#BeWell 2016: Is Donald Trump OK? Erratic behavior raises mental health Questions

across110thstreet · Aug 1, 2016

People are talking about this.

sirbaihu · Aug 1, 2016

Is it crazy to wanna bang ur daughter?

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At 69, he can still carry on like the teen who was yanked out of prep school and delivered to Col. Dobias, the take-no-**** instructor at the military academy. After I met Ivanka and praised her to her father, he said, "Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father . . . "
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-seriously-20150909
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Mathloom · Aug 1, 2016

Nothing mentally wrong with him. This is typical of Hillary's campaign pushing talking points in the media, not surprised at all.

Amiga · Aug 1, 2016

The Atlantic did a piece on him back in June.

A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump's Personality - The Atlantic

In creating this portrait, I will draw from well-validated concepts in the fields of personality, developmental, and social psychology. Ever since Sigmund Freud analyzed the life and art of Leonardo da Vinci, in 1910, scholars have applied psychological lenses to the lives of famous people. Many early efforts relied upon untested, nonscientific ideas. In recent years, however, psychologists have increasingly used the tools and concepts of psychological science to shed light on notable lives, as I did in a 2011 book on George W. Bush. A large and rapidly growing body of research shows that people’s temperament, their characteristic motivations and goals, and their internal conceptions of themselves are powerful predictors of what they will feel, think, and do in the future, and powerful aids in explaining why. In the realm of politics, psychologists have recently demonstrated how fundamental features of human personality—such as extroversion and narcissism—shaped the distinctive leadership styles of past U. S. presidents, and the decisions they made. While a range of factors, such as world events and political realities, determine what political leaders can and will do in office, foundational tendencies in human personality, which differ dramatically from one leader to the next, are among them.

Trump’s personality is certainly extreme by any standard, and particularly rare for a presidential candidate; many people who encounter the man—in negotiations or in interviews or on a debate stage or watching that debate on television—seem to find him flummoxing. In this essay, I will seek to uncover the key dispositions, cognitive styles, motivations, and self-conceptions that together comprise his unique psychological makeup. Trump declined to be interviewed for this story, but his life history has been well documented in his own books and speeches, in biographical sources, and in the press. My aim is to develop a dispassionate and analytical perspective on Trump, drawing upon some of the most important ideas and research findings in psychological science today.
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Who, really, is Donald Trump? What’s behind the actor’s mask? I can discern little more than narcissistic motivations and a complementary personal narrative about winning at any cost. It is as if Trump has invested so much of himself in developing and refining his socially dominant role that he has nothing left over to create a meaningful story for his life, or for the nation. It is always Donald Trump playing Donald Trump, fighting to win, but never knowing why.
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R0ckets03 · Aug 1, 2016

Mathloom said: ↑

Nothing mentally wrong with him. This is typical of Hillary's campaign pushing talking points in the media, not surprised at all.
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Well no sane person utters the nonsense he does so...

ima_drummer2k · Aug 1, 2016

R0ckets03 said: ↑

If he has mental health issues, we have a pandemic on our hands. Cause what does that say about his followers, which is about half the country...
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I think the majority of his "followers" are just voting for him because they don't want to vote for Hillary.

Or at least that's what I tell myself so I can sleep at night...

Sweet Lou 4 2 · Aug 1, 2016

I think he is just a narcissist.

vlaurelio · Aug 1, 2016

ima_drummer2k said: ↑

I think the majority of his "followers" are just voting for him because they don't want to vote for Hillary.

Or at least that's what I tell myself so I can sleep at night...
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So they voting someone who's mentally unstable and dangerous not only to america but to the world just because they hate hillary? How does that make you sleep at night?

Dubious · Aug 1, 2016

Sweet Lou 4 2 said: ↑

I think he is just a narcissist.
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Or someone who has found success by creating an outrageous persona, real estate, TV and politics. You don't stand out blending in.

Granville · Aug 1, 2016

vlaurelio said: ↑

So they voting someone who's mentally unstable and dangerous not only to america but to the world just because they hate hillary? How does that make you sleep at night?
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How does voting for a pathological liar from a party who thinks Hillary's supporters are ignorant make you sleep at night?

rage · Aug 1, 2016

sirbaihu said: ↑

Is it crazy to wanna bang ur daughter?

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Wow, just wow, Trump thought he was funny but Ivanka wasn't laughing.

