Oregon Governor Tells Rachel Maddow A Story Suggesting Trump's Mental Decline

Gov. Tina Kotek (D-OR) told a story that suggested that Donald Trump has no idea what's going on and is in severe decline.

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As part of his effort to distract from the shutdown, Donald Trump announced that he was sending troops to Portland, Oregon. Even though the unrest in Portland was being provoked by ICE agents, Trump had some kind of information in his mind that Portland was a “war zone.”

Gov. Tina Kotek appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show and discussed the troop deployment to Portland.

Rachel Maddow asked Gov. Kotek, “ I know that you spoke directly with President Trump around the time that he was making this decision, and there’s been some reporting about that conversation that suggests that the president might have been basing his decision, or at least basing like his stated grounds for the decision on some inaccurate or outdated information that he has seen on social media. Maybe without understanding that it wasn’t current information, can you help us understand that at all?”

Gov. Kotek answered:

 That is my concern. That’s a challenge I think with footage, that it becomes evergreen and that you don’t know when it was taken. Because when I was speaking with him, he was talking about multiple federal facilities and I was like, the plywood is down downtown Portland is on the mend.

We don’t have the situation we had five years ago. I don’t know what he is remembering, but what I do know is that local law enforcement can manage the situation that’s related to the peaceful protests that are happening at the federal facility. And I think one of the things I’m so frustrated about is he is calling up the Oregon National Guard over top of my role as commander-in-chief of those troops here in Oregon, the Oregon National Guard.

These are. Private citizens. Citizen soldiers, right? They volunteer for this role. They have to come off their jobs, go away from their families to do something that is unclear, undefined, with no strategy of what they’re actually trying to solve. It’s a waste of taxpayer dollars, and most Oregonians know this makes absolutely no sense.

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The only way this decision makes sense is if the president is in severe mental decline and has no idea what’s going on.

The person making decisions about troop deployments seems to have no idea what is going on. The 25th Amendment and impeachment aren’t realistic options.

It took a government shutdown to reveal just how far gone Donald Trump seems to be.

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