Tag: unfit to serve

Scarborough: Trump Is In Early Stages Of Dementia

The following article by Jessica Kwong with Newsweek posted on the National Memo website December 1, 2017:

MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough fired back at President Donald Trump on air Thursday morning by claiming “people close to him during the campaign told me he had early stages of dementia.”

Trump is “completely detached from reality,” Scarborough said. “You have somebody inside the White House that the New York Daily News says is mentally unfit, that people close to him say is mentally unfit.”

Scarborough was responding to a tweet on Wednesday in which Trump rejoiced over the firing of Matt Lauer from NBC for inappropriate sexual behavior and said, “Will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the ‘unsolved mystery’ that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!” Continue reading “Scarborough: Trump Is In Early Stages Of Dementia”

Donald Trump is a madman: The President’s Wednesday Twitter spasm confirms what many Americans have long suspected

The following commentary from the New York Daily News Editorial Board was posted on their website November 29, 2017:

The most powerful man in the world (SUSAN WALSH/AP)

After his latest spasm of deranged tweets, only those completely under his spell can deny what growing numbers of Americans have long suspected: The President of the United States is profoundly unstable. He is mad. He is, by any honest layman’s definition, mentally unwell and viciously lashing out.

Some might say we are just suffering through the umpteenth canny, calculated presidential eruption designed to distract the nation from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, or perhaps from unpopular legislation working its way through Congress. Continue reading “Donald Trump is a madman: The President’s Wednesday Twitter spasm confirms what many Americans have long suspected”

The case for normalizing impeachment

The following article by Ezra Klein was posted on the Vox website November 30, 2017:

Impeaching an unfit president has consequences. But leaving one in office could be worse.

Credit: Chris Malbon for Vox

In recent months, I have grown obsessed with a seemingly simple question: Does the American political system have a remedy if we elect the wrong person to be president? There are clear answers if we elect a criminal, or if the president falls into a coma. But what if we just make a hiring mistake, as companies do all the time? What if we elect someone who proves himself or herself unfit for office — impulsive, conspiratorial, undisciplined, destructive, cruel?

My fixation on this question began with President Donald Trump’s tweets to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. This was the president of the United States, the man who controls the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, launching deranged, unvetted provocations at the most singularly irrational regime in the world: Continue reading “The case for normalizing impeachment”