Trump says he is mentally fit for the presidency — but is he?

“Trump tweets, touts his smarts,” Jan. 7 news story.

The best way to silence all of the individuals suggesting that the president may be mentally unfit would be for him to voluntarily submit to an evaluation by the mental health experts at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center when he goes for his annual checkup. Simply saying he is fit has done nothing to silence the critics who seem to leap at any perceived mistake, no matter how slight, as a sign of his failing capacities. There is no downside whatsoever for him to agree to such an exam and it would relax all of the talk in Washington about the 25th Amendment, allowing our lawmakers to get back to the business of legislating. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican, should make the suggestion to the president. It is in the interest of all citizens that this chatter be put to rest.

When someone feels the need to boast about being “like, really smart” and “a very stable genius,” you can be sure he is neither smart nor stable.

When God created Donald Trump, God created the perfect idiot. I was astonished when people voted for, and elected, a self-confessed sexual predator. I shouldn’t have been, given that evangelical Republicans rallied around an accused pedophile in Alabama, giving up the moral high ground for political expediency.

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I was drafted in 1968 and went to Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. On about the third day, all the inductees went into an auditorium after lunch. There was a lieutenant standing up front waiting to address us. He had a patch on his uniform shirt that said “jungle expert.” A recruit asked him what that was, and he puffed up and proudly asked, “Does anyone know what a jungle expert is?” Someone in the back yelled, “Yeah, a monkey.” So does that mean a stable genius is a horse?