Thread by @JYSexton

The Trump/Axios interview making the rounds this morning shows a terrifying but undeniable truth.

The President of the United States is an ignorant, intellectually incurious, broken human being who should be kept as far away from power and responsibility as humanly possible.

And, for the record, the reason the Axios interview is so damning is because the interviewer actually engages with what Trump says instead of treating him with unearned respect because "the Office of the Presidency" or whatever.

Our media has failed this moment.

Never, not once, in Trump's presidency has come anywhere near making a cogent, well-thought, respectable point.

The media has exhausted itself trying to make him presidential and respectable, all because they're terrified of demeaning the office and realizing what's happening.

But here's the reality of the situation: we have a president who doesn't care if he kills us, who is more interested in his own personal profit and power than the lives of Americans.

There's a madman behind the wheel.

None of this is normal, acceptable, or even remotely okay.

Journalists, pundits, media members.

Stop worrying about the Office of the Presidency.

Hail to the Chief, the Seal, the Oval Office, the White House.

They're all symbols.

The man currently using those symbols is a walking, talking existential, societal crisis.