"Is Donald Trump Mentally Fit To Hold Office?"
by Leo Hohmann
"As the world sinks deeper and deeper into what’s looking more everyday like World War III, President Trump is showing signs of having lost touch with reality. At the very moment in history when America needs sound and sober leadership, we have a man in the White House who can’t seem to tell the truth about anything. His fabrications are not even well-thought out lies; they’re just starting to sound like incoherent gibberish repeated by a mindless mockingbird.
His latest nonsensical statements include a promise that the Iran war will end “after the midterm elections,” and that he will pay every adult in America $5,000 if the Republicans win the midterms. He also said this week that when the Iran war ends, gasoline prices in America, now sitting at record highs of $4.28 a gallon on average, will plummet to $2.00 a gallon. Rather than anything based on sound policy or wise strategy, this sounds like a series of childish bribes. Vote for my guys in November and I’ll do everything I’ve been unable or unwilling to do my first two years in office. Does anyone still take any of his ramblings seriously?
Sometimes I have to pinch myself to keep believing I am not trapped inside of a bad dream. Trump has stated over 40 times that he has already won the war with Iran, that he has decimated their economy, crushed their air force, assassinated their leaders, obliterated their nuclear program, sunk their entire navy, and eliminated all effective military capability. Then Iran makes a fool of him by launching another devastating round of missile strikes against U.S. military assets in the region. Roughly half of the 20 U.S. bases in the region have been quite literally destroyed and would cost billions to rebuild.
Several U.S. fighter jets at a U.S. base in Jordan were damaged in Iranian strikes on Wednesday, sources told CBS News. There have also been reports of wounded U.S. military personnel in the latest attacks, but no details have been forthcoming from the Pentagon. Iran’s state media had previously said Tehran targeted U.S. assets across the region in retaliation for American attacks on Iranian oil tankers.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Houthis seized the key Red Sea port of Mokha on Thursday, according to military sources speaking to the AFP and Reuters. If confirmed, the move would make it easier for the Houthis to target ships transiting the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial waterway for Saudi Arabian oil exports. Saudi Arabia’s oil production has fallen by 1.9 million barrels per day to 6.2 million in August, the lowest level since 1990, as the U.S.-Iran war disrupts the kingdom’s oil exports. The war in Ukraine, which Trump promised to end within 24 hours of taking office, is also continuing to rage and taking its toll on Russia’s ability to export oil and gas.
Trump said Wednesday that Iran is desperate to affect the midterm elections before adding that the conflict would end right afterward. “I think the war will end immediately after the election, because they can’t hold out any longer,” he told reporters. In previous comments, Trump has said the conflict with Iran is not really a war and that the Strait of Hormuz is not that important.
The nationwide average price for diesel is now $6.00 a gallon. It’s well over $7 in some states. This will have to be passed along and added to the price of food and all other shipped goods. Americans are feeling it in their pocketbooks, and those who aren’t hurting yet will be in the coming weeks and months, as prices on everything delivered by truck continues to go up.
But Trump won’t back off of Iran, admit defeat, or come up with a plan B. He’s obsessed with destroying Iran, even at the cost of our own economy melting down. Meanwhile, the Republicans cheer themselves on and gaslight Americans at their midterm political convention in Texas. Everything is great. Never been better. Trump is our savior. Trust the plan! It’s all rather surreal.
Much of the media coverage of the U.S.-Iran war is described in terms of “tit-for-tat” escalations. They say Trump is “looking for an off ramp” but he never seems to find one. That’s a deception in itself. Yes, Trump has gotten in over his head in Iran. I believe he actually thought he could make quick work of the Islamic Republic and bring about its downfall simply by bombing them “into the stone ages,” as he likes to say. But his military advisers are smart enough to know that was never going to happen. Iran had 40-plus years to prepare for this attack and they didn’t waste those years. They have underground missile cities that can keep cranking out drones and ballistic missiles almost as fast as they use them. They have precision guided systems to deliver their missiles accurately. They have friends in Russia and China and North Korea.
There are almost no examples in history of a country being conquered by air strikes alone. It always requires boots on the ground. And that’s why several high-level military officers resigned or have been purged in the lead-up to this ill-advised war and in the initial weeks and months since it was started. They knew it would end in disaster. They knew we were in no position to launch a major ground war against Iran’s army and IRGC troops. We simply don’t have the numbers.
