California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave reporters a convenient summary of the decline plaguing President Donald Trump on Thursday. At least in his opinion.
“Increasingly, this president appears unhinged, unmoored by reality and facts, seems listless,” the Democratic governor said at a press conference to announce lowered insulin costs in the state.
“He seems, dare I say, in decline cognitively. And dare I say, forgive me, perhaps unfair, physically,” Newsom continued. “And these are just rantings of someone that needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized, dare I say.”
Newsom dares to, all right, in relentless, sometimes funny criticism of the commander in chief. Newsom has raised his presidential visibility taunt by taunt — online and on TV.
On Thursday, the state leader added that Trump’s planned National Guard invasion of San Francisco was also “delusional.”
“There’s no existing protest at a federal building,” Newsom explained. “There’s no operation that’s being impeded. I guess it’s just a training ground for the president of the United States. It is grossly illegal. It’s immoral. It’s rather delusional.”
In Trump world, however, the president suffers no such maladies.
Trump is in “exceptional health,” his doctor, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella said after the president’s checkup last week. He also claimed Trump’s heart was 14 years younger than his chronological age of 79.
“President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological and physical performance,” the doctor wrote in a memo.