Trump, Defending His Mental Fitness, Says He’s a ‘Very Stable Genius’
“The level of concern by the public is now enormous,” said Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine
and editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” a book released last fall.
In the past week alone, a new book resurfaced previously reported concerns among the president’s own advisers about his fitness for office, the question of his mental state came up at two White House briefings
and the secretary of state was asked if Mr. Trump was mentally fit.
“The never-ending attempt to nullify an election is tiresome; if they were truly ‘worried about the country,’ they’d get to work to help it.”
Thomas J. Barrack, a friend of Mr. Trump’s, was quoted in Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” as telling a friend
that the president was “not only crazy but stupid.” In interviews, Mr. Barrack denied that and insisted that many people miss Mr. Trump’s actual brilliance.
Dr. Frances, author of “Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age
of Trump,” said the president’s bad behavior should not be blamed on mental illness.
WASHINGTON — President Trump, whose sometimes erratic behavior in office has generated an unprecedented debate about his mental health, declared on Saturday
that he was perfectly sane and accused his critics of raising questions to score political points.
He regularly describes adversaries with words like “crazy,” “psycho” and “nut job.”
But the discussion has now reached a point where Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, who has been reported
to have privately called Mr. Trump a “moron,” was asked to weigh in during an interview with CNN on Friday.