Is Donald Trump Mentally and Physically Fit Enough for a 2nd Term?

Aunt Antifa said:

This was from yesterday, it’s concerning:

https://twitter.com/aynrandpaulryan/status/1299505540364529667?s=21

This follows on the heels of his acceptance speech, where he had a death grip on Melania’s hand, which suggests she was there more to steady him than to show emotional support for a big speech. He made that unannounced trip to Walter Reed, which was never explained.

There’s any number of videos circulating showing him slurring his speech, being unable to read teleprompters, and of course the infamous inability to lift glasses of water without effort, and then there’s the ramp.

If this is how Trump lets us see him in *public* how is he performing the functions of the job behind the scenes?

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Aunt Antifa said:

This was from yesterday, it’s concerning:

https://twitter.com/aynrandpaulryan/status/1299505540364529667?s=21

This follows on the heels of his acceptance speech, where he had a death grip on Melania’s hand, which suggests she was there more to steady him than to show emotional support for a big speech. He made that unannounced trip to Walter Reed, which was never explained.

There’s any number of videos circulating showing him slurring his speech, being unable to read teleprompters, and of course the infamous inability to lift glasses of water without effort, and then there’s the ramp.

If this is how Trump lets us see him in *public* how is he performing the functions of the job behind the scenes?

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Aunt Antifa said:

This was from yesterday, it’s concerning:

https://twitter.com/aynrandpaulryan/status/1299505540364529667?s=21

This follows on the heels of his acceptance speech, where he had a death grip on Melania’s hand, which suggests she was there more to steady him than to show emotional support for a big speech. He made that unannounced trip to Walter Reed, which was never explained.

There’s any number of videos circulating showing him slurring his speech, being unable to read teleprompters, and of course the infamous inability to lift glasses of water without effort, and then there’s the ramp.

If this is how Trump lets us see him in *public* how is he performing the functions of the job behind the scenes?

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nota bene said:

I'm thinking that the Presidential debates will give us all the opportunity to see what's what.

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Exquisitor said:

No, you're just going to see a bully impressing his base and a cowering old man.

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Aunt Antifa said:

This was from yesterday, it’s concerning:

https://twitter.com/aynrandpaulryan/status/1299505540364529667?s=21

This follows on the heels of his acceptance speech, where he had a death grip on Melania’s hand, which suggests she was there more to steady him than to show emotional support for a big speech. He made that unannounced trip to Walter Reed, which was never explained.

There’s any number of videos circulating showing him slurring his speech, being unable to read teleprompters, and of course the infamous inability to lift glasses of water without effort, and then there’s the ramp.

If this is how Trump lets us see him in *public* how is he performing the functions of the job behind the scenes?

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The psychiatric case against Donald Trump

Since the 2016 election, (Dr Bandy) Lee has spearheaded a movement to shed light on what she believes is the dangerous mental condition of the president. She has organized a coalition of mental health experts similarly concerned with the president’s mental state, and in October 2017, she published “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” a book of essays by numerous mental health professionals assessing the president’s mental aptitude. Last December, as the presidential impeachment proceedings came to a head, Congress received a petition led by Lee and two other mental health professionals. The statement accompanying the petition claimed that the president’s mental fitness was rapidly declining. In the petition signed by 350 other health professionals, the trio wrote that the president had the “real potential to become ever more dangerous, a threat to the safety of our nation.”

Allen Frances, a Duke psychiatry professor who led the task force that wrote the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, pushed back against the psychiatric diagnoses of the president. In a letter to the New York Times, he wrote, “It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither) … Psychiatric name-calling is a misguided way of countering Mr. Trump’s attack on democracy.”

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The President's Personality

Trump’s manifest grandiosity and disregard for facts, beginning with failure to accept clear evidence about the size of the crowd attending his inauguration, has put mental health professionals in the spotlight from Day One of his presidency.

