Top Psychiatrist Sends Apocalyptic Warning About Trump
An interview with Dr. Bandy X. Lee on the dangers of another Trump presidency
If Trump ends up in the White House again, “it will be the end of the American experiment and the end of our civilization,” world-renowned psychiatrist Dr.
warned.Dr. Lee is a forensic and social psychiatrist who taught at Yale School of Medicine, Yale Law School and now Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lee made headlines in 2017 when she, along with a cohort of leading mental health professionals from around the country, published The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, which described Trump’s mental health as a clear and present danger to the nation.
As a result, Dr. Lee was publicly vilified and even lost her job. But like many professionals in the scientific community, Dr. Lee has held strong to the truth and wears her Trump-era censure like a badge of honor.
Now Dr. Lee is sounding the alarm again, reminding the nation about the clear threat posed by a Donald Trump presidency.
“I cannot be assured that [Trump] will refrain from using nuclear weapons the second time around, or provoke others into using them,” Dr. Lee said. “As we know from all the Pentagon war games, once it begins, that is truly the end of humankind.”
Dr. Lee’s concerns should be taken seriously. When we last spoke in 2020, she was spot on with her predictions about the likely disastrous outcomes Trump’s dangerous pathology would produce.
“Diagnosis is no longer by personal interview, it is by objective observation mostly and, especially for dangerous personalities, collateral information. And we have gotten an abundance of that, especially through The Mueller Report under sworn testimony. We were able to perform a full fitness examination by a panel of some of the nations top experts. And we did that and found that he failed every criterion.”
Dr. Lee told me then that Trump’s instability is what allowed COVID-19 to become a pandemic, and that his actions would only prolong the devastating consequences. She also predicted that Trump’s behavior and rhetoric would lead to an event like the violent January 6th insurrection.
“We predicted both the severity and the timeline of how things would unfold if there were no proper mental health intervention,” Dr. Lee said.
Many critics at the time shrugged off the claims in Dr. Lee’s book as exaggeration, but in hindsight we can see that she hit the nail on the head, and maybe America would be in a better place today if more people had heeded her warnings.
Former Chief of Staff John Kelly took the threat seriously. It was later reported he purchased a copy of the book, and used it as a manual to contain Trump and prevent him from using nuclear weapons against North Korea. It’s a good thing he did.
Four years later, Donald Trump is once again the GOP standard-bearer and nominee for president. Only now, Trump’s mental state has deteriorated even further into constant incoherent ramblings, lies, and major missteps.
That’s why I was so excited to have Dr. Lee back for another interview. I wanted to ask what she thinks about Trump's current mental health and what that means for America.
“Since the very beginning,” Lee said, "I had warned that this was a public health problem where his psychological dangers will translate into social, cultural, political, and civic dangers if we did not contain it. And that’s what we are seeing today. And what I have been calling the Trump contagion, has only been allowed to spread.”
Dr. Lee explained that Trump uses violent language as an overcompensation for his feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness. And in doing so, she said, “[Trump] is bringing down the public discourse to a level of threat and intimidation. If the population is fearful enough, they will look for a strong parental figure instead of an intelligent, capable leader.”
“Mental health experts could have warned,” Dr. Lee said, “that there is a lot of psychological abuse going on through disinformation, propaganda, media, and political campaigns that are actually relying on the psychological manipulation of the public and doing psychological violence to the public in order to advance their agendas.”
It was an eye-popping interview and one you won’t want to miss. Just like Dr. Lee told me, “This should be headline news and it should be repeated everyday, that there is somebody proven to be unfit for the presidency, who is still running for the presidency.”
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