The Week Magazine 13th January 2018 Retour à l'édition précédente

UNFIT TO RULE?
There is no more serious issue facing America today “than the possibility, if not the likelihood, that we have in the White House a man who is mentally unfit for the job”, said Bill Press on The Hill (Washington). The “drumbeat of doubt” about Donald Trump’s stability has reached a new pitch following the publication of Michael Wolff’s tell-all book, Fire and Fury. Even allies now talk of removing Trump from office on the grounds of incapacity. Wolff’s book paints a picture of a man whose “closest aides, friends and even family believe is congenitally unfit to be president”, said Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian. Trump, Wolff reports, won’t read anything, not even one-page memos. He retreats to bed at 6.30pm, where he eats burgers, watches cable TV and rants at his cronies on the phone. He repeats himself endlessly; he fails to recognise old friends. White House officials describe him as an “idiot”, a “child”, a “dope”, a “moron”. And yet this man has “unchecked power over the world’s mightiest nuclear arsenal”.