Chappelle-Nadal recently filed a resolution to have Trump, and future presidential candidates, undergo a mental health evaluation:
"Americans living with mental illness must have access to the care they need, including those serving in our highest office."
Today I filed a resolution urging Congress to mandate mental health screenings for presidential candidates. pic.twitter.com/RbuIEdCPUa
— MariaChappelleNadal (@MariaChappelleN) September 13, 2018
President Trump mostly speaks to the public via Twitter, bypassing journalists who he says engages in fake news. The ploy has taken the power away from journalists and newspapers who the public has traditionally relied on to explain and report on presidential policies. The problem is that Twitter oftentimes represents thoughts or impulses that have not been properly vetted by publicists, speech writers or members of Trump’s cabinet.
A major rub for Chappelle-Nadal is over the president’s claim that “3,000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico.” Trump implied the death toll was anywhere from 6 to 18 when he left the island.
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2018
Either someone misrepresented the death toll (which sounds implausible), the president is a pathological liar or out of his rabbit ass mind. Trump’s mental capacity to perform his duties as president have been challenged in the past. If Chappelle-Nadal’s resolution passes congress then we could soon find out.
