George Will: Trump disabled by inability to think, speak clearly

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/331882-george-will-trump-disabled-by-inability-to-think-speak-clearly

George Will: Trump disabled by inability to think, speak clearly

Political commentator George Will in his latest column blasts President Trump as someone who is not able to "think and speak clearly."

"It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either," Will wrote in The Washington Post.

"This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence."

In the column, Will pointed to the president's comments about Frederick Douglass and his recent remarks about Andrew Jackson.


Trump in an interview published earlier this week questioned why the country had a Civil War and suggested Jackson could have prevented it had he served later. Jackson, the nation's seventh president, died in 1845. The Civil War began in 1861.

"Library shelves groan beneath the weight of books asking questions about that war’s origins, so who, one wonders, are these 'people' who don’t ask the questions that Trump evidently thinks have occurred to him uniquely?" Will asked.

"What is most alarming (and mortifying to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated) is not that Trump has entered his eighth decade unscathed by even elementary knowledge about the nation’s history," he continued.

"As this column has said before, the problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something."

Will went on to criticize Trump for some of the comments he made before assuming the presidency, pointing to his remarks on the nuclear triad and the "one China policy."

Will warned that Americans have put "vast military power at the discretion of this mind."

"So, it is up to the public to quarantine this presidency," he wrote, "by insistently communicating to its elected representatives a steady, rational fear of this man whose combination of impulsivity and credulity render him uniquely unfit to take the nation into a military conflict."

 

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http://www.theroot.com/does-donald-trump-have-dementia-1794877028

As people analyze the flurry of rambling misstatements, outright lies and flip-flops coming from the toupeed totalitarian sitting in the Oval Office, credible voices who once giggled at Donald Trump’s antics have stopped laughing and started asking a very serious question:

Is the president of the United States suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s?


Rice University history professor and leading presidential historians Douglas Brinkley analyzed Trump’s interviews from over the last few days. Brinkley, who has read hundreds—if not thousands—of transcripts and presidential interviews, concluded that Trump seemed to have a “confused mental state,” the likes of which he has never seen. “It seems to be among the most bizarre recent 24 hours in American presidential history,” Brinkley told Politico magazine.

If Douglas Brinkley is not the top presidential historian in the world, then Jon Meacham is certainly in the running for that title. During an appearance Monday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Meacham and host Joe Scarborough had a conversation about the latest White House fiascoes. Scarborough said Trump “was mumbling, he was rambling around, incoherent, and then just sort of quit talking. Walked off.”

This conversation is significant for two reasons: Scarborough has a long relationship with Trump, and during the transition and early days of Trump’s presidency, Scarborough made numerous trips to both Trump’s home and his Mar-a-Lago estate. The second reason is that Scarborough’s words reflect his own personal experience—Scarborough’s mother suffers from dementia.

“My mother’s had dementia for 10 years,” Scarborough remarked concerning Trump’s wondering why “no one ever asks” about the Civil War. “That sounds like the sort of thing my mother would say today.”



Even more troubling is the fact that Trump’s medical records, released during the campaign, are basically a cursory exam, filled with hyperbole, written by a family friend who is a gastroenterologist. Oh yeah, we also have that time he went on Dr. Oz.

Donald Trump is the oldest man ever to be sworn in as president, surpassing the record held by Ronald Reagan—who died in 2004 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, people who have a parent, brother or sister with Alzheimer’s are more likely to develop the disease.



At the time of his death in 1999, Fred Trump—the father of Donald Trump—had suffered from Alzheimer’s for six years.

 

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What all you haters fail to realize is that Mr Trump long ago left the mundane, mortal world of "grammar", "syntax", "knowledge" and "logic", and moved on to a much higher, genius-level plane, like a Greek God.

where and when is he supposed to be in that picture?

 

[hal9000]

Diabeetus is easily my favorite fake/real account on the erBB

 

[lagunaboy]

Diabeetus is easily my favorite fake/real account on the erBB

Billy Ocean is pretty good, too.

 

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[GromsDad]

George Will????

 

[sr04]

George Will may be a lot of things but he's not wrong in this article..

 

[hal9000]

What all you haters fail to realize is that Mr Trump long ago left the mundane, mortal world of "grammar", "syntax", "knowledge" and "logic", and moved on to a much higher, genius-level plane, like a Greek God.

I wonder how many people miss the irony of the Diabeetus account. Maybe it's because people on the west coast generally don't understand sarcasm, jokes, hyperbole, or irony.

 

[Ifallalot]

What all you haters fail to realize is that Mr Trump long ago left the mundane, mortal world of "grammar", "syntax", "knowledge" and "logic", and moved on to a much higher, genius-level plane, like a Greek God.

I wonder how many people miss the irony of the Diabeetus account. Maybe it's because people on the west coast generally don't understand sarcasm, jokes, hyperbole, or irony.

Derp