TRUMP’S DEEP (MENTAL) STATE
‘Genius’ Prez tweets that he’s ‘like, really smart’ & ‘stable’
PRESIDENT TRUMP is not crazy; he’s brilliant. Just ask him.
Trump defended his mental state on Saturday, calling himself a “very stable genius” — days after the release of excerpts from a White House tell-all claimed many of his top aides think he acts “like a child.”
Trump took to Twitter to boast about his intelligence and competence, saying that “my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.”
Trump said he went from being a very successful businessman to top TV star “to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius. . . and a very stable genius at that!”
The comments followed the release of Michael Wolff’s explosive book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” detailing what the author described as the chaotic incompetence of the Trump administration.
The White House and Trump have denied the claims made in the tome, including quotes from senior aides describing the President as an “idiot,” “dumb” and a “dope.”
He also insisted that his opponents and the media are attacking his smarts because they have failed to prove his campaign conspired with Russia during the 2016 election.
Trump accused Democrats and the “Fake News Mainstream Media” of “taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence” now that “Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public.”
Reagan died of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease more than a decade after he left office.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 election is ongoing.
Trump’s former chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, is extensively quoted in the book further angering the President. Bannon told Wolff that one of the meetings between Trump campaign officials, including the President’s son and son-in-law, and Russians was “treasonous,” according to the book.
The President, spending the weekend at Camp David with many of his cabinet members and Republican leaders, again denied that anyone in his inner circle did anything wrong.
“Everything I’ve done is 100% proper,” Trump said. “That’s what I do, is I do things proper.”
He added later, “Just so you understand, there’s been no collusion, there’s been no crime.”
Trump also said he continues to have confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whom he has publicly berated for recusing himself from the Russia probe, even though he was not invited to the weekend talks.
Turning his attention back to his own intelligence, Trump said his past proves he’s mentally fit enough to handle the highest office in the country.
“Only because I went to the best colleges, or college,” Trump said, flanked by GOP congressional leaders.
“I had a situation where I was a very excellent student, came out, made billions and billions of dollars, became one of the top business people, went to television and for 10 years was a tremendous success, which you’ve probably heard.”