Trump's behavior raises questions of competency

[riversedge]

Republicans ONLY care about pushing their taxScam in order to get reelected!!. meanwhile, trump is taking us deeper into the stinking sewer!




Trump's behavior raises questions of competency


http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/president-donald-trump-competency/index.html


Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN

Updated 5:30 PM ET, Wed November 29, 2017
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Trump potentially has millions of lives in his hands as the threat of a devastating war with North Korea
It is a fateful time when there will be a premium on Trump's judgment

Washington (CNN)....................................

Yet the President of the United States is raising new questions about his temperament, his judgment and his understanding of the resonance of his global voice and the gravity of his role with a wild sequence of insults, inflammatory tweets and bizarre comments.


On Wednesday Trump caused outrage and sparked fears of violent reprisals against Americans and US interests overseas by retweeting graphic anti-Muslim videos by an extreme far right British hate group. Earlier this week he used a racial slur in front of Native American war heroes. He's attacked global press freedom, after cozying up to autocrats on his recent Asia tour.

And now there are reports that the President has revived conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama's birthplace and is suggesting an "Access Hollywood" video on which he was heard boasting sexually assaulting women, and for which he apologized last year, had been doctored.



But the sudden escalation of the North Korean crisis, following the Stalinist state's launch of its most potent ever missile on Tuesday, takes the world across a dangerous threshold.

If diplomacy is unable to defuse the North Korea crisis, or slow its march to the moment when Kim Jong Un can credibly claim to be able to target all of the United States with a nuclear payload, Trump will face one of the most intricate dilemmas of any modern President. Will he live with the threat posed by a mercurial, wildly unpredictable adversary? Or, will he launch what could turn out to be a hugely bloody and destructive war to remove Kim's nuclear threat?


There will be a premium on Trump's judgment, his capacity to absorb the most serious detail and to make choices that could put many, many lives at risk, and draw the United States into escalating situations in Northeast Asia. Trump would be required to switch from the swaggering, untethered political persona he has been reluctant to drop as President into the role of sober statesman, unifying the nation and US allies -- a switch he has rarely achieved so far in his 10 months in power.


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[Wounded Bear]

1. There are no questions about Trump's competency, he has none...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Questions? I don't think there are any questions any more.

That fat orange SOB is as mad as a box of frogs and he needs to have his fat orange ass hauled out of the White House, in restraints if necessary, before he gets us all blown the fuck up.

[gratuitous]

5. You're right; there haven't been questions for some time

But too many Americans still aren't quite sure about Lord Littlehands and his lack of competence. If we're going to get to impeachment and removal from office, a LOT of groundwork needs to be done with citizens who don't keep an eye on the shenanigans in Washington the way we do.

It's taken far too long to get to this point in the popular media. It should have happened a year ago (or longer). But we finally have mainstream outlets "raising questions." We need to progress to "serious concerns" and "outright incompetence if not criminality" but there's no fast forward button, sad to say. If today's reporting by CNN is a one-off, that's very bad. But if the drumbeat gets picked up in other media outlets and continues, we can get this nightmare over with.

Keep pushing the media to report the plain truth.

[anneboleyn]

10. Seriously. He has damaged this country severely, and it will take decades to repair. I cant even

imagine what things will look like if he’s in there for three more years.

[DangerousUrNot]

3. People actually voted for this guy smh.

He was showing this behavior from the time he began his campaign. Saying he didn’t know David Duke, paying people to cheer at his rallies and advocating for a complete shutdown of Muslims entering our country. He’s a maniac.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Nothing is going to be done about him until Trump takes action(s) that result in....

the deaths of tens of thousands of people or crashes our economy.

[Irish_Dem]

9. That's what I am afraid of, going to take something really drastic

for anyone to take action.

[pangaia]

6. Thanks for posting River

However..
what a stupid article. ( Not you river, the article. :&gt ))

Need I say more?

OK--

"Yet the President of the United States is raising new questions about his temperament,"
".... his judgment and his understanding......"

". Earlier this week he used a racial slur in front of Native American war heroes. " Yes... and?
"He's attacked global press freedom....."

OH really?

"There will be a premium on Trump's judgment,...."

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"... his capacity to absorb the most serious detail .... "

Surely you jest....

" Trump would be required to switch from the swaggering, untethered..........."

blah, blah blah..

getting paid by the word I see....

[riversedge]

7. I have not seen many articles with headlines using the term 'competency'-Trumps actions do question

his competency. Now for Republicans to get on board ---I do not think it will happen.

[pangaia]

8. I'm with you ....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Competency?

Only if you count being a con-man as competence.