Stable genius. Reaction toet your what he had to say on twitter. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 republicans. 202 7488002 independents. Send us a tweet. We will read them. Join us on facebook. Good sunday morning. We will read them. Was begin with the president s tweets yesterday lets begin with the present president s tweets yesterday. Wrote he wrote he the president yesterday on twitter. We want to get to your calls and comments on his description of being a very stable genius. Headline of the New York Times, trump declared himself mentally fit. President trump who sometimes whos a sometimes erratic vior whose sometimes erratic behavior that this morning from the New York Times. Much of this focusing on the new book fire and theory fire and fury by Michael Wolff. Yesterday the president addressing the book and also questions on his twitter comments. Talking about the policy issues. This morning you are tweeting about your mental state. Why did you feel the need to tweet about that this morning . I went to the best colleges. I was a very excellent student. Became one of the top business people. Went to television. 10 years was a tremendous success as you probably have heard. Ran for president one time and won. And then i hear this guy that does not know me at all. By the way did not interview me. Said he interviewed me for three hours in the white house. Didnt do this. What i was heartened by because i talked about fake news was the fact that so many of the people that i talk about in terms of fake news actually came to the defense of this Great Administration and even myself because they know hes a fraud. What i saw some of the people say if you look at his past books he did a book on rupert that was a terrible expose and it was false. I consider it a work of fiction and i think its a disgrace for anybody to have someone do Something Like that. If the libel laws were stronger it would be very helpful. You wouldnt have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes to your head to he was never in the oval office. We didnt have an interview. I did a quick interview with him a long time ago. But i dont know this man. I guess sloppy steve brought him into the white house. And of course sloppy steve is the new nickname by the president for steve bannon. This is from our friend carol saying theres nothing wrong with his mind but he is not a president to which we are accustomed. From david, people often say that they are rich smart or goodlooking arent. And theres another tweet from richard rogers. Trumpet a not so stable narcissist who is a constant chronic pathological liar. The gop needs to put country over party. Surprisert common surprise, another trump attack show. Actually we are using trumps words to get your reaction. Good, bad or indifferent. On the democrat line, good morning. How cold is it in minnesota this morning . In minnesota this morning looking outside right now it is above zero. Host it was three degrees this morning in washington, d. C. Caller it has been 20 below zero for quite a few days in a row. Host warm weather is on the way we are told. Go ahead. Caller im concerned about his Mental Health. Donald wants to see us going into a war with north korea. Nuclear wars are not good. Tells kim jongun that hes got a Bigger Nuclear button that kind of childish. He does a lot of namecalling. ,e talks about sloppy steve little rock and man, crooked hillary, lying ted cruz little rocket man, crooked hillary, lying ted cruz. Hes namecalling like kids in a schoolyard. That theymebody like can decide whether or not we are going to war or not . Thats frightening to me. Thats my comment. I dont think hes mentally stable at all. Host the Washington Post put together a short clip with some of the nicknames he has used over the years. Michael in pennsylvania, republican line. Good morning. The president saying i am a very stable genius. Your reaction. Caller he gives us a lot of fodder. Like muhammad ali. Theatricthat kind of mentality which we are not used to in a president. But i think its kind of entertaining sometimes. I think he also has to do some some of thentradict ridiculous assertions by this media and to think that somebody who is who has amassed a large fortune as he has an somebody who has done so well in business and has raised what i consider to be a nice family and kept it together through all the difficulties that he has faced and i think its kind of admirable. This book thats come out is ridiculous and the fact that it is selling like hotcakes shows how willing people are to believe that their president is a nutcase. And thats pretty bad for our country. To pull ushis leader through some of the difficulties that we might face. Is there might be some difficulties and it certainly has not worked in the past with the way we have treated north korea. Debatend unprecedented driven by Michael Wolffs book. The mainstream media, the conjecture and trumps tweeted response to the same. Another comment, its nice to hear trump and i share something in common. We are both stable geniuses. On the republican line vincent from tulsa, oklahoma. Good morning. Ander i am a genius myself i think trump is one. I will tell you who is not is ralph nader. Host ok. Al in chicago. Democrats line. Good morning. Have tobasically if you call yourself a genius you are not a genius. If he was such a genius why doesnt he study, why doesnt he learn what the real problems are instead of pontificating . He golfs. He talked about obama golfing. How many times has he golfed this year . Why havent you shown his tax returns . Most flawed is the candidate for president i have seen in my lifetime and i am 61 years old. He is destroying this country and if people dont see that if obama had done some of the things that donald trump had done they would be calling to hang him or whatever. Its ridiculous that we are letting this guy get away with this. He is ruining this country. Bottom line. Is this how actual smart