Ex-Trump admin aide alarmed over president's declining cognitive health

Former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor warned that President Donald Trump's mental state is worse than publicly acknowledged, arguing the real concern isn't Trump's individual stability but whether his administration can contain his destructive outbursts.

Taylor recounted a 2018 incident where Trump veered into tangents about helicopter maintenance during a Category 5 hurricane discussion, arguing that helicopters had too many parts.

While Trump's worst impulses were marginally controlled in his first term, Taylor cited reporting showing second-term aides fear challenging his false belief that the Iran war is a "complete success" despite soaring oil prices and diplomatic damage.

Taylor argued that the structural safeguards that barely functioned previously have deteriorated, leaving no mechanism to correct Trump's disconnect from reality on critical matters of war and peace.

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