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I don't disagree with your advice for him. But do you by krudler

think his campaign team hasn't thought of that (getting him out in public a year ago)? And if they have thought about that and decided against putting him in public, what does that say? I would think it would be an indictment of his mental state given that they can't trust him enough to be out in public to deliver his administration's message. I suppose an alternative thought (among many possibilities) is they figured they could sit back and let the Republicans predictably make fools of themselves while Trump predictably does the same. But when the people aren't feeling the improving economy (and a lot aren't, at least in polls), it's a terrible strategy. So that's why I'd go back to my first thought about his mental acuity.

Maybe how we view this report is just a political litmus test.