The alternative will be the unthinkable - to hit Iran with a series of tactical nuclear warheads. This, I’m sorry to inform you, is the option I believe Trump will go for when he finally realizes that there is no other way to defeat Iran. The question is, will even that defeat Iran, or just further unify the country and the world against America and Israel? It’s the question no one is seriously discussing, and they certainly should be. What happens to America in the aftermath of a nuclear strike on Iran?
There is one question to which we know the answer. Somebody is going to win this war and somebody is going to lose. And the one who wins on the battlefield may not be the one who wins in the broader court of world opinion. Paybacks can be harsh. Trump keeps repeating his mantra like a hypnotist, “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon!” But his brainwashing campaign has been ineffective. Only about a third of Americans believe his war on Iran is justified and worth the cost.
The other two-thirds could care less if Iran gets a nuclear weapon. They care about being able to afford to drive to work and they care about being able to afford to buy food for their children. And every time they go to fill up their vehicle it’s costing them $25 more than it did before Trump started this war. Food prices have spiked and are going to start increasing even faster once the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has hit rock bottom and can no longer be further drained to make up for the lack of oil coming out of the Middle East. Oil crossed over the $100 a barrel mark earlier this week and hit $108 today, September 10. China has begun to purchase oil on the open market again, putting an end to the false market conditions that were holding oil prices down for the first six months of this unnecessary war.
It’s time for Trump to face the facts, if he is mentally capable of doing so. What happened on February 28 was an ill-advised unilateral act of aggression by the U.S. and Israel that has backfired. The war was not launched to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. It was launched in hopes of triggering a regime change, throwing the country into chaos and then stealing its oil. This is the Trump modus operandi. It worked to perfection in Venezuela but it’s never going to work in Iran. They are a 3,000-year-old civilization.
Now the administration has a mess to clean up. A good cleanup operation would start with admitting defeat and putting an end to the neocon domination of America’s military and political structures, once and for all. Trump could get out of this mess by blaming it on the neocon advisers within his inner circle and firing them all. But he won’t do that. Why? Because Trump is himself a neocon warmonger sold out to Wall Street and foreign interests. He’s one of them: the Epstein class. His entire perception as a “peace president” who would end the forever wars, cut wasteful spending and right the economic ship was a fraud.
But now it’s getting even worse. We’ve had neocon presidents before who were at least somewhat measured and cautious in how they were willing to use U.S. military assets. Trump is more than just another neocon. He’s mentally unstable. And that’s a deadly combination.
Below is an excerpt from the British Medical Journal at bmj.com, which reports that 30 psychiatrists and medical doctors have now gone on the record saying they are convinced Trump is dangerously unstable and “unfit to serve.” Thirty U.S. psychiatrists and other doctors specializing in mental health have signed a statement declaring President Donald Trump mentally unfit to serve, warning that his ability to launch nuclear weapons is a “danger” to the world. The signatories say that Trump’s behavior over the past year has shown “objectively observable signs of serious medical concern.”
They cited examples of his “marked deterioration in cognitive functioning,” “episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings,” “severely impaired judgment and impulse control,” and “significant loss of self-control,” as well as “grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission.” The doctors called for Trump’s immediate removal from office, arguing that he presents a “clear and present danger” to the whole world.
There’s something going on here that is even bigger than Trump. We have a system of government that has become so corrupt that it promotes up the ladder the most ill-qualified individuals to the highest office. Both Trump and his predecessor, Joe Biden, have been accused of being mentally unstable. What does that say about our country, when the worst among us get elevated to the highest offices?
Sometimes the hardest thing is to admit you were wrong. But I’ve done it so I know it is possible. I voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and again in 2024. I have publicly stated that I was wrong and should have exercised better discernment. I now regret those votes. The first vote got us Covid lockdowns and Operation Warp Speed, and the third vote got us into another forever war in the Middle East. Both destroyed economies, lives and livelihoods, and I’m afraid we still haven’t seen the worst of Trump’s second term. Humility is the beginning wisdom but pride goes before a fall."
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"You can’t make this stuff up….Hey, they already did!"
Trump’s latest line, $5,000 to every adult American if Republicans win the midterms, had me thinking, “You can’t make this stuff up.” Then I remembered they already did. It’s called "Idiocracy." Things are so unhinged now that laughing is the only way to stay sane. Enjoy the clip! Strong language alert!
Trump! LOL
"Idiocracy: President Camacho"
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