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As Donald Trump’s mental acuity continues to decline, Dr John Gartner joins Anthony Davis to discuss the senile dementia, mental health and personality issues that the President clearly presents, and how his verbal gibberish is ignored by the corporate media who refuse to acknowledge the danger of his decision making - only on The Weekend Show.”
“Outrageous claims are the gasoline that makes Donald Trump’s political career go. Without a steady flow of shocking statements the motor would stall. But engines also require air. If you get the mixture wrong, the engine floods and the car won’t start.
Mr. Trump got the mixture wrong last week. ‘Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,’ he said Wednesday in response to a question about the effects of his tariffs. ‘And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.” The Chinese ships that deliver cheap goods to American ports are “loaded up with stuff, much of which—not all of it—but much of which we don’t need.’ On Sunday he made the point again in an interview with NBC News: ‘They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
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I drove my dad to the Pocopson Home. A detached retina made it impossible for him to drive a car. My mom had dementia. She couldn’t speak. My dad held her hand. A woman in the same room at Pocopson dropped a doll she was holding. My dad picked it up and handed it to her. She broke her silent stare to say “Get the fuck away from me or I’ll shoot you.”
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Sunday, October 20, 2024
Trump used to be very articulate in earlier years, you’ve said, but now he often, quote, “degenerates into literal incoherence, where no one can tell what he is trying to say….
What we see that a lot of people don’t appreciate is that when Donald Trump was younger in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. He spoke in polished paragraphs; now he has difficulty even finishing a sentence. His thoughts were logical and related: now they’re tangential. He goes off on these ramblings where he is confabulating things – weird things in which he’ll talk about Venezuelans and mental hospitals, and then he’ll talk about sharks and batteries or the late, great Hannibal Lector and Silence of the Lambs. And why is he talking about Hannibal Lector – a fictional character who was not great; he was a murderer, a serial killer. It makes sense in Trump’s mind but these are really random associations. And there is an accelerating rate of decline…
Like Trump, Elon Musk is a sociopath. He feels no remorse in inflicting pain on people; in fact, he feels a sense of glee and mastery.
Dr. John Gartner
Now people may think that because Donald Trump is demented that he won’t be very effective in his agenda. But the problem is he has the whole Project 2025 team behind him, led by Russell Voight. And he’s got Elon Musk, who is a mental health study in and of himself. Musk is on the spectrum; like Trump, he is hypomanic, and like Trump, he is clearly also a sociopath. He feels no remorse in inflicting pain on people; in fact, he feels a sense of glee and mastery in doing it. He was joking about using a chainsaw (to cut federal jobs), holding one up and laughing about it. He’s taking away the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. He’s a monster, just as Trump is a monster, and Trump attracts monsters. Now we have a real Trump problem, because we now have a whole government that is populated by people who have some version of his personality disorder…
The diagnosis of malignant narcissism is not in the DSM; it’s actually an obscure historical diagnosis that was introduced by psychologist Erich Fromm, who himself escaped the Nazis, in an attempt to explain the psychology of Hitler and other murderous, paranoid, grandiose dictators like him.
People with the disorder are usually characterized by entitlement, manipulation, grandiosity, pathological lying, the absence of empathy and conscience, and sadism, the latter of which results in a sadistic psychopath, according to Kernberg and others. I believe that Fromm called malignant narcissism ‘the quintessence of evil.’
That’s exactly what he said. It is interesting – it’s probably one of the only psychiatric diagnoses we have, other than anti-social disorder, that really defines the theology category of evil. In other diagnoses, we generally try to take away the stigma of mental illness. But this is one that deserves to be stigmatized…
Is there a way we can combat this growing authoritarianism?
It’s very dire. They hold the levers of power, and they’re ruthless, and they’re moving at warp speed. And they have no scruples. And there really is nothing they will allow to stop them. They have no internal values or morals or fear or shame because they are psychopaths. And now, unlike the first Trump administration, Trump has really populated the whole government with people who are more or less equally sick. Or sick in the same way, even if they’re not as sick. Someone like Pete Hegseth, for example, is a mini-Trump: He degrades women; he’s a Christian racist and a nationalist. So now we’re in much bigger trouble. Because the people who were guardrails, even if they were Trumpian, at some level had a conscience, at some level were human, and they were still loyal to the United States of America. Now it’s like, what do we say, ‘Hell is empty because the devils are all here’? I think that’s from Shakespeare.
Well, we have to remember that malignant narcissists are sadists. They revel in being destructive, humiliating, insulting, degrading, laughing at other people’s pain and humiliation. They’re basically terrifying the world right now. Everyone is afraid of losing their job and their 401-K going down or what’s going to happen to the world order. Or whether they or someone they love is going to be deported. And the thing is, malignant narcissists thrive on that fear. They love that fear. It gives them a rush, a dopamine rush, to be destructive. There’s a phrase for that: Omnipotent destructiveness. It’s feeling powerful in an excited way because you’re destroying things or people or institutions. So there is this glee, a sadistic, almost satanic glee they’re taking in all of the harm and uncertainty and chaos and fear they’re generating…
It does drive me crazy how weak the Democrats have been, how naive they have been. Because two groups are playing by two sets of rules. I feel like Democrats bring an email to a knife fight. If you’re in a situation where someone is trying to murder you, you need to grab any weapon you can. But Democrats did so little to protect us. Trump put all these corrupt actors in place during his first administration, like (Postmaster General) Louis DeJoy, who cycled money to his own company. Biden could have gotten rid of him for cause. But he didn’t – he didn’t fire anybody. And now Trump is firing thousands of people, and Biden fired no one. There was also an inspector general of the Secret Service who was part of the text erasure scandals, and he had erased some texts, so he was basically investigating himself. And that violates the primary rule of jurisprudence – you just can’t have a guy in that position.
The press really ignored the signs of Trump’s dementia and his mental illness, and their sanewashing has normalized the abnormal and things that are crazy and destructive.
Dr. John Gartner
Do you feel that the mainstream press has been sanewashing Donald Trump?
Yes, the press has sanewashed Trump; they really have. This is another thing that has been so frustrating. Sane-washing is a great term: It’s normalizing the abnormal. Things that are crazy and destructive and not normal, if you homogenize it enough then people can accommodate to it. Suddenly that becomes the new normal. The press really ignored the signs of Trump’s dementia and his mental illness, and we had so much trouble getting the mainstream media to even report on this as a question! But they kept hammering on the issue of age with Biden, and Trump was and is so much more cognitively impaired, mentally and psychiatrically. I mean, Biden wasn’t talking about the late, great Hannibal Lector. But the mainstream media kept making it sound like it was the demented guy versus the robust Trump. Or it was ‘two old men – are they both too old to run for president?’ They never gave an honest hearing to the kind of data you and I have been talking about.”
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