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Something is seriously wrong with him (Original Post) malaise May 2019 OP
He's a BUM! Kid Berwyn May 2019 #1
Nice malaise May 2019 #12
+1 dalton99a May 2019 #17
Explains why he walked out of that meeting today malaise May 2019 #43
Deranged, treasonous grifter. gademocrat7 May 2019 #2
The really frightening part of this is the US has no process in which to evaluate the mental RKP5637 May 2019 #3
It is scary malaise May 2019 #4
It's an excellent video you posted!!! Yes, I really don't recall mental conditions coming up for any RKP5637 May 2019 #7
There was one VP candidate: Thomas Eagelton, McGovern's original pick in 1972. hedda_foil May 2019 #53
You know, now that you mention it, I vaguely remember that. Thanks for updating my RKP5637 May 2019 #54
I didn't have a much clearer memory. Had to look it up! hedda_foil May 2019 #55
... RKP5637 May 2019 #56
I wonder if his handlers will allow him to debate. Trump's ego, though, may have other plans. Auggie May 2019 #33
even his physical was a sham. mopinko May 2019 #5
Everything about him is fake malaise May 2019 #8
It's all just absolutely incredible! n/t RKP5637 May 2019 #9
Trump just mirrors the looney tune base that supports him. dubyadiprecession May 2019 #16
Yep, I was thinking that earlier ... and many probably vote for him thinking, "hey, he's RKP5637 May 2019 #19
+1 Chin music May 2019 #30
Excellent video malaise, thank you for posting. n/t monmouth4 May 2019 #6
If he were not potus, but just some supervisor in an office somewhere, FM123 May 2019 #10
Yep malaise May 2019 #11
If he were, say, just the chief of police somewhere.. can you imagine? pangaia May 2019 #23
Good point because I know a few lunatics malaise May 2019 #27
Yep, where I've worked he would not have lasted. He would have been immediately seen RKP5637 May 2019 #15
He is unfit to work at 7-Eleven dalton99a May 2019 #24
If the CEO of your company behaved in public even ONCE... Dave Starsky May 2019 #37
and then there is the cocaine. mopinko May 2019 #13
K&R... spanone May 2019 #14
And Republicans nominated the crazy asshole to be president dalton99a May 2019 #18
and support him in lockstep to this day... dhill926 May 2019 #20
And would like to repeat it in 2020! n/t RKP5637 May 2019 #21
And what is the condition of his enablers called? world wide wally May 2019 #35
They are a charismatic death cult. N/t Dave Starsky May 2019 #38
Untreated syphilis is a terrible thing. nt GoCubsGo May 2019 #22
Great post! FakeNoose May 2019 #25
Narcissistic personality disorder with deteriorating cognitive abilities mokawanis May 2019 #26
Mental illness is the only reasonable explanation for some of his lies. ooky May 2019 #28
He has an overwhelming and uncontrollable need for immediate adoration from a crowd. Chemisse May 2019 #36
The basic problem is that the Constitution does not cover this madness in a POTUS. BSdetect May 2019 #29
You really can't blame the Founding Fathers. Turbineguy May 2019 #31
I do blame our slavish adherence to a deeply flawed document. BSdetect May 2019 #32
The Koch Brothers are working on changing it. Dave Starsky May 2019 #42
Excellent. Just wish they had put dates on the clips. Seems like this topic has cooled off? Laura PourMeADrink May 2019 #34
I dont care what it is MFM008 May 2019 #39
a bad case of sex on the wrong brain, mixing reproductive urges with mathematics and logic certainot May 2019 #40
Whatever you're smoking, my friend, I want some of it. Dave Starsky May 2019 #44
ha! i always got a kick out of those. actually, it's a book by the same name certainot May 2019 #46
Ah, I see. That helps a little with the context. Dave Starsky May 2019 #48
unfortunately you're preaching to the choir. barbtries May 2019 #41
Criminal personality shanti May 2019 #45
Geez M, tell us something we don't know! ProudLib72 May 2019 #47
+1,000 malaise May 2019 #50
There is no way that we can allow this man to govern for another four years. smirkymonkey May 2019 #49
Thanks, bookmarked. yonder May 2019 #51
If my sainted mother were still alive badhair77 May 2019 #52

malaise

(277,353 posts)
43. Explains why he walked out of that meeting today
Wed May 22, 2019, 02:17 PM
May 2019

