranoia and delusion is in fact operation or extreme ignorance of all the powers at his disposal and all the investigative powers of the federal government.
These are Republicans close to Trump who claimed that the President Of The United States is paranoid, delusional, and believes that Obama wiretapped him. Wallaces comments on MSNBC were a statement that the President might be mentally ill.
Before anyone asks, the constitutional standard for the removal of a president contains no discussion of mental fitness. It would be difficult to nearly impossible to remove Trump from office due to mental illness. It would have to be demonstrated that Trump is physically unable to perform the job of president.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)furtheradu
(1,865 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)sheshe2
(83,934 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)He appears to have enough padding built it. I can't ask a mom in Michigan to pay for padding to make him more comfortable.
sheshe2
(83,934 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Not to mention the nuclear codes.
Jeepers!
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Old Crow
(2,212 posts)Perhaps Trump's tweets are a gift. Like a lot of people, I was wishing he'd get off Twitter once he was elected. But the incessant tweets are helping everyone get a look at just how unhinged and out-of-order his thinking is. They're alerting everyone, who didn't know it already, that this man has no business being in the White House and may be his undoing.
On the other hand, the tweets are a national security risk. I'm constantly hoping he doesn't provoke an international incident with one of them.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)want an international incident.
diva77
(7,660 posts)Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)But they're all nut jobs anyway. They just love the company.
FDT.
elfin
(6,262 posts)But was driven off the rails by the Palin pick according to "Game Change", both book and HBO movie.
As a commentator, it has seemed to me that she still wants to be a mainstream, moderate Repub., but despairs of the trajectory of her party.
JHan
(10,173 posts)She's freely said many times that Palin was a bridge too far for her to accept.. and she wrote a biting piece on Palin just last year when Trump introduced her at a rally I think.
Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)not bad for a Repub. She's conservative, but she's a never Trumper IIRC. I don't mind an intelligent, moderate conservative. There are damn few of them left. She generally qualifies.
3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)...in tying to get Palin ready to be second in line to the presidency. She should have quit the McCain campaign
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)often on with Brian Williams show The 11th hour.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Joy Reid on the weekends.........yes!
Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)so it comes on at 8 pm here.
But yeah, I usually catch Chris Hayes, Rachel, and Lawrence every night. Been some must watch TV last couple of weeks.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)we have know for months.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)the twitter king may have finally pushed the eyelids up enough to all to see the truth....it's a start that some are now confirming what we here have all said since the beginning.
Trekologer
(997 posts)They're now waking up to a new reality
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)a 70 year silver spoon billionaire with narcissism would be wanting to change, much less capable of it. Gov. Howard Dean said it: "He's not going to change. He's 70 years old."
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)tRump was going to be the next president. HE refused to hold hearings for a YEAR on Judge Garland, saying the next president (tRump) would choose the Supreme Court nominee. Drag his saggy ass in under subpoena, make him testify about what HE knew.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)He must have known of the plot, but I wonder how he was told, and by whom, just as PBO nominated Garland.
SharonAnn
(13,779 posts)There were puzzling personality issues such as paranoia, obsessive belief in things that weren't true, complete inability to understand objections or demonstrated truth, etc. Total confidence that they were right and everyone else was wrong, and increased determination to push their point of view.
They also could no longer deal with issues that weren't simple, believed that complex issues were an attempt by others to trick them, and saw everything as black and white.
A general belligerence showed up most of the time, inability to adhere to social norms, kind of bullying behavior especially when it was truly inappropriate.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)He also is germaphobe. I really think most of what you list he has always been. Not sure on the paranoia tho. Maybe that part is new?
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)who insisted that Jimmy Carter was not the President. President elect was as close as she could come, despite that he had been in office for over a year. I would have been about 16 at the time and it is the first I can remember experiencing dementia.
My family knows that if I ever get to that stage, put me in a boat that has been soaked in gas and push me out into Lake Superior.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)And supports the fossil fuel industry.
Pine pitch would be a better choice.
☺️
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Maybe some high proof moonshine?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)sigh.... 😞
elfin
(6,262 posts)always acted this way, gauging the political winds for his very own ego via power and money.
