If there is anything we have learned about Jeffrey Epstein's and Russia's Donald Trump is that he has complex mental issues.
To elucidate these complex mental problem, we turned to some of the world's experts on mental health to figure out what kind of mental problems Donald Trump has, and which he has built a cult following around - mostly based on deception, versus merit-based - as someone with complex mental problems would.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO'S DR. JACOB A. FIALA PUBLIC RESEARCH ON TRUMP'S MENTAL PROBLEMS
Highly Sadist
Highly Narcissist
Highly Antisocial [personality disorder (sociopath)]
Highly Passive-aggressive
"Salwa Mansour, Shannon Matlock, Fred Coolidge— and I were interested in exploring how deeply this polarization extended,” explained study author Jacob A. Fiala, a psychometrist at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Aging Center ... But the researchers did find that both conservatives and liberals perceived Trump as highly sadistic, narcissistic, antisocial, and passive-aggressive, though liberals tended to rate Trump’s personality as more dysfunctional in general compared to conservatives."[13]
Next turning to clinical psychologist and Trump's niece, Mary Trump - who is someone who has not only known Donald Trump for her whole life as an insider - but she is also someone who has also been a victim of his mental health.
DR. MARY TRUMP'S (TRUMP'S NIECE) DIAGNOSIS OF TRUMP'S MENTAL PROBLEMS
Multiple personality disorders
Antisocial personality disorder (sociopath)
Dependent personality disorder
Learning disability
Narcissist
"Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, wrote in her new book "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man," that she believes her uncle suffers from multiple personality disorders.
"I have no problem calling Donald a narcissist — he meets all nine criteria. But the label gets us only so far," she wrote. "A case could be made that he also meets the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, which in its most severe forms is generally considered sociopathy but can also refer to chronic criminality, arrogance, and disregard for the rights of others…. Donald may also meet some of the criteria for dependent personality disorder, the hallmarks of which include an inability to make decisions or take responsibility, discomfort with being alone, and going to excessive lengths to obtain support from others."[2]
This last diagnosis by perhaps the best person to diagnose Trump, Mary Trump, along with the same article specifying he has a learning disability, explains why he needs to build a cult of enablers and facilitators, because without others, he would struggle to be able to do very basic things by himself, and her diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder (sociopath) explains how he achieves the same, by using deception to serve his needs above all others, which explains why about 1,200 Americans he deceived are either in jail or waiting to be prosecuted, based on Trump's lies, which Washington Post has clocked at over 30,000 lies in 4 years or about 20 lies per day, every day for 4 years, and it has almost been 4 years since they clocked him at 30,000+ lies, and so with increasing legal peril, it is a reasonable inference that this value has since doubled to roughly 60,000 lies.[3]
The narcissist diagnosis is readily explained as an overcompensation for his learning disability and dependency on others, and where sociopathy and narcissism make up the majority of the dark triad personality type, for which Machiavellianism makes up the third part of this diagnosis.[4]
Briefly, a sociopath is someone who can't control themselves from not following the rules and norms to self-serve their needs above all others, regardless of the cost to others and themselves. A narcissist is someone who essentially can't control their need to have others worship them. And a Machiavellian can't control their need to deceive others in order to serve their needs, and where all three of these mental health issues culminate in a dark triad personality type.
Here it is important to note that Mary Trump is not alone in this diagnosis.
YALE UNIVERSITY'S DR. BRANDY LEE'S DIAGNOSIS OF TRUMP'S MENTAL PROBLEMS
Multiple personality disorders
Antisocial personality disorder (sociopath)
Dependent personality disorder
Learning disability
Narcissist
Per Salon Magazine, ""We know what Donald Trump is doing in dispatching federal forces into cities by what he did at the last election when he sent 5,600 active military troops to the southern border because of an 'invasion' by a migrant caravan: he is turning a non-concern into a campaign issue in order to distract from the real issues," she said in an interview. "What are the real issues? That his expert niece just exposed that he is mentally incapable of leading and is committing mass murder — what we independently said since a year ago, based on a standardized assessment, and since a month ago, because of his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic."
Despite guidelines precluding mental health professionals from diagnosing patients they have not personally examined, Lee and others have argued that they have a duty to society that is separate from making a diagnosis and have sought to warn about the dangers of Trump's mental health since the 2016 election.
Lee, the author of the textbook "Violence," is the president of the World Mental Health Coalition, which issued a "Prescription for Survival" during Trump's presidency earlier this year and is launching a podcast series with radio host and former California Democratic Party chair Bill Press that features many of the authors included in the book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President," which Lee edited.
