CNN’s Michael Smerconish laid waste to calls for the 25th Amendment to be invoked against President Donald Trump — based on claims that President Donald Trump was erratic and out of control — saying that the “madness” was simply part of his process.
Smerconish argued that if Trump were truly a candidate for removal via the 25th Amendment — reserved for a president who is incapacitated or rendered incapable of doing his job — there would be signs that permeated the rest of his life outside his bombastic social media posts.
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“You’d expect the guy that posts about a whole civilization dying would be simultaneously busting up the White House furniture — but there’s NEVER been ANY reporting of Trump like that behind… pic.twitter.com/gA2bnbRcnj
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“A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person a lot on TV lives there,” Smerconish began, attributing the statement to comedian and HBO host Bill Maher.
The CNN host went on to lay out some of the president’s recent social media posts directed at Iran — specifically his demand that they “open the f*ckin’ strait” and his later prediction stating “a whole civilization will die tonight” — which Democrats had cited as evidence that Trump was too erratic to be president. They quickly ramped up calls to either invoke the 25th Amendment against him or impeach him for a third time.
But as Smerconish then explained, the deliberative and lengthy process by which Trump came to the decision to launch Operation Epic Fury — detailed in a recent New York Times report — was anything but erratic. The decision was reached only after days of meetings, both with the Israelis and without them, that took into account potential strategies and logistics.
“In contrast to those offensive and intemperate Truth Social posts, which were intended for Tehran, this window into pre-war decision making was for the Americans,” he said. “It shows airing of competing views, some open to dissent, reliance on legal counsel, and a deliberative process — not the impulsivity with which Trump is so often associated. There’s nothing in the Times’ behind-closed-doors account of an unstable Trump at the same time that he was playing the madman card in public.”
“You’d expect the guy that posts about a whole civilization dying would be simultaneously busting up the White House furniture — but there’s NEVER been ANY reporting of Trump like that behind closed doors,” Smerconish observed, arguing that someone who was truly unhinged would necessarily exhibit that in other areas of his life. “In other words, it’s not that there’s a method to his madness — it’s that the madness IS his method.”
“Trump is capable of EXACTLY what his critics say he isn’t: patience, process and genuine deliberation,” he added. “90 minutes before his own deadline, a ceasefire materialized. That’s NOT nothing. … It’s certainly not the behavior of someone who needs the 25th Amendment invoked or warrants impeaching.”
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