By Amy B Wang
The Washington Post Via The Toronto Star, Sat., May 20, 2017
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But Trump seems to have a proclivity for insults that cast others as mentally unstable or mentally ill. In a few cases, he has said it outright.
Usually, Trump uses other words that are connected with mental health but have a negative connotation. He’s called people “wacko” (sometimes spelling it “whacko,” especially when referring to disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner).
In a handful of instances, Trump has deemed someone — or something — to be a “basket case.” Then-Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush? “A basket case!” Former “Art of the Deal” ghostwriter Tony Schwartz? “ ... now a hostile basket case who feels jilted!” The United States of America? An “economic basket case.”
As The Post’s Colby Itkowitz reported last February, Trump’s flippant usage of such insults reflected a broader, often dismissive attitude about mental health in society. People are so inured to such disparaging insults that they often don’t immediately associate them with mental health at all — and even if they do, they don’t think twice about it.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/05/20/from-nut-job-to-wacko-trump-has-a-history-of-insulting-others-mental-health.html
Whacko Projection
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