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Following President Trump’s Thursday announcement
that the USA would withdraw from the Paris accord, a
former CBS anchor (now with AXS TV) slammed the
President with a series of ad hominem attacks, that
ended with strong suggestions that that the President
had some serious psychological issues.

Many others have made the same assertion.

What do psychiatrists think ? In the paragraphs below,
Dr. Keith Abelow provides his opinions on this subject.

Remarks by Dr. Keith Abelow, Psychiatrist

Let me issue the standard disclaimer of psychiatrists
who discuss the mental health of public figures: I have
not personally examined President Trump.

Now, let me put to rest the concerns of Sen. Al Franken
and political commentators John Oliver and Andrew
Sullivan and anyone else who publicly or privately has
questioned the President’s sanity: Donald Trump is
stone cold sane.

When a man acquires billions of dollars through
complex real estate transactions, invests in many
countries, goes on to phenomenal success in television
and turns his name into a worldwide brand, it is very
unlikely that he is mentally unstable.

When the same man obviously enjoys the love and
respect of his children and his wife, who seem to rely
on him for support and guidance, it is extraordinarily
unlikely that he is mentally unstable.

When the same man walks into the political arena
and deftly defeats 16 Republican opponents and
then the Democratic heir-apparent to a two-term
President’s administration, the odds of that man
being mentally unstable become vanishingly thin.

And when that very same man attracts to his team
the kind of intellect and gravitas represented (to
name just a few) by Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development Dr. Ben Carson, Attorney General Jeff
Sessions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and
Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a retired Marine
Corps general and commander of the U.S. Central
Command, he cannot be mentally deranged. Period.
It is a statistical impossibility.

Those who assert otherwise are political opportunists,
or fools, or both (and I am thinking here, in particular,
of Sen. Franken).
President Trump is the first human being to win this
nation’s highest office without having held any other
political office or serving as a general. Most political
pundits thought his quest was pure folly.

Most journalists assessed his chances as zero. So
who was laboring under quasi-delusional thinking ?

If you’re still worried about the mental stability of the
President, note this: The stock market doesn’t like insta-
bility. Investors, en masse, can take the measure of a man
pretty darn well. The stock market has hit record high
after record high since Trump’s election, and if you think
that’s an accident, or that investors have all been fooled,
it’s time to start wondering about your own capacity for
rational thought.

I should note that nothing I am saying should besmirch
the reputations of men like President Abraham Lincoln
or Sir Winston Churchill, both of whom are said to have
fought the ravages of major depression or bipolar
disorder. One was instrumental in ridding America of
slavery. The other was instrumental in saving the world
from tyranny.

Mahatma Gandhi, by the way, also reportedly suffered
from depression. Psychiatric illness does not, a priori,
disqualify a person from rendering extraordinary service
to mankind.

Mind you, neither Lincoln nor Churchill nor Gandhi led a
nation after becoming a business sensation and television
star. That trifecta defines one man : President Donald J.
Trump.

Now, think about those who are rabble-rousing about the
President’s mental status.

Take Sen. Al Franken. He’s all worried about the President
allegedly overestimating the crowd size at his inauguration.
But Franken is allied with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who
asserted she is Native American, when there is no evidence
of that whatsoever.

And they’re calling Trump’s sanity into question ? Really,
you can’t make up this stuff.


source-dr, keith abelow,

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

One of the few psychiatrists that is not nuts. But then so many psychiatrists think that gender is just a figment of your imagination as easy to change as your underwear.

Forkbassman Loc: Missouri

It doesn't make any difference to Dems and progressives what Ablow says. Truthfully, if Jesus Christ said the same thing about him, they would still try to crucify him. After following politics for 40 years objectively, I've come to the conclusion that liberalism is a mental disease. Look at how Hollywood, media etc have and are acting. I would go so far as to compare them to ISIS: they have an agenda and will NEVER give up until they reach their goal and do whatever it takes to win. Trump wasn't my first choice but HE WON. Get over it and go on with life! I did for 8 years of Obama.

Lonewolf

Not going to happen trump has been compromised by russia and a traitor


uote=Forkbassman]It doesn't make any difference to Dems and progressives what Ablow says. Truthfully, if Jesus Christ said the same thing about him, they would still try to crucify him. After following politics for 40 years objectively, I've come to the conclusion that liberalism is a mental disease. Look at how Hollywood, media etc have and are acting. I would go so far as to compare them to ISIS: they have an agenda and will NEVER give up until they reach their goal and do whatever it takes to win. Trump wasn't my first choice but HE WON. Get over it and go on with life! I did for 8 years of Obama.[/quote]

Hogback

If psychiatry was a science it would be predictive. Why do you psychiatrists always know exactly what is wrong with a person after the fact? Isn't a science predictive? A science is observable, testable, fallible and most of all predictable! I don't believe anything any of you psychobabblers say!