MS NOW host Katy Tur hit President Donald Trump with even harsher polling numbers on Monday, showing a majority of Americans do not believe he has the “mental sharpness” necessary to serve as president.
“Is Donald Trump well? Is his head in the presidency? Does he have the mental acuity to lead this country? More people are starting to doubt that,” Tur said before referencing an ABC News/Ipsos/Washington Post poll.
The poll from February found that 56% of American believe Trump lacks the mental sharpness to serve effectively as president.
“Why is that? Well, the apparent sleeping during Cabinet meetings and Oval Office visits probably, they’re not helping,” Tur said. “Neither are the stories about how he is forcing his top aides to wear his preferred brand of shoes, and buying them in incorrect sizes that he’s guessed they wear.”
Tur then pointed to a bizarre tangent that Trump went on during last week’s cabinet meeting, where the president ranted about supposedly calling the head of the permanent marker company Sharpie, to get custom markers made for the White House.
“See this pen right here?” Trump said at the beginning of a nearly five-minute rant on the Sharpies. “This pen is an interesting example.”
In a statement to the Washington Post, Sharpie’s manufacturer, Atlanta-based Newell Brands, said it had no knowledge of the conversation Trump was referring to.
Tur pointed to several other similar instances where the president has seemingly fabricated or embellished stories.
“While a lot of this has always just been part of who Donald Trump is, a man who works the room, seeks attention, seeks applause, he’s now about to be 80 years old, and he has launched a war that he does not seem to have a plan for,” Tur said.
Watch Tur’s full segment from Monday’s show here:
