Mr. Trump was emotionally/psychologically unwell when he became president. His condition is clearly worsening. He's becoming more volatile, erratic and unstable. At some point he's going to blow apart. When he does it'll create a crisis. This won't end well. Pray for our country.
Peter Wehner
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Senior Fellow, @trinityforum. Writing for @nytimes & @TheAtlantic. Worked in Reagan/Bush41 administrations and Bush43 White House. Bluesky: Peter-Wehner
Joined May 2012
- President Trump has attacked Gens. Mattis, Kelly, McChrystal and McMaster (LTG), as well as McCain, Vindman and Bill Taylor. What do they have in common/what separates them from Trump? They all served honorably in the military; Mr. Trump did not. They are valorous; he is not.
- Pence is distancing himself from Trump on Ukraine. Rush is turning on Fox News. Rudy is throwing the State Department under the bus. And Trump is lashing out in all directions at once. This kind of thing happens when a scandal begins to consume a presidency. It'll get worse.
- "The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over."
- Ms. McEnany lied. With a cross hanging around her neck. The Trump era will be known for a lot of terrible things, but the corruption of professing Christians will be rather high on that list. It's a painful thing to have to say.Kayleigh McEnany on TV just now: “The president never downplayed the virus.” Donald Trump on tape with Bob Woodward: “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because I don't want to cause a panic." Ok
- "Betrayal is a core character trait of Trump’s. He’s betrayed his wives, his mistresses, his friends, his business associates, people who have worked for him, and his country. There is no person and no cause he will not double-cross."
- My take: Bret Baier has rarely looked as bad (or tendentious) as he did in his interview with Kamala Harris. On the flip side, this was one of her best interviews. She dominated Bret. All in all it was quite a bad day for MAGA world's most important media outlet.Kamala Harris: Bret, I'm sorry, and with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the enemy within that he has repeated when he is speaking about the American people. That's not what you just showed.
00:00 - Watching former Republican senators who were hyper-moralists during the Clinton presidency defend Donald Trump on CNN every chance they can highlights how morality was, for them, simply a weapon to be used against Democrats/Clinton but not Republicans/Trump. Tribalism corrupts.
- If you read @GovMikeHuckabee's tweets, you'll see a a former Southern Baptist pastor who radiates a spirit of rage, seething resentments, staggering hypocrisy. He's a moralizer who relentlessly defends a deeply immoral president. What harm he's inflicting on the Christian faith.
- Trump's obsession with tearing down John McCain is another demonstration of what a genuinely broken soul the president is. His resentment & utter lack of dignity/empathy for the family of a war hero who recently died is but one reminder of the president's disordered personality.
- Today was a somewhat unnerving day, watching the notable cognitive decline in the president. His comments are increasingly bewildering, confused, random, disjointed. I’m afraid this isn’t going to end well.
- In the showdown with Nancy Pelosi, Trump's been exposed as pitifully weak, all bluster, a pathetic negotiator. Pelosi rolled him in every way. Egged on by right wingers, the whole thing was buffoonish from start to finish. *This* is how Trump's Art of the Deal works in real life.
- This kind of cheap demagoguery is low, classless and degrading. It illustrates the ugliness that can result from political tribalism, and it's exactly the kind of thing we don't need. Take it from someone who's been a Republican longer than you: do us all a favor and stop it.Democrats hate our President more than they love our country.
- Billy Graham is one of the founders of Christianity Today, which editorialized that Mr. Trump should be removed from office. @Franklin_Graham is one of the impeached president's most rabid defenders. Which is just one reason why what CT did was impressive and necessary.




