One of the first psychiatrists who sounded the alarm over Donald Trump’s state of mind has recently expressed renewed concern that Trump’s comments and pronouncements show his cognitive abilities are seriously deteriorating.
Trump has come under fire this week, after a strange public spat with leaders in Denmark, which caused him to cancel a planned trip to the country and call their Prime Minister “nasty.” The reality TV star was reportedly offended because his offer for the U.S. to purchase Greenland was declined.
But he didn’t stop there, Trump also made bizarre comments insisting that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats showed a “total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” to him and to Israel- a comment many have criticized as an anti-Semitic trope.
Trump then went on to share a message from right-wing conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root, who said Israeli Jews love the president like he is “the second coming of God.”
On Wednesday, Trump seemed to double down on the rhetoric by telling reporters that he was the “chosen one” in his ongoing trade feud with China.
According to Newsweek, Dr. Lance Dodes, a former assistant psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, warned us back in 2017, that Trump’s mental condition would worsen and he said that his statements over the last few days have continued to prove him right.
Dr. Dodes claimed that Trump has a very unhealthy obsession with being loved and being considered “all powerful” and cannot stand being challenged in any way.
“He doesn’t really love anyone except himself. That’s not a slur, that’s a psychological fact,” Dr. Dodes said. “People like him are about him. If he’s not useful to him, he stops loving him. That’s part of the essential emptiness of Donald Trump. He doesn’t have real relationships with people.”
Trump’s antics support what Dodes calls his “Grandiosity.”
“There’s something fundamentally different about him from normal people. It’s a psychotic-like state. The more you press him, the more you see how disorganized and empty he is. The more he flies into a disorganized rage,” he said.
Dr. Dodes told MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, “He thinks of himself as a dictator, and it’s all him and no one else really matters.”