In other words - he may have always been demented.It is just now that it really matters to the country and world. Before, it mattered to banks, vendors he stiffed, women etc. Lots of guys (rarely women) like that. CEOs making the big bucks with bad behavior.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)brother that took to drink and then died? Sounds like pressure the dad put on him that he couldn't handle. The Con just seems detached to me. Some people are born like that.
MrPurple
(985 posts)Trump's style and tactics are very Roy Cohn like.
Initech
(100,107 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)won't strike NK if the Con is out?
whathehell
(29,096 posts)Pence may be a Right Winger, but at least he's sane.
winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)You know, this was bound to happen sooner or later the way the electorate is so easily manipulated. Now we get to learn what to do when it does happen. Trump is mentally ill, it's obvious to anyone with more than a couple of brain cells. Will we survive the process? That is the real question.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)I've read where Alzheimer's runs in the family, I think.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)adigal
(7,581 posts)to puke. Worried sick. They know that he is in trouble.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)real loving kids. i think they've been terrorized by him their entire lives. i don't know if he is getting dementia, but i definitely believe that he has been one sick puppy for most of his life. the damage occurred early on.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)barbtries
(28,811 posts)but if you love someone...i doubt there is much love wasted in that family. all terror and money. so damaged. AND he's the president. it is so hard for me to wrap my head around that.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)There's a permanent open slot for any Republican who will step forward on this. It's been open since the days of Sen. McCarthy.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Crossing my fingers someone steps up to home plate.
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)Where have these people been?
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)for presuming to use the "mental illness" tag because it somehow stigmatized those who are mentally ill.
If you grew up with family members who were diagnosed, you recognize the signs.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028311245
murielm99
(30,771 posts)And I grew up with a narcissistic mother. I see the signs, too.
My mother blighted her husband's life, and her children's. She should never have been protected and coddled by my father. Something should have been done.
I think it is possible to be evil and mentally ill at the same time.
Does this stigmatize the mentally ill? Or those with personality disorders? Should they be allowed to create chaos, just to avoid stigma?
Trump should be removed from office. The people who know he is mentally ill are using him to gain power.
Trump should be contained, if he cannot be helped. It would benefit him, his family and the entire world.
I understand why you see the signs.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Except my mother fit the description of extreme, violent Borderline Personality Disorder.
I too see the signs and see the victim-enmeshment of many dump supporters.
Pukes such as mcCONnel and Ayn Ryan are, as far as I'm concerned, white-collar scheming sociopaths cunningly using dump as a puppet and camouflage, while they carry out their greatest con ever. Study Ryan's face especially, he doesn't hide it very well: They are having gleeful fun, getting away while they fleece and slowly torture/murder The American people.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Dominionism is whole world of crazy that he wants to impose on America.
maxsolomon
(33,417 posts)Like Gerald Ford, except a religious fanatic in a country that's increasingly secular.
Best case, he's involved in the collusion and will follow * into Impeachment.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)damaged goods.
RobinA
(9,896 posts)As long as Trump is in office his personality will create so much chaos it will suck up a lot of the energy that could otherwise be expended on mischief-making. I mean, him pissing off the federal judiciary is not a bad thing under the circumstances, just to cite one example. If nothing happens I'm pretty sure we can withstand 4 years of Trumpian chaos, which also blunts Bannon to a certain extent. On the other hand, if something happens where we actually need leadership we could be in trouble.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)My bets are on the shitstain to cause major mayhem.
Four years of him in office brings a dystopian future closer and closer.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)gilbert sullivan
(192 posts)talking snakes, a 6000 year old earth, men living inside fish, dead guys waking up after 3 days, global floods and imaginary deities up in the fucking sky.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,668 posts)The 25th amendment only references "incapacity" to carry out the duties of the office, and doesn't specify physical or mental.
If Pence and enough cabinet members had the courage to invoke the 25th, I'm fairly certain a majority in congress would go along.
volstork
(5,403 posts)"incapacity" is not defined in terms of mental or physical incapacity.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)That is an extremely slippery slope that could have gotten Obama removed from office, and any future president with an oppositional congress.
LiberalFighter
(51,126 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)after inauguration? Wonder if that exam might pick something up?
