The 50th Weak of Donald the Dangerous

National security expert reveals why it would be impossible to stop Trump from starting a nuclear war

Jonathan Capehart, the Pulitzer Prize winning opinion writer now with The Washington Post, reported on the potential of President Donald Trump starting a nuclear war while guest hosting AM Joy on MSNBC.

“One hallmark of Trump’s first year in office has been the increasing isolation of America on the world stage,” Capehart explained. “There was his internationally condemned decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and recognize the city as the country’s capital, then of course the backlash, not to mention the verbal sparring between Trump and Kim Jong-Un, fueled by the erratic behavior that led one of my guests to list none other than Donald Trump as the world’s biggest nuclear threat — of this year and next.”

Capehart introduced Joe Cirincione, the president of Ploughshares Fund and the author of Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late. Cirincione authored the Defense One article identifying President Trump as the world’s greatest nuclear threat.

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At 7:37 PM, Fox News’ chyron read that Kim Jong-un “says he has a nuclear button.” Two minutes later, President Donald Trump tweeted in an apparent response.

First flagged by Media Matters’ Matt Gertz, the short amount of time between Fox’s headline and the president’s bombastic tweet offers powerful evidence that the right-wing network “is going to get us all killed.”

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North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
4:49 PM - Jan 2, 2018

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President Trump on Wednesday ripped former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon for his incendiary criticism of the president and his family published in a new book.

“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency,” Trump said. “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”

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President Donald Trump prefers to spend his evenings in bed by 6:30 p.m. to eat a cheeseburger, watch TV and make phone calls, according to a bombshell new book.

Michael Wolff spoke to numerous sources involved in President Donald Trump’s campaign and the first year of his administration, and they describe a surprised and unprepared president struggling to make sense of his new life, according to excerpts published in New York magazine.

The president often dined with chief strategist Steve Bannon, who served a source for Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, but Wolff reported that Trump preferred to get into bed early and spend the evening gossiping with friends over the phone as he watched three television screens.

“As details of Trump’s personal life leaked out, he became obsessed with identifying the leaker,” Wolff reported. “The source of all the gossip, however, may well have been Trump himself. In his calls throughout the day and at night from his bed, he often spoke to people who had no reason to keep his confidences. He was a river of grievances, which recipients of his calls promptly spread to the ever-attentive media.”

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Just when you think nothing Donald Trump does can surprise you, this happens.
The "this" to which I am referring is a statement from Trump himself (!) released Wednesday afternoon in which he absolutely crushes his longtime political adviser Steve Bannon. And I mean CRUSHES. Into. Very. Small. Bits.
It's among the most remarkable statements I've ever read from any politician in any office ever -- and has to be a top five oddest statement ever made by a sitting US president. Here it is, in full -- because nothing else would do it justice:
"Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.

"Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn't as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn't represent my base -- he's only in it for himself.
"Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.
"We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down."

Holy crap.

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JackLuis said:

Donald Trump just took a flamethrower to Steve Bannon

The worm turns!

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phrodeau said:

Such remarkable restraint in our President. He never mentioned the autofellatio.

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Yale School of Medicine’s Law and Psychiatry Division professor Dr. Bandy Lee was summoned to Capitol Hill in November to brief lawmakers on the 25th Amendment and President Donald Trump’s mental state, Politico reports.

On Dec. 5 and 6, Dr. Lee warned lawmakers, “he’s going to unravel, and we are seeing the signs.”

The private briefings included a Republican senator who Dr. Lee declined to identify.

Dr. Lee edited the bestselling book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, featuring the work of 27 psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health experts to assess President Trump’s mental health.

“One senator said that it was the meeting he most looked forward to in 11 years,” Lee recalled. “Their level of concern about the president’s dangerousness was surprisingly high.”

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) appeared on CNN Thursday and said that psychiatric professionals are alarmed at President Donald Trump’s apparent mental state and that he is showing signs of being “increasingly paranoid and delusional.”

Raskin has proposed a bill calling for an investigative body to adjudicate whether or not Trump is mentally impaired and whether or not the 25th Amendment should be invoked.

“We’re not mental health professionals, we’re not psychiatrists, that’s not our role,” Raskin said, “but we do have a defined and important role under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which is to set up a body that could act with the vice president in the event of an emergency.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Raskin how he can be so sure his politics and personal distaste for the president aren’t coloring his perceptions.

Raskin said that many Republicans have “confided their doubts” about Trump’s mental health to him.

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Fox News host Chris Wallace shot down President Donald Trump’s denials about reporter Michael Wolff’s work in the White House — which resulted in a scathing new book, Fire and Fury.

Wolff’s book reveals the chaotic inner workings of the Trump White House, where he spent hours at a time talking to staffers and watching the daily drama unfold in the West Wing — and the president insists he never approved the reporter’s visits.

“Here is the key question: What was Michael Wolff doing in the White House in the first place?” Wallace said. “The president said (Thursday) night he personally never approved it, but his administration approved it. You assume the president had some idea that Michael Wolff was going around the White House.”

Wolff claims he spoke to the president while reporting on the book, and Wallace said the journalist was set up to work in the White House by Trump’s communications office.

“I talked to a former top senior White House official who said the word came down from the communications office early in the administration to play ball with Michael Wolff,” Wallace said. “They knew there would be a bunch of books about the first year of the Trump White House, and they figured most of them would be critical and they thought that — there is a question why they thought this — they would get a fair shake from Michael Wolff.”

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gotsnowgotslush said:

The 'Gorilla Channel' is fake, but some Twitter users still thought Trump watched it

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Hypoxia said:

We can laugh and/or cry but we'd also best be ready to shiver and run. Tromp is cornered by events that threaten his position and freedom. Pretty soon he'll have nothing to lose. What will he try to do when desperation overwhelms him?

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