President Donald Trump’s aides know that he is crazy, according to one of his most knowledgeable biographers, but they are afraid to say it.
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On an episode of his podcast Inside Trump’s Head, Trump biographer Michael Wolff analyzed reports that the president entered a yelling match on Wednesday with the moderate Republican lawmaker, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.
“Following the hostile meeting, a rare direct rebuke of the president from a Republican lawmaker, Cassidy explained to reporters that the 80-year-old president called him a ‘lunatic’ and used ‘language ‘that would be said on a school… playground,’ reported The Daily Beast on Thursday. “I stood and said, ‘You have not told the American people what’s going on. It was supposed to last four weeks, it’s lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved, and I want to know what’s going on.’”
Yet Cassidy later felt compelled to perform an about-face later that same day after being confronted by Vice President JD Vance and special envoy Steve Witkoff. When The Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles asked Wolff why Republicans capitulate, the author broke it down.
“Well… some of them are gonna get voted out, some of them—they… continue to need… him,” Wolff told Coles. “We’ve just gone through the primary season, and that was a threat to everyone. I mean… the Republicans—and we’re talking about Republicans now—are dealing with this very specific Trump ecology and they really don’t quite know how to deal with it.”
Because Trump has the power to destroy Republicans who oppose him in his party’s primaries, but then saddle them with baggage that potentially makes them unelectable in the general elections, they find themselves in a Catch-22.
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“I mean… let’s accept this guy is crazy. Everybody knows that. But that doesn’t change the reality of having to deal with him unless you invoke the 25th Amendment, which is not going to happen,” Wolff said. “I mean, that’s another issue. How do you deal with a president who is crazy without a realistic mechanism to deal with that? I mean, this is what’s going on right now.”
Mental health and other medical professionals are also raising the alarm about Trump’s perceived craziness. In May, Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a psychiatrist formerly from Yale University, explained to AlterNet that Trump displays symptoms like “significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications—e.g., 150 social media posts in one night—fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions” and “escalating violence that threatens national and global stability. As Commander-in-Chief of our military—more than 5000 nuclear warheads in inter-continental missile silos, on submarines, and in bombers around the world, are ready for launch solely upon his order, and no one now has the authority to countermand his order.”
Lee has previously predicted crises that would emerge from Trump’s public mental state. Less than a week before the 2020 prediction election, she told this journalist for Salon that Trump would wage an insurrection if he lost to then-Vice President Joe Biden because of Trump’s narcissistic tendencies.
“Just as one once settled for adulation in lieu of love, one may settle for fear when adulation no longer seems attainable,” Lee said at the time. “Rage attacks are common, for people are bound to fall short of expectation for such a needy personality—and eventually everyone falls into this category. But when there is an all-encompassing loss, such as the loss of an election, it can trigger a rampage of destruction and reign of terror in revenge against an entire nation that has failed him.”
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