TeamPooka
(24,259 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)They'll be too strict with the prescription pad for #45's cravings, and they're likely to be honest about the obvious cognitive/behavioral issues.
TeamPooka
(24,259 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,324 posts)how else unless they tapped him?
Humpty Trumpty had a GREAT fall. The GREATEST fall of all.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)just saying
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)calimary
(81,518 posts)My God.
I wondered about that, then, but hadn't heard any stories, anecdotes, or biographical notes about him having a cocaine habit. But then again, I haven't actively tried to seek out every last thing written about him. Nor have I read that book he was busy waving around most of last year.
Berlin Expat
(950 posts)but back in the day - the late 70's - Trump was a regular at Studio 54 and if there's one thing that place was infamous for, aside from tax evasion, it was the veritable cornucopia of drugs freely available and openly circulating.
Cocaine, ludes, weed, speed, uppers, downers, you name it. The place was pretty much an unlicensed pharmacy with a DJ and a disco ball hanging from the ceiling (along with the iconic crescent Moon with a coke spoon).
Just sayin'.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,941 posts)SharonAnn
(13,779 posts)Agressive, self-focused, and then there's the sniffing.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)who couldn't have a conversation with employees without flying into a rage for hours. turns out he was sniffing coke during the day
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)I think this is being floated to see how Americans might react and to preserve as much of his Administration as possible.
Otherwise, I think if they don't play this card, his petty will take down a bunch of folks they do not want to lose.
Xolodno
(6,401 posts)....the way the GOP covers themselves. Trump was ill!!! We didn't know!!!
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)Constant lying is not a mental illness, it's a character defect.
But if the GOP establishment wants to believe that he's mentally ill, and that idea is what allows them to start thinking about the 25th amendment, then great, I'll support any diagnosis you want.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)isn't trusting the intel so wanting to go "outside" the government, whatever the hell that means....
colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)If he really has something to be afraid of.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)ffr
(22,672 posts)Words are cheap. In the meantime, the country spends $ millions on housing, protecting, feeding, entertaining, and shuttling tRump and his asshole clan around the country, like they're royalty.
We the People mean nothing to any of them.
whathehell
(29,096 posts)One can have a bad character and be mentally ill as well.
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)"Most amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled President Trump with the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. I wrote the criteria that define this disorder, and Mr. Trump doesnt meet them. He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesnt make him mentally ill... It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither)."
Similar objections apply to other attempted diagnoses I've heard.
whathehell
(29,096 posts)He is utterly "unable to carry out the duties of the office of President of the United States". 25th Amendment.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)He may have written the criteria, but Trump fits those criteria perfectly in the eyes of many professional psychologists. And to quite a few lay people, like myself.
Orrex
(63,225 posts)Hell, I'll agree to say that he's suffering from chronic unicorn warts if it'll get him out of office.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)I would expect pundits to congratulate them for their ethics and they will be seen as heroes who rescued us from 45. Meanwhile, Pence takes office and the GOP congress has no worries about being attached to him because he signs off on their cruel agenda. Again, since it's not as cruel as Trump's, Paul Ryan becomes a hero.
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)From the viewpoint of a McConnell, this is a very rosy outcome. All of the gain without the cause of the pain. Let's not tell them that doing this will make half of Trump's voters immediately turn on them.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)A lot of 45's voters are having buyer's remorse. It's a perfect opportunity for Ryan and co. to court them back to being GOP loyalists.
MrPurple
(985 posts)that would vote against them in their primaries.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)jrthin
(4,837 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Obama is spying on him
Melania is peeing for Barack in NYC during the week
Sasha and Barron are engaged
Ivanka is really having sex with Barack on Saturdays, not observing Shabot.
All of that will just about finish him off.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,126 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)JudyM
(29,290 posts)Too good.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)Melania and Karen Pence are having wild sex at Trump Tower.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)without lots of stamina....
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)Who they wanted, all along.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)take them both down, add eddie munster, mcturtle.......
