To any first-year psychiatric resident, Trump’s sleepless nights filled with ranting tweets suggest irrational exuberance and lack of control, possibly a sign of a mood disorder called hypomania. His life-long history of disregard for others and deceit, if correct as reported, are characteristic of a personality disorder on the narcissistic and even sociopathic spectrum.
To be sure, definitive psychiatric diagnoses cannot be made without an in-person examination And certainly, psychiatric diagnoses themselves don’t make someone unfit to be president. But President Trump’s particular history and actions create a high index of suspicion for destructive mental processes which are putting the country and its safety and security in jeopardy.
DR. KENNETH PAUL ROSENBERG AND NORMAN ORNSTEIN | OPINION CONTRIBUTORS
One of us is a psychiatrist, the other a political scientist. We have watched the fiasco since the election with mounting trepidation, from two very different perspectives. But we have a common bond: For more than a decade, each of us has worked to advocate for people with serious mental illness to get treatment. We are coming together now to advocate for immediate intervention for our president.
Boy, they won’t have to miss a beat with Pres Joe! But, I guess, dementia wouldn’t be considered a “serious mental illness”, so carry on…
QAnon believer who plotted to kill Nancy Pelosi came to D.C. ready for war
“I predict that within the next 12 days, many in our country will die,” wrote Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr., who had threatened to kill Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), according to federal court records.
Kildee said the incident shows Trump can’t be trusted to calm tensions after his electoral loss to President-elect Joe Biden.
“This president has shown that he will do whatever he has to do to stroke his own ego and serve his own purposes,” Kildee said. “You know, 24 hours ago I couldn’t have imagined what happened in the space of the last day. I can’t imagine what he might do in the next couple of weeks, but I do know one thing for sure: One of the ways to minimize the damage is to take away the keys to the car. He is a danger to the country.”
Communism is perhaps the wrong Ideology to explain what we are seeing, a more fitting Ideology would be Technocracy. Here is a short video on just what Technocracy is
