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MagaSmash

(11,976 posts)
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 12:03 PM 5 hrs ago

The 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 — Don’t worry about giving orders.
00:05 — We need Greenland for reasons of…
00:10 — national security.
00:11 — And it’s not Denmark that’s going to manage that, I tell you.
00:15 — And there’s laughter, and more laughter on Donald Trump’s 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 I’m 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 Women’s Couch) in a few weeks.
01:05 — In three weeks.
01:08 — That’s 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 — You’re 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 — We’ll 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 moment’s 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 don’t diagnose someone you don’t know…
02:24 — That’s true.
02:25 — I think this scene is decisive…
02:29 — why? Because…
02:30 — he delivers a Shakespearean scene…
02:32 — we don’t need Freud for that…
02:34 — but…
02:35 — it’s 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 — it’s a delusional act…
02:42 — that doesn’t at all mean he’s clinically…
02:45 — crazy…
02:46 — I said he wasn’t psychotic…
02:48 — but it’s 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 — he’s not schizophrenic…
03:14 — he’s 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 OP
Yes. And yes Deuxcents 5 hrs ago #1
Oui Historic NY 5 hrs ago #2
Mai Oui. Bien Sur. C'est un homme fou. NNadir 4 hrs ago #3
Great translation, MagaSmash! some_of_us_are_sane 3 hrs ago #4

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,847 posts)
4. Great translation, MagaSmash!
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 02:20 PM
3 hrs ago

Thanks so much.

"he’s not schizophrenic…he’s 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.

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