Lee spoke with Salon about Mary Trump's book, the president's enablers, and the American Psychiatric Association's guidelines against discussing the president's mental health.
Mary Trump's new book highlights many of the same concerns about Trump's mental health that you've warned about for years. What did you think of her conclusions? Did anything surprise you? Is there anything you disagree with?
Yes, I was delighted to see this. But then she is a professional who is highly proficient at what she does, as evidenced in the scholarship and clinical soundness she applies to her reasoning. Any honest and competent mental health professional has come to the same conclusion, which is why there was an astonishing consensus from the start.
Yet, like history repeating itself, no amount of professionalism — expertise, evidence and facts — seems to matter. We are literally dying for our inability to understand expertise. I started an interview series with my colleagues just because there has been little concept of what she was bringing, or somehow the media cannot go there. Three and a half years ago, I would not have believed this was possible, but after the biggest newspapers and cable and network stations deleted only my quotes or killed entire articles, and canceled broadcasts at the last minute almost 70 times, it would rather surprise me if public discussion were ever allowed to reach critical mass ... Madeleine Albright recently repeated a phrase I often use: "Fascism is not a political ideology." I usually add: "It is mental pathology writ large." ... The actions of the American Psychiatric Association, the Department of Justice and the Republican Party make no sense from a scientific, legal or rational point of view. But they make perfect sense from a power-alignment perspective. The regressed psychology of the president demands this, just as any other autocrat. The next phase is, literally or figuratively, elimination of portions of the population that do not comply or remind the autocrat of reality. We have seen Donald Trump remove scientists from their positions or cut their funding, because science challenges his fantastical thinking ... We know what he thinks of himself by what he says of Joe Biden. Projection is a way of disowning what you cannot tolerate in yourself by attaching it to others, and since his case is severe, what he says almost has nothing to do with Biden but is a very accurate portrayal of himself.
Top officials like Bill Barr and Chad Wolf have deployed federal officers to cities like Portland in response to protests. What does it mean for someone whose danger has been described by numerous mental health professionals to lead what Oregon officials have described as an invading force, particularly ahead of an election?
Well, this is exactly what we anticipated he would do. In February, I warned that the very delayed impeachment and subsequent acquittal would powerfully inflate his delusions of grandeur and impunity, such that he was now likely to thwart the electoral process and use force to remain in office. The pandemic has accelerated this process. For this reason, I have been advising activist groups not to wait until after the election — and so there should be notices about nonviolent action sooner. If he succeeds in forcing a second term, he will likely use it purely for revenge, and I agree with Dr. Trump that our democracy and our nation as we know it will not survive."[2]
Here it is important to note that Dr. Lee was predicting that Trump was the type of personality who would employ violence to remain in power, BEFORE the 01/06/2021 insurrection, which is exactly what he did.
It's clear why Trump doesn't like scientists, and removed them from their jobs, because scientists deal with these things known as facts, and facts can be used along with statistics to predict outcomes, and Dr. Lee predicted that Trump's mental problems would result in 01/06/2021, and yet she was retaliated against by her employer for predicting the same about Trump, and yet she was 100% right.
And so in America, people who deal with the facts, and try and protect America, have their lives destroyed by Jeffrey Epstein's crime syndicate, which includes Trump, and includes wrongful and retaliatory terminations based on defamation (lies), and people who support Jeffrey Epstein's crime syndicate, are allowed to conspire with enemies of the United States, Russia, in order to unlawfully seize power, in order to harm, destroy, and overthrow America. This is the era we are living in, the era of fools, crooks, and cowards.
DR. JOHN GARTNER'S DIAGNOSIS OF TRUMP'S MENTAL PROBLEMS
Malignant narcissist
Sadist
"Psychologist and psychotherapist John Gartner, contributor to the bestselling book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and co-founder of the Duty to WARN PAC, has an answer: Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist. Our president's mental pathologies inexorably compel him to hurt and kill large numbers of people — including his own supporters.
Dr. Gartner taught for many years at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, and has private therapeutic practices in Baltimore and New York, specializing in the treatment of borderline personality disorders. In our most recent conversation, he explains that sadism and violence are central to Trump's malignant narcissism and his decision-making about the coronavirus pandemic. Gartner also warns that Donald Trump is an abuser locked into a deeply dysfunctional relationship with the American people and that, like other sadists, Trump enjoys causing harm and suffering.