She spoke the truth about him and he hates criticism of any kind.
I'm betting his mother used to set him off as well

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
3. The really frightening part of this is the US has no process in which to evaluate the mental
Wed May 22, 2019, 09:35 AM
May 2019

condition of candidates. It's all left to the US voters (and Russians). IMO it leaves the door open for someone even far worse than tRump to become president ... or other high offices.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
7. It's an excellent video you posted!!! Yes, I really don't recall mental conditions coming up for any
Wed May 22, 2019, 09:41 AM
May 2019

candidates in the US and other countries ... until after the fact ... usually after disastrous consequences.

hedda_foil

(16,483 posts)
53. There was one VP candidate: Thomas Eagelton, McGovern's original pick in 1972.
Thu May 23, 2019, 10:18 AM
May 2019

He failed to reveal 3 hospitalizations for mental issues in 1972 and was dropped from the ticket after McGovern talked with his psychiatrists.

https://www.npr.org/2012/08/04/157670201/the-thomas-eagleton-affair-haunts-candidates-today

dubyadiprecession

(6,238 posts)
16. Trump just mirrors the looney tune base that supports him.
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:04 AM
May 2019

They don’t care about his behavior, because they have a sadistic view of humanity in general.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
19. Yep, I was thinking that earlier ... and many probably vote for him thinking, "hey, he's
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:07 AM
May 2019

just like me!"

FM123

(10,111 posts)
10. If he were not potus, but just some supervisor in an office somewhere,
Wed May 22, 2019, 09:44 AM
May 2019

he would have been Baker-Acted right then and there at his workplace in front of all his staff and co-workers...

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
23. If he were, say, just the chief of police somewhere.. can you imagine?
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:13 AM
May 2019

That is interesting because it is also a figure of strong authority. It would even then not be easy to get rid of him, but it would be a lot easier than it is now.

If he were manager of a Burger King,, nope.. gone in a couple weeks or months...

malaise

(277,353 posts)
27. Good point because I know a few lunatics
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:27 AM
May 2019

who have held power and removing them was no easy task

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
15. Yep, where I've worked he would not have lasted. He would have been immediately seen
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:02 AM
May 2019

as incompetent, unqualified, mentally unstable and a buffoon. ... plus, a major liability to the bottom-line profitability of the company.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
37. If the CEO of your company behaved in public even ONCE...
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:29 AM
May 2019

The way he conducts himself on a continual, minute-by-minute basis, your board of directors would hold an emergency meeting and immediately terminate him. They wouldn't even let him clean out his desk or take his family pictures. Security would march him out the front door, and they might throw his shit in a box and mail it to him four weeks later.

mopinko

(71,562 posts)
13. and then there is the cocaine.
Wed May 22, 2019, 09:56 AM
May 2019

i saw barbara res, his former assistant, the other day. it was right when the tax returns dropped. she made a comment that his business went to shit when he started rejecting any and all advice.
something in my brain went click. the time frame was around his studio 21 days.

mokawanis

(4,471 posts)
26. Narcissistic personality disorder with deteriorating cognitive abilities
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:22 AM
May 2019

The first part means he doesn't think he needs help. The second part means help would only be effective in limited ways. I think our only hope is that he has some kind of catastrophic medical event (heart attack or stroke) that ends his Presidency.

ooky

(9,533 posts)
28. Mental illness is the only reasonable explanation for some of his lies.
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:27 AM
May 2019

Like going in front of our troops and telling them he gave them a 10% raise. There is just simply no other explanation for telling such a ridiculous lie. When lies just fly uncontrollably from someone's mouth like that what else would explain it? Such lies make it perfectly obvious that he needs to be escorted out of the White House for reason of mental instability alone, much less all of his criminal behavior and his sheer incompetence at his job. Yet the Republicans in Congress continue to let this man run around with access to the nuclear codes.

Chemisse

(30,990 posts)
36. He has an overwhelming and uncontrollable need for immediate adoration from a crowd.
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:25 AM
May 2019

And he'll say anything to get it.

He doesn't care how they feel later when they find out there's no raise - or no money going to the vets from the fundraiser, or no tax relief for the middle class, or all the other things that he lies about that are so easily revealed as lies.

