After several years of reluctant denial, our persistent ethos regarding accuracy obliges us to radically alter our prior working theory that the Trump Administration is adequately desc incompetent and corrupt; we have arrived at the more specific and clinical decision that it empirically exceeds the pale of clinical sanity. The descriptive observation that “the inmates are running the asylum” appears to be frighteningly apt.
The fun-house mirror of quotidian distortion of objective reality has become the mundane reality of a polity, managed by a leader whose descriptive behavior may be more accurately noted by future students of American History in the DSM, rather than in the historical record.
The American public should have taken Donald Trump’s persistent support of “alternative facts” more seriously, if not characterologically clinical. There is no more existentially vital feature of a human being (let alone the President of the United States) than the clear and accurate perception of reality. The populist underbelly of the Nation reveled in Trump’s dissociative approach to empirical reality, no doubt misperceiving it as representative of a rebellion against the establishment, the cause of their many grievances with the quality of their limited and reductive lives.
For the moment, to put aside his anomalous selection of a menagerie of bizarre cabinet ministers, Trump’s record of behavior, in addition to his irrationally chosen policies, is indicative, not of the pursuit of a desired policy, but rather the lashing out of an assertive, reality-testing adolescent personality searching for an idealized love and esteem from a universal panel of representative and determinative human judiciary. His persona and actions, notwithstanding such existential need, foreclose him from admiration; indeed, from empirical normalcy.
We have painfully referenced many of Trump’s outrageously bizarre, counter-societal actions in past writings, but, in the interest of thematic context, will reprise some of Trump’s abnormalities by contrasting him with past American Presidents and allow the readers to draw their own conclusion concerning the mental and characterological fitness of our orange-hair dyed “Mad Hatter” Head of State.
Would Alexander Hamilton eternally wear a baseball cap? Would Woodrow Wilson sell golden sneakers from the Oval Office? Would FDR refer to the young Americans who lost their lives in WW2 as “suckers” and “losers”? Would Jimmy Carter frequent the sex establishment of Jeffrey Epstein? Would Abraham Lincoln unilaterally decide to demolish the East Wing of the United States White House? Would Lyndon Johnson decide, unilaterally, to bomb foreign countries without Congressional approval? Would Abraham Lincoln befriend the leaders of America’s White, Christian militias? Would either of the Bush Presidents withdraw medical and food relief to the needy? Would Teddy Roosevelt denounce the Nation’s programs of natural conservation? Would Woodrow Wilson, with the aid of a chainsaw-wielding, billionaire idiot savant, eliminate the utilitarian Federal Civil Service? Would Barack Obama impose tariffs on America’s trading partners, in some ignorant illusion that he will thereby improve the Nation’s economy?
The existential danger in Donald Trump’s actions is not simply his ignorant and reductionist lack of understanding, but the underlying lack of discernment, caused by an empirically proven mental incapacity; this is far from the acceptable persona of the Chief Executive of the most powerful nation on the planetm empirical avatar of democratic polity, and precariously, the singular possessor of the nuclear code.
We have eternally recommended the careful vetting of all Presidential candidates, failing which, the timely implementation of the Constitutional provisions for the removal of a disabled Chief Executive.
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