Ex-President Donald Trump

He'll do (say) anything to throw up yet another pathetic smokescreen.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/politics/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-obama-russia/index.html

 

So he not only threw his own AG under the bus, he also misspelled the guy's name.

Goddamn, Trump is a moron.

 

Wait!!! We keep hearing how he's a genius and brilliant.

MF'er is dumb as a box of rocks, and a complete waste of flesh.

 

omg ...maybe we should think about random drug/alcohol testing teachers first.

 

These pro-gun arguments are crazy. In terms of schools... If a teacher happens to be licensed for concealed carry... Is this really a solution? I'm thinking that when these shooters start their carnage... They're certainly not going to announce themselves. It's almost like they're thinking is that we're willing to concede a few people getting shot before a teacher comes along and (hopefully) is able to take him down. Even an armed resource officer. OK, I admit it's better than nothing, but again... will it realistically deter these type of shootings? If I'm parent... I'm thinking what about those the shooter does manage to hit before they take him down. What if they take down the resource officer first?

Finally... Don't teachers have more than enough on their plate as it is? My thought is that if they wanted to have this type of responsibility... They would've chosen a career path as a LEO and not an educator.

 

Man it must suck as a kid growing up when you KNOW a parent cares more about himself than he does about you.

 

This is Obamas fault. Lol

 

That puts him in the same company of every other person that Trump comes into contact with on a daily basis. He is cartoonishly selfish.

 

I know you were joking but with the way Trump thinks...

 

IKR! That statement by the orange one was one of his funniest yet. We're to believe for a second that Bone Spurs (times 5) would've run into a building with the sounds of blood curdling screams, and gunshots?

 

Behold: a stable genius in all his glory!

 

Trump: I have a 'much bigger' button than Kim Jong Un

President Trump on Tuesday said that the nuclear launch button on his desk is "much bigger" and "more powerful" than that of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – and that his button actually "works."

"North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times,'" Trump tweeted. "Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"

Trump's comments came after Kim said in a New Year's Day speech that he had a nuclear launch button at his desk, and that the international community would have to accept North Korea's status as a nuclear-armed nation as a "reality."

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367149-trump-i-have-a-much-bigger-button-than-kim-jong-un

 

Wolff's forthcoming book makes many claims, including that:

• The Trump team was shocked and horrified by his election win
• His wife, Melania, was in tears of sadness on election night
• Mr Trump was angry that A-list stars had snubbed his inauguration
• The new president "found the White House to be vexing and even a little scary"
• His daughter, Ivanka, had a plan with her husband, Jared Kushner, that she would be "the first woman president"
• Ivanka Trump mocked her dad's "comb-over" hairstyle and "often described the mechanics behind it to friends"

The book is reportedly based on more than 200 interviews but some of the book's excerpts have already been criticised and questioned.
Still, even if only half of what the book contains is true, it paints a damning portrait of a paranoid president and a chaotic White House, BBC North America editor Jon Sopel says.

 

Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President

"Trump was planning on failing, and walking away with the fame and the money."

"A campaign staff was sent to explain The Constitution to the candidate."

"Shortly after 8 p.m. on Election Night, when the unexpected trend — Trump might actually win — seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears — and not of joy."



“ 'I can be the most famous man in the world,' he had told his aide Sam Nunberg at the outset of the race. His longtime friend Roger Ailes, the former head of Fox News, liked to say that if you want a career in television, first run for president.

Now Trump, encouraged by Ailes, was floating rumors about a Trump network. It was a great future. He would come out of this campaign, Trump assured Ailes, with a far more powerful brand and untold opportunities."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html

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Yale psychiatrist briefed members of Congress on Trump's mental fitness

By Sunlen Serfaty and Ryan Nobles, CNN
Updated 10:39 AM EST, Fri January 05, 2018

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...ump/index.html

A dozen lawmakers from the House and Senate received a briefing from Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee on Capitol Hill in early December about President Donald Trump's fitness to be president -- and Lee has been asked to speak with additional lawmakers, worried about the President's mental state, later this month.

“Lawmakers were saying they have been very concerned about this, the President's dangerousness, the dangers that his mental instability poses on the nation," Lee told CNN in a phone interview Thursday, "They know the concern is universal among Democrats, but it really depends on Republicans, they said. Some knew of Republicans that were concerned, maybe equally concerned, but whether they would act on those concerns was their worry."

