Sunday, October 1, 2017

#Trump: Is the "Tweeter In Chief" losing his mind?

I was browsing through the new "Rolling Stone" magazine this evening when I came across this page:






































Since it's the weekend, there's always someone visiting my house. So I was talking to a relative about the photo. She immediately laughed when she saw the pic & said "he looks just like your uncle (so and so)"----"When your uncle uses his phone, that's the exact face he makes".

So, um, yeah -- When people say Trump is like your crazy right-wing uncle who believes in nutty conspiracies, they may be right. Difference is, Trump is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES -- Therefore (unlike your crazy uncle), the Donald's the most powerful man in the World. 

Given that, I believe the photo perfectly embodies the Trump presidency. The Donald can't pass any significant legislation, doesn't seem to have any strategy except letting the Generals run the show, and his administration is constantly losing staff (fired or resigning). The only thing the Donald seems to do well; is troll people based on wrongheaded assumptions & "fake news" conspiracies. And the platform that Trump uses for this purpose, is his Twitter account. And his targets are multiplying by the day: be it Hillary Clinton, Morning Joe, CNN, NFL football players, an Entire U.S. territory suffering from the devastation of a cat 5 hurricane, etc.

But we all know this. & we all have accepted we have a troll-in-chief holding the highest office in the land.    
However, Matt Taibbi, who is my favorite political journalist, goes further. & he asks the question on everyone's mind: Is Trump crazy? 

It's a great article from Taibbi, and the conclusion might not be want you want to hear. So I would recommend you read it, immediately (it's online): 
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-madness-of-donald-trump-removal-25th-amendment-w504149

"After a disastrous and terrifying August, which among other things saw him defend the "very fine people" among neo-Nazi protesters in a Charlottesville, Virginia, march, it's Trump's mental state – not his alleged Russia ties, nor his failure to staff the government or pass any major legislation – that has become the central problem of his presidency.
Is this man losing his mind? And if so, what can be done about it? We've had some real zeros in the White House before, but we've never had a chief executive who barked at the moon or saw ghosts – at least, not one who was so public about it."

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