5-2-17 The President’s Delicate Condition

It’s interesting that the word ‘senile’ or some variation therewith has finally been broached in the beltway media following the President’s weird and disjointed interview with some AP flunky that ended up with Trump spinning a fantasy that Andrew Jackson could have prevented the civil war.

As many people noted AJ died sometime in the 1840’s which would have greatly limited his political effectiveness in 1861.

It was a bizarre note in a bizarre day where Trump wandered all over the place with ideas about North Korea “I’d be honored to meet him” the murderous leader of the Philippines “he’s got very high approval ratings” and some nattering about breaking up banks and gas taxes.  (like any of this is going to happen)

Some folks were saying that Trump was probably saying with regard to AJ that he, Trump, could have brokered a deal to prevent  the civil war, reflecting his own sense of himself as a great man who could crack heads together and let everybody know what’s what.

Possible yes, however,  his comments were disordered and flew about the room touching on many subjects including his election win that this point, if it was his point, was hard to discern.

As a fallout from all this, Joe Scarbourgh who is suffering some regret for his letting Trump spout  away on his show before the election Morning Joe, al la Dr. Frankenstein suffered  for his role in bringing this monster to life has mentioned the word ‘dementia’ in connection with Trump. He’s the first to do it, but another story quotes several White House staff and other folks saying Trump’s been ‘acting crazy’.

So the magic words are out there – whereas before folks have been tiptoeing about it, the sense that the president is not all there and probably barking mad to boot is being spoken aloud by people who are not scruffy little bloggers like my humble self.

I’m sure there will a push back on this – indeed the AP flack has already tried – and failed – to explain away Trumps verbal meanderings.

But ladies and gentlemen, the ugly truth is that the President is mentally incapable of doing the job, first we are going to have to face that and then deal with it.