The Number One Existential Crisis of Our Time

Donald Trump’s Mental Unfitness

There is a question many politicians and reporters have avoided like a plague: does Donald Trump have the mental capacity to serve as president?  The reason is because, once this question is raised, the answer will be obvious.  Yet, avoiding the question does not change the answer.

There is a mental phenomenon known as “return of the repressed.” It means that a reality that is repressed does not disappear but comes roaring back with a vengeance.  Will this also be the case with Donald Trump’s mental unfitness?

At a New Hampshire rally, the presidential candidate ruminated: “You know, by the way, they never report the crowd on January 6.  You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley.  Nikki Haley [deleted and destroyed] all of the evidence [while] in charge of security.  We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they want.  They turned it down.” 

His confusing Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi is the mild part.  He is again obsessed with crowd size, as he puzzled the nation with on the day after his inauguration.  He knows his guilt of not calling the National Guard, because he never wished to disperse the crowd in the first place: he had mobilized them through use of his pathological manipulative skills, gathered them, and needed to join them, but he couldn’t—only because he was physically stopped.  His overwhelming drive is to “delete and destroy” reality—because he cannot tolerate it—a trait he now projects onto Haley, the opponent who has replaced Pelosi in his mind’s preoccupation.  None of this is surprising to us mental health experts who have accurately gauged his mental impairments back in early 2017.