{"id":27453,"date":"2018-01-17T02:34:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T02:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27453"},"modified":"2018-01-17T02:34:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T02:34:22","slug":"settled-potus-isnt-losing-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27453","title":{"rendered":"Settled: POTUS isn&#8217;t losing his mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/donald-trump-white-house-physician.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27455\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/donald-trump-white-house-physician-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/donald-trump-white-house-physician-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/donald-trump-white-house-physician-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/donald-trump-white-house-physician-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/donald-trump-white-house-physician.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am willing to accept the words of a medical professional who has examined presidents dating back to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump Sr.&#8217;s mental acuity is intact. He&#8217;s not losing his mind. His butter hasn&#8217;t slipped off his noodle.<\/p>\n<p>The president went through a routine physical examination. Then, at his request, he went through a cognitive examination by Navy Rear Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, the doctor who&#8217;s been the White House&#8217;s lead MD for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>He ran Trump through his paces and determined that the president is (a) overweight and needs some regular exercise and (b) doesn&#8217;t suffer from any loss of cognition.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how we&#8217;re supposed to determine these matters, not with long-distance analyses offered by individuals who have either zero qualifications to make them or haven&#8217;t examined the president up close.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find no reason whatsoever to think the president has any issues whatsoever with his thought process,&#8221; Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p>I am not about to give Trump a pass on the weird statements he continues to make via Twitter or verbally. I will continue to call his statements into question and will continue to criticize him when I feel it is appropriate. I also will offer a good word when it is appropriate as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-did-%e2%80%98exceedingly-well%e2%80%99-on-a-cognitive-test-top-white-house-doctor-says\/ar-AAuMO4O?li=BBnb7Kz\">The examination <\/a>comes at an appropriate time. The president has been, um, somewhat wild in his responses to issues of the day. He blurted out that infamous &#8220;sh**hole&#8221; comment regarding immigration, then felt he had to declare that &#8220;I am the least racist person you&#8217;ve ever interviewed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jackson&#8217;s assessment, though, that Trump is in complete control of his faculties is good enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor cannot explain why his patient keeps yapping uncontrollably and nonsensically. It must be the Trumpian way.<\/p>\n<p>Believe this. The doctor&#8217;s diagnosis doesn&#8217;t make me feel one damn bit better about the president of the United States.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am willing to accept the words of a medical professional who has examined presidents dating back to 2013. Donald John Trump Sr.&#8217;s mental acuity is intact. He&#8217;s not losing his mind. His butter hasn&#8217;t slipped off his noodle. The president went through a routine physical examination. Then, at his request, he went through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27453\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Settled: POTUS isn&#8217;t losing his mind<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1424,3688],"class_list":["post-27453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27456,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27453\/revisions\/27456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}