has Trump finally lost it?
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Did the President come ‘out of touch’? | Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Jamelle Bouie said Richard Nixon “remained independent” in the final days of his presidency. New York Times. He reportedly became irrational and obsessive, making wild suggestions and talking nonsense about his past glories. His son-in-law and advisor Ed Cox recalled that Nixon wandered the White House corridors “talking to photographs of former presidents.”
Unfortunately, Donald Trump appears to have reached a similar depth of “self-destructive frenzy.” See Trump’s rambling letter to Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre, in which he implies that Trump has these rights. capture greenland Because Norway did not give him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Where to start? The Norwegian government does not select the winner of the prize. He doesn’t own Greenland either. And Trump did not “stop 8 Wars PLUS or anything close to it” as he insists. “We have three years left to spend with a mad king. This is not sustainable.”
‘Manic performance art’
“Trump has the world’s most serious case of untreated logorrhea,” said Susan B. Glasser. New Yorker. According to a new study, he spoke 1,977,609 words at presidential hearings in this first year of his second term; That’s 145% more than in the first year of his first term.
He spoke for a full hour and a half in his speech in Davos last week. During his speech, he explained, among other things, that only “stupid people” buy it. wind turbinesand admitted that he decided to raise tariffs on Switzerland because the Swiss prime minister – “a woman” – “led me down the wrong path”. He also continued to confuse Iceland with Greenland. Americans have become somewhat accustomed to Trump’s “crazy performance art,” but Europeans’ stunned reaction should be a wake-up call. Many people there were clearly asking: Has this man lost his mind? Is he still capable of ruling the United States?
‘Crazier than Payday candy’
“In a saner, better world” Trump’s cabinet officials said 25th Amendmentsaid Jim Geraghty National Review. But of course none of them would dare suggest that he was unfit to exercise his powers. Neither did President Biden’s colleagues. started to be opened for construction He forgot Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s name in meetings and referred to him only as “the black man” in an interview.
“After a president who has become senile in office and a president crazier than a Payday candy bar, we can conclude that the 25th Amendment to the Constitution is for decorative purposes.”
