The Madness of Don the Con

[bluescribbler]

Earlier this week, Lawrence O'Donnell had as a guest one of the psychiatrists who coauthored the book which suggested that the Conman in Chief exhibited symptoms of severe mental illness. The good doctor said that the symptoms appear to be getting progressively worse. I have a theory about that.
We know that he considers himself to be something of a ladies' man. We know, from the Access Hollywood tape that he is attracted to beautiful women and that he feels entitled to assault them because he is a star. We know that he has had multiple affairs with many women. We know that he had an affair with at least one former nude model. We know that he had an affair with at least one adult film actress. We know from the Steele Dossier, that, on at least one occasion, he consorted with Russian prostitutes. We know from multiple reports that he refuses to use protection in his affairs.
I am not a physician. I am only speculating here, but is it possible that he is suffering from late stage syphilis? That would explain a lot, I think.

[Phoenix61]

1. No it's not. He is a malignant narcissist with

dementia.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Could be Studio 54

From CNN:

(Donald Trump and Howard Stern) then returned to the discussion after speaking about single life and dating.

"Hey, so wait a second, get back to my question," Stern said. "Let's say you're with a hot chick, right? But you're so germ paranoid, and I'm germ paranoid, do you say to them, 'look you've got to go take a medical test before I do you.'"

"Well, you'd like to say that, and sometimes you do," added Trump. "The problem is that sometimes your own chemicals take over and you can't wait."

"So you'll just have straight intercourse with a rubber with them right?" Stern asked.

"Well, I don't know, you know there's lots of different ways of doing it. It's a very complicated subject. They say that more people were killed by women in this act than killed in Vietnam, OK," Trump said.

"Yes, that is true," replied Stern.

"You know, you get criticized for that statement, but that statement is very easily true," added Trump.

Stern responded, "I even went as far to say that you're braver than any Vietnam vet because you're out there screwing a lot of women."

"Getting the Congressional Medal of Honor, in actuality," said Trump.

Source: https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/14/media/trump-stern-vietnam-stds/index.html

[patricia92243]

3. I thought syphilis could be cured nowadays.

[bluescribbler]

5. I don't know

Back in the early '70s, when I was in the Navy, we were warned about an antibiotic resistant strain, which we dubbed, "black syph". In fact, one of my shipmates was medevacked out and the rumor was that he had it. All I know for sure is that I never saw him again.

[abqtommy]

8. I guess syphilis could be cured if we had the meds to do it. For years now I've been reading

about treatment-resistant syphilis (using penicillin) in many areas of the world. I still think the best cure
for problems like that is abstinence. I don't know the current state of research into new antibiotics but I wouldn't bet on having an effective treatment anytime soon.

[Faux pas]

4. I've been

thinking that since he came down the golden escalator when he announced he was running.

[tblue37]

6. His father's Alzheimer's symptoms became progressively obvious starting in his 70s. I think Trump

has Alzheimer's.

[robbob]

7. When you pay women for sex

It’s called “hiring a prostitute/escort”, not “having an affair”, which implies at least some degree of mutual attraction. Nothing attractive about that slug.