people talk about themselves . Hint not by discussing iq. There are three traits i would report from the long trail of interviewing people are very intelligent. They all know it. Virtually none of them need to say it. Know what they dont know. The more acute somebodys ability to perceive and assess the more likely that person is to recognize his or her limits. Thats from James Fallows this morning at atlantic. Com. How actual smart people talk about themselves. Frank in new jersey. Good morning. I just want to say the democrats love joe biden. They asked joe biden about President Trump and he says could you imagine him saying my button is bigger than your button . Thats crazy. Breath the interview asked joe biden are you thinking of running in 2020 . He says i dont know. What about the senator that said you are too old to run . Take him out. I will show him whos too old. I know i can take him. Why when he makes cracks like that everything is fine. If President Trump they would say that its very childish. People are crazy. Hearhear what they want to and they make cracks. President trump is the only guy that helping this country out and we should get off his back. Host why would we believe a person to self evaluate their own menstrual mental instability when they are a pathological liar . Another point of view, he is a marketing genius, not a Mental Health view it heavyweight. Mark is next in california. Good morning. Caller good morning. I have never heard of a bigger liar in my life. And i just cant understand what makes this guy want to lie so much. To me it seems like he would like to run a country instead of telling big whoppers about himself. Thank you very much. Host will go to silver spring, maryland. Victor on the republican line. Court comestrumps from its center. More on the fire and fury book. Victor, good morning. Caller good morning. I love what trump is doing. Hes driving the left even crazier. I have a comment about the democrats in general. They are the ones that are ull ong this transgender bowl anybody. If you feel like a woman you can and somehe ladies room pervert can go in there and molest somebody. If you want to make sure that the restrooms are for women or for men, vote republicans. They wont put up with this bull from the democrats about allowing anybody to go in what restroom locker room shower whatever they feel like it. Bunch of freaks. And some pervert can go in there and molest somebody. Host victor from silver spring. I dont think he is a genius but he is a master of trending branding and provocation. Michael wolff making me around. His first appearance was friday on nbcs today show with questions from savannah guthrie. According to your reporting president round the questions his intelligence and fitness for office. Let me put a mark around that in thehost sound sand. 100 of the people around him. Jared kushner, ivanka trump quickness is question his fitness for office . I want to be careful about who i spoke to because the nature of this kind of book is you grant everyone a veil. Having said that, certainly chaired and ivanka jared and ivanka which in their Current Situation is a deep legal quagmire of putting everything on the president. Not us, its him. What are some of the ways president was described to you by those closest to him . I will tell you the one description that everyone gave. Everyone has in common. They all say he is like a child. And what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification. Its all about him. This ceaseanddesist letter. I still have sources in the white house and i know everyone was going we should not be doing this. This is not smart. And he just insists. He just has to be satisfied in the moment. Host from the nbc today show appearance on friday, author Michael Wolff. The book that blew up washington is Available Online. This is what it looks like. I dont know what to make of Michael Wolffs excerpts. It is clear that steve bannon was a major source and i would not trust a thing that man says. A lot of the material falls into categoryood to check of journalism. There is some basic errors involving agents, dates and typos and the content seems designed to fit the medias preferred narrative that President Trump is senile or crazy or both. Reporting to confirm what everyone in the press already believes is a surefire way to maximize publicity and sales. It doesnt mean what youre selling is true. That from the National Review and the essay. The book that blew up washington. Rose from west virginia. Independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. My opinion is that mr. Trump is visibly clearly a disturbed human being and i just want to remind everybody that january 20 is going to be the womens march, National Womens march again this year and People Better get woke. This is our defining year and we better get started and get woke. Gloria in meridian, mississippi. Democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. Balanced and is so so fair. I just returned from europe. I was in europe for christmas holiday. Any person you speak with in europe they want to know what are you guys doing over there in the United States . Is he stable . Thats the first question that they asked. I can understand why they ask that. Whove a 19yearold child is a College Student in his second year. I would not tolerate for one moment him going around and calling someone names because he or they saye with something that is not to his liking. Its almost like a childlike behavior thats unexplainable. Person cant give a reasonable answer to why this person does what he does. He is the president of the United States of america. The highest office in the land and let yet he continues to do this. Absolutely asinine. I dont understand it. I cant get anyone to give me a reasonable answer as to why she does that its not smartness. Its actually stupidity. It causes people to think something must be wrong with him. Thats all i have to say because reasonably