Son of Republican icon Ronald Reagan goes ballistic on Trump, calling for his removal from office.
The son of former President Ronald Reagan argued in a Wednesday interview that Trump is a “deeply damaged human being” who “needs to be removed” from office.
Speaking on MSNBC‘s “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” Reagan began by stating that “Trump is a deeply damaged human being. He’s a sociopathic, malignant narcissist.”
Continuing, he stated that America’s antiquated electoral system created Trump.
“[T]he electoral system, not the American people, but the electoral college, has sort of vomited this thing up and it landed in the Oval Office,” he said.
Continuing to refer to Trump as “it” instead of using his name, Reagan concluded his rant declaring that “[I]t needs to be removed. It’s a stain, it’s a big glob on the carpet there. It needs to be removed and that means impeachment or the 25th Amendment. This man is a danger to the world.”
"Donald Trump is a stain and needs to be removed and that means impeachment or the 25th amendment." -Ron Reagan Jr. https://t.co/eAhhy5DwHq pic.twitter.com/tcXcUavE0g
— Hardball (@hardball) October 26, 2017
And this isn’t the first time that Reagan has questioned Trump’s fitness for office. As The Hill reported Wednesday night, “Reagan, who has become an outspoken Trump [critic], has repeatedly questioned Trump’s mental stability.
Most notably, Reagan told Chris Matthews back in August of this year that Trump was “pathological in his behavior.”
Speaking of Trump, Reagan told Matthews:
You know, we`re really genuinely worried and with good reason that the very sober people are worried that this man is simply unfit for office. Character, logically, emotionally, mentally, he does not have the stability it seems to hold the office.
Continuing, Reagan responded to Matthews remarks about Trump’s erratic behavior when it came to Pres. Barack Obama, telling him:
[W]e`re acting like this is a sort of new thing like we`re just sort of realizing suddenly that Donald Trump is not well. But this has been apparent for a long time. All that business with Barack Obama and the birther stuff that should have disqualified him a long time ago. It is not just a lie. It`s a racist crazy lie.
Matthews concluded his interview with Reagan pointing out that even Trump’s chief of staff, Gen. Kelly, can’t control Trump. “He [Gen. Kelly] can`t control Trump at 6:00 in the morning, when he gets up and starts burping out these tweets. He hasn`t been able to stop that.”
Reagan replied:
No, he can`t and again you can`t control a President who is pathological in his behavior. It is not that he`s not behaving as a normal President does. He is not behaving as a normal grown-up does. He doesn’t have the sort of human instincts.
You know whether it`s Charlottesville or something else. The boy scouts, for God`s sake, talking about going out on a yacht with a lot of women and a guy with a lot of money to the boy scouts, who does this? You know, what adult would stand there and say that? Or any of the – so many things that he says? He just doesn’t seem to have the instinct for the appropriate mature stance given whatever circumstances he`s facing.
You can watch Reagan talking to Chris Matthews beginning at about the 1 minute and 38 second mark:
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