How long will this country tolerate a mentally ill President?

[ginnyinWI]

Is he, or isn't he--completely nuts??

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/new-reports-trump-not-a-liar-is-truly-delusional.html

The prevailing interpretation of Donald Trump, shared by all his enemies and many of his allies, is that he is a con man. It is a theory that explains both his career in business and politics, and has carried through his many reversals of position and acts of fraud against customers and contractors. It remains quite plausible. But new reporting has opened up a second possibility: The president has lost all touch with reality.

The Washington Post and New York Times have accounts from insiders suggesting Trump habitually insists upon the impossible in private. He does not merely tell lies in order to gull the public or to manipulate allies. He tells lies in private that he has no reason to tell. He still questions the authenticity of Barack Obama’s birthplace, despite the birth certificate. He insists voter fraud may have denied him a popular-vote triumph. He tells people Robert Mueller will wrap up his investigation, with a total vindication of the president, by the end of the year.

...It is of course entirely possible that Trump is lying to everybody, including his own staff. But the lies in these articles do not always fit into any pattern of rational self-aggrandizement. Trump tells senators or his aides the Access Hollywood tape is not him, but they don’t believe him. He has no reason to bring up the birther fabrication in private.

...If Trump actually has the ability to convince himself of his own lies, it would suggest a possibility far more dangerous than even his critics have previously assumed. He might be in the grip of a mental-health issue, or at least one more serious than mere sociopathy. And the mutterings that he might need to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment could grow more serious than many of us have expected.

[PJMcK]

1. So far, it's been about ten months (n/t)

[Iliyah]

2. I consider from top down all mentally ill

from the right side. They are intent on destroying the USA and effing the American people. They are evil. Satan must be pleased.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. I have no sympathy for Trumpy. He's crazy AND he's a traitor.

You can't separate the two. He's part of Russia's objective to penetrate the White House and Congress, and to RULE from Moscow. Trumpy has been taking direction from Putin for over a year. He's been taking direct orders from Putin.

Trumpy needs to be arrested an imprisoned without bail. Most of the White House staff and Cabinet must receive the same fate. What Trumpy and Russia did was to engineer a coup. So far, they're succeeding. The complicit GOP in Congress are helping him along, and they're going to be charged with laundering Russian money. I have no doubt that SOME Dems are also in on the gambit, but not many.