September 23, 2025

With his sadistic psychopathic personality the guardrails, hell, the sensibilities, of decency don't apply to Trump. By Hal M. Brown, MSW

 


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.

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September 22, 2025

Who will be the last clown standing? My AI had an ominous take on this question.

 


Comedy in America won’t really die, die as in dead, ceasing to exist, under Trump’s punitive censorship. By now those paying attention have seen clips of late-night comedians standing up for free speech and perhaps seen interviews with experts explaining why strongmen try to censor satire and humor which mocks them. You may have read articles like Why Dictators Don't Like JokesDictators Seem Strong, But They Can't Take a Joke, and Comedy as a Revolution: Why Tyrants Have No Defense Against Laughter

In “The Oldest Warning Sign: How History Links the Death of Comedy to the Death of Democracy” Thom Hartman wrote about the lesson of history and dictatorial censorship of comedy today.

There’s no need to expound on the “why” related to Trump and his anti-jokester juggernaut. I use that word deliberately because it has been most often associated with the Nazis in modern times.

Now it is used in reference to Trump:

Perchance AI seemed to have an opinion as to what was happening here in the United States with comics. Below is the first set of illustrations I got asking for “many dead clowns on the ground in a circus ring.”

As you can see it in the center bottom image there are seven clowns on the circus floor and eight in the dark in the background. I took one of the standing clowns in the upper right illustration and moved him into the one which I used to be the only featured clown still standing.

AI, the machine intelligence, put the clowns in the dark in the wings waiting to go on. I didn’t ask for this.

Attributing creative human thought to the computer, I’d say the “artist” wanted to convey the idea that the clowns behind the curtain are watching and waiting to see what happens to the daring performer before they go on.

If my brave clown goes down, who among those left will have the guts to take their place? See footnote 1

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I Include among the late light comics everyone writing satire and drawing cartoons mocking Trump.

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September 21, 2025

The Homan bribe cover-up: It's become a threadbare cliche to ask "what would happen if a Democratic president did this?" By Hal M. Brown

Tue, Aug 26 at 5:23 AM


The title of the two articles, one above the other from The NY Times (above) tell a story even without my inserted words from and photos of Trump. 

MSNBC and other media covered the first story about Trump’s Truth Social post, so I didn’t have to read that Time’s article.

The Homan bribe story was all over the news yesterday (articles here).

Homan’s Wikipedia page is keeping up with this:

There’s not much to say about what the these stories tell about Trump’s obessive need for revenge and his corruption.

He’s going after people he considers enemies for (the following word is so appropriate) trumped up or non-existent crimes and allowing actual crimes by his allies, in this case bribery, to be covered up. This is so obvious we know what Garfield would say:

RawStory, in Trump's 'impeachable offense' sparks fury: 'Most corrupt thing I've seen from a president', published some reactions from social media.

When it comes to Trump, it has become a threadbare cliche to ask “what would happen if a Democratic president tried to do this?” For example, this is what Ron Filipowski posted this morning:

I don’t think that it remains to be seen whether or not Homan gets his just rewards. I very much doubt that he will. All I am curious about is what happens on what will prove to be the irrelevant edges of this story. I hope we’ll see congressional hearing over this. I want to see how Pam Bondi and Kash Pattel answer quesitons about why this never went anywhere. I want to see the FBI agents involved testify. I really want to see Homan himself under oath asked about it.

This bounced the Bondi and Homan and articles off the top of HUFFPOST:

Excerpt:

“To be very clear, [say] the president orders troops to go to every polling place in the United States on Election Day,” Bernstein ( Richard Bernstein, is an appellate lawyer focused on election issues and a former clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia) said. “According to the government’s argument, no federal court could enjoin it, the president would be immune and the president could pardon all of the people he ordered to break the criminal law. If that’s not a prescription for how to lose our republic, I don’t know what is.”

So many anti-Trump journalists and pundits are hinging their hopes on the Democrats winning back control of Congress. Don’t think Trump isn’t well aware that this would be possible if there are free and fair elections. He may not want to take his chances on the success for gerrymandering and the usual Republican cheating. 

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With his sadistic psychopathic personality the guardrails, hell, the sensibilities, of decency don't apply to Trump. By Hal M. Brown, MSW

  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 ...