The actual review as admitted for " A very stable genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America" which is now in Amazon - I gave the book five stars
This is a Five Alarm fire emergency and has to be met, seriously
Reviewed January 24, 2020
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The book makes the case that Bandy X. Lee and her other board certified psychiatrists were and are right on target as to the dangerous state of Trump's mental health and risk factor Trump is for the American nation. Trump exhibits behaviors which can only be viewed as an existential threat to the survival of the nation. I lived through the events ending with the resignation of Richard Nixon, and in comparison, Trump makes Mr. Nixon as of 1974 , even when he talked to portraits of past Presidents on the walls of the White House appear stable. What is even more depressing is the tendency to go off on rage attacks against those whom do not agree with him: i.e. see the following
From the book:
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Trump by now was in one of his rages. He was so angry that he wasn’t taking many breaths. All morning, he had been coarse and cavalier, but the next several things he bellowed went beyond that description. They stunned nearly everyone in the room, and some vowed that they would never repeat them. Indeed, they have not been reported until now.
“I wouldn’t go to war with you people,” Trump told the assembled brass.
Addressing the room, the commander in chief barked, “You’re a bunch of dopes and babies.”
For a president known for verbiage he euphemistically called “locker room talk,” this was the gravest insult he could have delivered to these people, in this sacred space. The flag officers in the room were shocked. Some staff began looking down at their papers, rearranging folders, almost wishing themselves out of the room. A few considered walking out. They tried not to reveal their revulsion on their faces, but questions raced through their minds. “How does the commander in chief say that?” one thought. “What would our worst adversaries think if they knew he said this?”
This was a president who had been labeled a “draft dodger” for avoiding service in the Vietnam War under questionable circumstances. Trump was a young man born of privilege and in seemingly perfect health: six feet two inches with a muscular build and a flawless medical record. He played several sports, including football. Then, in 1968 at age 22, he obtained a diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels that exempted him from military service just as the United States was drafting men his age to fulfill massive troop deployments to Vietnam.
Tillerson in particular was stunned by Trump’s diatribe and began visibly seething. For too many minutes, others in the room noticed, he had been staring straight, dumbfounded, at Mattis, who was speechless, his head bowed down toward the table. Tillerson thought to himself, “Gosh darn it, Jim, say something. Why aren’t you saying something?”
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Is this in any sense remotely Normal, acceptable or even defensible? This sort of conduct is not one which any commander in Chief ought to engage in, and it is typical Trump. I.e. what would the JCS do if Trump decided to initiate world war III because he was insulted ?
Either way, this is it. He needs to go. NOW, from POTUS duties
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