Dem From ‘Unwell’ Hot Mic Goes Off Over Trump Decline on CNN

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) went off on President Donald Trump over his fitness to serve on the heels of a hot mic moment during which she confronted Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) about the “unwell” president.

During a confrontation that was caught on camera, Dean told Johnson “The president is unhinged. He is unwell,” to which the speaker replied “A lot of folks on your side are too” — seen by many as a tacit admission about Trump.

Dean was a guest on Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, during which guest anchor John Berman asked her to elaborate on the charge that Trump is unwell. Rep. Dean did so in detail:

BERMAN: You just called the President unwell again. What do you mean by that?

DEAN: Well, he’s aging, aren’t we all? I think we can very much notice that. He’s a different man than he was in his first term. He’s slower, he’s a little more lethargic. But much more important to me is what he is saying before the world.

That meeting with the generals, number one, allowing the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, to call in more than 800 military leaders from around the globe was an extraordinarily dangerous, reckless vain thing to do on both of their parts, pulling them out from the theaters where they are working and leading, and then to stand before them rambling about how he walks on stairs, what wars he solved, that he doesn’t like the design of battleships? Does he want them to be gold or something? Just bizarre comments that meandered.

I noted that one of the generals, I’m somebody who takes a lot of notes whenever I’m in some meetings. And apparently some of the generals were trying to take notes, and they just abandoned their notes because it was incoherent. And very dangerous. Sending a message to other world leaders, that what you thought was the United States as the indispensable nation as Madeleine Albright used to talk about maybe is very much less so.

I am gravely worried for the leadership of the United States. I want this President to succeed. But it is clear to me that he is unwell and I think the people around him have to recognize that and go to him and admit it to him.

Watch above via Anderson Cooper 360.