House Democrat who confronted Johnson: Trump ‘incoherent’ at Quantico meeting

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) on Thursday said President Trump was “incoherent” when he spoke to the country’s top generals and admirals at a meeting in Quantico, Va., earlier in 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 told CNN anchor John Berman.

Dean called 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 said. “Does he want them to be gold or something? Just bizarre comments that meandered.”

She called the president “unwell” and said he is “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.”

At the end of the interview, Dean said she is “gravely worried for the leadership of the United States” and that she wants Trump to succeed.

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

Hegseth on Tuesday convened hundreds of top military officials for an extraordinary meeting, during which he announced new Pentagon policies and Trump spoke to the group.

Trump told the military leaders they should use American cities as “training grounds” and described a federal crackdown on major cities as “a war from within.”

Dean on Wednesday confronted Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) about the speech in the Capitol, telling him Trump’s remarks were dangerous.

After she told Johnson that the president was “unwell,” Johnson replied, “A lot of folks on your side are, too.”