DAROckets · Aug 1, 2016

did we watch a different video ? She was laughing the entire clip ..still a creepy thing to say

underoverup · Aug 1, 2016

I wonder if all this pressure is starting to get to that 70 year old mind.....

thumbs · Aug 1, 2016

underoverup said: ↑

I wonder if all this pressure is starting to get to that 70 year old mind.....
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Hillary?

Amiga · Aug 1, 2016

thumbs said: ↑

Hillary?
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you must have forgotten how she handled the Benghazi hearing in person. Buy let's not distract. This thread is about Trump mindset and there are plenty of evidences that suggest he's not of any sound mind.

Amiga · Aug 2, 2016

Relevant. Major Hering must have foreseen a Trump presidency.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...got-fired-Air-Force-asking-President-mad.html

At the height of the Cold War, some forty years ago, Major Harold L. Hering was in the middle of a nuclear missile training class when he posed a question that put an end to his 21-year Air Force career.

‘How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?’ he asked at the Vandenberg Air Force base in 1973.

As a Minutemen missile crewman, it was Hering’s job to ‘authenticate’ the code in the launch order to ensure that it came from the president himself, according to Ron Rosenbaum in Slate.

As an officer, Hering was under oath to carry out only 'lawful orders' so, to him, his question seemed legitimate - but the military did not agree.

He was dismissed from the training class and was forced to leave the Air Force after two years of appeals.
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That question was never answered. And now we know why. There is no answer.

The President has ultimate power to launch a nuclear strike at anytime without any check from anyone.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_spectator/2011/02/an_unsung_hero_of_the_nuclear_age.html

Here's what Cheney told Fox News: "The president of the United State is now, for 50 years, is followed at all times, 24 hours a day, by a military aide carrying a 'football' that contains the nuclear codes that he would use and be authorized to use in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States. He could launch a kind of devastating attack the world's never seen. He doesn't have to check with anybody. He doesn't have to call the Congress. He doesn't have to check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in."
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...les-nukes-button-launch-foreign-policy-213955

What would it mean to have Trump’s fingers on the nuclear button? We don't really know, but we do know this: In the atomic age, when decisions must be made very quickly, the presidency has evolved into something akin to a nuclear monarchy. With a single phone call, the commander in chief has virtually unlimited power to rain down nuclear weapons on any adversarial regime and country at any time. You might imagine this awesome executive power would be hamstrung with checks and balances, but by law, custom and congressional deference there may be no responsibility where the president has more absolute control. There is no advice and consent by the Senate. There is no second-guessing by the Supreme Court. Even ordering the use of torture—which Trump infamously once said he would do, insisting the military “won’t refuse. They’re not gonna refuse me”—imposes more legal constraints on a president than ordering a nuclear attack.

If he were president, Donald Trump—who likes to say he doesn't spend a lot of time conferring with others ("My primary consultant is myself," he declared in March)—would be free to launch a civilization-ending nuclear war on his own any time he chose.
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Major · Aug 2, 2016

Granville said: ↑

How does voting for a pathological liar from a party who thinks Hillary's supporters are ignorant make you sleep at night?
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I don't think you asked the question you wanted to ask here.

Deckard · Aug 2, 2016

We could be witnessing an increasing awareness on the part of Trump's subconscious of just how unfit he is to be president. So his subconscious is whispering to him to do whatever he can to blow any chance he might have of actually winning the presidential contest. It would explain a lot. The alternative seems to be that Mr. Trump is really as stupid as he sounds. That remains a possibility, of course.

Jugdish · Aug 2, 2016

Deckard said: ↑

We could be witnessing an increasing awareness on the part of Trump's subconscious of just how unfit he is to be president. So his subconscious is whispering to him to do whatever he can to blow any chance he might have of actually winning the presidential contest. It would explain a lot. The alternative seems to be that Mr. Trump is really as stupid as he sounds. That remains a possibility, of course.
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It's not like he just started saying crazy stuff the last week or two. Pundits from both sides expected him to crash and burn months ago.

Deckard · Aug 2, 2016

Jugdish said: ↑

It's not like he just started saying crazy stuff the last week or two. Pundits from both sides expected him to crash and burn months ago.
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Some of the same pundits also hoped that Trump might "straighten up" after getting the nomination. Act more like a "candidate," and less like a rich buffoon. Wishful thinking, as it turned out.

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