....Bandy X. Lee, the Yale Medical School psychiatrist who compiled the controversial book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” raising doubts about Trump’s mental fitness.
Lee said the screening test Jackson gave Trump “gives the public a false sense of reassurance.” Indeed, Donald Trump Jr. used the results of the test in a tweet: “More #winning. 30 out of 30.”
She said the test, though useful for detecting Alzheimer’s and the like, indicates little about “his high functioning, his frontal-lobe functioning, that we’re questioning.” To figure out what causes the worrisome traits President Trump exhibits — disordered decision-making, an insatiable need for affirmation, little impulse control, confusion about facts, difficulty foreseeing consequences — you’d need more extensive tests, a psychological exam and an MRI.
But, in a sense, you don’t need a doctor’s diagnosis to see that there’s a lot of chaos and volatility in the presidential brain.
That, Lee speculates, could explain powerful sycophancy that overcomes those who get close to Trump. “Those close to him are sensing this level of appeasement is necessary,” Lee speculated. They “feel they need to step in as a way to diminish his volatility and rage.”
The danger, Lee said, is that Trump’s courtiers do this for too long and succumb to “shared psychosis,” in which they come to “share his view of the world and lose touch with reality.”
They might even come to believe that a sedentary 71-year-old with significant plaque in his coronary arteries, high cholesterol and borderline obesity is the very picture of health.
Mornin' Joke got into this Milbank post. hahahhahaha
I think that there is at least a 30 minute sitcom that could cover the WH staff attempting to feed the idiot answers from a 'pretest'. hahahahahAH
And then there is sycophancy you mention. This is the greatest, most healthiest, most mentally fit fatso I have ever examined? Sixfoot three and 237? 29.9999? what?
He aint more than six two and he is at least 269!
At least the Senator from SC is giving up on this shite.
“President Trump’s doctor predicted that the President will have, and live, a long life;as a result, the doctor is now treating Melania Trump for depression.”
Just cannot imagine what the inner life of Melania must be.
Got a problem with billionaires? Egalitarian Sweden, an object of ardent progressive adoration, has more billionaires per capita than the United States, writes @willwilkinson. https://t.co/doubaZN5X6
Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson said his department was "pissed off" when they discovered Jussie Smollett's actual motive.Moments ago, Johnson said the "Empire" actor staged the attack on himself because he was unhappy with his salary. Smollett was treated as a victim until police learned more details, Johnson said....
The first stop on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s racial reconciliation tour has been rescheduled at the request of students at Virginia Union University. The tour stop at the university Concided with a celebration honoring the Richmond 34 a group of Virginia Union students arrested at a sit-in at a segregated department store in Richmond. The student body president wrote that Northam’s attendance at the event would take away from the celebration. The student body president noted the following:
“This is not a lullaby for us. This is a battle cry. Students are upset about his presence here and, frankly, they have a right to be,” the student president said.
On the other hand some members of the Richmond 34 had a different opinion
A report from House Democrats says Trump appointees promoted a plan to sell nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia despite national security officials' concerns.
In a historic first from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justices ruled unanimously on Wednesday that the Eighth Amendment ban on excessive fines does apply to state and local governments, ruling in favor of an Indiana man who had his expensive car seized by police after he was arrested for a small amount illegal drugs.
Writing for the High Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said "the protection against excessive fines guards against abuses of government’s punitive or criminal law-enforcement authority" found in the Eighth Amendment.
I asked Cohen’s attny what he’ll say? @LannyDavis responded while my cell was off: “He will pull the curtain back and we will hear true stories of Trump’s complicity in crimes, and his immoral, bigoted, and morally vacant character in specific, detailed personal anecdotes.” https://t.co/VUfJrpva8L
A top model who showed her freckles in a promotional image for Zara has drawn insults in China, with some calling her bare face offensive https://t.co/1WDKwP5Yyi
Donald Trump has derided CNN as a leading purveyor of “fake news,” and now, a recently departed administration official is joining the network in a senior rolehttps://t.co/li0XxO9rRE
I think it's a smart hire as she will have the knowledge to decode a lot of the spin, dirty tricks, and /or incompetence as the case may be. Including that of Fox news.
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more in Dana Milbank's WaPo column: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-trumps-doctor-okay/2018/01/17.... Last few paragraphs of the piece:
by AmericanDreamer on Thu, 01/18/2018 - 9:59am
Several academic cardiologists dispute the conclusion that Trump is in excellent cardiovascular health.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/us/politics/trump-physical-heart-health-cholesterol.html?_r=0
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 01/18/2018 - 10:10am
Mornin' Joke got into this Milbank post. hahahhahaha
I think that there is at least a 30 minute sitcom that could cover the WH staff attempting to feed the idiot answers from a 'pretest'. hahahahahAH
And then there is sycophancy you mention. This is the greatest, most healthiest, most mentally fit fatso I have ever examined? Sixfoot three and 237? 29.9999? what?
He aint more than six two and he is at least 269!
At least the Senator from SC is giving up on this shite.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/durbin-praises-lindsey-graham-for-confronting-trump-over-shthole-remarks-i-respect-him-so-much/
by Richard Day on Thu, 01/18/2018 - 10:13am
saw last night a short daily piece over @ the New Yorker about how all the late night shows made fun
Edit to add: though personally I think Millbank did the best job I've seen so far, I love this one:
made me think of the Trump Tower tacos thing way back when, how that was supposed to be proof he was a fan of Mexico.
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/18/2018 - 11:54am
Re Conan O'Brien's joke:
Just cannot imagine what the inner life of Melania must be.
by AmericanDreamer on Thu, 01/18/2018 - 12:09pm