“I’m not joking about it or being a smartass; this is a man who is not well.”
Trump’s behavior has led many, including Republican and Democratic lawmakers, and the American Psychoanalytic Association, to question the Presidents fitness for office.
From the Huffington Post’s Sam Levine:
Members of a CNN panel on Tuesday openly questioned whether President Donald Trump is mentally fit for office after he held a boisterous and unrestrained rally in Phoenix.
The rally was wild, even by Trump’s standards. He accused the media of “trying to take away our history, our heritage,” and threatened to shut down the federal government in order to get funding for a wall between the United States and Mexico.
CNN commentators said it was difficult to watch Trump speak and not question whether he was fit for office. They discussed the 25th Amendment, which allows for the vice president to initiate a process by which the president can be removed from office if his Cabinet deems him to be unfit.
He alternated between being a whiny 6-year-old who’s had his Nintendo taken away and between being the cranky old man who’s being out there condemning everyone who doesn’t worship him adequately, says Rick Wilson, a conservative pundit.
“There was no sanity there. He was like a child blaming a sibling on something else,” CNN’s Don Lemon said immediately after the rally. “A man clearly wounded by the rational people who are abandoning him in droves, meaning those business people and the people in Washington now who are questioning his fitness for office and whether he is stable.”
Carl Bernstein, one of the journalists who helped uncover the Watergate scandal, said Sunday during an appearance on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” concerns about President Trump's fitness for office -- privately expressed by prominent Republicans -- are "an important, crucial, dangerous story that reporters need to start making their business."
