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Fri Feb 24, 2017, 06:45 PM Feb 2017

The first 40 days -- and nights -- of pResident tRump - Boston Globe

A hundred days is the traditional measure of a new presidency. But sufficient for this president is the biblical metaphor for infinite woe. Each day evokes the CAT scan of a disordered brain, encasing pResident tRump’s psyche in an endless hall of mirrors. And now his maladies are ours:

Grandiosity. Lies. Impulsiveness. Anger. Unreasoning defensiveness. Consuming self-involvement. Craving for admiration. Lack of empathy. An inability to distinguish reality from his own needs. So striking is his behavior that numerous mental health professionals publicly opined that tRump’s mental state “makes him incapable of serving safely as president.”
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Often at great cost. A disturbed and amoral leader, history has shown, can sicken a country whose institutions falter. tRump will not save America from himself. Nor will his party or, by themselves, the Democrats. That burden falls on the news media, the courts — and all citizens. - Boston Globe

I'd have put in bold those ideas which stood out, but the whole article is loaded with unflattering biography.

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The first 40 days -- and nights -- of pResident tRump - Boston Globe (Original Post) ffr Feb 2017 OP
Thank you! About to leave, but kicking, and bookmarking to read later! Lucinda Feb 2017 #1
Scarey as hell. Factual. sheshe2 Feb 2017 #2
The sooner he is gone, the better for our country. kentuck Feb 2017 #3
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