Biden Is Old, but Trump Is Completely Nuts

Why is everyone bashing Biden for his age, and no one is challenging Trump about his mental health?

Hi, Mr. Elephant. Are you in this room, too?

Okay, let’s all say out loud: President Biden is old. We all are, comparatively, and unless we are exhibiting genuine signs of “failing,” be it physically or mentally, then what is wrong with being old? People like to say that the presidency is so taxing that it is something an octogenarian most surely will struggle with. 

According to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the presidency is the most physically and mentally challenging job in the world, for which no human can be prepared. I would venture that an 80-year-old would handle these pressures better because of an age-related ability to put things into their proper perspective. 

Whereas Joe Biden actually governs and leads, three of Donald Trump’s four years in office were spent on “executive time.” When asked what that meant, Trump insiders said that the president was usually in his White House residence watching TV — governing vicariously through Fox News — and tweeting. Certainly, it’s not the kind of high-pressure stuff that could tax a feeble mind by any means. 

The elephant returns 

Let’s say it all together: Donald Trump is nuts! He is as crazy as a loon and not in a harmless way like the townie who rides around on a bike adorned with American flags and a boom box in the front basket blasting the soundtrack from Flashdance — there is a fellow like this in Freehold. Trump is dangerously cuckoo for Coca-Puffs! 

Most reporters don’t have a problem with mentioning Biden’s age (and it bears repeating that it’s a perfectly legitimate concern as long as their conclusions are supported by facts). Yet the same journalists fail to spell it out for their audiences when Trump does or says something that is completely insane, apart from labeling some of his most outrageous speeches “rants” or saying the former president is “unhinged.” But those are buzzwords and not a serious attempt to spell out that Trump is, to put it in layman’s terms, crazy.

A big part of the reason why the former president’s mental health is not more of a topic of conversation is the so-called Goldwater Rule of the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Principles of Medical Ethics. It states that “it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion [about someone’s mental health] unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement (Trump’s Mental Health Needs to be Part of the Conversation).”

I am not an American psychiatrist, so I am not bound by the “Goldwater Rule.” I will tell you without even the slightest fear that maybe I am being unfair or treading into the waters of hyperbole: Donald Trump is out of his goddamn mind. 

From being a pathological liar to a textbook example of malignant narcissism, the former president displays a cluster of disorders that, in other circumstances, might not get him institutionalized but would definitely justify some form of treatment (Trump’s Mental Health Needs to be Part of the Conversation)”.

If Trump were your kid’s bus driver, you would request he be removed from behind the wheel. If he were the head of the local Boy Scouts, you’d file a complaint. If Trump were working a ride at Six Flags and responsible for checking the safety bars, you’d complain to park security. What is it, though, about Trump’s mental illness that so many millions of Americans accept him being the president? 

It’s not like we don’t know what ails him as my grandfather used to say — “What ails ya, boy?” We know most of Trump’s disorders, and all of them create the picture of an anti-social, megalomaniac incapable of normal affection for anyone in his life except himself. He expresses his love for his daughter, “She’s so hot that if she weren’t my daughter, I’d be trying to pick her up.” Trump said this when his daughter was a teenager. If there was any question about what he was doing on Jefferey Epstein’s island-get-away, one could suspect that this comment answers that question. 

Joe Biden is old, but so is Trump. Joe Biden has proven that he is one of the most capable presidents we have ever had. Donald Trump proved to us that he was the absolute worst we ever had. The only that has changed since Trump left the White House in disgrace is that he is four years older, and the past three years have passed in a fog of delusion and perverted fantasy that he calls reality. 

Why is no one talking about this? Please, people, take the gloves off and shout this to the rooftops!