Is Trump having a mental breakdown?

[leibowde84]

Has the past week finally gotten to Trump in a way that is affecting his mental capacity? Is his frustration with bad press causing him to act out/erratically against his own interest? Are the recent slip-ups (political no-no's) a product of his frustration with the blowback from firing Comey?

Evidence:
1. Threatening Tweet to Comey about "tapes" of their conversations in the Oval Office
2. Contradicts statements made by his surrogates the day before during Lester Holt interview
3. Sources inside the White House saying that he is isolated and very angry about press coverage
4. Admitted that he asked Comey directly whether he was under investigation (objectively dumb)
5. Admitting that his decision was partly based on frustration with the Russian investigation which, in his (claimed) opinion is a hoax
6. Threatening to cancel all press briefings to the public
7. All the rest ... and what is to come this week.

 

[columbus]

I voted no.
He is behaving pretty much the way he did last year. It just matters more now.
It turns out that his vaunted business experience isn't worth much. Unsurprisingly, autocratic construction mogul and stupid TV show star didn't prepare him well for the job.
He just isn't competent.
Tom

 

[leibowde84]

I voted no.
He is behaving pretty much the way he did last year. It just matters more now.
It turns out that his vaunted business experience isn't worth much. Unsurprisingly, autocratic construction mogul and stupid TV show star didn't prepare him well for the job.
He just isn't competent.
Tom

A reasonable opinion. Thanks for contributing.

 

[McBell]

Has the past week finally gotten to Trump in a way that is affecting his mental capacity? Is his frustration with bad press causing him to act out/erratically against his own interest? Are the recent slip-ups (political no-no's) a product of his frustration with the blowback from firing Comey?

Evidence:
1. Threatening Tweet to Comey about "tapes" of their conversations in the Oval Office
2. Contradicts statements made by his surrogates the day before during Lester Holt interview
3. Sources inside the White House saying that he is isolated and very angry about press coverage
4. Admitted that he asked Comey directly whether he was under investigation (objectively dumb)
5. Admitting that his decision was partly based on frustration with the Russian investigation which, in his (claimed) opinion is a hoax
6. Threatening to cancel all press briefings to the public
7. All the rest ... and what is to come this week.

Seems to me is not acting any different than before.
What is different is that he is now under a microscope and cannot hide stuff like before.

Now, even those who disliked him and wanted nothing to do with him or about him are glued to their twitter accounts waiting to see what he will twit next.
The same with the media outlets.

So now he is unable to fart in the bathroom without half the country knowing about it.

 

[bobhikes]

I voted no my view is that he's always been this way. You know he's having a mental breakdown when he is quiet to long.

 

[sun rise]

I voted no.
He is behaving pretty much the way he did last year. It just matters more now.
It turns out that his vaunted business experience isn't worth much. Unsurprisingly, autocratic construction mogul and stupid TV show star didn't prepare him well for the job.
He just isn't competent.
Tom

I agree but think the pressures of being President are getting to him.

 

[leibowde84]

I agree but think the pressures of being President are getting to him.

I think he is certainly miserable with this job.

 

[bobhikes]

I think he is certainly miserable with this job.

I also think he is feeling miserable doing the job. It is not what he thought it was. We should really get a lottery going for how many days Trump stays in office. I don't believe it is going to be 4 years.

 

[leibowde84]

I also think he is feeling miserable doing the job. It is not what he thought it was. We should really get a lottery going for how many days Trump stays in office. I don't believe it is going to be 4 years.

I could see him resigning pointing to a responsibility toward his employees as reasoning. Also, he'd probably throw in a complaint about the "fake news" to make it interesting.

 

[columbus]

I think he is certainly miserable with this job.

Here's where the problem comes. He has nearly four more years to go.
So far, there hasn't been a real issue requiring competence from the president. I shudder to think how Trump will respond when something really dramatic happens.
For instance, suppose Iran did something in Syria intended to set Trump off on a rampage of self destructive floundering. Iran is a staunch ally of Russia. Trump is already compromised on that score.
Then what?
Tom

 

[Sapiens]

Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.

The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.

The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trump’s decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump’s meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency.

“This is code-word information,” said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”

(thanks, Wash. Post)

 

[England my lionheart]

Has the past week finally gotten to Trump in a way that is affecting his mental capacity? Is his frustration with bad press causing him to act out/erratically against his own interest? Are the recent slip-ups (political no-no's) a product of his frustration with the blowback from firing Comey?

Evidence:
1. Threatening Tweet to Comey about "tapes" of their conversations in the Oval Office
2. Contradicts statements made by his surrogates the day before during Lester Holt interview
3. Sources inside the White House saying that he is isolated and very angry about press coverage
4. Admitted that he asked Comey directly whether he was under investigation (objectively dumb)
5. Admitting that his decision was partly based on frustration with the Russian investigation which, in his (claimed) opinion is a hoax
6. Threatening to cancel all press briefings to the public
7. All the rest ... and what is to come this week.

I voted no although its hard to think he had capacity in the first place but i think he is what he is,as an outsider he doesn't appear as competent as you would hope a president would be and there is this "watergate fear" going around so can he deal with the pressure,again from an outside view i dont think so.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Milton's Description: Narcissism:

Egotistical, arrogant, grandiose, insouciant. Preoccupied with fantasies of success, beauty, or achievement. See themselves as admirable and superior, and therefore entitled to special treatment. Is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Those with narcissistic personality disorder believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings.​

Such a person inevitably gets a little unhinged when he feels that he is not in control.

 

[Quetzal]

I think he is certainly miserable with this job.

He could do himself, and all of us, a favor and quit.

 

[columbus]

He could do himself, and all of us, a favor and quit.

You don't realize what President Pence might to do this country.
I live in Indiana. I know what he is like.

He actually is competent, which makes him scary in a different way. He is very much a true Teapartier, with lots of experience and Washington connections.
Tom

 

[sun rise]

Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.

The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.

The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trump’s decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump’s meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency.

“This is code-word information,” said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”

(thanks, Wash. Post)

He's not going to last 4 years. I suspect that he's not going to last past 2018 if, as I believe, the Democrats take at least the House .

 

[Valjean]

Senile dementia?
Compare his current speaking style to that of twenty or thirty years ago.

 

[Terese]

It's just best if he resigned. It would take off the stress of Trump and off the citizens.

 

[Valjean]

But if he resigned wouldn't we be left with the theocrat Mike Pence?

 

[Terese]

But if he resigned wouldn't we be left with the theocrat Mike Pence?

Unfortunately.