Comments by "Don Taylor" (@dontaylor7315) on "The awkward debate around Trump's mental fitness" video.

Whoa! We're in danger from this president and a psych association gag rule is working hard to KEEP us in danger?!
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@victor-cd3ww Yes, that solution would be a good one. Most NPR interview shows do just that - you hear the interview with cuts for length on the show, then you have the option of hearing it uncut on the show's website.
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@VloggingMark that trick with reviews even goes back to before personal computers. It's used sometimes in jacket blurbs on books. But editing isn't for bias every time. There is such a thing as cutting for length. If the interview takes an hour and you need your video to run 20 minutes you might jump from when the interviewee started answering a question to when they got around to summing up what the point is of all the ruminations that went on before they homed in on the gist of their answer. I go with my gut on whether to trust the cuts or not; for instance If it's aTeri Gross interview on public radio I trust it.
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@benjaminjones8782 I wouldn't count on that. He's pulled us out of two vital nuclear treaties, alienated most of our allies, fawns on every dictator and autocrat he meets (Kim, Duterte, Xi, Putin, Prince Bonesaw), freely indulges in name-calling but has infantile temper tantrums if he's even criticized, and doesn't have a clue what the Constitution is or what a president's actual powers are. That's a pretty unstable situation - and a pretty unstable individual.
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@benjaminjones8782 Every time it turns out that being president doesn't mean he can simply do anything he wants, he has a Twitter tantrum. He can't get his head around the idea that a president's powers are not absolute. That's why he admires dictators so much.
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@benjaminjones8782 a lot more think he can't. Including quite a lot of mental health professionals.
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@benjaminjones8782 I don't. But I know they can see the obvious because I see it too. If they're biased I share the same bias. I think reality supports my bias and theirs - and I think it's not even a bias, just the obvious.
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@benjaminjones8782 That's 63 million not 64. If he is mysteriously somehow a good president in spite of all he's done and is doing (see all above comments) why did 66 million vote against him? Also the numbers don't tell us anything definitive about a politician's abilities; majorities have voted both for and against bad presidents throughout American history.
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@benjaminjones8782 Since you missed it the first time I'll reiterate: 1) He's pulled us out of two vital nuclear treaties. 2) He's alienated most of our allies. 3) He admires and fawns on every dictator and autocrat he meets including Kim, Duterte, Xi, Putin and Prince Bonesaw. 4) He freely indulges in name-calling but has infantile temper tantrums if he's even criticized. 5) Every time it turns out the president's powers are not absolute and the Constitution doesn't simply allow him to do anything he wants, he has a Twitter tantrum. Those are just the points I've already raised. There are more but it appears you're not reading them, so there's not much use in my making the effort.
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@benjaminjones8782 sorry, I don't know of any offhand.
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@benjaminjones8782 The economy has been improving ever since measures that Bush and Obama put in place took effect. The wall is unbuildable and unfundable and even if it could be built it would be an albatross and an international atrocity. If you were from the border, as I am, you'd know that. Plus, Trump campaigned on an empty promise that Mexico would pay for it, which will never happen. North Korea isn't neutralized. In return for Trump's concessions Kim promised to meet again and talk about the nuclear program. Meanwhile, the program continues.
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@benjaminjones8782 It's true relations with N Korea are somewhat better and the media haven't given Trump as much credit for that as they should. I think they were put off by his claiming the nuclear threat is over when it clearly isn't. Be that as it may, meeting with Kim was overall a good move although Trump didn't bring it off very gracefully and acted too worshipful of Kim's grandeur. As far as I know the wall isn't being built. The administration publicized some pictures of "construction" that were actually photos of repairs on existing barriers that were built before Trump.
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@benjaminjones8782 that's not the danger. What's dangerous is he's seriously unstable. We need our allies and we don't need to reject them in favor of new friendships with dictators we can't trust. We need to stand by our multilateral treaties and we don't need to cancel them in favor of individual treaties with each country. Especially when Trump isn't demonstrating any ability to negotiate good deals. We need stability and this president hasn't shown enough stability to reassure me at all.
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