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Trump's latest freak-out is a national emergency: security expert
President Donald Trump’s seeming cognitive decline is so pronounced, it has been noticed by everyone from his relatives to his closest advisers. Yet according to a retired professor from the US Naval War College, Trump’s mental health problems are now the problem of all America — and his freak out over losing a politically-motivated prosecution illustrates the point. “Many Americans—and much of the rest of the world—have become inured to Donald Trump’s strange rants,” wrote The Atlantic's Tom Nichols on Tuesday. “When he shouts about sharks, when he drones on about his brilliant uncle, when he casually ponders violating the Constitution, his supporters try to dress his statements up as some kind of strategy: He’s not lost touch with reality, you see. He’s doing the weave, or he’s owning the libs. He’s fighting the fake news and flooding the zone. He knows what he’s doing.” Nichols added, “These excuses have never really held much water. But his rant yesterday about the Reflecting Pool (speaking of things that don’t hold water) was a warning that the president has encased himself in the hard amber of irrationality that inevitably surrounds authoritarian leaders. He has become detached from reality—and that detachment is extremely...
