President Donald Trump is exhibiting a clear pattern that shows just how badly his cognitive abilities have slipped from what they used to be, MS NOW political analyst John Heilemann said on Thursday's edition of "Deadline: White House."
Heilemann's observation came after a general discussion in which he and Nicolle Wallace outlined what they saw as the president's incompetence and lack of concern for the American people.
"Forget about your politics.Forget about which which partyyou prefer," said Wallace. "In normal times, hedoesn't care about your pain.He doesn't care about yourproblems. He doesn't care aboutyour anxiety. He doesn't careabout your future. He doesn'tcare about your kids."
Heilemann agreed — and for starters, he pointed to his failure to pull off a simple beautification of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
"I was inWashington this week ... I went down to the Reflecting Pool," he said, and added that he'd need "malaria pills" and "mosquito netting" to be safe there, given "that swamp situation is sobad, and it's such a greatmetaphor for the whole Trumpadministration ... he was told that,you know, people were like,this is gonna be a problem. He didn't listen to them."
Between that and the Iran war, he continued, America is facing "amateur hour incompetence ofeverything."
As for the proof of Trump's decline, Heilemann said, "just hoveron the nicknames for a moment" — specifically, the creativity of the nicknames that Trump gives to his political opponents.
"Little Marco, Low-Energy Jeb, Lyin' Ted, those were goodnicknames," said Heilemann. "I thinkthese new nicknames, Marjorie Taylor Brown, that you had thatkind of explain it. Dumocrats.And now the third strike, Jon OssJerkoff. There is noclearer sign of Trump'scognitive decline than thedecline in the quality of hisnicknames."
"These are just badnicknames, man," he added. "It's time tohang it up."