DBoon
(22,401 posts)It's one hell of a drug
malaise
(269,196 posts)I knew that in 2015
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)jrthin
(4,837 posts)Are looking for the insanity defense. Pleezze.
cureautismnow
(1,677 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,489 posts)That's the only conclusion one can come up with. If his conversations were innocuous he wouldn't be so paranoid.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)guilty conscience
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)until now. Trump is even a quantum leap for them.
japple
(9,842 posts)election, hoping to rush through all the horrible changes to this country that they've been aching for, like repeal of ACA, and abolishing EPA, etc. Then they were going to toss him on the garbage heap and claim to never have known him. Fortunately, there will be a money trail. It almost makes me feel sorry for him...almost.
malaise
(269,196 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)It almost makes me feel sorry for him...almost.
I know you said "almost" but feel sorry for your country and those who voted for it and not their wallet......
applegrove
(118,824 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)Where have they been for the past 30-some-odd years?
LiberalFighter
(51,126 posts)Tikki
(14,559 posts)wire-tap.
I mean, no one wants to be wire-tapped but if he has 'nothing to hide
as they say.
Tikki
bucolic_frolic
(43,340 posts)Narcissistic self-love of all things self, including self-generated ideas and
feelings that are so loved by the self that they are believed to be true
because self-judgment is infallible, even righteous
I'm not sure I could explain what I wrote but you get the idea
IronLionZion
(45,544 posts)keep it up with the leaks and social media trolling and everything else that drives him crazy until he has a full public breakdown. He can and will be put in a straightjacket and carted off to a padded cell for his own protection. We can make this happen. Don't give up until he's gone.
We can deal with Pence later. Donny needs to go.
Yes Donny, you have leaks everywhere. You can't trust anyone. Maybe your own phone that you are tweeting from right now is bugged by someone. How do you know it's not? Can you ever be sure? Boooo......
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)if KAC can see you thru the microwave, just imagine what we can see thru the phone? Much better image.....
colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)but it would be a defense to keep him out of prison.
Leith
(7,813 posts)But the 25th doesn't specify the type of incapacity so dementia/Alzheimer's would certainly be good cause to get rid of him.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)to change it to make it more workable in the current situation. Maybe when it gets bad enough some pubs will join so it can actually go somewhere.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)on DU. Don't have time now to look them up. Also he talked about it at a town hall Saturday before last.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts).... Making the decision, but needs to include others such as former secretaries of state.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)The erratic behavior of Donald Trump has raised new questions about his mental and emotional capacity to discharge the tremendous burdens of the most powerful position in the world. It is the president who has the ability to launch nuclear weapons, unleashing untold devastation on the world. Presidents can create diplomatic chaos or move markets with the most carefully crafted declarations, let alone late-night tweets with the grammar and misspellings of a fifth-grader and decidedly unpresidential tone.
Regardless of what happens with Donald Trump, this issue will arise again. Presidents are subject to illness, accident, or--God forbid--physical attack. Americans are living longer. The current occupant of the White House assumed office at the age of 70. While the president of the United States has access to the best health care in the world, there is no guarantee of successful medical intervention or that he or she would be fully functional during the course of treatment and recovery.
There is no better time for Americans to acquaint (or reacquaint) themselves with the provisions of the 25th Amendment, its history, application, and potential problems and to consider solutions.
And it has inherent flaws that need to be addressed. The amendment's default decision-makers-- the vice president and the cabinet -- have a natural bias toward the existing officeholder that would make them reluctant to acknowledge the president's inability to serve. Additionally, in the case of a president who is suffering from mental illness and is emotionally unstable or irrational, there is no fail safe to prevent him or her from simply firing the entire cabinet to prevent the application of the amendment.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)...and forest rangers are reporting that bears have just started relieving themselves in the woods.
Thunderbeast
(3,424 posts)Mental illness IS a physical illness.
While precise diagnostics are elusive at this time, functional MRIs demonstrate physiological and chemical anomalies that correlate to delusional thinking, depression, and psychosis.
We are just now discovering the mechanics of mental health. It was not very long ago that mental illness was attributed to demons by the serious thinkers of the time.
If the President is showing symptoms as characterized in the DSM 5, an Article 4 action (of the 25th Ammendment) should be implemented. He needs to be far away from launch codes.
Xolodno
(6,401 posts)Know someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder.
I read about it and found out that they did real time MRI scans on people with their illness. They discovered the part of the brain that regulates emotion....just doesn't work on them. But they still don't know if its a symptom or cause.
