I don’t believe that trump has the capacity for insight or awareness of his behavior. Or he just will never admit it. But he definitely needs a psychiatric intervention.
Exactly to have allowed a lifetime criminal to even get a sniff of the Oval Office reveals a horrible flaw in the government constitutional apparatus. I still have not gotten over that.
We in U.S. can NOT believe that 1/3 of the population is sick too? Masochists voting three times for DJT and still believing want he says? His first campaign told me he despises United States. I just thought because he LOST so many times, bankruptcies, Russian laundry and Daddy Bailouts. Didn't know how really close Jeffy and Donnie were. Before Jeffrey, there was Roy Cohn. Roger Stone and wife threw the Eyes Wide Shut type 'parties'.
The future movies would have to be shown in XXX snuff houses, where young Donnie may have hung out when no elementary school would have him, including Private.
Money. It has long ceased to be a fair means of exchange and has become an ever more powerful means towards uncontrolled individual power over others. The more it is acceptable for individuals to have vast sums of money, the more twisted and inhuman those in charge become. I'm not saying this is all that's wrong, but it is quite a large part of it.
Adam Mockler posted Friday's press gaggle. Barely exaggerated: at 12:03 PM, President Trump told reporters he wanted a ceasefire with Iran. At 12:05 he declared victory. At 12:07 he announced he was sending Marines. At 12:08 he said no boots on the ground. At 12:11 he said he did not want a ceasefire. At 12:16 he declared victory again. At 12:17 he asked for a ceasefire. At 12:23 he told NATO they were cowards. At 12:29 he said Iran was begging for a ceasefire. At 12:31 he said everything was perfect. At 12:36 he said $500 oil was a good thing. At 12:37 he demanded Iran open Hormuz. At 12:39 he said Hormuz was never closed. At 12:41 he said the US was not at war with Iran. At 12:42 he declared victory in Iran.
The dark triad parasite needs to be forcefully removed from office. Because look at what his malignancy has done to the world. Pair that with his dementia and forget it! Natanyahu is the same way. We're living in the worse timeliness with all these malignant narcissistic psychopaths. And Congress doesn't do anything to stop the monster. What they're doing though, is trying to rig the voting 🗳 system and disenfranchise women from voting and minorities. They're all evil.
Not Congress but Congressional Republicans. The Dems have tried to break through with hearings & two impeachment efforts, etc. It’s Republicans who stand in the way. They are either scared of Trump or they actually like what he’s doing but hide behind d him. Also, they may be waiting to see how primaries go. Whatever the cause, they are betraying & endangering not just the US but the world. Their irresponsible behavior is beyond comprehension. They must be voted out in crushing defeat in November - if we are able to vote!!!
People in charge have to know that. That man is treated at Walter Reed abd seen by all the best medical professionals. They know he's a psychopath with co- occurring disorders.... Everybody's known it for years. Thats the troubling part. He has been enabled...allowed.
I call it a gangster/cult, including those professionals as well as the politicians and voters. The politicians and professionals closest to Trump get the message from the gangster leader--comply, or else! The model may well be Jonestown. Some people have wondered that many of those members there drank the poison at gunpoint held by the guy who killed that congressman.
I wonder why you don’t have many comments…I have read your book on your president and have the redacted one from 2024…So clear, so frightening and unfortunately so true. it’s a pity you can not interfere…your association should have the power for preventing dangerous persons to destroy their country and above all the whole world. Wish you a lot of courage to continue.
Amazing book. I read it twice, in 2017 and again this year. Thank you Dr. Lee. I am ready to help in any way I can to support efforts to have him removed under the 25th Amendment as quickly as possible.
Excellent and exigent post, Bandy. You have been dead-on accurate since the inception of Trump's highly abnormal presidency that America and the world have been existentially endangered by a crisis of mental pathology before a political, social and cultural one.
Trump: "Now with the death (sic) of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party!"
This is the batshit crazy, violent death and injury-instigating eructation of an unhinged, mentally-deranged individual (riven with ominous, rapidly accelerating malignant narcissism) who wields the apocalyptic and existential power to destroy the planet with nuclear weapons. In Trump's anomalous, standard case of reality-dissociated behavior, accusation is confession and projection self-inculpation. No rational, morally sensible and objective reality-tethered human being can any longer doubt that Trump needs to be isolated and contained immediately, followed by swift removal from power, by whatever nonviolent means necessary.
Dr Lee ty for your continued perseverance. I am going to be emailing this to my State Senators and following up with phone calls every day this week. This article needs to get into the hands of ALL Congressional Leaders they must have the courage and insight to think differently to save Humankind. I too am gravely concerned. We will not make it to November without intervention.
It has been estimated a full invasion and occupation of Iran would require between 500,000 and 1.6 million U.S. troops, at the upper end, nearly three-quarters of the entire U.S. military, including reserves and the National Guard. (Preble 2026)
The nearest comparison is instructive: the 2003 Iraq invasion committed roughly 295,000 troops, peaked at 170,000 during the occupation, lasted eight years, cost $1.9 trillion, and resulted in more than 4,400 American deaths in a country one-quarter the size of Iran with one-third of its population.
