Invoke the 25th

[David Horn]

(03-06-2017, 12:18 PM)TeacherinExile Wrote: My doubts about Trump's fitness for command are diminishing by the tweet.  It's still possible that he's not crazy as some in the press have recently speculated...just "crazy like a fox," instead.

Here's the real danger as pointed out in this passage from the WaPo article you cite:

What happens in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, during a natural disaster or amidst an economic crisis? He’ll desperately need the American people to trust and rally behind him, but he will have drained the reservoir of goodwill. That is when Trump’s credibility gap is going to become a cataclysmic problem for his presidency and, frankly, for the country.

I've said it before in a previous post: I want our president to succeed--with some qualifications.  There is simply too much at stake for the country, indeed for all of us, if Trump should fail.  Especially if he should fail spectacularly in a moment of renewed crisis.

I heard what may be the most generous version of why Trump is the way he is: he lives in the perpetual 'Now'.  Whether that qualifies as a mental issue is open to the opinion of a more qualified person than me, but, if it's true, he's unlikely to ever be ready for what's coming or able to restrain himself in responding to any slight.