Interesting to say the least. This is the type of stuff they need to do more of and develop medications that target these areas instead of using the "shot gun" approach they have now.
Saviolo
(3,283 posts)In 1958, Hughes told his aides that he wanted to screen some movies at a film studio near his home. He stayed in the studio's darkened screening room for more than four months, never leaving. He ate only chocolate bars and chicken and drank only milk, and was surrounded by dozens of Kleenex boxes that he continuously stacked and re-arranged. He wrote detailed memos to his aides giving them explicit instructions not to look at him nor speak to him unless spoken to. Throughout this period, Hughes sat fixated in his chair, often naked, continually watching movies. When he finally emerged in the summer of 1958, his hygiene was terrible. He had not bathed nor cut his hair and nails for weeks, although this may have been due to allodynia (pain response to stimuli that would normally not cause pain).[36]
Kahuna7
(2,531 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Lakerstan
(679 posts)JCanete
(5,272 posts)delisen
(6,046 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)GOD, they are so slow.
CanonRay
(14,119 posts)Was there ever any question?
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)damn the rest of the country.......
CanonRay
(14,119 posts)Grins
(7,238 posts)How many times on his "Resistance" video clips did Olbermann say, "He. Is. Not. Well."? (Politely avoiding the term, 'he's fucking nuts'.)
All of us have seen the way he talks, the way he stands and preens with those 'duck lips', the denials and reversals, the petty obsessions, etc., etc., and came to the same conclusion: 'He's fucking nuts'.
A woman friend mentioned his hair one day. Go find a detailed photo of it and take a look at the way it is styled (a lot like his late mother's). You don't just get out of the shower and run a comb through that mop to get it to look that way. That is styled in great detail by someone, a pro, who knows how to do that - every day and probably multiple times a day (ever see a hair out of place?) She said that should have been a warning to all of his three wives.
Me: Huh?
Her: What woman would want to get involved with a man who spends more time on his hair (and skin) than she does? Not by a little - a lot!
Remember that little test from long ago: When you walk past a mirror - which of you is the first to pause and look? If it's him - you've been warned. He's only into himself.
The fact that he raped wife #1 and he beat the crap out of her - over his hair - should have set flares off.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,042 posts)Demonstrates a lack of self awareness, doncha think?
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)with a new designer jacket with extra special never-ending sleeves...
WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)...that was the news Feinstein received at that briefing where she appeared almost ashened. Being told that Trump is suffering from some form of mental illness. That is why she stated that he would get himself out of office.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)rivegauche
(601 posts)Next, he'll prove with geometric logic that the busboys stole the strawberries.
Oy, the literal insanity of this whole clusterfuck!
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 20, 2017, 06:06 PM - Edit history (1)
....lethal vehicle for carrying out Trumpism which will live on after 45 is removed by the worried Repug establishment.
In fact, Pence will be even more effective. Partly because without the overt assaultive misogyny and late night tweets, there may be a reduction in the counter-demonstrations. His anti-Planned Parenthood stand is not any different from most Repugs. His budget is the Repug budget. His fear mongering, his racism, his hatred for the ACA---all mainstream Repug values.
Pence makes me shiver he's so icy and cruel looking.
Mike B
(19 posts)....the names of the Repiglicans who supposedly made those claims? I have always had a difficult time in believing claims that are not backed up by facts, but I do hope that this story is true.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)He's *fine*. Same old asshole who aligned with Russia and committed treason, along with the rest of the Kremlin crew.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)i never watched his tv shows or listened to him on howard stern or read about him in People magazine or anywhere else, and within a week or 2 of his announcement to run i knew he was a sick, sick man.
STARTING to show signs?! give me a fucking break, he's been like this for decades!
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)this "investigation " is closed with its final report from the FBI
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)And everything must stop -----------now
Time to call for a special prosecutor, this is a lot worse than Watergate
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)were an obvious sign that the cheese had slid off this boy's cracker. Those go back 5-6 years?
Anyone reaching this conclusion now isn't very bright.
alwaysinflux
(149 posts)And if he's got anything similar, he could remain fixated on this particular delusion for the foreseeable future.
