If the Trump empire falls, he loses all his assets due to RICO and ends up in prison, that’d be just desserts for his collusion with Russia and efforts to prey on people’s bigotry and sexism.
it was clearly labelled opinion :rolleyes: in my opinion, a diagnosis of morbid obesity would be accurate. but it’s my opinion.
based on how fat he always looks.
I’m glad it was explained that “self clutching” meant arms crossed. I avoid watching (and listening) to him so I was wondering what I was missing. :eek:
…which is why he’s desperate to destroy the institutions that threaten his existence. He’s fighting for his life now and the life of his brand (and maybe fighting for Ivanka). He’s a cornered animal now.
You are in no way qualified to diagnose yourself as crazy.
So you’re not making a professional assessment of her qualifications; you’re just offering an informal layman’s opinion on the topic that was not meant to taken in any way as an expert judgment? Gee, I wonder why Ulfrieda didn’t do that?
Then why did you post it here? There is no possibility of a factual answer to any question about Trump on the SDMB.
Regards,
Shodan
There was a brief reduction in activity during the holidays.
The holidays ended.
He is getting worse. He’s not capable of doing this job, it requires too much attention and effort to details that he isn’t interested in, he’s running out of distracting bullshit that can be massaged into relevant discussion by his agents of discord. He’s left to nasty tweeting and showing the signs of Captain Queeg syndrome by attacking Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in what would be his only political victory. He is under pressure and failing, his attempts to redefine the argument with chaotic potshots, twists, and turns is no longer working because he has no actual direction, no actual goal.
There’s no need to consider the 25th amendment here, impeachment is the solution, he’s given sufficient grounds for it already, but we’ll have to wait and see if the Republican cowards and traitors in congress will finally take action based on the result of the Mueller investigation, or to see if the Democrat party doesn’t shoot itself in the foot it keeps in it’s mouth and manages to take over congress, and then hope they have the courage of real principles instead of the safer special interests that wag their tails.
I disagree. There’s of course no factual answer to questions like, is Trump making America great again. But as to whether Trump is unstable? It’s just a fact that he is.
As to whether he is becoming more unstable, that’s the sort of question that can either be answered with “Trump is the SUXXXOR” or possibly with some more objective metric. A metric that might be useful and factual could be, for example, polls over time on Amercians’ confidence in the President’s mental faculties.
You’d have to be crazy to diagnose yourself as being crazy.
A couple of comments.
As for it being “unethical” for mental health providers to comment on the mental status of others, the APA formally endorsed and overly assisted in the torture of thousands of people in the name of terrorism, so their “ethics” are slipperier than owl excrement.
As an RN for 25 years with a significant mental health background, I have no problem assessing and describing his behaviors. I would do the same if I saw him on TV looking like he was in a hypertensive crisis.
So. . . .Trump has an attention deficit spectrum disorder along with some type of learning disability. His son Barron obviously has more extreme symptoms of this disability. Add in an extremely sheltered upbringing that stunts any growth opportunities and you have a person with a third-grader mentality. Add in a cadre of yes men to keep him insulated and believing in his own BS.
He was private schooled so there is no record of anyone ever seeing him at any school. Even his “classmates” at Wharton don’t remember him being there. I believe he is only partially literate and that it is likely that most of his tweets are dictated and entered by whatever lackey is around. You can tell when he tweets himself because the word count and complexity goes way down.
He was the one man show of a long-running con game. He lost his fortune due to his stupidity and then the Russians found a nice way to launder their goods through him. Now it is all being exposed as the fraud it is.
Show me the relevant code of medical ethics that makes such an exception, please.
Is that a fact?
*There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that wre real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.
“It’s be best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.*[RIGHT]—Joseph Heller, Catch-22[/RIGHT]
All Trump has to do to stop being President is resign. But if he resigns, he’ll no longer be the President and can’t pardon himself. Oh, the paradox!
Stranger
I don’t hold out much hope for that kid, given his role models, but how do you know this, if I may ask?
See #22 by El Kabong. Granted, the number of Tweets doesn’t address the entire question, but they’re one indicator, and they’re quantifiable.
Wall Street journal says in Oct 2016 Trump’s lawyer paid a porn star $160k to keep quiet about an affair in 2006. Of course WSJ is far from a liberal paper.
Concerning Barron? I cannot point to one article, just a number of sources here and there. It is certainly openly known that he has a learning disability. These types of disabilities are typically inherited. There is a well-justified moratorium on reporting about the Presidents children so there is little information concerning what specifically it is. PT could say what it is to raise awareness, but then he would have to say that his child is imperfect, and that ain’t gonna happen.
Which is somewhat curious to me. With all else that is questionable about his past and current behavior that is widely known, people still voted for him.
But this, THIS he wanted covered up? Hm? Seems to me it is very “on brand” for him to schtup a porn star, this would be something he would want known?
It’s more important to be concerned about the ethics of Trump and the GOP.
Because he had married Melania the year before.