Opinion: Trump is getting worse. And Republicans' rationalizations are getting weaker.

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Not to be confused with this 2017 thread at DU:

President Trump is deteriorating before our very eyes - By Greg Sargent

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Opinion: Trump is getting worse. And Republicans’ rationalizations are getting weaker.

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Trump is getting worse. And Republicans’ rationalizations are getting weaker.

By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
March 18 at 9:45 AM

Whether meant seriously or not, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein’s alleged consideration of the 25th Amendment seems, in retrospect, not to have been irrational at all. Since President Trump’s firing of James B. Comey as FBI director and the appointment of a special counsel, Trump’s mental and emotional health has seemed to fray. The pace of lies and nonsensical accusations, the resort to conspiracy theories and refusal to conduct himself like an adult (let alone the president) often pick up in the wake of bad news from the special counsel and widespread criticism of the president’s unhinged behavior. So it was this weekend following his refusal to directly condemn white nationalism in the wake of the New Zealand massacre and the defection of 12 Senate Republicans last week on the resolution repealing the emergency declaration.

The Post reports:

Other U.S. presidents have decried horror abroad as an affront to values shared among liberal democratic allies, but Trump has made no major address to mourn those gunned down last week as they worshiped at mosques in New Zealand. He has not condemned the professed white-supremacist motives of the accused killer.

Instead, Trump has spent the past few days, including the hours before and after the church service, rallying his most loyal supporters around his nationalist agenda against illegal immigration, attacking a familiar list of perceived enemies and adding new ones, all while casting himself as a victim of unfair attacks.

It was a weekend of nonstop grievances from the leader of the free world.

Trump attacked deceased senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), whom he falsely accused of leaking the Steele dossier and who he falsely said finished “last in his class" at Annapolis. (He finished fifth from last. Since Trump’s attorney went around allegedly threatening schools Trump attended, we have no way of knowing how Trump performed in school.) Anti-Trump activist Sarah Longwell observed that the worst part of this was “the way so many Republicans just let them slide or even cheer them. John McCain was tortured in a prison camp for five years in service to this country. The least his party could do is defend him from Trump’s dishonorable smears.” That’s beyond the moral capacity of nearly all elected Republicans these days.

Trump also retweeted conspiracy theorists and griped that Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, who suggested that Muslims who wear a hijab are anti-Constitution, had been taken off the air (for how long we do not know). He lashed out at other less-than-reverential Fox News hosts, at a “Saturday Night Live” rerun and at a leader of the United Auto Workers over a GM plant closing in Ohio. He seemed to be in a weekend-long temper tantrum.
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At any rate, Trump’s manic tweeting and wild accusations have George Conway, husband of presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, convinced that “his condition is getting worse.”
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Jennifer Rubin writes reported opinion for The Washington Post. Follow https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Sure looking that way.

It is becoming more and more obvious when some Legal Action is about to drop,Donnie lobs stink bombs via twitter just to stay relevant or change the daily narrative.

Remember,Nixon sent his minions out to change the narrative near his end.

[lagomorph777]

2. "Since Trump's attorney went around allegedly threatening schools Trump attended..."

"...we have no way of knowing how Trump performed in school"

I think that fact alone gives us a pretty good idea what his transcripts would show. We probably also need to see his rap sheet from the campus cops.

[dawg day]

3. Trump - no hero: ZERO

>Since Trump’s attorney went around allegedly threatening schools Trump attended, we have no way of knowing how Trump performed in school.)

We do know, however, that he long claimed to be "first in his class" at UPenn, and the graduation program in fact does not have him listed even as one who graduated "with honor". So he lied about his placement, and he did not achieve distinction at all.