Cont: Donald Trump has 'dangerous mental illness' say psychiatry experts at Yale... Pt 3

Interesting profile of Trump's observed behavior by a non-psychiatrist:
Why do working-class white men—the most reliable component of Donald Trump’s base—support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern presidency? The question is not whether Trump fails to meet some archaic or idealized version of masculinity. The president’s inability to measure up to Marcus Aurelius or Omar Bradley is not the issue. Rather, the question is why so many of Trump’s working-class white male voters refuse to hold Trump to their own standards of masculinity—why they support a man who behaves more like a little boy.

i am a son of the working class, and I know these cultural standards. The men I grew up with think of themselves as pretty tough guys, and most of them are. They are not the products of elite universities and cosmopolitan living. These are men whose fathers and grandfathers came from a culture that looks down upon lying, cheating, and bragging, especially about sex or courage. (My father’s best friend got the Silver Star for wiping out a German machine-gun nest in Europe, and I never heard a word about it until after the man’s funeral.) They admire and value the understated swagger, the rock-solid confidence, and the quiet reserve of such cultural heroes as John Wayne’s Green Beret Colonel Mike Kirby and Sylvester Stallone’s John Rambo (also, as it turns out, a former Green Beret.)
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Not every working-class male voted for Trump, and not all of them have these traits, of course. And I do not present these beliefs and attitudes as uniformly virtuous in themselves. Some of these traditional masculine virtues have a dark side: Toughness and dominance become bullying and abuse; self-reliance becomes isolation; silence becomes internalized rage. Rather, I am noting that courage, honesty, respect, an economy of words, a bit of modesty, and a willingness to take responsibility are all virtues prized by the self-identified class of hard-working men, the stand-up guys, among whom I was raised.

And yet, many of these same men expect none of those characteristics from Trump, who is a vain, cowardly, lying, vulgar, jabbering blowhard. Put another way, as a question I have asked many of the men I know: Is Trump a man your father and grandfather would have respected?
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/donald-trump-the-most-unmanly-president/612031/
 
xjx388 said:
#youaintarealman if you vote for Trump? Interesting take . . .
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I don't know, but this is sure true.

. . . And yet, many of these same men expect none of those characteristics from Trump, who is a vain, cowardly, lying, vulgar, jabbering blowhard.
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Cowardly certainly sticks out as definitive.
 
Resume said:
Cowardly certainly sticks out as definitive.
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Yes, but it's a very weird kind of cowardice where vanity always seems to win out: He is a germaphobe, and yet he refuses to wear a mask (or rather: refuses to be seen wearing a mask) because he fears that people will then see him as the coward that he actually is - and not as a leader setting a good example by exhibiting responsible behaviour.

So what he fears more than germs is that people would think of him as somebody who is afraid of germs. He finds himself in a time and place where fearing germs has actually become a rational state of mind. Nobody (except for a few manosphere Nazis) would blame him for wearing a mask in this situation, and yet he refuses to do so (i.e. to be seen doing so).
 
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At some point we may need to consider extreme willful ignorance a form of psychiatric disability:
President Donald Trump mused about taking insulin during a White House event for seniors with diabetes, even though he does not have the disease.

The president on Tuesday unveiled a White House plan that would slash the price of insulin for Medicare recipients and wondered if he should try to the hormone himself.

"I don't use insulin," Trump said. "Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it, but I know a lot of people are very badly affected, right? Unbelievable."
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https://www.salon.com/2020/05/27/tr...g-diabetic-gets-corrected-by-surgeon-general/
 
Bob001 said:
At some point we may need to consider extreme willful ignorance a form of psychiatric disability:


"I don't use insulin," Trump said. "Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it, but I know a lot of people are very badly affected, right? Unbelievable."
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https://www.salon.com/2020/05/27/tr...g-diabetic-gets-corrected-by-surgeon-general/
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Perhaps he can get the WH doctor to prescribe it for him. After all, what can injecting insulin do to him as a non-diabetic? I mean, there are worse things than a sudden drop in blood sugar causing coma and even death. Like being seen in a mask.
 
dann said:
If you hadn't provided the link, I would have guessed The Onion.
However, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that he had diabetes type 2 or at least was pre-diabatic.
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Yeah, that's what I thought. Maybe a doctor has mentioned the possibility to him that he's pre-diabetic???
 
Stacyhs said:
Perhaps he can get the WH doctor to prescribe it for him. After all, what can injecting insulin do to him as a non-diabetic? I mean, there are worse things than a sudden drop in blood sugar causing coma and even death. Like being seen in a mask.
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"You should try it, Mister President. Although you might not be allowed..."
 
carrps said:
Yeah, that's what I thought. Maybe a doctor has mentioned the possibility to him that he's pre-diabetic???
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Pre-diabetics are never prescribed insulin. And many with full on diabetes 2 never take it either unless their blood glucose gets to a certain point There are non-insulin medications that can control it well along with diet, weight control, and exercise.

But I would not be surprised if Trump is pre-diabetic or verging on it.
 
Surely Trump's latest tweets threatening to shoot protestors have to contribute to an assessment of his psychiatric fitness.
 
Bob001 said:
Surely Trump's latest tweets threatening to shoot protestors have to contribute to an assessment of his psychiatric fitness.
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I'd say his hissyfit over Twitter daring to criticize his tweet is more revealing. He's now attempting to exert government authority over a private company to censor criticism of himself. That's straight Soviet. It's an entirely mad response from an American president.
 
Another assessment of Trump's fitness by someone who knows him better than any shrink could:
The trait that most distinguishes psychopaths is the utter absence of conscience — the capacity to lie, cheat, steal, and inflict pain to achieve their ends without a scintilla of guilt or shame, as Trump so demonstrably does. What Trump’s words and behavior make clear is that he feels no more guilt about hurting others than a lion does about killing a giraffe.
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https://gen.medium.com/the-psychopath-in-chief-aa10ab2165d9

And another by a shrink:
Thesis: The 45th President of the United States has a disorder that conveys danger to all those in his orbit. It is an affliction for which — once you learn of its essential characteristics — you would take a bullet to prevent your child from having. There is no cure for this disorder. Nor do there appear to be any effective measures to curb it. The best we might do is diagnose the disorder and warn others.

The purpose of this essay is twofold: to validate the above thesis and then to explain why this article will be ignored.
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https://medium.com/@vgwcct/a-duty-t...g-the-diagnosis-of-the-president-371354142a02
 
I agree with every word in the above two articles. I truly believe that Trump is a narcissistic psychopath who cares only about himself.
 
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