Tag: Trump unfit for office

Trump ‘unfit for office,’ lacks ‘competence,’ Bolton says in TV interview

Washington Post logoFormer national security adviser John Bolton says in a television interview that President Trump is “unfit for office” and lacks the “competence to carry out the job.”

Bolton made the comments to ABC News as the former administration insider sought to promote a new book that Trump claimed in a tweet Thursday is “a compilation of lies and made up stories, all intended to make me look bad.” Excerpts of the Bolton interview aired Thursday.

“I don’t think he’s fit for office. I don’t think he has the competence to carry out the job,” Bolton said during the ABC interview, which is scheduled to air in full Sunday. “There really isn’t any guiding principle that I was able to discern other than what’s good for Donald Trump’s reelection. I think he was so focused on the reelection that longer-term considerations fell by the wayside.” Continue reading.

Report reveals an Obama-era idea to protect medical workers in a pandemic was thwarted under Trump

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that his Democratic predecessor in the White House, Barack Obama, left him ill-prepared to handle a major health crisis when, in fact, Obama’s administration left behind a comprehensive pandemic game plan that included a 69-page playbook. But Trump’s administration abandoned those Obama-era recommendations. On top of that, National Public Radio’s Brian Mann is reporting that Trump’s administration, in 2017, “stopped work on new federal regulations that would have forced the health care industry to prepare for an airborne infectious disease pandemic such as COVID-19.”

David Michaels, who headed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration under Obama, told NPR, “If that rule had gone into effect, then every hospital, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan where they made sure they had enough respirators and they were prepared for this sort of pandemic.”

Trump has often touted his deregulatory efforts as a major success of his administration. But this example shows just one way of many in which these policies can go wrong with disastrous consequences. Many of these negative consequences may not emerge until years later. Continue reading.

Trump doesn’t know how to be president — so he’s drafted us all into the reality TV show in his mind

AlterNet logoAfter all this time, he still hasn’t figured out how to do the job.

President Donald Trump entered the White House as a political neophyte, and he’s shown perhaps the worst learning curve of any of his predecessors. Despite the fact that it feels as though the past three years of his presidency had enough news and revelations to fill several decades, the complex workings of the federal government remain an opaque mystery to the commander in chief, the man at the center of it all.

And it’s dreadful time to have a man so incompetent steering the ship of state. A public health crisis on the scale of COVID-19 is virtually unprecedented, and it requires all the skill and power that the administration has to offer to handle it well. We need health experts, diplomats, the military, emergency responders, manufacturers, universities, state governments, local leaders, spokespeople, the criminal justice system, foreign governments, international agencies and more all coordinated together working toward the suppression and destruction of the virus. It’s a monumental undertaking, and the president of the United States is the only person who can lead the pack. Even the most skilled of the president’s predecessors would strain under the challenge, but Trump doesn’t have a prayer. Continue reading.

George Conway breaks down Trump’s most hilarious geographic blunders after the president whines about being mocked

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump’s circle is up in arms over a late-night CNN segment on Monday in which analysts joked that Trump — and his fanbase — are probably not smart enough to locate Ukraine on a map.

But on Tuesday, conservative lawyer and Trump critic George Conway pointed out that the president has indeed never shown any aptitude for geography — and listed off some of his most well-known and mocked blunders:  Continue reading.

New book reveals why Trump should have been impeached years ago because of North Korea

AlterNet logoIn an ideal world, a president would be removed from office if they demonstrated an obvious basic lack of competency for the job, even if they were not engaged in any unethical or criminal activities. President Trump will be impeached for contempt of Congress and abuse of power, but he ought to be retired for the simple reason that his foolishness and stupidity is a danger to the country and to all of humanity. This can be seen in excerpts from Peter Bergen’s new book, Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos. Bergen describes an Oval Office meeting on North Korea in mid-April 2017 in which Trump was shown a coffee table-sized model of North Korea’s nuclear facilities during a briefing on the regional threat they pose.

Trump was also shown a satellite image of the Korean peninsula at night, showing the lights of China and South Korea and the blackness of North Korea in between. Trump initially mistook the void for an ocean. When he was shown the bright lights of Seoul just 30 miles south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, the president asked: “Why is Seoul so close to the North Korean border?”

Indeed, why is a city of 9.8 million people located where it is located? Why not pick it up like a campsite and move it to a safer area?

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Kellyanne Conway’s husband posts epic rant about Trump’s ‘pathologically mendacity’ — and suggests he’s not ‘mentally balanced’

George Conway, a prominent conservative lawyer and the husband of former Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway, launched into a powerful rant against the president’s habit of pointless, absurd, and delusional lies Wednesday night.

He seemed to be inspired by the president’s false claim that the sentencing of Paul Manafort, his former campaign chair who is facing about 7.5 years in jail for crimes arising out of the Russia investigation, proved that there “no collusion.” In fact, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said at the sentencing that “collusion” hasn’t been addressed because the investigation is still ongoing. But Conway was also baffled at the president’s effort to lie about his recent slip of the tongue when he called Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple.”

“Have we ever seen this degree of brazen, pathological mendacity in American public life?” Conway wrote on Twitter.  “One day he makes a harmless slip of the tongue, something any mentally balanced person would laugh off.”

View the complete March 14 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.