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"Pathological inattention" and "Trumps language borders on incapacity"
This piece in the New Yorker has a plethora of fascinating observations.
... Laurence Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard, told me, I believe that invoking Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment is no fantasy but an entirely plausible toolnot immediately, but well before 2020. In Tribes interpretation, the standard of the amendment is not a medical or otherwise technical one but is one resting on a commonsense understanding of what it means for a President to be unable to discharge the powers and duties of his officean inability that can obviously be manifested by gross and pathological inattention or indifference to, or failure to understand, the limits of those powers or the mandatory nature of those duties.
As an example of pathological inattention, Tribe noted that, on April 11th, days after North Korea launched a missile, Trump described an aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Carl Vinson, as part of an armada advancing on North Korea, even though the ship was sailing away from North Korea at the time. Moreover, Tribe said, Trumps language borders on incapacity. Asked recently why he reversed a pledge to brand China a currency manipulator, Trump said, of President Xi Jinping, No. 1, hes not, since my time. You know, very specific formula. You would think its like generalities, its not. They havetheyve actuallytheir currencys gone up. So its a very, very specific formula.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/how-trump-could-get-fired
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"Pathological inattention" and "Trumps language borders on incapacity" (Original Post)
Pluvious
May 2017
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Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)1. "Well before 2020"?
How about, like, NOW.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)2. He makes GWB look like an English Professor
Trump said, of President Xi Jinping, No. 1, hes not, since my time. You know, very specific formula. You would think its like generalities, its not. They havetheyve actuallytheir currencys gone up. So its a very, very specific formula.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)3. I don't miss him
alfredo
(60,071 posts)4. I don't either.