‘He Is Not Mentally OK’ History Professor Tells Jon Stewart Her Horrifying Analysis Of Trump
“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart revealed what he thinks is different about the current state of the Trump administration and what makes him so uneasy about the president’s recent actions earlier this week.
“The difference for me now is the captain of our ship seems utterly disinterested in where the icebergs seem to be and when the crash may happen,” Stewart said on his “The Weekly Show” podcast on Wednesday. Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardson was his guest.
“He just wants to get out, he wants to stand on his plane with a giant poster board of his ballroom,” he continued. “It’s the lack of interest in the consequences of his powerful actions, is I think what’s got me on such shaky ground. I feel like we’ve never been at the peril of a leader so disinterested in the damage of his own actions.”
Richardson disagreed with Stewart, bluntly characterizing President Donald Trump’s mental state as “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”
“To me, the elephant, not only just in the room, but in the whole house and in the whole mansion, is that he is not mentally OK,” Richardson said. “I think it’s more than he doesn’t care.”
Richardson added that she thinks the more destruction Trump causes, the more he will be inclined to lash out.
“What he has done is really smashed into ribbons the post World War II order that has brought us peace and prosperity for 80 freaking years, so that is entirely new,” Richardson said.
Watch Wednesday’s full edition of “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart” here:
