"Something is rotten in the state of Donald Trump's mind. "No kidding," you say. "Tell us something we don't know." But I'm not talking about the bigotry and gleeful cruelty that have animated the president's second sweep through the halls of federal power. I'm saying that something is rotten in the fizzling neurons and squelching gray matter sluicing around Trump's skull-you know, the stuff that is supposed to interpret the world around him, differentiating reality from whatever phantoms must haunt septuagenarian billionaires"
"Consider that while discussing his administration's policy of extrajudicial murder in South American waters, Trump bragged that "we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like, dead." Consider as well Trump's seemingly inadvertent slip that he'd been given an MRI during his last doctor's checkup, which he described to reporters aboard Air Force One as "perfect" without explaining why he'd been ordered to take the test to begin with."
Donald Trump exhibits increasingly erratic cognitive behavior that raises concern about his ability to perceive reality while holding concentrated executive power. Public questions about his mental state have been largely absent during his second term despite growing urgency as his regime consolidates fascistic authority. Trump has publicly endorsed extrajudicial killings of people bringing drugs into the country, described an unexplained MRI as "perfect," and was filmed meandering awkwardly beside a foreign official. The public has a legitimate right to know whether the president fully grasps the material world around him.
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