The Atlantic Daily: The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay

[lindysalsagal]

This was a MSN email this morning.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-hegseth-speech-incoherent/684421/

Opinion by Tom Nichols •

Likewise, in Trump’s first term, the president was surrounded by people who ensured that some of his nuttiest—and most dangerous—ideas were derailed before they could reach the military. Today, senior U.S. officers have to wonder who will shield them from the impulses of the person they just saw onstage. What are officers to make of Trump’s accusation that other nations, only a year ago, supposedly called America “a dead country”? (After all, these men and women were leading troops last year.) How are they supposed to react when Trump slips the surly bonds of truth, insults their former commanders in chief, and talks about his close relationship with the Kremlin?

In 1973, an Air Force nuclear-missile officer named Harold Hering asked a simple question during a training session: “How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?” The question cost him his career. Military members are trained to execute orders, not question them. But today, both the man who can order the use of nuclear arms and the man who would likely verify such an order gave disgraceful and unnerving performances in Quantico. How many officers left the room asking themselves Major Hering’s question?

[Blues Heron]

1. Every day more and more people are waking up to the horrible truth- Trump is criminally insane

[CrispyQ]

2. Well, there were 800 or so people in that room who could do something about it. Will they?

No one else has. The media & the Republican congress are all either cowards or sold out their country for perks. The Democrats have no power, but IMO, we wouldn't be here if they had acted like a true opposition party the past 45 years. This predicament is mostly on the repubs & media, but we're not completely blameless.