Posted on Feb 16, 2017
What should be done if the President is mentally ill?
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If the man at the top may be unstable - then the White House is likely to exhibit some instability - as well as some efforts by the White House staff - who are normal infighters - to undermine and replace the man at the top. The problem, however, is how to accomplish regime change (the replacement of a mentally unstable incumbent with another member of the ruling political party) within the very strict confines of the United States Constitution - and within the constraint of maintaining the full faith and confidence of the citizens. Time to bring Mike Pence up to bat.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-mental-health-new-york-times-incapable-being-president-warning-open-letter-a7578831.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/opinion/mental-health-professionals-warn-about-trump.html
http://www.lancedodes.com/new-york-times-letter
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-mental-health-new-york-times-incapable-being-president-warning-open-letter-a7578831.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/opinion/mental-health-professionals-warn-about-trump.html
http://www.lancedodes.com/new-york-times-letter
Edited 9 y ago
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We just spent 8 years with a President that was mentally ill and not even an American born citizen. Yes the United States is worse of for this happening but like many other times where we have had a bad leader the people ticked up their bootstraps. Each time we choose someone better and the country moves forward and s stronger for it. Even after the Civil War we started to come together with everyone having voting rights. This was quickly taken away again and did not come back for women until 1908. The Southern Slaves received their freedom and voting rights. Many states took these rights away and they did not fully get them back until Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and his civil rights movement. President Trump has us going the right way. Unfortunately Washington is so crooked that every time he fights with them he is the one that our media makes look bad. We are see many great times happening in the United States. I feel that after the next election and when new representative come to Washington there will be many more positive changes happening.
This question annoys me. This subject never came up with previous Presidents because it wasn't the narrative of the press or the democrats. I questioned many of the unorthodox actions of BHO during his years as President, to the extent that I didn't believe he was always dealing with a full deck, especially when giving a known deserter the press time and support. DJT is not insane. Just because he tweets, it gets the message out that is distorted if the main source is the MSM. If we were to discuss this in a more rational sense, we should consider the mental state of Andrew Jackson. He was more interested in dueling to solve a problem than to work it out diplomatically. If this was a concern for the Commander-In-Chief, this should have been addressed during the time of Andrew Jackson's administration. The 25th amendment did not get written until the 20th century. Not now just because it's DJT.
One of the jobs I held after my term of service was to attempt Psychiatric Nursing. The Socialists are emotionally disturbed because emotion is all they live by. They are incapable of actually feeling for or supporting others because of their self-centered demeanor. It's a demeanor that is at infantile extremes. Despite their claims, they are entirely incapable of empathy.
You can't make that same evaluation of Donald Trump. His emotional state is no different than any of us when we are constantly bombarded with bvllshyt. You have to hand it to a guy who affected the business world by simply being elected (ie, the Stock market sky-rocketed before he was even sworn in). Not to mention, too many of his assertions have been proven true and accusations against him false. I have full confidence in this man and his mental ability to lead this country.
You can't make that same evaluation of Donald Trump. His emotional state is no different than any of us when we are constantly bombarded with bvllshyt. You have to hand it to a guy who affected the business world by simply being elected (ie, the Stock market sky-rocketed before he was even sworn in). Not to mention, too many of his assertions have been proven true and accusations against him false. I have full confidence in this man and his mental ability to lead this country.
There is a constitutional amendment that covers that. When the House determines the President "Mentally Incapacitated" by Competent medical authority (Independent preferably) it's the Vice President and Cabinet's duty to act. This was well demonstrated in the movie "Air Force One" where Glen Close (VP) had to sign off on that very issue questioning Harrison Ford's (POTUS) loyalties to duty because of emotional stress at his families safety. In my view, the person who needed to be removed from office should have been O'Bama for Treason because of giving money to an established enemy of the state (Iran) and pulling out troops from Iraq giving rise to ISIS. We all should have know by the so-called Christian president quoting from the Koran for justifications for placating a world enemy (Islam). He should have been impeached to see if his motives were indeed favoring the enemy. Don't get me started on allowing Moslem refugees and rejecting the Christians and BaHai (known peaceful religions). I stand amazed at the inability of some vets to recognize an obvious enemy. The Koran is a battle plan and even involves subterfuge, espionage, and organized crime. Islam being a peaceful religion is as big a front as the "Prohibition Era's" speak-easy. It hides ultimate "Sharia Law" being implemented and our current president chose not to 'Aid and abet and render comfort" to the enemy as the last idiot did. That was a real Constitutional threat. Everyone from top to bottom is subject to apprehension for committing the Constitutional definition of treason.
I just don't know how we get these mental evaluations of a sitting President. Based on people who have no personal knowledge of his mental state. Just let him do his job without all the media hype. Reading some of these comments about our President is like watching Whoopi on the View. These people really believe the media is were to find truths. Unbelievable ! C-MON MAN
SrA Vern Cox
Exactly right. Observable mental incapacity can't be rendered by a biased group with a political agenda (Which I realize the military must 'tip-toe' around to avoid the temptation at military coups). The Civil war taught us about the evils of the military getting into politics. The military can only act on crimes specific to the Constitution.
SSG Edward Tilton
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