# Is President Trump suddenly Getting Worse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 12, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444 "2018-01-12T04:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 77
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/77 "2018-01-13T00:55:52Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Kinda jumping into this thread blind, but… > > There is no question among most psychological professionals that this is unethical. It’s Psych 101. You don’t diagnose someone you’ve never met. > > I don’t think people fully understand the ramifications of this sort of thing. It’s not just about politics, it’s about how mental illness is handled and perceived in our culture, it’s about the inherent cultural bias of the DSM, it’s about alienating half the country from the psychological profession, and a lot of other things. > > But as I’ve stated before, you don’t have to be a psychological professional to judge a rambling madman as batshit crazy. With someone as erratic and irrational as Donald Trump, mental illness is an entirely reasonable conclusion for anyone to make. And this is so painfully obvious I would contend that the burden of proof is on others to provide evidence that he’s psychologically stable. As I said in another thread: > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15280): > > An [editorial](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/opinion/is-mr-trump-nuts.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-editorials)in the NYTimes today said who cares if thump is mentally ill? Emphasis added. > IOW it’s not rocket surgery. We don’t need no stinkin’ diagnosis to tell us that he’s clearly unfit for the job. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444)._