This should be the sticking point to invoke the 25th. Officials need to be loud and make a stink about how Trump can’t tell fact from clear fiction and therefore cannot perform the duties of the office. Make the people of America see the image on the news everyday and make those on his side say out loud if they think it’s fake or real. Half of the masses will never be convinced that he lacks the morality to lead until they’re already in his camps. This is the earliest clear as day moment to act on that which cannot be held to subjective scrutiny or partisanship.

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    Trump kept insisting: “No, no: He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be, not ‘interpreted.’"

    That is astonishingly—but unsurprisingly—stupid.

    It’s one thing to insist that tattoos of a weed leaf, a smily face with “x” for its eyes, a cross, and a skull are pictographs for “M S 1 3”. It’s another to be such a dumbass that you think the superimposed text trying to explain that interpretation is the tattoo.

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      Wait, what? I missed that detail. He thought the numbers and letters were part of the tattoo? LOL

      Sweet Baby Jesus put that man in a nursing home. He shouldn’t be handling metal cutlery, let alone the nuclear launch codes.

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        This is the guy that stared into the sun during an eclipse.

        This is the guy that thinks stealth planes are invisible.

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          This is the guy that thinks “clean coal” is when they dig it up then wash it.

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            Shut up. Just… There is no way anybody is that stupid. Please, for my own sanity, let this be bullshit. It’s bullshit, right?

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              OK, to be fair, it’s not 100% clear (because it’s Trump) but it’s certainly one way to interpret what he said:

              “We’ve ended the war on beautiful, clean coal. and it’s just been announced that a second, brand new coal mine where they’re going to take out clean coal — meaning they’re taking out coal, they’re going to clean it — is opening in the state of Pennsylvania,” Trump said.

              “He clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said Pieter Tans, the lead scientist of the Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

              “It sounds like he thinks that they’re going to wash the coal,” Tans told ABC News. “It doesn’t make any sense.”

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