Arkady
President
Setting aside the fact that Trump is an ignorant rage monster with no relevant experience and clear fascistic tendencies, does he have the attention span to be president? There's a reason the man's catch-phrase is two words long and he prefers to communicate in 140 characters or less. Take a look at the second debate. This is a man whose mind clearly wandered repeatedly to the point where he completely lost track of the thread of the debate.
His "responses" frequently lacked even the usual obligatory awkward transition from what was asked to what the candidate would prefer to talk about. For example, at one point, the question was "what would you do about Syria and the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo?" Clinton responded on point, acknowledging the horrible humanitarian crisis in Aleppo, identifying the cause as Russia's focus on destroying the city because it's a stronghold of anti-Assad forces, and then explaining that although we can work with Russia when it comes to fighting ISIS in Syria, she supports going forward with war crimes investigations into what they've done in Aleppo, to hold them accountable. Then it's Trump's turn. He started with a lie about her being Secretary of State when Syria crossed the "line in the sand" (a misquotation, but we'll let that pass), transitioned immediately (and bizarrely) into alleging that Russia's nuclear forces are more up-to-date than ours, then began riffing about rebels in Iraq and Libya, and randomly threw in a reference to the Iran nuclear deal. At that point, the moderator had to remind him the question was about what he'd do about the crisis in Aleppo, since none of the train wreck of disjointed phrases that he spent two minutes vomiting up had anything to do with the topic.
That wasn't even the weirdest of the many examples of him having lost track of the discussion. Directly after Trump took the extraordinary step of saying Hillary Clinton would be in jail if he were in charge of law in this country (a kind of threat we've never seen in modern political history), the moderators asked Clinton about her emails. The moderator recounted the 110 classified emails found on her system and asked incredulously how she could deny that was careless. The candidates and moderators went back and forth about her emails for four minutes, making it one of the more discussed questions of the night, not even counting the time Trump spent discussing emails earlier in the debate, a propos of nothing, when the audience question was actually about modeling good behavior in the debate. Yet, shortly after that, when the question at hand involved healthcare, Trump demanded to know why the moderators weren't bringing up the emails.... which they'd just brought up. Cooper, of course, said "we brought up the e-mails," to which Trump responded "no, it hasn’t." That was probably the first moment in this campaign where I've actually felt sorry for the guy. He seems to be suffering from some sort of dementia, and he's got the indignity of declining that way in the full glare of the public eye.
Whether or not you feel sorry for Trump in his increasingly confused state, he's clearly not someone up to the challenge of the presidency.
His "responses" frequently lacked even the usual obligatory awkward transition from what was asked to what the candidate would prefer to talk about. For example, at one point, the question was "what would you do about Syria and the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo?" Clinton responded on point, acknowledging the horrible humanitarian crisis in Aleppo, identifying the cause as Russia's focus on destroying the city because it's a stronghold of anti-Assad forces, and then explaining that although we can work with Russia when it comes to fighting ISIS in Syria, she supports going forward with war crimes investigations into what they've done in Aleppo, to hold them accountable. Then it's Trump's turn. He started with a lie about her being Secretary of State when Syria crossed the "line in the sand" (a misquotation, but we'll let that pass), transitioned immediately (and bizarrely) into alleging that Russia's nuclear forces are more up-to-date than ours, then began riffing about rebels in Iraq and Libya, and randomly threw in a reference to the Iran nuclear deal. At that point, the moderator had to remind him the question was about what he'd do about the crisis in Aleppo, since none of the train wreck of disjointed phrases that he spent two minutes vomiting up had anything to do with the topic.
That wasn't even the weirdest of the many examples of him having lost track of the discussion. Directly after Trump took the extraordinary step of saying Hillary Clinton would be in jail if he were in charge of law in this country (a kind of threat we've never seen in modern political history), the moderators asked Clinton about her emails. The moderator recounted the 110 classified emails found on her system and asked incredulously how she could deny that was careless. The candidates and moderators went back and forth about her emails for four minutes, making it one of the more discussed questions of the night, not even counting the time Trump spent discussing emails earlier in the debate, a propos of nothing, when the audience question was actually about modeling good behavior in the debate. Yet, shortly after that, when the question at hand involved healthcare, Trump demanded to know why the moderators weren't bringing up the emails.... which they'd just brought up. Cooper, of course, said "we brought up the e-mails," to which Trump responded "no, it hasn’t." That was probably the first moment in this campaign where I've actually felt sorry for the guy. He seems to be suffering from some sort of dementia, and he's got the indignity of declining that way in the full glare of the public eye.
Whether or not you feel sorry for Trump in his increasingly confused state, he's clearly not someone up to the challenge of the presidency.