Ultimately, Gartner concludes that Donald Trump is engaging in "democidal behavior" and cautions that the tens of thousands of dead (so far) from the coronavirus pandemic are not simply collateral damage from Trump's policies, but rather the logical outcome of Trump's apparent mental pathologies and the poor decisions that flow from them."[5]
Here it is important to note that Trump eventually intentionally murdered over a million Americans with COVID, while invested in the failed response to the same, as proven by the public comments of both Trump's Paul Alexander and General Mike Flynn of Qanon's pedophile-born militia, who specified that (1) Trump intentionally sought to infect (and thus kill) as many people as possible (Alexander), and (2) that COVID was intentionally-released (Flynn) by Jeffrey Epstein's Bill Gates to control people and to help steal the election (for Jeffrey Epstein's Donald Trump in 2016, though Flynn employed defensive projection and blamed the democrats for doing this for 2020, but it was Trump who restarted the U.S. bioweapons program in 2017, while he was being investigated for his treason with Russia, and then it was Trump who had U.S. taxpayers pay for the development of the same in Wuhan, which Mike Flynn later admitted was intentionally released by the global elite supporting Trump, and in the context that Jeffrey Epstein's crime syndicate is who profited off responding to COVID the most, along with the Trump family, who managed the failed COVID response Trump said he had "under control").[6][7][8][9][10][11]
"How does the human mind remain in denial about Trump's nature when on an almost daily basis he reveals his true nature through his cruelty, lies, violence and other anti-social behavior? There are many Americans who oppose Trump who continue to claim that they are somehow surprised by his behavior?
Malignant narcissists are very sick people. They are sick in such a deep, disturbed and dark way that a normal person cannot comprehend such behavior. Therefore, normal, mentally healthy people cannot imagine or understand the mind of a malignant narcissist ...
Trump is both denying responsibility by saying things such as, "I take no responsibility. We've done everything right." But at the same time, Trump is also sabotaging the efforts to stop the coronavirus pandemic. This is a very important aspect of Trump's behavior. Trump is not just deflecting blame onto the governors, he is actively interfering with the governors' ability to do their job. Trump is not just incompetent. He is actively engaging in sabotage.
How does someone with his type of mind reconcile claims like "I have total power" with "I take no responsibility"? He has said both things within a few days of each other.
That is a function of how the psychology of a malignant narcissist is structured. When Trump says things such as, "I have total power," that's the grandiosity. "I'm in total control" is a function of Trump's paranoia, where everything bad is projected outward. Therefore, anything negative or bad is someone else's fault. Bad things are other people in Trump's mind. The grandiosity and "greatness" are all him. Trump's mind runs on a formula which bends and twists facts, ideas and memories to suit his malignant narcissism. This is why Trump contradicts himself so easily. He lies and makes things up. His fantasies all serve his malignant narcissism and the world he has created in his own mind about his greatness.
The fourth component of Trump's malignant narcissism is sadism. That part of Trump's mind is more hidden. People such as Trump are malignant-narcissist sadists because they, at some deep level, are driven to cause harm to other people. Trump's life is proof of this. He enjoys ripping people off and humiliating people. He does this manically and gleefully. He has lied more than 16,000 times. He threatens people online and elsewhere. I believe that Donald Trump is also a sexual sadist, who on some basic level enjoys and is aroused by watching people be afraid of him. In his mind, Trump is creating chaos and instability so that he can feel powerful.
Professor of psychiatry and psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg called that phenomenon "omnipotent destructiveness." The bullying, the violence, the destruction, frightening people, humiliating people, getting revenge and the like — such behavior is what Donald Trump has done his whole life. It is who Donald Trump really is. Unfortunately, too many people are still in denial of that fact ...
What do you think Donald Trump will do if, shortly before Nov. 3, it appears clear that he is going to lose the election?
Rather than making a prediction as to Trump's specific actions, it is more helpful to describe the type of actions he will take. Rather than trying to say, "This is the move he'll make." Like in a relationship, Donald Trump is the abuser. He is the husband or father who is abusing his partner or children or other relatives. The American people are like a woman who is leaving her abuser. She tells her abuser, "That's it! I am done with you!" She has her keys in hand and is opening the door of the house or apartment to finally leave. What happens? The democidal maniac Donald Trump will attack us, badly. Make no mistake. Donald Trump is going to find a way to attack and cause great harm to the American people if he believes that he will lose the 2020 election."[5]
Here again, mental health experts predicted based on the facts that Trump would "find a way to attack and cause great harm to the American people if he believes that he will lose the 2020 election", and then he did.
DR. AARON L. PINCUS' DIAGNOSIS OF TRUMP'S MENTAL PROBLEMS
Malignant narcissist
Cognitive deterioration
"“Trump is an aging malignant narcissist,” Aaron L. Pincus, a professor of psychology at Penn State, wrote in an email. “As he ages, he appears to be losing impulse control and is slipping cognitively. So we are seeing a more unfiltered version of his pathology. Quite dangerous.”