Psychologists and commentators from all ideological camps early converged on a label of narcissistic personality disorder as the condition that “explains” Trump’s behavior. Among those making this assertion are more than 70,000 mental health professionals who signed a petition warning of Trump's potential dangerousness, despite longstanding professional injunctions against "diagnosing" public figures whom experts have not personally examined.

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The Donald Trump that only his family has ever seen

Lying, cheating, amoral to his core; still a child fearing a wrathful father: A book analyzes Trump's psyche

Donald Trump's niece has two advantages that the small band of us who have long studied Trump closely do not.

First, she's family. No one knows you like your family. Your family knows how you behaved at crucial moments when life-changing events occur — births, deaths, weddings, divorces and medical emergencies — as well as mundane events like Saturday breakfast.

Second, Mary is a clinical psychologist with a doctorate. Her insights are informed by her deep education into how psyches develop and, in the case of her uncle, how cold, cruel and brutally demanding parenting warps personalities. She describes Donald as so desperate to avoid his father's wrath — which destroyed her father — that he never developed a conscience, only a feral instinct for self-preservation.

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nota bene said:

Terrible choices...just like 2016.

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Exquisitor said:

2016 pitted a -2 against a 5 instead of a 7 like 2020.

2016 was because of the Republican behavior toward Obama.

Sanders wouldn't get anything done and his kids were jumping up and down like the Hare Krishnas I was visiting for something he would never deliver and like the delusion of my friends.

2020 is the time to turn it on the Republicans and see what they will do or have a restrained Democrat.

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ReubenSherr said:

Lol this is pretty desperate.

Let’s see Joe make a 70-minute speech live. With that much detail.

Actually, let’s see Joe make a live speech, period.

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CaughtInThe said:

He wasn't mentally fit to serve the 1st term.

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nota bene said:

Let's hope that if Biden is elected, we won't have to endure four years from Republicans and independents at DP like the past three and a half.

Here's hoping for gracious losers and winners regardless of who wins.

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Helix said:

physically? seems like it.

mentally? no, and this is not a new thing. he is a malignantly narcissistic megalomaniac, and that's not who you want in that office.

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nota bene said:

Let's hope that if Biden is elected, we won't have to endure four years from Republicans and independents at DP like the past three and a half.

Here's hoping for gracious losers and winners regardless of who wins.

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jimbo said:

Generally speaking. That's what happened when Obama won.

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Somerville said:

Take the time to read what some mental health professionals are saying about Trump's psychiatric state of mind.

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Exquisitor said:

Come on, he's a mutated Comedian, it's beautiful.

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Aunt Antifa said:

This was from yesterday, it’s concerning:

https://twitter.com/aynrandpaulryan/status/1299505540364529667?s=21

This follows on the heels of his acceptance speech, where he had a death grip on Melania’s hand, which suggests she was there more to steady him than to show emotional support for a big speech. He made that unannounced trip to Walter Reed, which was never explained.

There’s any number of videos circulating showing him slurring his speech, being unable to read teleprompters, and of course the infamous inability to lift glasses of water without effort, and then there’s the ramp.

If this is how Trump lets us see him in *public* how is he performing the functions of the job behind the scenes?

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nota bene said:

I'm thinking that the Presidential debates will give us all the opportunity to see what's what.

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It is unclear whether Trump's campaign, as Bates notes, has officially agreed to appear at the commission's three scheduled debates.
Erin Perrine, a Trump campaign spokeswoman, said, "Yes, we have agreed with the debate commission," when asked by Fox News on Tuesday whether the campaign has "formally committed" to the commission's appearances.
But after the appearance, two Trump campaign officials would not confirm that the campaign had formally agreed to the already scheduled debates, something the Biden campaign did in June.
Campaign aides have said the President is "ready to debate," but that they have yet to formally agree to the commission's plans, in part, because they are hoping additional contests will be added.

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jimbo said:

Opinion not based on fact.

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