Been saying this for awhile. The media created this monster and has continually bolstered a better reputation for him than he deserves. I've no doubt this man has physical and mental ailments that absolutely compromise his ability to hold office, and probably has for some time. Unless someone in the know speaks up we'll probably just have to wait for him to keel over and die to know for sure.

Fully agree. I hate these clickbait articles that for example say“Here is why Trump wants to annex Canada as the 51st state” to proceed explaining me about Canada’s strategic location and it’s mineral resources.

No Trump does not have a rational idea about why he wants to annex Canada, beyond “it looks nice on the map”, and all the mineral wealth in the world does not make up for the cost of antagonising your closest ally.

These ideas are all completely bonkers. You may have discovered a rational justification, but 1. Trump is not a rational actor, and 2. The justification is always insufficient to cover the damage it does to the US, and the world.

Eh, there can be as many theories and rational thoughts as possible but the fact remains that Americans are passive, nothing will change and the people taking action know this. They just pushed full steam ahead and there's almost no resistance. The people who are already in government and stand to lose power are doing what they can to fight but the general population is just online sending crying emojis, repeating their latest buzzwords (did "a suit without a man" fade away yet?) and getting their feelings of accomplishment online.

It's bizarre to see a country like the USA be so passive. Absolutely amazing.

Dementia, insanity and morally devoid are not mutually exclusive you can indeed be a demented psychopath who happens to be devoid of morality and potentially insane.

It isn't even that. He is just going senile and is surrounded by a bunch opportunists and basically just repeats whatever the last person said to him. The increasing simple (it was Always simple but seems to be getting worse) language he uses sounds like someone with dementia if you have ever encountered someone with it.

My particular flavor of that is he realizes he was going to prison or worse based on all the legal proceedings against him. The only way to prevent that was to become president and redirect the DOJ. He was desperate.

Now, his goal is to remain president because if he loses office, he'll be prosecuted again, at least at the state level where he can't self-pardon. Therefore he will do literally anything to remain in the presidency until he dies. I think that's his plan and nothing else really matters to him.

What follows from that is he needs enough people around him to support the plan until he can disarm any part of the government that would remove him from office. He's willing to do anything Musk wants because Musk demonstrated that Musk will dump a practically unlimited amount of money into any political race as needed, and Trump needs that to hold Congressional seats and eventually governorships and state legislatures.

The rest of it is Trump playing out his vindictive nature, the side effect being the fewer people in government, the more likely they're able to maintain control, perhaps by suspended elections, martial law, etc.

There's going to be plenty of unemployed people in DC with time on their hands. We'll see if that turns into a situation like the Bonus Army.

Came here to say this. He's totally sane, that's part of the fucking problem. He's just a monster and yet he's worshipped by so many. Working for him must be horrible even at distance.

I'm too stupid to get in trouble needs to stop being a get out jail free card.

If he just wanted to destroy the US, he'd be more subtle about it. I'm not saying he doesn't want to do that, but he's simply incapable of doing anything well. He's as comically unqualified for the job as it's possible to be. Literally any person, animal or inanimate object could do a better job than him.

Being insane and dangerous aren't mutually exclusive.

The complete absence of accountability and the power he has makes his insanity more dangerous, not less.

And Putin wants chaos in the West.

Nope, no one in the Republican party has the balls to do it and why would they when Trump is giving them everything they want? There's no going back now, he broke rules that weren't made to be broken. Also in case you forgot NOTHING a Alzheimer's president does is illegal now. We have lost any sort of way of getting rod of him because our entire country is spineless.

There's no normal, and there never was.

Trump is doing exactly what the people who put him there want him to do. Imagine you wanted to rob a bank, and you managed to acheive the ability to unlease Godzilla on the city. He'll knock the bank building down, opening the vault for you to plunder, and keep emergency services too busy to stop you. You could loot the entire city, and when it's over, buy the decimated land for cheap and get the government to pay you to rebuild it. There's literally no downside to you, because all the harm is done to other people.

I thought his name was Vladimir.