‘How Trump Could Get Fired’: The New Yorker Questions Trump’s ‘Mental Health’


This week, the New Yorker published a wishful piece of liberal journalism titled “How Trump Could Get Fired.” In the article, they provide what they think is the most likely way to get rid of the democratically-elected president.

Trump’s critics are actively exploring the path to impeachment or the invocation of the Twenty-fifth Amendment, which allows for the replacement of a President who is judged to be mentally unfit. During the past few months, I interviewed several dozen people about the prospects of cutting short Trump’s Presidency. I spoke to his friends and advisers; to lawmakers and attorneys who have conducted impeachments; to physicians and historians; and to current members of the Senate, the House, and the intelligence services. By any normal accounting, the chance of a Presidency ending ahead of schedule is remote. In two hundred and twenty-eight years, only one President has resigned; two have been impeached, though neither was ultimately removed from office; eight have died. But nothing about Trump is normal. Although some of my sources maintained that laws and politics protect the President to a degree that his critics underestimate, others argued that he has already set in motion a process of his undoing. All agree that Trump is unlike his predecessors in ways that intensify his political, legal, and personal risks. He is the first President with no prior experience in government or the military, the first to retain ownership of a business empire, and the oldest person ever to assume the Presidency.

But The New Yorker doesn’t just think that Trump is not fit due to his qualifications. They also suggest that his mental health may be unwell.

There has been considerable speculation about Trump’s physical and mental health, in part because few facts are known. During the campaign, his staff reported that he was six feet three inches tall and weighed two hundred and thirty-six pounds, which is considered overweight but not obese. His personal physician, Harold N. Bornstein, issued brief, celebratory statements—Trump’s lab-test results were “astonishingly excellent”—mentioning little more than a daily dose of aspirin and a statin. Trump himself says that he is “not a big sleeper” (“I like three hours, four hours”) and professes a fondness for steak and McDonald’s. Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.

That the liberal press continues to dream about disposing of Trump before the end of his term shows how little they respect the Democratic process. They didn’t get what they wanted — despite their best efforts to usher in a Clinton presidency — so now they’re attacking the president’s mental health and praying for his removal.

And they wonder why people no longer trust the media.

Source: The New Yorker



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