Race race race...

[Micawber]

Yes everyone knows the President is a fucking racist piece of shit and should be disqualified from office for that alone, but...

first and foremost, he a fucking nutbag. He is stone cold crazed and stupid.

To me, and ez to say because I'm a white middle aged male, his being stupid and crazy is more important.


He's fucking nuts, what else is there to say? You don't get past nuts and then debate thousands of nuances
like his ego, racism, sexism, anger management problem, lack of focus, inability to take briefings,

weight problem, bad hair and mendacity.


He is NUTS. Who would vote for that? We could all die. That's pretty worthy of discussion too.

[Sailor]

Yes everyone knows the President is a fucking racist piece of shit and should be disqualified from office for that alone, but...

first and foremost, he a fucking nutbag. He is stone cold crazed and stupid.

To me, and ez to say because I'm a white middle aged male, his being stupid and crazy is more important.


He's fucking nuts, what else is there to say? You don't get past nuts and then debate thousands of nuances
like his ego, racism, sexism, anger management problem, lack of focus, inability to take briefings,

weight problem, bad hair and mendacity.


He is NUTS. Who would vote for that? We could all die. That's pretty worthy of discussion too.

No Democrat should ever be taking about racism. The slavers they are and have been. Particularly white liberals like yourself. You are pathetic.

[Life is Golden]

[Micawber]

No Democrat should ever be taking about racism. The slavers they are and have been. Particularly white liberals like yourself. You are pathetic.

You should never post. You ae a fucking moron. But here you are

[Sailor]

You should never post. You ae a fucking moron. But here you are

I can see the truth made you piss yourself again Micabwer. As expected.

[Micawber]

meanwhile Mr stable genius is boasting about his ability to annihilate Afghanistan in a week and is escalating Iran

[Sailor]

meanwhile Mr stable genius is boasting about his ability to annihilate Afghanistan in a week and is escalating Iran

Iran is instigating this entire thing. And not just with us. I hope for once a President in this country has the balls to shut them up once and for all.

[Micawber]

[Micawber]

"I could win in a week" General Bonespur

[Sailor]

I love the fact Trump OWNS Micawber. Controls his life.

[Micawber]

https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Cas.../dp/1250179459


The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

[Sailor]

https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Cas.../dp/1250179459


The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

Your desperation is appalling Coffee boy.

[Micawber]

Diagnosing President Donald Trump’s mental health has become a favorite pastime among his political opponents.

"Does the President suffer from early-stage dementia?" California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren wondered in a press statement earlier this year. Said former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush during the 2016 GOP presidential primaries: "I'm not a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but the guy needs therapy."

Are these armchair headshrinkers just lashing out because they don’t like Trump? Maybe -- but they also could be onto something. A new book offers essays about Trump by more than two dozen prominent mental-health experts. The general conclusion: Jeb Bush was probably underestimating the problem. Therapy won’t be enough.

The book, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," doesn't offer a definitive diagnosis. It tries (sort of) to respect the so-called "Goldwater rule," which prohibits psychiatrists from diagnosing someone they have not personally examined.

Its authors, however, are very clear about one thing: we should all be very concerned about Trump’s mental health. What follows is a summary of some -- not all -- of the mental illnesses the experts fear the U.S. president may have. The editor, clinical psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee, says the contributors used “science, research, observed phenomena and clinical skill” to reach their conclusions.


Bandy X. Lee, the editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” and an assistant clinical psychiatry professor at the Yale School of Medicine, had some trouble getting the book off the ground. She writes that shortly after the election last November she circulated a letter that expressed professional concern about the president-elect and that many of her colleagues refused to be signatories. “A number of people,” she wrote, “admitted they were afraid of some undefined form of governmental retaliation, so quickly had a climate of fear taken hold.”

Lee pushed forward anyway, and eventually organized a “Duty to Warn Conference,” which led to the book. “It doesn’t take a psychiatrist to notice that our president is mentally compromised,” she and colleague Judith Lewis Herman write in the book’s prologue. But compromised in what way?

A core question they wanted contributors to address: “Is this man simply crazy, or is he crazy like a fox?”

Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure,it's not your fault

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2013
Stanford University professor emeritus Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, with whom Zimbardo writes a column for Psychology Today, have an explanation for the president’s tweets in which he brags about his intelligence, issues threats to critics and allies alike, and contradicts himself. He’s a narcissist, or “an unbridled, or extreme, present hedonist.”


Present hedonists, Zimbardo and Sword write, “live in the present moment, without much thought of any consequences of their actions or of the future. An extreme present hedonist will say whatever it takes to pump up his ego and to assuage his inherent low self-esteem.” They also tend to lie, bully, dehumanize others and exhibit paranoia.


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Zimbardo and Sword admit there is another possible explanation for Trump's behavior: dementia or Alzheimer's disease. They write that "comparing video interviews of Trump from the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s to current video, we find that the differences (significant reduction in the use of essential words; an increase in the use of adjectives such as very, huge and tremendous; and incomplete, run-on sentences that don't make sense and that could indicate a loss of train of thought or memory) are conspicuously apparent."




Richard Nixon giving his famous "Checkers" address in 1952. (AP)

Richard Nixon, the 37th president, was a narcissist, clinical psychologist Craig Malkin states. Donald Trump, the 45th president, is a step beyond that: a pathological narcissist. "Pathological narcissism begins," Malkin writes, "when people become so addicted to feeling special that, just like with any drug, they'll do anything to get their 'high,' including lie, steal, cheat, betray and even hurt those closest to them."


Pathological narcissists feel entitled to whatever they want and have “empathy-impairment.” They often are emotionally volatile and employ “gaslighting” to create their desired reality. Malkin adds: “When they can’t let go of their need to be admired or recognized, they have to bend or invent a reality in which they remain special despite all messages to the contrary. In point of fact, they become dangerously psychotic. It’s just not always obvious until it’s too late.”

Tony Schwartz isn’t a psychologist or a psychiatrist, but he’s included among the contributors in “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” because of his unique perspective: he was the ghost-writer for Trump’s 1987 bestseller “The Art of the Deal,” which helped turn the young New York real-estate developer into a national figure.

Schwartz, a writer and energy consultant, says that nothing he’s seen of Trump as a presidential candidate and president suggest he’s changed at all since Schwartz shadowed him for months in the 1980s. “His aim is never accuracy; it’s domination,” he writes. He attributes this to Trump’s childhood, which was dominated by his “demanding, difficult and driven” father Fred. Ever since striking out on his own, Trump has surrounded himself with yes-men, Schwartz writes.


The Associated Press

Schwartz adds: “From the very first time I interviewed him in his office in Trump Tower in 1985, the image I had of Trump was that of a black hole. Whatever goes in quickly disappears without a trace.”

Is Donald Trump a sociopath? Lance Dodes, a retired psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, says you just have to look at the president’s behavior. “The failure of normal empathy,” he writes, “is central to sociopathy, which is marked by an absence of guilt, intentional manipulation and controlling or even sadistically harming others for personal power or gratification.” In the book, he lists examples of Trump’s lack of empathy, “loss of reality” and “rage reactions and impulsivity.”




Trump (AP)

Dodes concludes: “Donald Trump’s speech and behavior show that he has severe sociopathic traits. The significance of this cannot be overstated. While there have surely been American presidents who could be said to be narcissistic, none have shown sociopathic qualities to the degree seen in Mr. Trump. Correspondingly, none have been so definitively and so obviously dangerous.”


Clinical psychologist John D. Gartner believes New York Times columnist David Brooks perfectly captured Trump’s “increasing hypomania” in a 2016 column.

Wrote Brooks: “He cannot be contained because he is psychologically off the chain. With each passing week, he displays the classic symptoms of medium-grade mania in more disturbing forms: inflated self-esteem, sleeplessness, impulsivity, aggression and a compulsion to offer advice on subjects he knows nothing about. His speech patterns are like something straight out of a psychiatric textbook. Manics display something called ‘flight of ideas.’ It’s a formal thought disorder in which ideas tumble forth through a disordered chain of associations.”

After summarizing Trump’s boom-and-bust business career, Gartner writes: “Trump’s first hypomanic crash resulted in a few bankruptcies, but while he is president, the consequences could be on a scale so vast it’s difficult even to contemplate. ... His worsening hypomania is making him increasingly more irrational, grandiose, paranoid, aggressive, irritable and impulsive.”


