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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is destroying all of this because he is clinically insane. We are truly fucked.

And not just the beauty of Jackie's Rose Garden but our democracy and the supportive capacity of our
planet too.
American Democracy Ended This Weekend . This is documented competitive authoritarian consolidation.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220537225
NASA ordered to destroy two climate change monitoring satelites
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220537042
Yesterday afternoon I watched the smoke from Canadian wildfires which are the result of climate change from
my little house in Columbus, OH.
Emile
(43,288 posts)up the mess this idiot caused.
no_hypocrisy
(55,390 posts)He would start cooking stuff on the stove (1-2 pots) and then literally leave the kitchen to return to his den to watch FOX News. Burners still on.
He wouldn't walk his dog. Had a neighbor do it. The dog then shit all over my late mother's $40,000 Persian rugs (rendering them worthless). And he'd yell at me (!) when I bent over to pick up the dried shit on the carpet of his den.
The house fell to wrack and ruin, including prominent leaks in the roof.
He put a window air conditioner in an adjoining room to cool off, but not in the window in his den where he stayed most of the day. (Nothing wrong with the two windows in the den)
On summer days when the temperature was over 90 degrees, he purposely left his dog in his locked car, where the temperature was over 120 degrees.
He got into dozens of fender-benders but kept his license because he paid off the damages in cash in return for not calling the police.
He had trees cut down on our property that were over 100 years old, just because.
During SuperStorm Sandy, he intended to get a generator. Nothing wrong with that except he thought he could pick up the phone during this crisis and get one delivered within hours -- and he intended to install it in the garage underneath the house (where you should never install it.)
SS Sandy Part II: Even though we still had propane gas for the stove, Dad refused to eat breakfast that I prepared. He insisted on driving about 10 miles away to dine at a nearby regional hospital where visitors were served. This is significant because: 1) Having no electricity, the garage door couldn't be engaged. Dad pushed it opened, and it was a heavy door; 2) Heavy tree branches and downed electrical wires covered the streets. That didn't stop Dad. 3) The region was in crisis with no electricity, no heat, no gas. And Dad essentially took a joy ride to a hospital where one would guess that only people in crisis would go to. 4) Gas stations were closed, making gas limited. Everyone was saving their fuel -- except Dad.
There's more, but you get the gist.
Emile
(43,288 posts)no_hypocrisy
(55,390 posts)Botany
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It is hard to deal with.
Tell me that is not the room of a crazy man. All that gold crap, the tacky ass gold things mounted on the white
marble over the fire place, his golf trophies he won @ his own courses, a model of the plane that some
country unloaded on him, and just the look on his face.

MadameButterfly
(4,160 posts)Is he didn't need dementia to act like this.
it may be worse because of his dementia, but you can't really tell what is dementia and what is the original Donald Trump.
womanofthehills
(11,040 posts)When she stayed with me - I live rural - closest tiny town (900 population) she refused to eat my breakfasts and Im a great cook. Wanted me to drive her (25 miles round trip ) every morning to a not very good restaurant. Needless to say, against her wishes I got her into senior living.
Walleye
(45,506 posts)gordianot
(15,799 posts)When you have been adjudicated, clinically, insane the court excuses your behaviors. Clinically insane is not a psychiatric or psychological term but entirely a legal term. Donald Trump is well aware of his behavior. Having got to observe several of these court proceedings. I know the difference. Someday, some court somewhere may determine Donald Trump is insane and not responsible for his behaviors. I wish people would stop giving Donald Trump a pass. He may be mentally ill, but thank God hes not been determined to be insane.
LymphocyteLover
(10,161 posts)B.See
(8,870 posts)LymphocyteLover
(10,161 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,537 posts)And a really awful person. I don't care about his clinical conditions, he needs to pay for his misdeeds.
niyad
(134,045 posts)dalton99a
(95,350 posts)womanofthehills
(11,040 posts)Also of speaker of the House.
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