Yesterday morning I wrote “Not merely unglued: Ex-CIA Chief and I were alarmed by Trump's Alec Baldwin Tweet” (which so far 214 Kossacks have commented on — thank you)
By evening The Washington Post confirmed everything in this story.
Trump is not merely unglued!
What we are observing, what the 20 insiders told The Washington Post, illustrates that colloquial terms don't convey how grave the situation with Trump is. This is what concerned mental health professionals have been saying for well over a year. Trump is a malignant narcissist and the more stressed out he is the more unpredictably dangerous he becomes.
Today it is a trade war. As pundits have joked with gallows humor, this is better than a nuclear war.
The Post story is the news of the weekend, at least on MSNBC and every other objective news station (right).
Not everyone has a subscription to The Washington Post, so here are some excerpts (emphasis added):
Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center.
These are the darkest days in at least half a year, they say, and they worry just how much farther President Trump and his administration may plunge into unrest and malaise before they start to recover. As one official put it: “We haven’t bottomed out.”
Trump is now a president in transition, at times angry and increasingly isolated. He fumes in private that just about every time he looks up at a television screen, the cable news headlines are trumpeting yet another scandal.
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In an unorthodox presidency in which emotion, impulse and ego often drive events, Trump’s ominous moods manifested themselves last week....
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Retired four-star Army general Barry McCaffrey said the American people — and Congress especially — should be alarmed.
“I think the president is starting to wobble in his emotional stability and this is not going to end well,” McCaffrey said. “Trump’s judgment is fundamentally flawed, and the more pressure put on him and the more isolated he becomes, I think, his ability to do harm is going to increase.”
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Still, the developments have delivered one negative headline after another, leading Trump to lose his cool — especially in the evenings and early mornings, when he often is most isolated, according to advisers.
For instance, aides said, Trump seethed with anger last Wednesday night over cable news coverage of a photo, obtained by Axios, showing Sessions at dinner with Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, .…