Mentally Unfit – the Last Desperate Act of Trump Derangement
Failing on all counts to rid themselves of the reality of Donald Trump’s presidency, those whose mission from the start to destroy the president have, at long last, reached the point of absolute desperation. Having utterly failed to find impeachable crimes in an absolute fantasy of Russian collusion on the part of the Trump campaign, and having failed to prevent the president from attaining legislative success in congress, we now hear charges from Democrats, their allies in the media, and everyone else who still can’t stand the thought of Donald Trump as president- that the president is mentally and psychologically unfit to serve as president.
So deeply held is their hatred towards the president, so desperate they are to end his presidency, and so enraged with the undeniable success he has had in his first year of office, that they seek to invoke a 25th Amendment proceeding to determine Trump medically unfit to continue as president. Such accusations are coming from all quarters, ranging from Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg from “the View,” to tabloid trash journalist Michael Wolff, to news anchors and commentators across media (including even some Fox News anchors and reporters like Shepard Smith, for instance) and from many current and former office holders from the Democrat Party.
They take as gospel truth, outlandish charges from the most dubious, not to mention non-existent, sources that the president of the United States is insane, and that “everyone” around him believes him to be so. In the case of Mr. Wolff’s most recent stab at peddling fiction as fact, the author cites much of his premise on the rantings of a loose cannon- er, loose Bannon, as it were. Yes, this is the same Steve Bannon who, following his firing from the Trump administration, opposed the president’s endorsement of Luther Strange for Alabama’s senate seat and successfully delivered Roy Moore as the nominee, instead. In essence, this so-called “master of conservative credentials” turned a solidly and otherwise guaranteed red senate seat, blue with the election of Doug Jones. Perhaps President Trump was onto something when he gave Bannon his walking papers in August of 2017.
It’s not the first time that a Republican president’s fitness for office has come into question: Dwight Eisenhower following his heart attack, Richard Nixon during Watergate, Ronald Reagan from the very start, regarding his age, and most recently, George W. Bush for his supposed lack of intelligence. That’s what Democrats do when they can’t win, otherwise. They accuse the sitting Republican president of being unfit for office. Yet, such efforts have hit an all-time low in their efforts to unseat Donald Trump.
Ever since Donald Trump launched his candidacy in June of 2015, all of the forces opposed against him have sought to diminish and de-legitimize him- as a candidate for the Republican nomination, as the Republican nominee running against Hillary Clinton, as president-elect and, ultimately, as president. Hillary Clinton basically put forth the idea of Trump’s unfitness in each of the debates in which they both participated.
Now we have the likes of Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg proffering diagnoses that the president needs to be institutionalized for tweeting that his nuclear button is bigger than Kim Jong Un’s, as if a bit of bravado which they find offensive is undeniable and clinical proof of what they allege. White House correspondents were quick to jump onto the looney-bin bandwagon, questioning White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as to whether or not the president was mentally fit to serve.
Interestingly enough, such questions were never asked when a former president (Clinton) received fellatio from a 19-year old intern in the Oval Office, or when another former president (Obama) sent pallet loads of cash to an Iranian regime in hopes that it would buy cooperation with these thugs on an arms deal that guaranteed nothing in return.
Then again, the more conservative, not to mention successful, a Republican president is, the more that they are deemed by their political opponents to be unfit for office…pretty slick, right?
The real danger in this type of political play is diametrically tied to the sheer number of people who are ignorant enough to buy into this idea- that the president of the United States is insane and, left in office, will lead us all into our destruction. Such a fiction can run amok over an ill-informed populace and can thus debilitate a functioning government, which seems to be the goal of newspapers and networks, alike.
The last act of desperation by an insane opposition completely deranged at the thought of a Trump presidency…
…and who’s crazy?
-Drew Nickell, 6 January 2018
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