Wm. McPhail nails it in his New Yorker cartoon ..

[Akamai]

38. Al Franken in the earliest days of Air America posed the question like this: A voice comes over the

speaker system in a plane, saying: "Our captain and co-captain are incapacitated -- can anyone back there fly a plane?"

And at that point (in the joke), Joe Garigiola, the baseball player, is urged by friends on board that flight. "Joe, you can do it! Go fly the plane!"

And so Joe lumbers forward, maybe not willingly, and flies the plane and it crashes immediately into the side of a mountain.

Al Franken then said: "If you sit in the pilot's chair, you are assuring others that you can do the job." And Trump has shown no sign he is able to do the job. (Actually, this cartoon is so close to the Al Franken joke that it may have been based on a joke like that.)

My uncle was a captain in the navy for 20 years in command of a missile frigate and he said that to be captain, you had to take all responsibilities associated with the job. Bush was an example of what happens when we have a president not up for the job. (And so was Reagan.)