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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNO. Trump's mental health HAS NOT "GONE" over the edge. How stable was he when he raped E Jean Carroll 30 years ago?
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676978205/Nobel laureate issues startling warning as Trump's mental decline 'goes over the edge'
Robert Davis
May 31, 2026 4:25PM ET
A Nobel Prize-winning economist issues a startling warning about what it will take for the U.S. to move on from Trumpism and the Make America Great Again movement in a new Substack video on Sunday.
Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 for his work on trade theory, said in the video that America's inability to address growing wealth inequality and the underlying conditions that brought President Donald Trump to power could wreak havoc on the nation if they are not addressed after Trump is out of office. His comments came at a time when several political analysts and observers have noted that Trump appears to be suffering from a significant mental decline, one that makes him more dangerous than previous presidents who aged in the White House.
"Its not really a surprise to find out that he has lost his mind, what was left of it," Krugman said. "And yet, he is in power. People who did a lot to put him in power did so, knowing this the billionaires who contributed vast sums of money to his campaign, the Supreme Court which gave him immunity back in 2024 they all knew who they were doing this for."
"They understood what they were doing," he added. "Now, maybe, even they are getting a bit of cold feet as he goes over the edge and as were starting to see in Iran and elsewhere what happens when you have a lunatic running the United States, a lunatic who has far more power than a previous president because all of the normal institutional safeguards have been short-circuited or dismantled."
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NO. Trump's mental health HAS NOT "GONE" over the edge. How stable was he when he raped E Jean Carroll 30 years ago? (Original Post)
Miles Archer
20 hrs ago
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AZProgressive
(30,022 posts)1. I hate that there was backlash when well qualified psychiatrists were warning about Trump's condition in the first term
They were right all along but the media and other psychiatrists invoked the "Goldwater rule" but Barry Goldwater seems tame compared to Trump.
If we listened we could have avoided a lot of problems but I think we did because Trump did lose in 2020 but somehow some forgot how chaotic the first term was.
Blue Full Moon
(3,693 posts)2. Mental issues and now dementia on top.
EdmondDantes_
(2,146 posts)3. Two different levels of stability
Being a criminal doesn't mean one is mentally unstable in the sense of what Krugman is talking about.
GenThePerservering
(3,815 posts)4. Yes - two different issues
now Trump has both.
dalton99a
(95,666 posts)5. Kick