Trump UNFIT To Be President
"#Unfit" delivers a Trump diagnosis we all know and warns of dire consequences for ignoring it | Salon.com
Trump's entire presidency is one long stretch of observable behavior available to be interpreted in multiple platforms, and that's before a person digs through his tweets.
Thus by standing on the ground of the Tarasoff Rule, which imposes a duty on a therapist to warn appropriate parties when a patient may present a risk of harm to a specific person or persons, Gartner and his colleagues are emboldened to share their assessment. In this case the party in question is the American public, and the diagnosis, malignant narcissism, encompasses paranoia, antisocial personality disorder (otherwise known as psychopathy) and sadism. To which any Never Trumpers who has endured the past four years can only reply, "Um, duh-doy!"
If I'm coming across as cavalier in this review, it's only because "#Unfit" is a work meant to confirm suspicions many of us have long stopped agonizing over. The film calculates that Trump has busted out at least 19,127 lies and false claims since his inauguration, and one look at our Twitter feeds is enough to observe the ways that he's shattered norms and broken laws.
The Republican Convention itself contains multiple demonstrated violations of The Hatch Act. It also occurred on the heels of released findings of a bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee that confirms that Trump's 2016 campaign did in fact work closely with the Russian government, including intelligence operatives, to sabotage that election and help him win the presidency.
The public and the media should be making a bigger deal about those developments than it is, and the fact that their import has been muted by collective head shaking over a party convention with no platform other than praising Trump says a great deal about the environment in which this film is debuting. Hopefully we care about these violations. Those who don't aren't going to be moved by this movie.
However, "#Unfit" successfully makes its case concerning why Trump's psychological instability should be of concern to the public – you know, other than the fact that he's channeled his sadism, sexism, racism and general violation of democratic norms into harmful policies.
Once the mental health professionals have had their say, the historians step in to offer their assessment of what it means to have a malignant narcissist in charge of a nuclear arsenal or fueling nationalism and racist violence.