The greatest threat facing America
David Rothkopf
Special To The Washington Post
... Toward the end of the conversation, we turned to Trump's erratic behavior and I noted that for the first time in three decades in the world of foreign policy, I was getting regular questions about the mental health of the president.
I asked Petraeus .. if he thought the president was fit to serve. His response was, "It's immaterial." He argued that because the team around Trump was so good, they could offset whatever deficits he might have ... It was a stunningly weak defense.
... The president's tweeting hysterically at the media is just an element ... So too is his malignant and ever-visible narcissism. The president has demonstrated himself to have zero impulse control and a tendency to damage vital international relationships with ill-considered outbursts, to trust very few of the people in his own government, and to reportedly rant and shout at staff and even at the television sets he obsessively watches.
Whether he is actually clinically ill is a matter for psychiatric professionals to consider. But when you take the above behaviors and combine them with his resistance to doing the work needed to be president, to sitting down for briefings, to reading background materials, to familiarizing himself with details enough to manage his staff, there is clearly a problem. Compound it with his deliberate reluctance to fill key positions in government and his wild flip-flopping on critical issues .. and you come to a conclusion that ..Trump's fitness to serve as president is our nation's core national security issue ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-trump-unfit-president-0170705-story.html
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