Morning Joe Suggests Trump Unfit For Office And Raises Questions About His ‘Memory’
On Tuesday, the gang over at Morning Joe spent about 30 minutes suggesting the President of the United States is mentally unstable. A lot of words like “anxious,” “afraid,” and “crazy” were bandied about.
In addition to those superlatives, however, was another theme carped on directly by Joe Scarborough and historian Jon Meacham: “Memory.” The two men both said that the president’s recent behavior suggested something was specifically amiss with his memory.
The clip above opens with show regular Steve Rattner arguing that Trump’s behavior was unlike anything he’s ever seen. “This is all loony toons,” he said.
“This is so unbalanced. This is so. He is not well,” said Scarborough. “You actually had yesterday the President of the United States attacking the Justice Department — his Justice Department — for a decision he signed off on. It’s almost as if he doesn’t remember he signed off on it. It’s almost as if he doesn’t remember all the things he said about making it a better executive order.”
That’s interesting.
A few minutes later, Meacham picked up on the theme as well. After comparing Trump to late stage Nixon and dropping the term “Shakespearian mad king,” the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer said this:
“I don’t know about his long term memory, but I know he has no short term memory … Whether he remembers that he signed off on this new order or not, he’s assuming that the rest of us, or at least a significant number of the rest of us are either too slow or too perverse to remember it as well.”
The speculation about Trump’s memory, in addition to the larger conservation about his mental health, is sure to fuel the fires of those advocating the 25th amendment option to remove Trump from office.
The radical theory holds that Trump could be ousted outside the formal impeachment process if a majority of cabinet officials and the Vice President deem him mentally unfit to serve. The idea was openly floated in a recent New York Times Op-Ed. Trump’s longtime consigliere, Roger Stone, has also warned that the president’s enemies would step up efforts to insinuate Alzheimer’s disease for the same purpose.
We’ll see.
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