President Trump Has Turned His Last Corner

[DonViejo]

Froma Harrop

President Trump Has Turned His Last Corner

March 7, 2017 5:30 am

That speech to Congress now seems forever ago. Reading the words off a teleprompter, Donald Trump sounded normal, even presidential. Stern critics opined that he had “turned a corner” and transformed into a serious president. Come the weekend, however, Trump turned another corner, this time into a dark dead end.

Trump was back to his Saturday morning habit of firing a fusillade of baseless inflammatory tweets. This time, they accused President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign.

The last hope for normalcy was dashed, and a dark realization took hold: Trump can’t do the presidency. What we saw in the first 45 days was crisis without end. What we will see in the days to come is more of the scary same.

And this comes at a relatively placid time in American history. We have not been threatened from the outside. What’s going to happen when a hostile foreign power decides to test us, knowing that the man in charge isn’t able to absorb information and respond rationally?

There’s no comforting explanation for this behavior. Did Trump believe the wiretapping charges to be true based on his reading of a Breitbart article and the hollering of a talk-radio provocateur? If so, why didn’t he just call the acting director of national intelligence or the FBI and ask? He’s the president, or so we hear.

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[dalton99a]

1. We're being destroyed from within - by an American president

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Deeper: by the 0.1% enmeshed with a GOP party that sold out to a foreign power for political power.

The GOP own tRump and always will. Run them out of office in 2018 and 2020.

[CanonRay]

3. The GOP traded our sovereignty for political power

Simple as that.

[dhill926]

4. yep...

power is all they've ever been concerned with. Welfare of the people be damned...

[Nitram]

5. There really is a 'deep state' of intelligent, experienced administrators in every sector...

...of the government and the military. These are the antibodies that will render Trump ineffective and ultimately expel him from the system. They've already leaked information that has Trump on the ropes, the intelligence services are already investigating and building a case against Don the Con, and the federal bureaucracy is dug in for guerilla tactics against the mentally incompetent clown who is our president. Very little of this is visible, and it will take time to work, but it will neutralize the menace.

[Still Blue in PDX]

6. From your keyboard to God/dess's eyes. Make it so! nt

[raccoon]

7. "This is no longer about Republicans and Democrats; its about forestalling a national emergency."

I wish the Republican congresspeople would do their jobs and do something to forestall the national emergency, which becomes more probable the longer the status quo goes on.