Tom Nichols: Trump Has ‘Some Kind of Emotional Disordered Condition Where He Just Can’t Hold a Thought in His Head’

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NICHOLS: “Senior officers don’t have a lot of time to sit and watch footage on cable news. And I think for most of them, this was the first time they’d really gotten a major helping of 180 proof, undiluted Donald Trump, and just had to sit there for almost an hour and just watch him. And I assume, you know, that — and I did hear afterwards that, you know, a lot of folks were like, he doesn’t — he just doesn’t seem well. He’s not okay. I’m not a doctor. I’m not making a diagnosis. I’m saying as a layperson and a man of advanced — advancing years myself, that I looked at the president and I thought, he’s not okay, and that it’s not just his physical demeanor. I mean, this — I think for too long we haven’t been willing to talk about the weird rambling, you know, what — the president tries to call it the weave. It’s not the weave. It is some kind of emotional disordered condition where he just can’t hold a thought in his head. And I think when you’re lecturing, speaking to 800 admirals and generals, that audience is going to notice it a lot more than the MAGA audiences at rallies who are looking at their phone or laughing or, you know, not really paying attention. And it just disturbed me and I thought it was time to say something about it.”