There are many layers to the horrors that we face today and the long trajectory that has brought us into the nightmare of this fascist era. That said, one part that needs to be illuminated again and again is the reality that the current President of the United States suffers from deep untreated trauma, the symptoms of which impact and pose a profound danger to our country, other nations, and life on Earth. This cannot be overstated.
And while this is true, it also continues to need to be emphasized that Trump remains a symptom of something much greater than this one man and his fascist administration. It is these depths that are so vital to plumb, recognize, understand, and act upon out of the consciousness and wisdom of a highest good for us all. — Molly
Dr. John Gartner, a medical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said this week that Donald Trump represents the most severe case of psychological illness he has encountered in four decades of clinical work, and that the trajectory is worsening.
“In 40 years of clinical practice and almost 30 years of teaching psychiatric residents, I've never encountered a patient as sick as Donald Trump,” Gartner said on The Daily Beast's podcast. “He's so many standard deviations away from what we would normally consider normal, and that it's coming to a head now is in his fantasies of being this military conqueror.”
Gartner, who has not examined Trump directly, has been tracking what he describes as accelerating cognitive deterioration. Earlier this year, he told iNews the decline was progressing “almost week over week” across four clinical indicators: language, memory, behavior, and psychomotor performance. Last month, he suggested the pattern was consistent with frontotemporal dementia, a condition characterized by disinhibition and impaired judgment.
On the podcast, Gartner connected that decline to what he sees as an increasing appetite for military confrontation. “He actually gets incredible gratification from destroying things and hurting people and feeling powerful through that,” he said. With poll numbers falling and the possibility of losing both houses of Congress, Gartner argued that Trump may look to his role as commander in chief as the one remaining source of unchecked power. “He will still be the commander in chief, and he's going to want to exercise that power in a way that makes him feel powerful.”
Gartner described Trump as “grooming” the public for nuclear conflict, driven by what he characterized as sadism and a desire for historical notoriety as a military figure. Trump has previously compared himself to Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar, Raw Story noted, despite never having served in the military.
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