Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Trump's descent into the maelstrom

Add the handing of classified intelligence to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador to the US to the growing list of actions which lend weight to speculation on the mental health of the president.  As he has shown time and again during the last 4 months, Trump is in over his head on almost every duty the occupant of the office of the presidency is expected to carry out.  From diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder to incipient dementia, amateur and professional psychologists have weighed in to warn us of the problems we face with a mentally deranged chief executive.  There may actually be some truth in these analyses.  However, I think I would go with the more prosaic explanation.  Imagine for a moment your eccentric 70 year old uncle with a billion dollars and an ego to match.  Now instead of listening to his tirades against liberalism during the course of Thanksgiving dinner and suggesting he have another helping of turkey, imagine him as the most powerful man in the world.  The idea terrifies me.   We have to live through another 3 1/2 years of this.

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