I think that is still in the category of personality disorder, although a really severe one. Similarly, he has no empathy, is cruel and malicious, suggestion he is a sociopath - still 'just' a personality disorder.

What crosses the line, I think, is relaying 'facts' that apparently are movies he has watched. If he doesn't know the difference, that is either psychosis or (more likely) dementia. That and his confusion and disordered speech.

BSdetect

(9,047 posts)
29. The basic problem is that the Constitution does not cover this madness in a POTUS.
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:33 AM
May 2019

Without a Senate that upholds the law fully.

Turbineguy

(38,245 posts)
31. You really can't blame the Founding Fathers.
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:44 AM
May 2019

They never expected us to throw away our country after only 240 years.

BSdetect

(9,047 posts)
32. I do blame our slavish adherence to a deeply flawed document.
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:49 AM
May 2019

And the terrible difficulty in changing it.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
42. The Koch Brothers are working on changing it.
Wed May 22, 2019, 02:13 PM
May 2019

For years, they've been working on Republicans in state legislatures and governorships to declare a Constitutional Convention to do that very thing.

As flawed as the current document is, I guarantee you will like their new revised version even less.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
40. a bad case of sex on the wrong brain, mixing reproductive urges with mathematics and logic
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:08 PM
May 2019

where numbers are done it stimulates greed - more bigger faster.....

where logic is done sex energy wants finality, premature conclusion, certainty.

most right handed people have some sowb because 90% of the population is right handed and after humans began delaying the age of reproduction a few thousand years ago (for some) most learned sex with the sword and hammer hand, especially the males.

nothing is certain and the need for it creates anxiety and fear. humans use order, control, religion, simplification, etc to reduce uncertainty and create certainty, such as with binary value systems - yes no, right wrong, black white, etc resulting in racism, nationalism, etc. authoritarianism is measured with the uncertainty avoidance index, or UAI. the irrational need for certainty is a defining characteristic of authoritarianism.

women have less sowb in general due mainly to anatomical differences and the disparity causes men to view women as sources of uncertainty to be controlled, maybe even feared, resulting in institutionalized misogyny and paternalism, etc

trump got it bad and there might be a genetic aspect. he may have reached a point of paralyzing fear and learned to create certainty on his own as opposed to getting it from religion, etc. in that scenario he makes up a lie or triggers emotion with racism for eg, and logic has learned to automatically rationalize it by connecting to the starved right side, releasing sex energy that finally escapes to the pleasure centers.

certainty is the currency of power. his followers have bad cases of sowb too. his ability to simplify and reduce the complex and infinite helps them control the uncertainty, rationalize the certainty, and ease the fear. chaos makes him more attractive to him.

that's the secret of authoritarian power.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
44. Whatever you're smoking, my friend, I want some of it.
Wed May 22, 2019, 02:18 PM
May 2019

Your post kind of reads like a Dr. Bronner's Soap label.

barbtries

(29,662 posts)
41. unfortunately you're preaching to the choir.
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:26 PM
May 2019

his multiple pathologies have been on display since well before the election. he's getting worse.

this is one thing that gets me when people talk about impeachment. how he's going to play the victim and blah blah - how would that be any different from what he's been doing all along? whenever we think he could not possibly sink any lower he does.

but i'm hopeful today, because i believe that inexorably and unavoidably we are headed for impeachment. that is where the LAW is leading us. we can then hope that there are a handful of republicans who believe in the constitution.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
47. Geez M, tell us something we don't know!
Wed May 22, 2019, 03:26 PM
May 2019


Actually, you could pair this with a psychologist's insight into the impaired brain function of his supporters, then we might be onto something. Why on earth does his severely damaged personality attract so many? Is it his character they are drawn to, or is it simply 'owning the libs'?
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
49. There is no way that we can allow this man to govern for another four years.
Wed May 22, 2019, 04:22 PM
May 2019

In fact, he should not even be allowed to run in the next election due to his instability and madness. I would take that one step further and say that he should be removed immediately as he is a clear and present danger to the security and health of this nation and the world. He is not fit to be in office.

badhair77

(4,549 posts)
52. If my sainted mother were still alive
Wed May 22, 2019, 06:33 PM
May 2019

she’d said “He’s not right in the head.” And she’d be correct. I’ve thought of her so often during this catastrophe.

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