OVER THE PAST WEEK, THE FIRST WEEK OF THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION, HIS BEHAVIOR HAS BEEN BIZARRE.
THE THINGS HE
CHOOSES TO FOCUS ON, HE WENT IN FRONT OF THE CIA AND STARTED
TALKING ABOUT CROWD SIZE, HE IS INTERVIEWED BY DAVID MUIR AND AS
THEY ARE LEAVING HE BRINGS THEM OVER TO LOOK AT PICTURES, HE
APPARENTLY CALLED UP THE PARKS DEPARTMENT OF DC TO GET THEM TO
RELEASE PHOTOS THAT MAKE IT LOOK BIGGER -- BIZARRE BEHAVIOR, AND
MORE AND MORE INFORMATION IS BEING LEAKED OUT OF THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION FROM AIDES WHO ARE SAYING THEY ARE WORRIED
ABOUT HIS MENTAL STATE, SAYING HE SEEMS TO OPERATE LIKE A
CHILD, YOU NEED TO CODDLE HIM, KEEP THAT INFORMATION FROM
GETTING TO HIM -- THAT IS THE INFORMATION WE ARE PERCEIVING
OURSELVES AND GETTING FROM SOME AIDES, BUT APPARENTLY IT GOES
HIGHER THAN THAT.
APPARENTLY REPORTER CARL BERNSTEIN HAS BEEN
TALKING WITH BOTH REPORTERS AND ALSO REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS IN DC,
AND HE SAYS THIS IS A GROWING FEAR ABOUT TRUMP'S STABILITY.
I THINK THERE IS A SUBTEXT HERE THAT IS UNLIKE ANYTHING
THAT I'VE SEEN IN 50 YEARS OF BEING A REPORTER, AND THAT IS
THAT I'M HEARING FROM REPUBLICANS AND OTHER REPORTERS
ARE AS WELL THAT THERE IS OPEN DISCUSSION BY MEMBERS OF THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES' OWN PARTY ABOUT HIS EMOTIONAL
MATURITY, STABILITY, PEOPLE ARE SAYING HIS PSYCHE IS DRIVING THE
NEWS CYCLE, THAT WE ARE IN UNCHARTED TERRITORY.
UNCHARTED TERRITORY, THAT IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE.
WE HAD HOW
MANY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TEMPERAMENT DURING THE PRIMARY
AND THE GENERAL ELECTION?
THAT TURNED OUT TO BE PRETTY
IMPORTANT.
THIS IS A GUY WHO'S WILLING TO SPEND THE FIRST
COUPLE DAYS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION TALKING ABOUT
CROWD SIZE AND FIGHTING AGAINST THE OBJECTIVE REALITY THAT HIS
CROWDS WERE SMALL, DOMINATED OVERWHELMINGLY BY PAST
REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS, AND FAR OVERWHELMED
BY THE WOMEN'S MARCH.
BUT HE REFUSES TO ACCEPT THOSE SMALL
FACTS WHEN HE COULD REACH OUT TO PEOPLE AND SHIFT PEOPLE'S VIEWS
OF HIM, BUT HE WON'T BECAUSE HE'S A SMALL PERSON WHO GETS
ANGRY WHEN PEOPLE KNOCK HIM.
HE WAS CONSTANTLY TALKING ABOUT CROWD SIZE DURING THE
ELECTION, ALSO.
EVERYTHING WE ARE SEEING, WE KNEW.
THE
PETTINESS WAS THERE, THE LYING WAS THERE, THE EXTREME POSITIONS
WERE THERE, EVERYONE IS LIKE, WHEN HE GETS THERE HE WON'T DO
IT.
LOOK WHAT HE'S DOING, LOOK AT THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
IT'S
SOMETHING PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO GET USED TO, AND THAT IS WHERE,
GOING BACK TO WHERE WE WERE BOOK- ENDING THIS A LITTLE BIT, THAT
IS WHERE SENATORS SAY IT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO GO AFTER HIM AND
WHAT HE WANTS TO DO THAN THE PEOPLE HE'S PUTTING IN.
AGAIN I
DON'T AGREE, BUT WE HAVE TO BE HOPEFUL FOR THAT NOW.
THAT'S ALL
WE CAN BE HOPEFUL FOR.
WHAT WE CAN BE HOPEFUL FOR IS WHAT CARL WAS SAYING ALSO, IS
THAT HE'S MAKING REPUBLICANS NERVOUS.
IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE
READY TO JUMP.
I'M SURE SOME OF THEM AREN'T, AND BECAUSE OF
GERRYMANDERING IT MAKES IT HARD FOR SOME OF THEM TO JUMP IN
CONGRESS, BUT SENATORS HAVE TO RUN STATEWIDE SO GERRYMANDERING
DOESN'T AFFECT THEM.
AND THIS IS THE FIRST WEEK, HIS NUMBERS ARE
ALREADY LOWER THAN GEORGE BUSH AFTER KATRINA.
THE SILVER
LINING, AND WHAT I SAID BEFORE THE ELECTION, THAT THIS COULD
LEAD TO A PROGRESSIVE RESURGENCE -- THE GROUNDWORK IS BEING LAID
BY THEM RIGHT NOW AND IT COULD HAPPEN.
WE JUST NEED JUSTICE
DEMOCRATS TO STEP UP AND DO SOMETHING.
COME ON, JUSTICE DEMOCRATS.
LET THE DEMOCRATS THAT ARE THERE DO IT.
I'M WORRIED ABOUT HIS TEMPERAMENT TOO, AGAIN I'LL BE
ATTACKED AS SAYING I'M GOING TOO FAR AND EXAGGERATING, BUT AGAIN,
BASED ON THE OFFICIAL PROCEDURES THAT HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED WITH
THE MILITARY, THIS IS A GUY WHO STILL, IF HE WANTED TO, IF
HE DECIDED TO LAUNCH A NUCLEAR ATTACK, THERE ARE NO OFFICIAL
THINGS THAT CAN STOP HIM FROM DOING THAT.
IT MIGHT BE, AND I
HOPE, THAT THE MILITARY HAS SOME SORT OF SECRET PRECAUTIONS
AGAINST THESE THINGS, AND IF YOU ARE IN THE MILITARY FEEL FREE TO
DEVELOP THOSE IF THEY DON'T PRESENTLY EXIST, BUT THAT'S A
WORST-CASE SCENARIO.
THIS GUY COULD UNILATERALLY DO SO MUCH
HARM, AND DO IT AS A RESULT OF PERSONAL VENDETTAS ABOUT
SLIGHTS, EITHER REAL OR PERCEIVED -- WE ARE NOW LIVING
BASICALLY AT THE WHIM OF A CHILD EMPEROR AND THAT'S A SCARY PLACE
TO BE IN A COUNTRY WITH AS MANY WEAPONS AS WE HAVE.