The Atlantic: Unfit for Office [View all]
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Every man, woman and child needs to read this and understand it was written in 2019 and trump has gotten much worse.
trump endangers everyone in the world now.
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By George T. Conway III
October 3, 2019
And so it is, or ought to be, with Donald Trump. You dont need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, and you dont need to be a mental-health professional to see that somethings very seriously off with Trumpparticularly after nearly three years of watching his erratic and abnormal behavior in the White House. Questions about Trumps psychological stability have mounted throughout his presidency. But those questions have been coming even more frequently amid a recent escalation in Trumps bizarre behavior, as the pressures of his upcoming reelection campaign, a possibly deteriorating economy, and now a full-blown impeachment inquiry have mounted. And the questioners have included those who have worked most closely with him.
No president in recent memoryand likely no president everhas prompted more discussion about his mental stability and connection with reality. Trumps former chief of staff John Kelly is said to have described him as unhinged, and off the rails, and to have called the White House Crazytown because of Trumps unbalanced state. Trumps former deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, once reportedly discussed recruiting Cabinet members to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, the Constitutions provision addressing presidential disability, including mental disability.
Rosenstein denies that claim, but it is not the only such account. A senior administration official, writing anonymously in The New York Times last September, described how, given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendmentbut no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. And NBC News last week quoted someone familiar with current discussions in the White House warning that there is increasing wariness that, as this impeachment inquiry drags out, the likelihood increases that the president could respond erratically and become unmanageable. In September, a former White House official offered a similar assessment to a Business Insider reporter: No one knows what to expect from him anymore, because his mood changes from one minute to the next based on some headline or tweet, and the next thing you know his entire schedule gets tossed out the window. Hes losing his shit.
Even a major investment bank has gotten into the mix, albeit in a roundabout way: JPMorgan Chase has created a Volfefe Indexnamed after Trumps bizarre May 2017 covfefe tweetdesigned to quantify the effect that Trumps impulsive tweets have on interest-rate volatility. The banks press release understatedly observed that its volatility fair value model shows that the presidents remarks on this social media platform [have] played a statistically significant role in elevating implied volatility.
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Found on Bsky. The link is a gift article. It's a long read but well worth your time.