Yesterday in “Who will be the last clown standing? My AI had an ominous take on this question” I used AI to make illustrations. Today wanted to write about Trump’s mental illness for the umpteenth time.
I thought I could either try to write about something I hadn’t addressed before or peruse the articles I’ve written since 2017.
Instead I took the lazy route and I used AI to search for what I wrote about Trump being mentally ill. I discovered Google search’s AI actually summarized what I’d written.
I am not sure anybody has a mutha-forken idea why Trump , who has already pretty damn completely cemented his dictatorship, is doing insane crap like blathering on about finding the cause of autism and going nutso over Jimmy Kimmell? This is friggen aberant behavior. There’s no sensible reason for it, hence it can be called irrational. It only makes sense if one assumes he is mentally ill.
In between the loony things he says and does we see moments of sanity. For example it made sense for him to deify Charlie Kirk and make himself the massive mega-star of the Kirk memorial extravaganza, and then see if he could get away with his comment about hating his enemies. While this was more proof of his sadistic psychopathic personality, it demonstrated to him that the guardrails, hell, the sensibilities, of decency didn’t apply to him.
I mean, good folks, I count myself as one of the shrinks, and a senior one at that with 40 years of clinical practice in the rear view mirror, who has been pondering the meanings behind the mental manifestations of this guy since 2017.
Maybe I had it figured out and forgot my conclusions. Maybe my age, 81, is catching up with me. I thought that perhaps Artificial Intelligence could help me find something I came up with and it slipped my mind.
This is why I just searched “Hal Brown, MSW, Trump mentally ill” on Google (link) and discovered their AI generated essay (part of which is in my illustration) about what I concluded about Trump’s mental illness. Here it is:
AI Overview
Hal Brown, an MSW (Master of Social Work) and retired psychotherapist, has publicly suggested that Donald Trump is mentally ill
However, no qualified medical professional who has personally examined Donald Trump has made such a diagnosis. The American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater Rule" prohibits psychiatrists from offering professional opinions on public figures they have not examined.
Arguments made by Hal Brown
Brown has made his claims in blog posts, including one on Medium in August 2024 titled, "Does Trump have a mental illness and if he does does this make him dangerous and unfit for office?".
He is also associated with the group Duty to Warn, which in 2017 petitioned to remove Trump from office, arguing he has a "serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President".
There’s more but if you want to read it click above, and for even more click below.
This, alas, doesn’t really answer all of questions about all the wildly weird shit Trump does, shit that seems to get wilder and weirder every day. Perhaps it is best to chalk it up to his being a an overgrown attention seeking toddler who can’t abide being out of the limelight for more than a day or two.
He’s still going on inthe same tenor. I am sure this will be written about thoughout the day. Above is my texting commentary to a friend.
My comment:
“That’s where I disagreed with Charlie,” Trump said at the memorial fo Kirk. “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry.”
This was after Erika Kirk said she forgave the man who killed her husband and that “the answer to hate is not hate.”
PBS titled their article about this "Trump ‘authentically himself’ for saying he hates opponents at Kirk funeral, White House says" referring to Karoline Leavitt (the article has a video https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-authentically-himself-for-saying-he-hates-opponents-at-kirk-funeral-white-house-says )
She said:
“Look, the president is authentically himself. I think that’s why millions of Americans across the country love him and support him, including Erika Kirk, who you saw so beautifully was on stage with the president in an unthinkable moment, in the midst of an unthinkable tragedy and was leaning on the president.”
This is actually one of the few times Leavitt has told the truth. Trump AUTHENTICALLY is a psychopathic sadistic malignant narcissist who is drunk on power and gets a visceral rush out of trolling liberals by saying outrageously nasty things. The more he feels he is untouchable and ensconced in his dictatorship the more unfiltered be becomes when he speaks or tweets. Far worse than just what comes out of his mouth or in his online posts is when he expresses this by ordering actions, like blowing up boats, which kill people, siccing his gestapo on people he wants to deport, or his lowlife lawyers from DOJ on his enemies.
The mooforker monarch thinks saying outrageous insulting things is the height of humor when in fact he's a gaping garbage mouth spewing noxious and dangerous hate.
