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The greatest threat facing the United States is its own president
Washington Post ^ | July 4, 2017 | David Rothkopf

Posted on 07/04/2017 2:07:34 PM PDT by lowbridge

That is where we are now. The president’s tweeting hysterically at the media is just an element of this. So too is his malignant and ever-visible narcissism. The president has demonstrated himself to have zero impulse control and a tendency to damage vital international relationships with ill-considered outbursts, to trust very few of the people in his own government, and to reportedly rant and shout at staff and even at the television sets he obsessively watches.

Whether he is actually clinically ill is a matter for psychiatric professionals to consider. But when you take the above behaviors and combine them with his resistance to doing the work needed to be president, to sitting down for briefings, to reading background materials, to familiarizing himself with details enough to manage his staff, there is clearly a problem. Compound it with his deliberate reluctance to fill key positions in government and his wild flip-flopping on critical issues from relations with China to trade, and you come to a conclusion that it may be that Trump’s fitness to serve as president is our nation’s core national security issue.

Not only does the president diminish the office with his pettiness; he also shows disregard for constitutional principles including free speech, freedom of religion and separation of powers, and he operates as though he were above ethics laws. Daily he shows he lacks the character, discipline, intellect, judgment or respect for the office to be president of the United States. In normal times, this would be worrying. But look at the news. North Korea is moving closer to having the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon to the United States.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; antiamerica; domesticenemies; enemedia; fakemedia; fakenarrative; fakenews; liberalillness; media; mediabias; medialiars; msm; projection; propaganda; tds; trump; wapo
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To: trisham

They do reek of desperation, unfortunately their base got arrested at a hot dog eating contest.


21 posted on 07/04/2017 2:16:43 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: lowbridge

The Corporate Media works for the Deep State/’Rat Party. The Wash ComPost is Corporate Media.

Who’s America’s greatest enemy again?


22 posted on 07/04/2017 2:16:44 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Nifster
“Rothkopf is a 1977 graduate of Columbia College and attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.”

Clinton goon

Who cares


And he recently got fired from Foreign Policy magazine.
23 posted on 07/04/2017 2:18:15 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: eyedigress

:)


24 posted on 07/04/2017 2:18:38 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: lowbridge
So too is his malignant and ever-visible narcissism.

Apparently, the Washington POS was sleeping for the prior 8 years.


25 posted on 07/04/2017 2:19:49 PM PDT by Maceman (Let's ban Muslims temporarily -- just until non-Muslims can freely practice their religions in Mecca)
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To: lowbridge
That is where we are now. The president’s tweeting hysterically at the media is just an element of this. So too is his malignant and ever-visible narcissism.

WHERE THE %#&$ WAS THIS GUY BETWEEN JANUARY 20 2009 AND NOON ON JANUARY 20 A FEW MONTHS AGO?!?!?!?!?

26 posted on 07/04/2017 2:19:50 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (I don't give a damn about your feelings. Try to impress me with your convictions.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

I am actually glad the Post publishes these articles. It drives home how corrupt the media has become and only vindicates my support for Trump.


27 posted on 07/04/2017 2:19:52 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: lowbridge

The greatest threat facing the United States is the anti-Trump chorus of the so-called “fourth estate!”

And, to that point, the Washington Compost is part and parcel of the problem!

President Trump is NOT the threat; you and your LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist/Communist American hating Quislings are, Compost!


28 posted on 07/04/2017 2:20:22 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: lowbridge

From his standpoint, he is right: Trump is the the greatest threat to liberalism.


29 posted on 07/04/2017 2:20:25 PM PDT by djpg (.)
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To: lowbridge

The author sits naked in a corner, playing with his own poop.


30 posted on 07/04/2017 2:21:24 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Sun Tzu Trumps Saul Alinsky)
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To: lowbridge

But obama isn’t president anymore ...


31 posted on 07/04/2017 2:21:56 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Kid Shelleen

Yep. They are the only ones getting muddy.

Trump will put out another tweet and the suicide watch for the Post will need to double.


32 posted on 07/04/2017 2:23:33 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: lowbridge

“president’s tweeting hysterically...malignant and ever-visible narcissism...zero impulse control.... tendency to damage vital international relationships with ill-considered outbursts....to trust very few of the people in his own government....reportedly rant and shout at staff and even at the television.... sets he obsessively watches.
Whether he is actually clinically ill is a matter for psychiatric professionals to consider.”

Oh gosh, Pussygate didn’t work, Russia didn’t work, now it’s mental illness 25th amendment games. Silliness.


33 posted on 07/04/2017 2:23:38 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: lowbridge

While that was true for the previous administration, the America voters have corrected the problem.
We’re good now.


34 posted on 07/04/2017 2:23:47 PM PDT by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: lowbridge
The president has demonstrated himself to .... trust very few of the people in his own government

Justifiably. Deep-staters, not his own appointments. Hence, the dire need to drain the freaking swamp already.

35 posted on 07/04/2017 2:24:05 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: lowbridge

narcissism, hmmm kind of like this reporter thinking his opinion matters more than three democratically elected President.


36 posted on 07/04/2017 2:26:23 PM PDT by edzo4 (Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
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To: lowbridge

Where was David Rothkopf the last eight years, Mars?

5.56mm


37 posted on 07/04/2017 2:26:32 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: lowbridge

Our President isn’t a threat. The marxists and the democrat party are the real threat to America. I know, I know, I repeat myself? Happy Independence Day Free Republic!!! May our Republic continue in peace and prosperity for the next thousand years!


38 posted on 07/04/2017 2:27:14 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: DoughtyOne

The greatest threat to the United States, has turned out to be a free press that defaulted to print lies and try to turn people against their own duly elected government.

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My thoughts, too. This isn’t “freedom of the press.” This isn’t “opinion.” This is sedition, and this POS should be in jail.


39 posted on 07/04/2017 2:27:39 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: lowbridge
What we have here is failure to communicate.

Make no mistake: there are two fundamentally incompatible and mutually exclusive worldviews in conflict here.

One worldview has respect for American exceptionalism, Liberty, self-determination, the Rule of Law, the Constitution, and Unalienable Rights.

The other worldview—that of David Rothkopf and his ilk—relies on political correctness, political violence, pervasive corruption, victimhood, globalist propaganda, arbitrary law, and collectivist Tyranny.

Only one of these worldviews will prevail over the next American century, and We the People are currently working to ensure that Tyranny—of any flavor—will not prevail.

Choose wisely, my fellow Americans. Think! For the Enemy is at the gates...

40 posted on 07/04/2017 2:28:03 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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