Old Crow
(2,212 posts)The longer he chases his tail, the more apparent his mental illness becomes to the rest of the nation.
red dog 1
(27,870 posts)He's a delusional, narcissistic, paranoid schizophrenic, yet he will continue his attacks on working people, the poor, the middle class, and anyone who gets in his way...and there's nothing the Democrats can do to stop him because the GOP controls both houses of Congress, and soon will control the Supreme Court as well.
My advice is to pray to whatever higher source one believes in, and pray hard!
lindysalsagal
(20,740 posts)Breaking: King Kong is hairy.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)JDC
(10,135 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)JDC
(10,135 posts)The victim of a political witch hunt.
roomtomove
(217 posts)does not require a "physical" disability; it reads: if he is 'unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office", the Vice President and a majority of the executive branch (I am assuming the cabinet) or another body that the Congress decides can initiate the process which is somewhat convoluted.....
louis-t
(23,297 posts)because he has something to hide.
coco22
(1,258 posts)the whole world knows he is an insane child,they are now admitting because they are afraid for their pockets and the primaries and most of them are insane too..
Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)up their investigation. How long did Bengazi last?
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)He's going through his mind and reviewing everything he's said, and its feeding that sense of impending doom. It's not mental illness, it's the realization that he's fucked.
I couldn't be more delighted.
dflprincess
(28,085 posts)can see that Trump is showing signs of mental illness.
yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)nini
(16,672 posts)he can't process half the crap going on around him.
And that's on top of all the evil crap going on.
thucythucy
(8,089 posts)They're only figuring this out now?
mdbl
(4,976 posts)"It would have to be demonstrated that Trump is physically unable to perform the job of president. '
Mental Illness IS a physical disability - what do they think the brain is chemically normal when in a delusional and paranoid state? Some writers are so ignorant.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Nicolle Wallace. I know there were lots of things going down yesterday, but I had hoped someone would have mentioned this?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)America is stuck with a lunatic steering our country.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)this happened to my mom just before the Alzheimers kicked in.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Sundowning is a dementia-related symptom that refers to increased agitation, confusion and hyperactivity that begins in the late afternoon and builds throughout the evening. Most sundowning emerges in mid-stage dementia and slowly worsens as the disease progresses. What causes it? Dementia may damage the body's internal clock, causing a disruption of sleep-wake cycles. Secondly, individuals with dementia become fatigued by their inability to process information; the more hours spent on this process, the more exhaustedand irritablethey may become.
we know he doesn't seem to sleep much during the night.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)maxsolomon
(33,417 posts)*'s "genius" has always been to bullshit with impunity. no guilt whatsoever, and his money insulates him from consequences.
does he believe it? or is he lying purposefully to intimidate? what's the difference?
he lied about the birther bullshit to lead and pace the delusional, propagandized GOP base. his only concession to that slander: "i don't talk about that anymore".
now, more slander against one of the most honorable men ever to hold the office. he's yet to suffer any real consequences.
i could have told him: US president is the worst job in the world. that the worst person in the world thought that would gain him the respect of the NYT is a testament to the bottomless depth of his ignorance.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)vindictive, evil and just conning us all. I just don't know what to think of him any longer but he must be removed from office as soon as it can be done. We'll deal with the baggage as best we can after he's vacated, but he is damaging not only the US but the entire planet and must be stopped before he engages us in war.
gilbert sullivan
(192 posts)the room...
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)gilbert sullivan
(192 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Democratic Sen. Al Franken on Sunday doubled down on a suggestion that some of his Republican colleagues in the Senate are concerned about President Donald Trump's mental health.
In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, host Jake Tapper asked Franken if he was serious when he told HBO's Bill Maher that some of his Republican colleagues "will say [Trump's] not right mentally, and then some are harsher."
"Yes," Franken said. "It's not the majority of them. It's a few."
The Minnesota senator explained that some Republicans were puzzled and worried by Trump's continued insistence despite no evidence that millions of people voted illegally against him in states like California and New Hampshire. The president asserted last week in a meeting with senators that thousands of out-of-state voters were bused into the state, resulting in his defeat in the state during the 2016 election, a claim that he backed with no evidence.