Author’s Note: This story was originally published on Oct. 25, 2017
It’s official. President Trump is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. And he’s even losing the support of fellow Republicans.
Tuesday was not a good day for Donald Trump.
Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) doubled down on his comment that the White House has become an “adult day-care center,” accusing President Trump of corrupting the nation with his “untruths,” “attempted bullying,” and “name calling”
The knocks continued.
“You would think he would aspire to be the president of the United States and act like a president of the United States,” Corker said. “But that’s just not going to be the case, apparently.” Corker is not seeking reelection, so that may be why he is being so candid.
But that’s not all. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), who is not seeking reelection either, on Tuesday delivered a scathing indictment of the Trump administration on the Senate floor:
Mr. President, I rise to say: enough… The personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms, and institution, the flagrant disregard for truth and decency…
It must also be said that I rise today with no small measure of regret. Regret because of the state of our disunion. Regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics. Regret because of the indecency of our discourse. Regret because of the coarseness of our leadership.
All of this comes on the heels of a speech by former president George W. Bush this past Thursday in New York City, in which he didn’t mention Trump by name, but it was pretty obvious who he was talking about. He condemned “discourse degraded by casual cruelty” and said “bigotry seems emboldened,” and added that “our politics seem more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication.”
Plus, John McCain — not a friend of Trump’s — chimed in last week, saying, “We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent.”
And recently, the psychiatrists of the world united in full force, diagnosing this hell-bent crackpot of a president as inept and incapable of governing because he is mentally handicapped.
That’s right, the professionals are taking notice in droves. A compendium of 35 psychiatrists met in the spring at Yale University and President Trump was on the agenda.
Dr. John Gartner was there, and he’s a psychiatrist who has treated patients at Johns Hopkins University and is the founding member of Duty to Warn, an organization of several dozen doctors who believe President Trump is mentally unfit to serve.
One in four people worldwide, or 450 million, suffer from mental illness, and Trump just might be one of them. But the severity of his mental illness has alarmed a multitude of psychiatrists, who believe that he is delusional and narcissistic, making him unworthy of the presidency.
In other words, the president is basically a kook. And the effort to “dethrone him” by these psychiatrists is revenge porn for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who abhor President Trump.
“Worse than just being a liar or a narcissist, in addition he is paranoid, delusional and [has] grandiose thinking and he proved that to the country the first day he was President,” Gartner said, speaking to The Independent. “If Donald Trump really believes he had the largest crowd size in history, that’s delusional.”
Gartner is referring to when Trump said his inauguration was the highest attended in history. Photographic evidence showed attendance at Obama’s inauguration to be significantly larger.
Dr. Gartner started a petition, which already has more than 41,000 signatures by medical professionals, saying that President Trump is unfit to be president.
The petition states:
We, the undersigned mental health professionals (please state your degree), believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States.
…And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.’
In psychiatry, the “Goldwater rule” says it is unethical to diagnose someone who you have not seen personally. The rule came into being after another political figure — the unsuccessful 1964 presidential candidate and ultraconservative Barry Goldwater — was in hot water for his extreme politics, penchant for demagoguery, and devil-may-care attitude when it comes to nuclear war. Sound familiar?
But the doctors who gathered at Yale strongly believe the severity of the situation demands that the “duty to warn” outweighs the Goldwater rule.
The chair of the event, Dr. Bandy Lee, who is an assistant clinical professor at Yale’s Department of Psychiatry, had the following to say: “As some prominent psychiatrists have noted, [Trump’s mental health] is the elephant in the room. I think the public is really starting to catch on and widely talk about this now.”
I don’t use the word “crazy” lightly. I think it’s a term that gets thrown around way too often and is even derogatory toward the overwhelming majority of those of us who suffer from mental illness. “Crazy” should be reserved for only the most sinister, the most nefarious, and the truly sick among us.
But I will say this about Donald Trump: Donald Trump is crazy.