The briefing was previously reported by Politico. Lee, confirming the December 5 and 6 meeting to CNN, said that the group was evenly mixed -- with House and Senate lawmakers. And included at least one Republican -- a senator, whom she would not name.

Lee's public comments are highly unusual given protocols from medical professional organizations -- including the 37,000-member American Psychiatric Association -- banning psychiatrists from diagnosing patients without a formal examination. Under recent guidance from the APA, it is "fine for a psychiatrist to share their expertise about psychiatric issues in general," but "member psychiatrists should not give professional opinions about the mental state of someone they have not personally evaluated," according to an APA blog post. When asked by CNN about Lee's comments, the APA referred them to this guidance.

Yale declined to weigh in on Lee's remarks when reached by CNN for comment.

“Yale University does not take positions or issue statements regarding the health or medical condition of public officials. However, the University will not interfere with the free expression or academic freedom of faculty members who wish to express their opinions in their areas of expertise or otherwise," Yale spokeswoman Karen Peart said in a statement.

Lee made it clear that she is not in a position to diagnose the President, or any public figure, from afar. But she said that it is incumbent on medical professionals to intervene in instances where there is a danger to an individual or the public. She argues that signs the President has exhibited have risen to that level of danger.

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment on Lee's remarks on Trump's mental health. During the White House briefing Thursday, press secretary Sarah Sanders called questions about the President's state of mind "disgraceful."

“If he was unfit, he probably wouldn't be sitting there, wouldn't have defeated the most qualified group of candidates the Republican Party has ever seen," Sanders said, before praising Trump as an "incredibly strong" leader.

The meeting between Lee and members of Congress was set up through a former US Attorney with ties to Capitol Hill who approached Lee at the request of a "number of lawmakers," she said. Lee provided them a briefing based on her book on the subject. Dr. James Gilligan -- another psychiatrist -- an expert on studying and predicting violence, also made a presentation.

“Mr. Trump is showing signs of impairment that the average person could not see," Lee said. "He is becoming very unstable very quickly. There is a need for neuropsychiatric evaluation that would demonstrate his capacity to serve."

Lee is scheduled to hold another briefing at the home of Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro later this month with lawmakers on the same topic and is also scheduled to speak at Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin's town hall in Maryland this month as well. Raskin has introduced a bill called the "Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity Act," which would use the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to create a "body" to determine whether the President is unable to execute the powers and duties of his office.

Raskin, who attended Lee's presentation, told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday that Trump's behavior is "increasingly delusional" and there should be an independent body to evaluate his fitness.

Of course we got big public policy crises going on right now," Raskin said on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper." "We've got a gun violence crisis, we've got the tax bill -- which was bought and paid for by the Koch brothers and the Mercers -- so we got some serious stuff to deal with and instead we're caught up every day in what looks like the country debating the mental health of the president, so it's a very dangerous and unstable situation as a number of Republican senators have themselves observed."

No Republican has called publicly for an evaluation of the President's mental fitness.

Lee cited Trump's repeated referencing of conspiracy theories in his public statements as a troubling sign.

"As he is unraveling he seems to be losing his grip on reality and reverting to conspiracy theories," she said. "There are signs that he is going into attack mode when he is under stress. That means he has the potential to become impulsive and very volatile."

Specifically, Lee pointed to Trump's verbal aggressiveness and his boasting about sexual assault on the Access Hollywood tape that was revealed during the campaign. She accused the President of inciting violence at his rallies, and having an "attraction" to powerful weapons. Lee said his threats to ramp up military action and the taunting an unstable leader in North Korean Leader Kim Jung Un are all signs of the President being on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

In Wednesday's White House press briefing, Sanders also dismissed a question about the President's mental health.

"I think the President and the people of this country should be concerned about the mental fitness of the leader of North Korea," she said.

Lee rejected claims that her research is any way politically motivated.

"I am uninterested in partisan politics, I have never registered for a political party," she said. "Ideology doesn't interest me."

 

Sessions tries to impress Trump with moves at Justice. It hasn’t worked.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying to find his way back into President Trump’s good graces. For months, Sessions has asked senior White House aides to make sure the president knows what he is doing at the Justice Department, two White House advisers said, and has told allies he hopes policy decisions that garner news coverage will please Trump. Sessions’s team at Justice has crafted a public campaign to highlight the work it is doing to advance the president’s agenda. The department has also begun looking into matters that Trump has publicly complained are not being pursued.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.25c4681e9d76