Following President Trump’s Thursday announcement...
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 the President had some serious psychological issues.
Many others have made the same assertion.
What do psychiatrists think ? In the paragraphs below, Dr. Keith Ablow provides his opinions on this subject.
Please read and circulate. . . .
Remarks by Dr. Keith Ablow, 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 ?
Answer : Not Donald J. Trump.
Anecdotally, by the way, I have never had one bad Trump experience. Not one. I own several of his
ties — all of them of the highest quality. I have stayed in his hotels and never had a single complaint
(and I am a born complainer). I have eaten in his New York restaurant — flawless service, excellent
food I own an apartment at Trump Place in Manhattan.
Impeccable design, sturdy construction, fabulous amenities. A mentally unstable man would be unlikely to deliver superior products across multiple industries, don’t you think?
If you’re still worried about the mental stability of the President, note this: The stock market doesn’t like instability. 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.
Many others have made the same assertion.
What do psychiatrists think ? In the paragraphs below, Dr. Keith Ablow provides his opinions on this subject.
Please read and circulate. . . .
Remarks by Dr. Keith Ablow, 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 ?
Answer : Not Donald J. Trump.
Anecdotally, by the way, I have never had one bad Trump experience. Not one. I own several of his
ties — all of them of the highest quality. I have stayed in his hotels and never had a single complaint
(and I am a born complainer). I have eaten in his New York restaurant — flawless service, excellent
food I own an apartment at Trump Place in Manhattan.
Impeccable design, sturdy construction, fabulous amenities. A mentally unstable man would be unlikely to deliver superior products across multiple industries, don’t you think?
If you’re still worried about the mental stability of the President, note this: The stock market doesn’t like instability. 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.
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