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The blistering new insider account of the White House offers hope that Trump's is just a worse version of a species of presidency we've survived before.
Most of the world seems to have concluded that the lunatic chaos described in Fire and Fury, the "bombshell" new book about the Trump White House by Michael Wolff, foretells the end of civilization.
The book certainly doesn't seem like good news. Wolff tells us our president is probably a neurotic illiterate, incapable of focus beyond a few seconds, and thought of as a deranged simpleton by even his most trusted advisors.
The depiction of Trump as a mental incompetent who couldn't sit through even the beginning of a lesson on the Constitution ("I got as far as the Fourth Amendment... before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back," Wolff quotes Sam Nunberg as saying) rings painfully true.
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laserhaas
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Demsrule86
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laserhaas
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hlthe2b
(107,310 posts)he is hauled away--however that happens.
regnaD kciN
(26,676 posts)"... to enact a plan as destructive as, say, the invasion of Iraq."
Problem is, it doesn't take much (or any) planning to result in much worse. It's easy to imagine Trump, in a momentary fit of pique at a North Korean missile test that came too close to, say, Japan, orders a cruise missile strike on their launch complex. Kim Jong-Un interprets it as the first strike in an inevitable U.S. invasion and launches his nukes. We retaliate, and then China, seeing us as having begun the conflict, follow-through on their promise to defend North Korea in the event of U.S. aggression.
It doesn't take any focus or planning to start a nuclear WWIII -- just a hairtrigger temper and lack of sufficient intelligence to calculate the consequences. And Mad King Donald has both of those in spades.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)To prevent this nut - from destroying the world.
rockfordfile
(8,732 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts) peggysue2
(11,541 posts)The Donald is decidedly not Reagan whose dementia became an accelerated problem after he survived a shooting. Though I was never a Reagan fan, Ronald Reagan did have administrative experience as head of the Actors Guild and two-term Governor of California, the 6th or 7th largest economy in the world. Reagan had bona fide credentials; Trump has a series of business failures, hinky ties to very shady, mob-connected characters and a bunch of bluster and lies. That's in addition to his deteriorating mental state.
This is not normal in any shape or form and Taibbi pretending 'we've been here before' is pure crapola. The GOP has turned into a group of skeevy, obsequious courtiers to the Mad King. When was a Vichy government ever considered normal? Or not that bad?
Never.
Pretending this is 'no big deal' or that Wolff's book is 'good news' is like saying cancer isn't really a medical disaster.
Ugh!
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)One thing for sure, Taibbi isn't a fried of Trump.
The Donald will not be - lauding - this article.
pnwmom
(109,653 posts)I wonder why.
The article, in essence, makes the case, the Donad, is a narcissistic loon.
At the end, it makes the case of ..Trump is nuts, mean and could be tenacious malcontent, calculating.
With the hopes the Donald can't do all his traits, at the same time.