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Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) on Thursday stated President Trump was “incoherent” when he spoke to the nation’s high generals and admirals at a gathering in Quantico, Va., earlier within the week.

“Apparently, some of the generals were trying to take notes, and they just abandoned their notes because it was incoherent and very dangerous,” Dean informed CNN anchor John Berman.

Dean referred to as the gathering on Tuesday “an extraordinarily dangerous, reckless, vain thing to do on both of [Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s] parts.”

“Then to stand before them, rambling about how he walks on stairs, what wars he’s solved, that he doesn’t like the design of battleships,” Dean stated. “Does he want them to be gold or something? Just bizarre comments that meandered.”

She referred to as the president “unwell” and stated he’s “aging.”

“Aren’t we all?” she continued. “I think we can very much notice that. He’s a different man than he was in his first term.”

“He’s slower, he’s a little more lethargic,” she continued. “But much more important to me is what he is saying before the world.”

On the finish of the interview, Dean stated she is “gravely worried for the leadership of the United States” and that she desires Trump to succeed.

“But it is clear to me that he is unwell,” she stated.

Hegseth on Tuesday convened tons of of high army officers for a unprecedented assembly, throughout which he introduced new Pentagon insurance policies and Trump spoke to the group.

Trump informed the army leaders they need to use American cities as “training grounds” and described a federal crackdown on main cities as “a war from within.”

Dean on Wednesday confronted Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) concerning the speech within the Capitol, telling him Trump’s remarks had been harmful.

After she informed Johnson that the president was “unwell,” Johnson replied, “Loads of of us in your facet are, too.”

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