Opinion, Government

Mental Illness and Civic Responsibility

When you look at President Trump, what do you see? And should you say something?

Screen Capture from a social media post of Donald J. Trump

Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently expressed regret that the press is reluctant to report on Donald Trump’s mental decline. Reich is right. We are not reading enough about the President’s state of health in the mainstream media. Because so much depends on the President’s ability to fulfill their duties, Americans need to know that their President is healthy and fit for the job.

Much of the press, unfortunately, has become reluctant to write negative things about the President, fearing retribution or a billion-dollar lawsuit. Mainstream media’s reluctance is understandable, even though the constant stream of lawsuits and threats of abusive regulatory actions, such as revoking broadcast licenses, is itself evidence of what many of us see as the President’s mental instability.

In recent weeks, I have raised the President’s apparent decline with friends and asked them whether they see the same things that I do. For the most part, these conversations confirm that it isn’t Trump Derangement Syndrome or just distaste for the President’s policies that have caused me to conclude that the President, and, more…