It is by now clear to everyone that our president is suffering. His speech is garbled, he mixes up names and places, he wanders around confusedly even while on official business, and he is unable to string together a coherent sentence, let alone any coherent line of reasoning. 

This is the individual who has our nuclear codes and the U.S. Army at his command. Our lives are literally in his hands. How is this not being treated as a national emergency? Why is the press shrugging this situation off, as if it was just “Trump being Trump”? 

Joe Biden was raked over the coals for far less. Mainstream media needs to wake up. And, members of Congress need to do their job. Our president is obviously incapacitated. That should be headline news, and our elected representatives should be racing to address what could easily become a national catastrophe.

Mary Wheeler
South Portland