The Obama administration's hesitation at placing a travel ban on flights coming in from Ebola-infected countries has received much attention and backlash, but real estate mogul Donald Trump seems to have taken it a bit further by calling President Obama a "psycho" and questioning his mental health over the handling of the Ebola crisis.
Early Thursday, he tweeted, "I am starting to think that there is something seriously wrong with President Obama's mental health. Why won't he stop flights? Psycho!"
Later in the day on NewsMax TV's "The Steve Malzberg Show," the controversial tweet became a topic of conversation between Trump and Malzberg, where the 68-year-old reiterated his sentiments on the president's decision to hold back from cutting off commercial flights from West African nations suffering with the recent Ebola outbreak, according to Breitbart.
"There is something wrong, and nobody knows what it is, but there is something wrong. There are so many bad decisions. Can anybody be that incompetent? There is something wrong," Trump said on the show.
"He's either incompetent, he's very stubborn or there's something wrong. There is definably something wrong." he added.
Citing his experience as a dealmaker, Trump claimed to understand people, even those on the opposing side of the issue. But apparently, not this time, The Source reported.
"If you take a look at the whole thing about stopping the flights, I don't understand that," Trump said. "How could you not stop the flights?"
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has argued that sealing the borders could actually undermine the effort to track the sick and stop the spread of the disease, according to the Huffington Post.
"Right now we know who's coming in," CDC Chief Thomas Frieden told Congress on Thursday. "If we try to eliminate travel, the possibility that some will travel over land, will come from other places and we don't know that they're coming in, will mean that we won't be able to do multiple things."
"Borders can be porous, especially in this part of the world," he said, according to Politico.
But it seems like Trump might continue to challenge the issue. After the show, he brought up the Ebola crisis again on Twitter.
"Looks like Obama will not stop the very potentially dangerous flights to and from West Africa. What the hell is wrong with this guy?" he tweeted.
