(MENAFN- Gulf Times) US
President Donald Trump yesterday rejected an author's accusations that
he is mentally unfit for office and said his track record showed he is a
‘stable genius'.
Michael Wolff, who was granted unusually wide
access to the White House during much of Trump's first year, has said in
promoting his book, Fire and Fury — Inside the Trump White House, that
Trump is unfit for the presidency.
Trump, in a series of
extraordinary morning posts on Twitter, said his Democratic critics and
the US news media were bringing up the 'old Ronald Reagan playbook and
screaming mental stability and intelligence since they have not been
able to bring him down in other ways.
Reagan, a Republican who was the US president from 1981-1989, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1994 and died in 2004.
'Actually,
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability
and being, like, really smart, said Trump, a former reality TV star.
'I
went from VERY successful businessman, to top TV Star...to president of
the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not
smart, but genius...and a very stable genius at that!
Trump, 71,
issued the tweets from the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland,
where he was meeting Republican congressional leaders and many Cabinet
secretaries about their legislative agenda for the year.
The tweets
were another sign of Trump's frustration at what he views as unfair
treatment by the news media of his presidency amid a federal
investigation into whether he or his campaign aides colluded with Russia
during the 2016 presidential campaign, in which he defeated Democrat
Hillary Clinton.
Wolff's book has proved to be another shock to the
system for Trump and his top aides, coming just as he starts his second
year in office. Wolff told BBC Radio in an interview broadcast yesterday
that based on his interviews with the people around Trump that he
believed the president was unfit for office.
He told NBC News on Friday that White House staff treated Trump like a child.
'The
one description that everyone gave, everyone has in common — they all
say he is like a child, Wolff said. 'And what they mean by that, he
has a need for immediate gratification. It's all about him. This man
does not read, does not listen. He's like a pinball, just shooting off
the sides.
Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera told ‘Fox and
Friends' yesterday that he had spoken to Trump on Friday and that he was
'very, very frustrated that the issue of his mental fitness was
getting traction.
Trump is to undergo the first physical examination
of his presidency on January 12. The exam was announced on December 7
after questions arose about Trump's health when he slurred part of a
speech announcing that the United States recognised Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel.
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