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lpbk2713

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3. The only reason he is not institutionalized ...

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri May 12, 2017, 10:42 AM

May 2017

People close to him are too intimidated to take the first steps.

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I'm 58. I've never seen a President more unhinged than Trump [View all] steve2470 May 2017 OP

A 242 year old person would have never seen a president as unhinged as Trump. Tommy_Carcetti May 2017 #1

+1000000000 nt steve2470 May 2017 #4

geez I hope so being un-pResidented bdamomma May 2017 #5

Jackson was kinda....unique steve2470 May 2017 #20

Exactly. We've never been anywhere near here before. Hortensis May 2017 #22

You got that right workinclasszero May 2017 #29

lol.. I was thinking.. most Cha May 2017 #44

Trump, makes Nixon look like one of the really good guys. n/t RKP5637 May 2017 #2

Wellll, one of the competent guys, RKP? Hortensis May 2017 #23

Yes, definitely a better word pick! Competent! And, Nixon was not illiterate like Trump. n/t RKP5637 May 2017 #27

The only reason he is not institutionalized ... lpbk2713 May 2017 #3

No. He has obvious personality disorder but is not insane, you know. Hortensis May 2017 #26

That would work for me. lpbk2713 May 2017 #39

I'm a bit older, remember Nixon's paranoia and Reagan's Alzheimer's. But Don is in a class uppityperson May 2017 #6

There is no precedent for this behavior in a president. Zoonart May 2017 #7

There is no precedent, I'm not normalizing anything but do remember nixon&raygun uppityperson May 2017 #8

This guy makes them look like Zoonart May 2017 #9

agreed nt steve2470 May 2017 #21

That, is exactly how I remember them too. Trump, is the most dangerous I've seen or even heard of. RKP5637 May 2017 #30

Agree get the red out May 2017 #10

And, we all got a big Clue who he was during his Cha May 2017 #45

Not just presidents - I've rarely come across anybody as unhinged as tRump. manicraven May 2017 #11

I'm 60 and no LeftInTX May 2017 #12

He was never very hinged. Orsino May 2017 #13

agreed! nt steve2470 May 2017 #19

I am not a crook HockeyMom May 2017 #14

yea, that was an inappropriate thing to say but at least it made sense in the context steve2470 May 2017 #16

I'm in my early 40s and I've never seen or met a douche bag of this magnitude. Never mind Guy Whitey Corngood May 2017 #15

+1000000000 nt steve2470 May 2017 #17

The mask came off over the past couple of weeks. Grammy23 May 2017 #18

Idi Amin n/t musette_sf May 2017 #24

No one has BainsBane May 2017 #25

Me either and I've got 10 years on you. What frightens me is the Republicans Vinca May 2017 #28

agreed! nt steve2470 May 2017 #31

Yes, that is the worst part of it all. The republicans won't call out one of their own kind. They RKP5637 May 2017 #32

True, and Republicans pretty much always do... WePurrsevere May 2017 #37

I'll up-the-ante to say I've seen few people as unhinged and frankly a public menace as Trumpenstein Hugin May 2017 #33

He's as bad as I've seen. Lifelong Protester May 2017 #34

Im 61 and this guy is effing coo coo kimbutgar May 2017 #35

Nixon in his last month was almost this bad Warpy May 2017 #36

I have you beat by a year Jacquette May 2017 #38

And Dangerous Living_Progressive May 2017 #40

"American Caligula" cagefreesoylentgreen May 2017 #41

Nah, he's more like a wannabe of the often overlooked, "Emperor Commodus". Hugin May 2017 #43

thanks for that, fascinating history! steve2470 May 2017 #46

Each Republican is always worse than the last fescuerescue May 2017 #42

I'm 68, and I think he has Nixon beat with the nutter Greybnk48 May 2017 #47