Donald Trump in 1984. (AP)

Psychiatrist Steve Wruble lays much of the blame for President Trump’s mental-health problems on Trump’s domineering father, Fred.

“Donald Trump’s early development,” he writes, “created who we are witnessing. ... [H]is father’s intensity left its mark on the entire family. Donald’s oldest brother essentially killed himself under his father’s rule. This tragedy must have played a prominent role in the formation of Donald’s identity and left minimal room to rebel against his father’s authority, except through competition in the realm of business success. Despite their appreciation for each other, the tension between father and son caused Donald psychological wounds that still fester.”

Therapist Diane Jhueck asks, rhetorically: Why wasn’t Donald Trump’s “dangerousness” identified and tackled early in his life? The answer: he was “insulated by inherited wealth.” She adds that “his father had similar mental health disturbances,” lessening the possibility that the younger Trump’s behavioral problems would be addressed. She writes that Trump “exhibits extreme denial of any feedback that does not affirm his self-image and psychopathic tendencies, which affords him very limited ability to learn and effectively adjust to the requirements of the office of president. Rather, he consistently displays a revenge-oriented response to any such feedback.”




Robert Jay Lifton, a professor emeritus of John Jay College and a psychiatry lecturer at Columbia University, fears this will all result in “malignant normality.” That is, that Trump’s abnormal behavior, because he’s the president of the United States, will become viewed by his fellow Americans -- particularly children -- as normal. Lifton, who early in his career studied how Nazi doctors at death camps came to accept their assignments (it often included heavy drinking), says the “process of adaptation to evil ... is all too possible.” He decided to participate in this book project because he believes the citizenry must “recognize the urgency of the situation in which the most powerful man in the world is also the bearer of profound instability and untruth.”

[Micawber]

Much has been written by U.S. commentators, pundits, and even mental health professionals about Donald Trump’s mind and psyche during the 2016 campaign for the presidency and his first 20 months in office. Little of it was grounded in applied psychoanalysis, the practice of using psychoanalytical principles to understand the actions, motivations, and limitations of historical figures.

To fill that gap, I wrote “Trump on the Couch,” a task made easier by the revealing historical record on his family and early years and his own published record, from the books he has authored over the years to his more recent, incomparable Twitter output. These sources provide an unprecedented look at how the unconscious patterns Trump developed in childhood influence his words and deeds in adulthood.

A single appearance on “Fox & Friends,” a morning talk show on the Trump-friendly Fox News network, reveals the depth and breadth of the character evaluations and mental illness diagnoses that I made from my analyses.

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It was April 26, 2018, the day that White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson withdrew as Trump’s surprise nominee for Secretary of Veterans Affairs following allegations of improper professional conduct. From the privacy of his White House retreat, Trump called into the show, and for nearly 30 minutes delivered a rambling monologue, weighing in on topics from Jackson’s announcement to Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, James Comey, and Kanye West.

Related: Trump is dangerous, mental health experts claim in a new book. Are they right?
This half-hour revealed how destabilized the president can become and showed many of the disturbing patterns seen elsewhere in Trump’s actions and writing. Three of the most striking were his deep-seated feelings of victimhood, repeating himself, and difficulty answering questions or staying on point. He remarked, for example, that he had made NBC “a fortune.” He then went on to say, “You would think these guys would treat me great” before repeating “I made them a fortune.” And then he said, “They treat me falsely.” His disbelief was palpable.

In most situations, Trump’s impulse is to blame others for the problems he encounters. On “Fox & Friends,” he blamed the Democrats. His tendency to view the “other” as bad, dirty, or destructive was illustrated here by his rants against James Comey, CNN, and Robert Mueller.

A worrisome escalation of Trump’s cognitive limitations was heard in his inability to follow the thread of a conversation, as when he jumped from getting a card for Melania’s birthday to talking about Macron’s wife to talking about Iran — all in a span of three sentences. He said things that just don’t make sense, like there is “a horrible group of deep-seated people” out to get him.

The paranoid portrayal of himself as victim continued in a similar manner. “It’s a witch hunt,” Trump said, “and they know that. … I would give myself an A-plus. Nobody has done what I’ve been able to do and I did it despite the fact that I have a phony cloud over my head that doesn’t exist.”

