Questions are piling up about whether or not Trump is mentally fit to hold the office of President, and a revelation from early December adds fuel to that fire.
On December 5 and 6, 2017 a group of Democratic lawmakers and one Republican Senator met with Yale Psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee for a briefing on Trump’s mental health.
Dr. Lee warned the group that “the President is going to unravel.”
Dr. Lee, who edited “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” a compilation of testimonials from experts in the field, pointed to Trump’s twitter sprees as a symptom of a dangerous mental state.
“We feel that the rush of tweeting is an indication of his falling apart under stress. Trump is going to get worse and will become uncontainable with the pressures of the presidency,” Lee told Politico.
That was in early December. Imagine what Lee would say after yesterday’s epic tweet-storm, which featured a wide array of incendiary language directed at all sorts of targets.
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There was the one where Trump called for the jailing of his political rivals.
Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018
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There was the one where Trump took credit for no planes crashing.
Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news – it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018
There was the one where he forgot he was the one who ended DACA in the first place.
Democrats are doing nothing for DACA – just interested in politics. DACA activists and Hispanics will go hard against Dems, will start “falling in love” with Republicans and their President! We are about RESULTS.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018
There was the diptych, where he antagonized both Pakistan and Palestine for some reason.
It's not only Pakistan that we pay billions of dollars to for nothing, but also many other countries, and others. As an example, we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect. They don’t even want to negotiate a long overdue…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018
…peace treaty with Israel. We have taken Jerusalem, the toughest part of the negotiation, off the table, but Israel, for that, would have had to pay more. But with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018
And then the big one, where he kicked off happy hour by threatening nuclear war.
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2018
And don’t forget the little grace note before dinner, announcing an imaginary awards show for media outlets that were mean to him.
I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o’clock. Subjects will cover Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2018
If that doesn’t indicate a troublesome state of mental health, it’s hard to imagine what would.
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Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders fielded a question on Wednesday from a reporter about whether Americans should be worried about the President’ mental fitness. She deflected, saying we should all be worrying about Kim Jong Un’s mental stability.
This isn’t the first time it’s come up. In December, Trump appeared to slur his speech during a press conference announcing the decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The White House tried to explain it away with a diagnosis of “dry throat.”
No doubt we’ll be hearing the words “25th Amendment” get tossed around more and more often, if the coming days are anything like yesterday. That’s the one where the vice president and the Cabinet can declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” and remove him.
Let’s hope Trump at least has enough mental clarity to keep his finger off that “nuclear button” until then, and that the bipartisan support for removal under the 25th Amendment gains momentum.