'He Just Seemed to Go Crazy': Senior GOP Aides Stunned by Trump's Demented Behavior in Last 24 Hours

[madokie]

Even those in the president's inner circle admit they are worried about his mental state.

Senior Republican aides confided this week that President Donald Trump’s puzzling statements over the last few days have left them confused.

According to Politico, GOP aides on Capitol Hill and at the White House have been unable to explain why Trump unleashed a string of baffling claims over a 24-hour period in interviews with Bloomberg, CBS News and SiriusXM radio.

The president claimed that President Andrew Jackson was very angry about the Civil War and could have prevented it, even though Jackson died 16 years prior. Trump said that he was considering breaking up the banks and establishing a gas tax. He said he would be “honored” to meet with North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un, and then said that “nobody’s safe” from North Korea’s nuclear weapons. '

To top things off, Trump praised the high approval ratings of Philippines strongman Rodrigo Duterte.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/he-just-seemed-go-crazy-senior-gop-aides-stunned-trumps-demented-behavior-last-24

The deal is many of us knew he was crazy as a loon from day one.

[get the red out]

1. Really?

I am so used to his ignorant bullshit that it has taken me another day to realize that there really are people surprised by these interviews, seriously, where have they been?

[Girard442]

4. You're not the only one who can't see the difference...

...between the latest batshittery and the old stuff.

[yardwork]

7. That's exactly how I feel. How is this worse than the past 12 months?

Trump has been saying crazy things for at least a year.

[RobinA]

14. Me Too

Just Trump being Trump, it seems to me.

[Tanuki]

16. It sounds like they are portraying themselves as "shocked, SHOCKED!"

to distance themselves from their own complicity and culpability in enabling Trump to become president. I don't see any difference between his courtship of Kim and Duterte and the praise he lavished on Putin early in the campaign. He has always said things that were irrational, offensive, and easily disproven. This was never going to end well.

[get the red out]

20. If this doesn't hurt Trump

They will be back on board in a week, applauding his latest bombing or something.

[L. Coyote]

2. A problem with over medication? No, just a problem with too much talking. STFU instead.

If trump doesn't talk or tweet, things will be better, trust me.

[madokie]

3. Can you imagine what it must be like

inside of that head of his

[bdamomma]

19. all those spray tan

chemicals or medication for his hair is seeping into his brain. Sorry I am not a psychiatrist or psychologist but we all know he is not well.

[vlyons]

22. It's a dark angry deeply unhappy place

that looks out at the world and see enemies, victims to bully, longing for love & approval, envy at those who are more liked, more powerful, happier, better looking, richer, somehow better in any way. Yes a dark angry unhappy place.

[madokie]

23. I just thank my lucky stars

I'm not him

The boy is not right

[L. Coyote]

28. I was once involved with a narcissist. Maintaining an alternate reality was part of the problem.

You have to be rather close to someone for a while to realize that they live in a separate world of their own making and do not perceive actuality because of their delusions about themselves. Once you experience this with someone, it sure is a lot easier to pick out others doing the same thing. They are functional mental cases, well to a point. In Trump's case, he seems to have become progressively more demented and is passed the point of being mentally functional all the time. One of the important things to recognize about incipient dementia is they have good days and bad days. We are now seeing the bad days publicly because his condition has progressed that much. On bad days, Trump no longer has the filters to camouflage the separate reality he maintains internally or creates in his delusional, paranoid bullshit sphere as he speaks.

Oh yeah, and he's just not that intelligent either.

[MFM008]

29. Reminds me of a song

Alan Parsons." I wouldn't wanna be like you.".
"If I had a mind to... I wouldn't want to be like you..."

[C_U_L8R]

5. That's a cornered narcissist

Anyone's that had to live with one has seen these maniacal fits of rage.
I hope they keep the 'football' very far away.

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. Over the last 2 days?

How about the last two years!

[BumRushDaShow]

12. THIS

or better, go back to 2012 and before.

[global1]

8. Ivanka & Jared Are Just Not Doing Their Job....nt

[DFW]

9. When he orders an attack on the Duchy of Grand Fenwick......

1.) It's 25th Amendment time
2.) I won't be surprised

[longship]

25. Aha! I have video for that.

Peter Sellers, of course.

(At least it isn't the dreaded Lurghi... don't ask. That would be this:

)

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Andrew Jackson wanted to prevent the Civil War

means he is about to start one.

[UT_democrat]

15. Andrew Jackson

Wanted to prevent the Trump pResidency

[ehrnst]

11. Hearings on the Russia connections have started. (nt)

[BumRushDaShow]

13. The House was supposed to have a "closed hearing" on that yesterday. nt

[Sancho]

17. see this thread...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029009012

[bdamomma]

18. ok how much more

evidence do they need before they get him out??? Does he have to start WW3 it will be too late then.

The man is a lunatic, a wannabe dictator.

[world wide wally]

21. Fake Blues?

[IronLionZion]

24. the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Why is he still in office? It's time to invoke the 25th amendment.

I'm not sure if we can afford to wait until the Dems retake the house in 2018 and put Pelosi as Speaker and then remove Trump and Pence.

[7962]

26. You couldnt remove Pence for the same reasons as trump. nt

[IronLionZion]

27. There must be reasons to remove Pence

We should find a way

[Kirkwood]

30. And the Democrats still couldn't beat him. nt