grasp why he does it. I just cannot. Everything that he does good he steps back two or three steps and does something idiotic that makes us think wow, why does this man do that . He stepped on his own message. From one of our viewers. All these people who call in as republicans sound just like racists. You can tell just like their racist commanderinchief. Another point of view from eric. Donald trump must be a genius. Somehow his hateful racist xenophobia got himself elected. Gloria mentioned reaction from overseas. This is from the Guardian Newspaper in great written. Mounts extraordinary defense of his mental stability. Donald trump issuing a volley of tweets that seem guaranteed to add fuel to a raging political fire. Suggestions that he was mentally unfit to be president were out of the old Ronald Reagan playbook. Reagan was diagnosed with alzheimers disease, degenerative brain disease in 1994 five years after leaving office. The extent to which he suffered during his time in the white house remains a matter of contention. Reagan went in office come along faced question over his mental state. Forgetting names and making contradictory statements. That from the guardian in great britain. Patricia on the republican line in minneapolis. Caller welcome to the conversation. Caller good morning. I dont know what that woman from mississippi is talking about. Everything you have read so far since i started listening has been negative. Every paper you read is a leftleaning negative take on trump. Host patricia, let me stop you there. No. Stop. Thats not true. I just read to you what the National Review wrote about the book questioning the trustworthiness of the book. So thats simply not true. There might be one out of 15 things that you read that is positive about trump. Host and we just showed about what the president was saying. Caller you let other people go on and on insulting, calling republicans racist. I get on i try to talk. You jump in and talk over me every single time. Host patricia, i dont think i have ever talked to you in the past. The floor is now yours so please go ahead. Caller i have called in for years and you do it to me every time i called her you rarely let me speak. You have interrupted me about four times just in this call. Thereere are sources out that talk about the economy, his rolling back of regulation. The media that you could be reading. But everything spread all over your table is negative leftist propaganda insulting our president constantly. Read ourthe tweets you insulting him, insulting calling republicans racist. That woman from mississippi, i dont know what planet shes on. But it is not at all fair and balanced. Host ok. Patricia, let me begin by saying we are using the president s words as a starting point of this conversation. We are not using an editorial. We are not using any other point of view but the president of the United States. Caller you are reading articles that diminish him, insulting. Every single day. Every single day. All the most insulting tweets. Its unbelievable. You never ever did anything like this when obama was president. Host patricia, that is not true. We will move on. Thank you for the call. Lets go to james in washington. Independent line. Good morning. Was kind ofink this a i am not try ballistic, i try to take everything with a grain of salt. Is hesuck out to me like will this guy is just making everything that comes to the top of his head. This guy, President Trump has been doing this for a year. Parse hairs. To this has been going on for a while. I dont know why that stuck out to me so much but it just was like making everything up. In the moment. Hes been doing it for a while. I dont know. Pot calling the kettle black. I dont know where to go with that one. Host richard on the republican line. The president saying i am a very stable genius. Your reaction. Caller good morning. I have two examples for you to consider, sir. At 7 39 p. M. Eastern standard time cnn played an attack about his mental instability is ridiculous. Beat all the other candidates and he is still the same guy. The cnn reporter said, keeping all of them. He outsmarted all of them and he is still the same guy. A democrat in charge of part about trying to impeach him said, i agree with that. Thankfully with the First Amendment we can say anything we want and this helps my interests. At 7 39 p. M. On cnn eastern standard time. Jefferson come after 200 years if he is not ever going to be forgiven then forgiveness is not on the table. Going to forgive and they know that they are falsely bringing this mental instability how can a president of the United States of america be attacked like this . Can you explain . Host a couple of comments. This is from another reviewer. Love that lady caller from minnesota. She was right on. And theres this, the trump apologist patricia upset over the quote from President Trump and thinks he is being bashed. Trumps own words. On the democrat line, good morning. Caller good morning, steve. Do you like your job . I just want to say that donald trump is a traitor. He has sold out. Him and his whole family has sold out the United States of america for money. That is the reason he wont show us his tax returns. That is the reason that he is enamored of putin. And who knows what other funds he is helping to wash through his real estate company. Its pretty obvious. I would say that republicans arent racist or bigots as much as they are i hate to tell them, traders. Raitors. From richard, cspans washington journal has a duty to set the record straight. That is not opinion, it is fact. Go to fox news for misinformation. Tell us what youre thinking. Send us a tweet. Steve is next from illinois. Good morning, steve. Lets go to jackie on the democrat line in oklahoma. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I am not just like into bashing trump. Caller,first color yes he is a pathological liar and it worries me all these people saying he has a Mental Illness that