Donald Trump’s latest laughable pronouncement about being a “stable genius” who's “like, really smart” is just one more for the annals of "you can't make this sh-- up." But as long as Trump's on record defending his mental fitness, it’s time for a review of the many people around him who are pretty sure "stability" and “genius” aren’t the adjectives they'd use to describe him. The Washington Post’s Avi Selk has a round up.
GOP Sen. Bob Corker: "devolving"
He called reports that Trump had blurted out state secrets to Russia “worrisome” in May, as CNN noted. A few months later, Trump appeared to praise marchers at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and Corker used the S word:
“The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate to be successful,” he said in August.
His words shocked some in Washington. As the New York Times notes, Republican senators had called Trump unstable before — but they did so when they were running against him in the GOP primary. [...]
In October, he called the White House “an adult day care center” on Twitter and told reporters: “I’ve seen no evolution in an upward way. As a matter of fact, it seems to me it’s almost devolving.”
Former FBI director James Comey: "crazy"
Barely two months into his presidency, Trump accused former president Barack Obama of wiretapping him during the election. [...]
Comey told associates that Trump was “outside the realm of normal,” the Times reported, and “crazy.” The president fired him a few weeks later.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: "moron"
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was so frustrated with Trump by the summer that he insulted the president in front of other Cabinet officials, according to NBC News, and called Trump a “moron.”
GOP Sen. Susan Collins: "I'm worried"
While it wasn't intended to be public, a conversation last summer between Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) ended up in the news after someone left a microphone switched on after a subcommittee hearing.
The two senators were complaining about the budget process and Trump’s ignorance of governance, as The Washington Post wrote at the time.
“I think — I think he’s crazy,” Reed said. “I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.”
“I’m worried,” Collins replied.
Agreed, Sen. Collins. The difference is, you have the power to do something about it.