Is being unfit for presidency the same as being mad?
Amid rising questions on his mental health, Donald Trump took a 10-minute cognitive fitness test last week. The result was deeply satisfying for the 71-year-old. He scored a 30 on 30 and was in "excellent health," the White House recently announced. Trump sure is unfit for presidency, but does that make him mentally unstable? Are we not confusing two very different incapacities here?
Even Trump's closest confidants don't trust his decision making, leadership
The anti-Trump revelations in Michael Wolff's recently-released explosive book Fire and Fury only confirmed the President's irrational, volatile behavior and wildly improbable, elusive guesstimations he often presents as the absolute truth. Not just critics or opponents, even people in Trump's inner circle have called him "crazy" time and again, questioning his sanity, intelligence and suitability for the presidential office.
When Trump had to give proof of his often-questioned genius
Trump isn't crazy; he's Trump
Engineer-attorney Barbara Res, who first met the American President 40 years ago, and went on to work closely with him for the next 16 years, best describes the Trump phenomenon. In a Daily News opinion piece published on Tuesday, she calls "mishaps, malapropisms, threats and contradictions hallmarks of Trump's persona." He is known to change "his direction midstream, even midsentence," she adds.
A silly opportunist who doesn't mean what he says
Res calls Trump "mercurial, difficult, demanding, mean and petulant" but also "charming, witty, effusive and confident." "Trump today is not really different from the man I worked for, he is just more so, but not crazy," she writes. Ivana Trump, Donald's first wife, agrees. "Sometimes he says the things which are silly or he doesn't really mean," she said on Monday.
