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Related: About this forumThe French Press Asks: "Is Donald trump Crazy and Insane"
not sure if translation is available but you get the idea.
But where is the American Press? (GPT might be able to translate for you)
English Transcript (Available Portion)
00:00 Dont worry about giving orders.
00:05 We need Greenland for reasons of
00:10 national security.
00:11 And its not Denmark thats going to manage that, I tell you.
00:15 And theres laughter, and more laughter on Donald Trumps plane.
00:17 Grandiloquence, erratic speech,
00:20 absence of superego, impulsive reaction to the slightest criticism.
00:23 Can we should we
00:25 ask about the mental health of the American president?
00:30 Can we even ask that question?
00:32 Is Donald Trump crazy?
00:34 Would that
00:35 Would that amount to disqualifying a political project that is perfectly coherent for him?
00:40 Or is the situation serious?
00:42 Are we under the grip of a narcissistic delusion
00:45 from the most powerful man in the world?
00:47 France Inter La grande matinale.
00:48 Sonia de Villers.
00:51 And Im pleased to debate with
00:55 historian and psychoanalyst Elisabeth Roudinesco.
00:57 Hello.
00:58 Hello.
01:00 Welcome.
01:01 You are about to publish Le divan des femmes (The Womens Couch) in a few weeks.
01:05 In three weeks.
01:08 Thats right.
01:09 And I should add that you are
01:10 also vice-president of the Institute for the History and Enlightenment of Thought.
01:15 Welcome to France Inter.
01:17 Opposite you is Henri Guaino.
01:18 Hello.
01:19 Former MP,
01:20 former special advisor to President Nicolas Sarkozy.
01:23 Youre going to tell us
01:25 whether power makes one crazy, for example,
01:27 whether the presidency drives one mad.
01:30 Elisabeth Roudinesco.
01:31 Well start with you.
01:32 Recently in Le Grand Continent magazine,
01:34 we read a
01:35 fascinating interview.
01:36 You began with a sequence that took place on
01:40 January 16.
01:41 when the Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner awarded her medal
01:45 to Donald Trump
01:46 as though it were a real Nobel Prize
01:50 a moment you describe as an expression of delusion.
01:55 I quote you:
01:56 something collapses with this grotesque staging
02:00 without feeling even a moments fear of ridicule
02:02 a strange parallel reality emerges
02:05 a delusional parallel.
02:07 So you talk about delusion when you talk about the American president, Elisabeth Roudinesco.
02:12 First, I thank Le Grand Continent and Gilles Gresseni.
02:14 They pushed me
02:15 They pushed you.
02:16 You were reluctant.
02:17 Yes, yes, because I think you have to
02:19 I
02:20 I applied the rule.
02:22 You dont diagnose someone you dont know
02:24 Thats true.
02:25 I think this scene is decisive
02:29 why? Because
02:30 he delivers a Shakespearean scene
02:32 we dont need Freud for that
02:34 but
02:35 its true that
02:36 we always need Freud
02:37 and there
02:38 he believes
02:39 he really believes
02:40 because
02:40 if you want
02:41 its a delusional act
02:42 that doesnt at all mean hes clinically
02:45 crazy
02:46 I said he wasnt psychotic
02:48 but its a delusional act
02:50 because he really believes
02:53 that receiving
02:55 essentially
02:57 the insignia
02:58 without the title
03:00 can fix something
03:02 since he considers he was persecuted
03:04 by not having
03:05 the Nobel Prize
03:07 so
03:08 if you want
03:09 the word madness
03:10 yes
03:11 there is a delusional act
03:12 without him being
03:13 hes not schizophrenic
03:14 hes not psychotic
03:15 but there is still
03:15 an extraordinary narcissistic delusion
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The French Press Asks: "Is Donald trump Crazy and Insane" (Original Post)
MagaSmash
5 hrs ago
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Deuxcents
(25,828 posts)1. Yes. And yes
Historic NY
(39,767 posts)2. Oui
NNadir
(37,453 posts)3. Mai Oui. Bien Sur. C'est un homme fou.
some_of_us_are_sane
(2,847 posts)4. Great translation, MagaSmash!
Thanks so much.
"hes not schizophrenic
hes not psychotic
but there is still an extraordinary narcissistic delusion
"
PERFECT! We've seen this behavior time and time again with this nutcase Trump: First, INSISTING that Obama wasn't a true citizen of the United States. Then, that he LOST the 2020 election. Then throwing an extended temper tantrum about not winning the Nobel.
He's a SICK, DELUSIONAL, DANGEROUS NARCISSIST with no guardrails.