Americans and the world are now coalescing around the common understanding that Donald Trump is a basket case of mental and moral dysfunctioning. He is dangerous to himself, to Americans, and to all inhabitants of this place we call home—to planet Earth. About all that remains to be decided is this: When and how will we corral him and his omni-directional malevolent intentions and render him harmlessl. In the vernacular, “we need to neuter this guy.”

OK, I am not an authority in the subject of dysfunctional personalities. And neither are most of us. But there are at least 27 authorities who agree with the aforementioned generalizations about Donald Trump. Although it is customary for them to not engage in public diagnostics about anyone, they now have formed a coalition of thousands of professionals who have adopted a new standard: Their obligation to warn us of an imminent danger that engulfs us all surpasses their obligation to remain quiet about anyone’s imperfections including those of the President of the United States. In this age in which one person can launch nuclear weapons that could result in the annihilation of the human species, Donald Trump is too dangerous to be President.

This is not a matter of “I told you so,” even though I told you so. Donald Trump is not simply out-of-step about some things. He has now demonstrated beyond reason that he is so dangerously unpredictable about almost everything that is important to a fully functioning person that he needs to be stripped of his authority before it is too late.

This is about our survival; it is neither about politics nor is it sour grapes. Polls are showing less and less support for him by a wider and wider swath of the population. Even his Secretary of State is reported to have said recently “He is a f*cking moron!” Professionals, intellectuals, and even dyed-in-the-wool ideologues are all coming to the same conclusion.

The Constitution allows for the Vice President and his cabinet to declare him incompetent, and to replace him. We need to get a petition to that end underway now. Putting public pressure on his cabinet to act is probably the quickest and the most effective action that we can take.

Here is an insightful statement from Israeli newspaper Haaretz (Oct. 6, 2017) :

Stupidity is one of the more easily accessible and widespread explanations for Trump’s behavior. It’s no coincidence, of course, that his election resurrected the futuristic cult classic “Idiocracy’ about a dumbed down America that chooses a loutish porn actor as president. It’s true that Trump has claimed in the past that his IQ is much higher than that of Obama or of comedian John Stewart, but in that case, he’s doing an excellent job of concealing his intelligence, as his visit this week to Puerto Rico showed.

Some people ascribe Trump’s behavior in such events to obnoxious racism rather than stupidity. Prejudice and racial stereotypes are such a prominent feature of his personality, they maintain, that he just can’t keep them under lock. He has described himself as ‘the least racist person ever,” but since he launched his presidential run by describing Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers, Trump has described Puerto Ricans as lazy, Muslims as wannabe terrorists, African-Americans as thugs, Jews as proficient with money and women as inferior sexual objects. It’s only among neo-Nazis, apparently, that Trump has found “some fine people.”

Others cite Trump’s sensational victory in the elections – assuming that it wasn’t all the result of a Russian sting operation – as proof of his political smarts. According to this view, all of Trump’s scandals, controversies, insults and inanities are but a ploy aimed at rallying his base, first to win the elections and then as leverage against the unruly Republican Party. Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Trump is a smart guy pretending to be a dunce. If that’s true , Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be worried by Barak Ravid’s report on Wednesday that Trump told the United Nations' secretary general that the prime minister is more problematic that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

If Trump is a “moron,” on the other hand, as Tillerson testified, then his words about Netanyahu should be taken as seriously as his assertions about Obama’s birth certificate, his support for Marine Le Pen in the French elections and his praise for the homicidal Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who will have the privilege of hosting Trump next month.