In addition, Pincus continued, “Trump seems increasingly paranoid, which can also be a reflection of his aging brain and mental decline.”
The result? “Greater hostility and less ability to reflect on the implications and consequences of his behavior.”
Edwin B. Fisher, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina, made the case in an email that Trump’s insistence on the validity of his own distorted claims has created a vicious circle, pressuring him to limit his close relations to those willing to confirm his beliefs:
His isolation is much of his own making. The enormous pressures he puts on others for confirmation and unquestioning loyalty and his harsh, often vicious responses to perceived disloyalty lead to a strong, accelerating dynamic of more and more pressure for loyalty, harsher and harsher judgment of the disloyal and greater and greater shrinking of pool of supporters.
At the same time, Fisher continued, Trump is showing signs of cognitive deterioration:
the confusion of Sioux Falls and Sioux City, several times referring to having beaten and/or now running against Obama or the odd garbling of words on a number of occasions for it seems like about a year now. Add to these the tremendous pressure and threat he is under, and you have, if you will, a trifecta of danger — lifelong habit, threat and possible cognitive decline. They each exacerbate the other two."[12]
HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S DR. CRAIG MALKIN'S DIAGNOSIS OF TRUMP'S MENTAL PROBLEMS
Narcissist
Psychopath
"Craig Malkin, who is a lecturer in psychology at Harvard Medical School, emphasized what he believes is Trump’s increasingly psychopathic behavior.
If the evidence emerging proves true — that Trump knew he lost and continued to push the big lie anyway — his character problems go well beyond simple narcissism and reach troubling levels of psychopathy."[12]
DR. JUSTIN FRANK'S DIAGNOSIS OF TRUMP'S MENTAL PROBLEMS
Substance Abuser
(Impending) Demented
"For example, Dr. Justin Frank, author of "Trump on the Couch", recently warned that Trump has a “a classic God complex driven by a persecutory delusion. His sense of omniscience is compensatory and more disturbing than ever” and “In my opinion, Trump's incessant, word-salad repetition reflects chronic substance abuse or impending dementia, which is consistent with the blank eyes. His blotchy red and puffy face (and constant sniffling) are not new but underscore a clinician's natural suspicion that he is not cognitively healthy. His cartoon character menacing and bellicose posture is second nature to him.”"[12]
DR. LANCE DODES DIAGNOSIS OF TRUMP'S MENTAL PROBLEMS
Sociopath (who may decompensate to a psychopath)
"His lengthy history, however, shows the opposite, that he is simply a sociopath, interested only in his personal gains in power and wealth despite the harm to others.
Those who have concluded that he is decompensating are correct, though it would be more precise to say that the decompensation consists of exposing an inability to see reality and violent self-interest that has always been who he is. As many have predicted, as pressure on him continues to rise, his claims of greatness, his inability to accept legal constraints or punishments, and his destructive impulses toward all who have limited him, will increase. Ultimately, he may decompensate to the point of gross paranoid psychosis with even more obvious incitement to riots and civil war rather than accept the reality that he has been finally held accountable. "[12]
This of course begets the question, if someone like this is "fit" enough to be President of the United States, and in control of the U.S. military, nuclear weapons, classified intelligence, and the like - then doesn't that mean that anyone testifying against Trump in all of his criminal and civil court cases is also "fit" to do so - if they have significantly fewer mental disorders caused by Trump and the crime syndicate of Jeffrey Epstein, in particular if, unlike Trump, they have overcome the same?
Trump regularly and defensively projects that "lunatics", "very sick", and "radicals" are using evidence, facts, and laws to "unfairly" prosecute him for just some (91) of the ongoing organized crimes he has facilitated for decades, many of which pale in comparison to the other harm he's known to have facilitated, for example as specified in the Mueller Investigation, Steele Dossier, his failed COVID response killing over a million Americans, and Katie Johnson's lawsuit against him for beating her up and raping her as a sex trafficked child with Jeffrey Epstein, then threatening to kill her family if she let anyone know.[14]
Four more years of this guy America, or absolutely anyone else?
It seems clear that mental health experts think Donald Trump is the one who is a lunatic, very sick, and/or a radical, but that he needs others to believe the opposite, in order to help Jeffrey Epstein's crime syndicate, which includes himself, evade prosecution, civil liability, seizure of all of their assets, and/or the death penalty, as would otherwise be required by law for anyone else, is a reasonable inference.
[1] Photo: https://unsplash.com/@martzzl
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
[9] https://nypost.com/2023/06/14/us-taxpayers-funded-2-million-for-research-in-wuhan-report/
[14] https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf