Why Trump Is Mentally Unfit to Be President: Pathology of Narcissism

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Sep 20, 2024

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At 6:35 a.m. on the morning of March 4th, President Donald Trump did what no U.S. president has ever done: He accused his predecessor of spying on him.

It's now abundantly clear that Trump's behavior on the campaign trail was not just a "Persona" he used to get elected – that he would not turn out to be, as he put it, "The most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great Abe Lincoln, all right?" It took all of 24 hours to show us that the Trump we elected was the Trump we would get when, despite the fact that he was president, that he had won, he spent that first full day in office focused not on the problems facing our country but on the problems facing him: his lackluster inauguration attendance and his inability to win the popular vote.

"You are a king," Fred Trump told his middle child, while also teaching him that the world was an unforgiving place and that it was important to "Be a killer." Trump apparently got the message: He reportedly threw rocks at a neighbor's baby and bragged about punching a music teacher in the face.

"And Trump decided to do it Kardashian-style, with no filter. When Trump and Kanye had that meeting in Trump Tower, I was like, 'I should just quit. My work here is done.'".

"I hated President Bush, but it never occurred to me or any of my colleagues that he was mentally ill," says John Gartner, a psychologist who taught in the department of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School for 28 years and who has been one of the most vocal critics of upholding the Goldwater Rule in this case, going so far as to say that Trump suffers from "Malignant narcissism," a term for the triumvirate of narcissistic, paranoid and antisocial personality disorders that was invented to describe what was wrong with Hitler.

It was Gartner's fear that "Trump is truly someone who can start a war over Twitter" that led him to start a petition on January 26th that called on mental-health professionals to "Declare Trump Is Mentally Ill and Must Be Removed," invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president should be replaced if he is "Unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." Gartner's petition currently has 40,947 signatures.

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