Psychiatrist Says Trump Should Be Examined for Cognitive Illness After Disjointed Debate
Source: Daily Beast
Published Sep. 13, 2024 5:29AM EDT
A clinical psychiatrist at a leading medical school says if a patient presented with the rambling incoherence that former president Donald Trump showed in his widely panned debate performance earlier this week he would refer them for a “rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation.”
Richard Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry and director of Weill Cornell Medical College’s psychopharmacology clinic, wrote in The Atlantic Thursday that he watched Trump debate Vice President Kamala Harris “with particular attention to candidates’ vocabulary, verbal and logical coherence, and ability to adapt to new topics—all signs of a healthy brain.”
The Republican nominee’s brain did not win a vote of confidence from the professor. “Donald Trump’s expressions of those tendencies were alarming,” he wrote. “He displayed some striking, if familiar, patterns that are commonly seen among people in cognitive decline.” As a key example, Friedman cited Trump’s answer—if it can be called that—to a question from moderator David Muir about if he has regrets over his behavior during the January 6 riots in 2021.
“I have said ‘blood bash—bath.’ It was a different term, and it was a term that related to energy, because they have destroyed our energy business,” said Trump, making virtually no sense. “That was where bloodbath was. Also, on Charlottesville, that story has been, as you would say, debunked. Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Jesse—all of these people, they covered it. If they go an extra sentence, they will see it was perfect. It was debunked in almost every newspaper.” Friedman noted that, while it’s normal for politicians to evade questions, Trump’s response went “beyond evasion” and essentially amounted to completely irrelevant babbling, an IRL Old Man Yells at Cloud meme.
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Link to "The Atlantic" article - Trump’s Repetitive Speech Is a Bad Sign
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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dangerous_Case_of_Donald_Trump
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump is a 2017 book edited by Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist, containing essays from 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals describing the "clear and present danger" that US President Donald Trump's mental health poses to the "nation and individual well being".[1] A second edition updated and expanded the book with additional essays.[2] Lee maintains that the book remains strictly a public service, and all royalties were donated to the public good to remove any conflict of interest.[3]
Synopsis
The authors argue that Trump's mental health affects the mental health of the people of the United States and that he places the country at grave risk of involving it in a war and of undermining democracy itself due to his dangerous pathology.[4]
Consequently, the authors claim that Trump's presidency represents an emergency which not only allows but requires psychiatrists in the United States to raise alarms. While it has been repeatedly claimed that they have broken the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater rule – which states that it is unethical for psychiatrists to give professional opinions about public figures without examining them in person[5] – the authors maintain that pointing out danger and calling for an evaluation is different from diagnosis. They have criticized the American Psychiatric Association for changing professional norms and standards, stating that it is dangerous to turn reasonable ethical guidelines into a gag rule under political pressure.[6][7]
This time he had a worthy opponent who took no shit and threw it all back in his face.
But in every debate I've seen, Chump is screamy and angry, turning every question into lies and accusations against the opponent. That's how he avoids answering questions, it's all deflection.
He was that way against Hillary, against Joe Biden, and any journalists he doesn't like. I didn't see or hear anything new on Tuesday night.
