Mentally Incompetent People Should Not Have the Nuclear Codes
This should not be a partisan issue. It’s serious. The current president of the United States is mentally ill, and mentally ill people should definitely not be given access to the nuclear codes.
Imagine for a moment.
Just imagine former president Joe Biden even joking about being elected the next pope.
This came within the nine official days of mourning after Pope Francis’s funeral.
Imagine Joe Biden turned a question about Harvard University into an unhinged rambling rant about non-existent riots in Harlem.
Imagine he confused the Mattel toy company for a country.
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Imagine Joe Biden conducted himself this way in an interview:
Can you imagine what people would say about Joe Biden if he posted on social media the following Easter message:
Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten!
Imagine Biden responding “I don’t know” to a question about whether he has a duty to uphold the Constitution.
If Joe Biden had done or said even one of those things, calls for invoking the 25th Amendment would have echoed from sea to shining sea.
Biden was, arguably, forced out of the presidential race because of alleged “mental decline”. The one (awful) debate he had with Trump last year was supposedly the “break-glass moment”.
Jason Easley wrote for Politicususa:
President Biden did his part with a first presidential debate that, even by the low standard of incumbent presidents running for a second term, was terrible, but the knives were already out for Biden long before the debate.
But while old and a notorious gaffe machine, Joe Biden, the most legislatively successful president in a generation, was not a blathering, incompetent fraud. Yet the for-profit cable media still can’t quite bring itself around to acknowledge the signs that the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is mentally ill.
This should not be a partisan issue. It’s serious. The current president of the United States is mentally ill, and mentally ill people should definitely not be given access to the nuclear codes.
Last year, Dr. John Gartner, psychologist and contributor to the book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, explained:
Not enough people are sounding the alarm, that based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented. In fact, we are seeing the opposite among too many in the news media, the political leaders and among the public. There is also this focus on Biden’s gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden’s brain is aging. Trump’s brain is dementing.
While in an Oval Office meeting last week with new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (who completely owned the felon-in-chief), the former host of Celebrity Apprentice went on an obsessive screed about Barack Obama’s presidential library, prompted, it seems, by something about “DEI requirements” and “woke” companies.
“He’s building his library in Chicago. It’s a disaster,” the mad king said. “He said something to the effect, ‘I only want DEI. I only want woke’. He wants woke people to build it. Well, he got woke.”
He continued:
It’s a disaster, and I don’t like that happening. I don’t like that happening, because it’s — I think — it’s bad for the presidency that a thing like that should happen. He’s got a library that’s a disaster, and he wants to be very politically correct and he didn’t use good, hard, tough, mean construction workers that I love love [sic], Marco. I love construction workers, but he didn’t want construction workers. He wanted people that, like, never did it before, and he got a disaster on his hands, like millions of dollars, many, many, I mean really, many millions of dollars over budget.
Last month’s Time magazine interview is pretty telling. Here is an excerpt:
Time: Mr. President, you were showing us the new paintings you have behind us. You put all these new portraits. One of them includes John Adams. John Adams said we’re a government ruled by laws, not by men. Do you agree with that?
Trump: John Adams said that? Where was the painting?
Time: It’s right here.
When asked about border security, he responded:
I built hundreds of miles of wall, and then (Biden) didn’t want to, and we had another, an extra hundred miles that I could have put up because I ordered it as extra. I completed the wall, what I was doing, but we have, I wanted to build additional because it was working so well.
So the wall was completed, yet he still intended to build some more of it?
(458 miles of wall were constructed along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border during his first term.)
But there’s more.
He took a bizarre swipe at Joe Biden when he said, “If this were Biden, well, first of all, he wouldn’t do an interview because he was grossly incompetent.”
The Time reporter replied, “We spoke to him last year, Mr. President.”
Here’s how the rest went:
Trump: Huh?
Time: We spoke to him a year ago.
Trump: How did he do?
Time: You can read the interview yourself.
Trump: Not too good. I did read the interview. He didn’t do well.
So he read the interview he didn’t know Biden sat for, and still had to be told how Biden did.
Then there was this exchange aboard Air Force One:
Reporter: There was a car bomb in Moscow this morning that killed a Russian general, do you have any reaction to that?
Trump: Who killed what?
Reporter: Russian general killed by a car bomb.
Trump: Wow, no, I just heard. You’re just telling me that for the first time. Where did this take place?
In Moscow, like the reporter said.
Last week, USA Today ran an opinion piece titled, “Is Trump in mental decline? He sounds far worse than Biden ever did.” in which writer Rex Huppke argued:
The reality was that despite Biden showing his age, it was clear more often than not that he remained sharp and had a deep knowledge and understanding of both politics and the world. The 82-year-old even managed to leave us with a growing economy, which Trump has since tanked. Trump, on the other hand, seems to know little, and he has grown increasingly incoherent and rambling, often wholly detached from reality.
He concludes:
So where, I ask, is the fury? Where are the hours upon hours of Fox News coverage? Where is the extensive New York Times coverage?
Trump’s brain melt gets a pass, for reasons I’ll never understand.
This is not just a matter of having an ill leader. We’ve had presidents in the past who have suffered strokes (Wilson), heart attacks (Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson), or had to deal with chronic ailments while in office.
The current president is snatching power from the republican-led Congress over tariffs, which are proving confusing, arbitrary, and destructive, and will lead to a recession, possibly even an economic depression. He is issuing executive orders like papal decrees. (No wonder he was entertaining being pope.) He is presiding over the kidnapping (it’s not deportation) of American citizens. He is making zero sense every time he opens his slurring mouth, pathological mendacity aside.
Being president of the United States isn’t just a title for the country’s chief executive; it’s also the most powerful job in the world due to the gravitas we have spent at least the past 80 years building. When the president speaks, economic markets react as do other countries’ leaders and the national and international media. People look — or looked — to the U.S. for leadership. We aren’t perfect, and history knows we have made plenty of stupid mistakes. But a leader clearly one wave short of a shipwreck is dangerous. Couple it with malignant narcissism, deep-seated insecurities, racism, ignorance of history, and just plain old incompetence, and we’ve got ourselves in a pretty dire situation.
The 25th Amendment now!
(But good luck convincing the sycophants in the adjudicated sexual assaulter’s cabinet to invoke it.)