The great Kevin Drum has a blog entry called “The Real Donald Trump is Losing It.” Drum does the world a favor by compiling all the things that Trump’s (mostly former) friends, colleagues, and associates have said about it. These are people who have had direct personal contact with him. Ready? Here we go!
- Unhinged, idiot, off the rails (John Kelly),
- has the understanding of a fifth grader (Jim Mattis);
- racist, misogynist and bigot (Omarosa Manigault Newman);
- dumb as shit (Gary Cohn);
- dope, intelligence of a kindergartner (H.R. McMaster);
- wholly unfit to be in office, the most divisive president in history (Cassidy Hutchinson);
- idiot (Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus);
- like an 11-year-old-child (Steve Bannon);
- moron (Rex Tillerson);
- detached from reality, shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office (Bill Barr);
- fucking liar (John Dowd);
- threatens our democracy (Mark Esper);
- laughing fool (John Bolton);
- failed at being the president (Mick Mulvaney);
- utter disgrace (Tom Bossert);
- racist, conman, cheat (Michael Cohen);
- wholly unfit to hold office ever again (Sarah Matthews);
- has never cared about America, its citizens, its future or anything but himself (Ty Cobb); shown time and time again that he's willing to put his political ambitions ahead of what's best for the country (Alyssa Farah Griffin);
- doing great and irreparable harm to my country (Gen. Mark Milley);
- undermine[d] a peaceful transition in accordance with our Constitution (Gen. Joseph Dunford);
- threat to democracy (Miles Taylor);
- very little understanding of what it means to be in the military (Richard Spencer);
- off the rails, crazy, nihilistic (Anthony Scaramucci);
- cares about no one but himself (Stephanie Grisham);
- absolutely failed (Elizabeth Neumann);
- flat-out disregard for human life (Olivia Troye);
- no principles. None. None. (Maryanne Berry Trump);
- fucking maniac (Mary Trump).
Whew! Imagine what his enemies are saying about him!
