Newt Gingrich was asked about Donald Trump in an interview with the New York Times:
Save to FavoritesBARBARO: Does he have the mental fitness, the kind of psychological suitability to the office of the presidency?
GINGRICH: [pause] Yeah, and my answer would be, sure.
BARBARO: Sure?
GINGRICH: Sure. I mean, he is at least as reliable as Andrew Jackson, who was one of the most decisive presidents in American history. Nobody would have predicted Abraham Lincoln’s capabilities before he became president and most people didn’t believe him while he was president.
BARBARO: Can you be more forceful than “sure?”
GINGRICH: [pause] I think that Trump has a willingness to break up a system which is decaying. I think the kind of personality that is prepared to be outside the total establishment and have the self confidence to take on the establishment of both parties is a personality which will by definition not be normal. It will not be a good, corporate managerial, go-along-and-get-along kind of guy, and that’s what you guys mean by temperament.