Jim Hightower - What Should We Do About A Mentally Ill President?

[DonViejo]

Jim Hightower

What Should We Do About A Mentally Ill President?

March 10, 2017 6:00 am

It’s time to face up to the obvious: The President of the United States is deranged.

I don’t mean that he’s merely idiosyncratic or pushing policies that I think are crazy, nor do I say this as just another political jab. I mean that Donald J. Trump literally is mentally ill.

OK, I’m no doctor, but you don’t need a doctorate in mental disorders to see that his behavior in public and on Twitter is beyond abnormal — it’s psychotic. As we’ve seen, he routinely plunges uncontrollably into prolonged fits of petty paranoia; he succumbs to delusions of imperialist grandeur; he spouts absurd right-wing rumors as facts (while simultaneously denying that actual facts are true); and he is pathologically addicted to lying, bizarrely repeating his most blatant fabrications even after they’ve been totally debunked.

A sane, temperamentally-balanced president — possessing all the power and majesty that America’s supreme office conveys to an Oval Office occupant — doesn’t get into demeaning public snits with the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger; doesn’t feel a constant need to puff himself up with ridiculously false claims, like his frantic insistence that the crowd at his inaugural celebration was the largest ever; doesn’t rage rabidly at media outlets that question his competence or displease him, blasting them as “enemies of the people;” and doesn’t unleash a furious, all-out attack on Barack Obama just because some screwball radio talk-show conspiracy theorist made a claim that the former president had wiretapped Trump’s campaign.

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[gordianot]

1. It is up to congress, future historians will judge.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Worse than King Lear in the middle of the storm.

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[Paladin]

3. Thank you, Jim Hightower. (nt)

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. I think he's a psychopath, not psychotic. Important distinction.

[gordianot]

5. You can be both.

Trump definitely has a Personality disorder he also is fully paranoid with what appears to be a serious sleep disorder acting on what has to be paranoia.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. We know quite well what we should do

Rather, what those with the power to do anything should do. We also know quite well that they won't do it.

[Lokilooney]

7. Soooo

People are surprised when he acts the same way he has been acting for the last 30+ years?

This behavior would be strange for a career politician but he is not one. He is a celebrity business man with a schtick. And like many celebrities who live in there own bubble long enough they start to behave bizarrely, see Randy Quaid or Kanye West. Also don't forget he is part actor and when one becomes an actor everything in life they do becomes an act.