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A series of President Donald Trump\u2019s actions over the past 48 hours has a conservative doctor and journalist warning that he \u201cseriously\u201d questions the commander-in-chief\u2019s mental health. This is according to physician and National Review contributor Pradheep Shanker, who took to social media on Monday to raise his concerns. <\/p>\n

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\u201cSo in the last couple days,\u201d posted<\/u> Shanker, \u201c1. Trump threatened to bomb ally Oman. 2. Applauded a defense pact between the Saudis and Pakistan. 3. Claimed North Korea is more peaceful than South Korea. If this keeps going on, we may have to question his sanity. Seriously.\u201d <\/p>\n

Shanker is referring to a string of consequential assertions made by Trump. On Monday morning, the president threatened to \u201cbomb the s\u2013\u2013 out of\u201d Oman if they \u201cget in the way\u201d of his efforts to end the war with Iran. It was the second time Trump has threatened the country, which the Guardian<\/u> explains is a \u201clongtime US strategic partner that has traditionally served as a key backchannel between Washington and Tehran.\u201d Trump issued his latest threat via an interview on Fox News, where he also said he is \u201cnot in a hurry\u201d to reach a deal. <\/p>\n

A day earlier, Trump had hailed the signing of a defense pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, posting, \u201cIt shows how the Middle East is coming together and how countries will finally be able to defend themselves in a more meaningful way,\u201d and calling the agreement a \u201cBIG, BOLD, IMPORTANT FIRST STEP.\u201d Largely unreported by American media, as foreign media outlets like Al Jazeera<\/u> explain, the agreement will push the region to rethink decades of American-led security architecture and upend the balance of power throughout the Middle East. According to the Times of Israel<\/u>, Iran has applauded the deal as well, claiming that it represents \u201ca shift away from alliances with the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then on Sunday night, Trump announced that the U.S. would scale down its joint military exercises with South Korea, \u201cciting the U.S. ally\u2019s refusal to join the war in Iran and his \u2018very good\u2019 relationship with North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un.\u201d According to NBC News, \u201cTrump said the large, annual military drills sent a \u2018signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile\u2019 to North Korea, a nuclear-armed state with which the U.S. has no formal diplomatic ties but which Trump says has been \u2018unthreatening and respectful\u2019 as long as he has been president. \u2018Based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises!\u2019 Trump wrote on social media. His announcement came just hours before the drills were set to start.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Another conservative journalist at the National Review shared his thoughts on the news, posting<\/u>, \u201cReprehensible. The president covers a great and good country in shame. Again.\u201d He later added<\/u>, \u201cThe president and his party would like your vote this fall to defeat so-called \u2018communists\u2019 at home; meanwhile, his position on actual blood-soaked communists: \u2018unthreatening and respectful.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Noted<\/u> yet another conservative journalist, Michael Sobolik, \u201cXi Jinping has already internalized the logic Trump lays out in this post: convince Trump that you\u2019re \u2018unthreatening and respectful,\u2019 and he\u2019ll offer unilateral concessions and blame America\u2019s partners for being \u2018hostile.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is truly pathetic,\u201d Shanker concluded<\/u> over news of the spiraling negotiations with Iran. \u201cI’m almost getting to the point where random Democrats would be handling this better than Trump is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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