Related: Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?
Also on display was the now-familiar disconnect between Trump’s language, meaning, and the truth, most conspicuously when he contradicted himself while railing against his perceived enemies on “fake news” networks: “I don’t watch them at all. I watched last night.”

What troubled me even more was the acceleration of Trump’s anger, which threatened at times to escape his control and explode into full-throated rage. The same destructive impulses to which he gives free expression from the rally podium sounded out of control when coming from an isolated, disembodied voice over the phone.

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The show’s three hosts, Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade, and Steve Doocy, kept trying to change the topic in an apparent attempt to distract the president from erupting into full-blown chaos. Without their knowing it, they were unconsciously attempting to serve as the human equivalent of The Wall, the psychic skin that Trump’s disordered personality relies upon to keep him from falling apart entirely. But the “Fox & Friends” hosts’ calm had the opposite effect. After their attempts to contain him continued to fail, they ended the conversation just as he was revving up for another round of invective against Comey, the FBI, and the Clinton Foundation.

Moments before ending the “conversation,” Kilmeade interrupted Trump’s tirade against the “council of seven people” on CNN of which “every one is against me.” Kilmeade suggested, “I’m not your doctor, Mr. President, but I would, I would recommend you watch less of them.”

It’s clear from the transcript of the episode that Trump was incapable that morning of simultaneously appearing on the show and listening closely to what was being said. If Kilmeade had said something comparable to another guest while Trump was watching, it’s easy to imagine what Trump’s take on it would have been: He would have seen the fact that the host was so exasperated by the guest’s volatile mental state that he introduced the notion of how a doctor might address it as a confirmation of the guest’s instability. The tweet would have been “Loser.” Instead, the president didn’t acknowledge the suggestion that he could use a doctor to help him maintain his mental stability.

Questions about Trump’s mental health and the possible need for treatment have been topics for public discussion that predate his presidency, and they will continue after it is over. Much of the initial discussion came from the political left, then expanded into what remains of the center. But if that discussion is now reverberating in the pro-Trump, conservative media echo chamber exemplified by “Fox & Friends,” it has reached an entirely new level. If Fox News is suggesting that the president’s moods could benefit from medical attention, there’s no telling who is next.



The president’s performance on Fox & Friends struck me and many viewers as one of a frighteningly unhinged individual. It supported my conclusions from hundreds of hours of analysis that Trump is mentally unfit in ways that make him psychologically unsuited for the presidency. I would have written the book in all caps if I thought that would have better conveyed the sense of urgency with which it should be read.

The work of assessing the president’s mental health certainly won’t end here. The goal of my analysis was never to diagnose Trump, but to observe, comprehend, and provide some context to help educated readers understand some characteristics of the president’s behavior.

But beware: Simply becoming an educated reader can be seen as an act of defiance against a president who audaciously proclaimed on the campaign trail, “I love the poorly educated.” Education can put one at odds with Trump’s supporters as well: Poorly educated voters returned Trump’s love, awarding him victories in 43 of the nation’s 50 least-educated counties in 2016 (and only 10 of the 50 most educated). Trump’s pathology flourishes when unchallenged by awareness or insight. Information is power, but it is also a responsibility.

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Nothing about studying Trump’s psyche has reduced my concern about his fitness for office. The more I learned and the deeper I looked, my conviction that he is a menace to himself and the American people grew ever stronger. This knowledge has only raised my anxiety, an effect I suspect it will also have on many readers. But anxiety, though unpleasant, is not something we have to run away from. Anxiety is a source of information, and in that respect is a responsibility as well.

The book is not a personal attack on Trump, nor is it a rebuttal to some of his messages, because that would overlook the genuine grievances Trump supporters have with Washington elites in general and the Obama administration in particular. These are real and passionate feelings of dislocation and impotence, to which Trump has given voice.

Instead, the book is a call to action for all Americans, because Trump reminds us of what happens when anxiety is denied or ignored. He is consumed and misled by a lifetime of unprocessed, unacknowledged anxiety, which has no doubt been exacerbated by the power and responsibility of his office. Trump challenges us to avoid making the same mistakes. It’s time we heed that call.

Justin A. Frank, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center and author of “Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President” (Avery/Penguin Random House, September 2018).

[Life is Golden]

Meltdown complete.