>> White House and executive agency staff have shared, under the condition of anonymity, that they have profound concerns about Trump’s mental health and are of the belief he is unfit for office.
... There are also questions about his temperament. While this is a common topic of conversation outside of the White House, to have White House and executive agency staff mentioning it is frightening. He is obsessed with his image and media coverage and writes Saturday Night Live viewings and his staffer’s interviews into his schedule. He has claimed a fascination with the phone system inside the White House, but has filed a formal complaint to obtain softer hand towels for Air Force One. These are just some of the examples provided which tell us that tiny things provoke him to emotional extremes. He fluctuates between “great joy or …intense irritation” due to things as minuscule as the softness of hand towels.
... Elliot Cohen, former State Department under George W. Bush who now works at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies... referenced the diagnosis provided by Johns Hopkins’ top psychotherapist: that Trump is mentally ill and is plagued with “malignant narcissism.” <<
ALL of which, and far more, were in ready evidence for a full year and a half before the election, let alone for the decades that Rump has been throwing himself in front of any TV camera that has a red light on. And all of which those with eyes to see shouted from the rooftops for that duration. Clearly the message was ignored by the two entities that had to hear it; (a) the 46% of the voters who went that way, and when that was ignored, (b) the Electoral College, whose job it's supposed to be specifically to prevent this from happening.