Iran is the 18th-largest country in the world by land area, with a population of 88 million. (”Iran Population (2026)” 2026) Using troop density figures from the 2004 Battle of Fallujah, analysts at UnHerd calculated that capturing and pacifying Tehran alone, a city of 15 million, ringed by mountains, would require more than 600,000 soldiers, roughly the entire U.S. deployment at the height of the Vietnam War.
Any serious invasion of Iran, they concluded, “would likely rival or exceed the scale of Vietnam or the 1991 Gulf War, making it the largest U.S. military undertaking since the Second World War.”
Terrain compounds the problem further: mountain ranges dominate roughly half of Iran’s territory, its major urban centers are inland and buffered by vast desert corridors, and no regional basing infrastructure exists from which a large-scale operation could be launched.
The U.S. lost its Afghan foothold in 2021, and only around 2,000 American troops remain in Iraq, a country whose government would almost certainly deny access for an invasion of its neighbor.
RANE analyst Freddy Khoueiry was direct: “Iran is far larger and geographically more complex than Iraq, and any invasion would require hundreds of thousands of troops, months of preparation, and regional basing support that currently does not exist.”
Iran’s military capacity is formidable and layered. The regular Artesh army fields approximately 350,000 active-duty personnel. The IRGC operates 31 autonomous provincial commands with pre-delegated authority, enabling sustained resistance without central command.
Beneath both sits the Basij, a vast paramilitary militia embedded in neighborhoods across the country, modeled on the insurgent infrastructure that made Iraq and Afghanistan so costly.
Iran’s fit-for-service population of roughly 41 million could be supplemented by Shia fighters from Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Bahrain. Iran ranks 13th globally in armored vehicles, 9th in towed artillery, and 8th in mobile rocket projectors. (”Comparing U.S. and Iran Military Might” 2020)
Professor Ata Atun of Girne American University described a ground invasion as “extremely difficult and almost impossible when viewed from military, geographic, and political perspectives,” with “more than a fifty percent chance” the U.S. could find itself in a Vietnam-like situation.
Neil Quilliam of Chatham House warned a ground mission is “likely to trigger a severe response from Tehran,” including both conventional forces and Iran’s regional proxy network. Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute was categorical: a full ground operation is “neither realistic nor under consideration.”
So, here’s the horror – could an impulsive Trump be thinking, let’s just use a few nukes, no boots, and neutralize the Republican Guard? Then his buddy Putin would have a precedent to also use nukes in Ukraine! And then … WHAT?
What military planners have acknowledged discussing instead are limited, specialized operations, small units targeting specific facilities, supported by rapid-deployment forces such as the 82nd Airborne, rather than anything approaching a full invasion.
Such operations, while more feasible, cannot deliver the political outcome implied by “finishing off” a state of Iran’s size and institutional depth. Senator Richard Blumenthal, emerging from a classified briefing, offered a rare moment of candor: “I emerge from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years. We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran;” a prospect he called deeply alarming.
Public opinion is unambiguous: a CNN poll found Americans oppose deploying ground troops by 60% to 12%; Quinnipiac put opposition at 74% to 20%. Even among Republicans, support reached only 27% in the CNN poll and 37% in Quinnipiac’s.
Trump dismissed the idea as “a waste of time” on March 6, then said the following day that troops could be sent if there was a “good reason.”
The White House’s official position, “there has been no decision to send ground troops at this time. But President Trump wisely keeps all options at his disposal,” captures the administration’s characteristic ambiguity: ruling nothing in, ruling nothing out, and leaving allies, adversaries, and the public to guess at the real intent behind “finished off.”
That's exactly the kind of stuff Trump could be thinking. He's throwing the word " obliterate" around a bit too much along with "the likes of which the world has never seen" rhetoric for my comfort...
I am sad to say that my neighbors do not recognize our president’s behavior as insane. They think he is funny, They think his behavior is acceptable and normal. They do not recognize what mental illness is. They have grown up in a world where the adults were helpless to deal with people who needed help. It was normal to witness people behaving similarly.
The intervention should be done with the obstinate Republican Congress and now, especially, Trump's Cabinet. They are the ones who can remove him via the 25th Amendment. It should be done immediately based on his complete inability to conduct the office of the presidency.
I don't disagree but the cabinet is also useless and incompetent and unfit. Bondi? Hegseth? Kash Patel? Luttnick? RFKjr? etc. We are in uncharted waters and once past this need a national discourse on how we can prevent this from ever happening again.
Yes, this speaks to so much, like what on earth caused people to vote for him, what motivates the GOP to rubber stamp him. Maybe we need another Constitutional Convention for starters.
America is in Dr. Strangelove territory. And we all know how THAT movie ends. I do not understand why the military doesn't step in and arrest Hegseth for treason, he is after all in charge of the military and he is colluding with Trump in giving Russia intelligence that kills Americans. With Hegseth in custody the military can be returned to a command that will not drop a nuke. And they can put Trump in protective custody, for his own good, seeing he has obviously had a complete break with reality. After all, only a guy suffering psychosis would give our enemy intelligence that kills our military members.
You make it sound so easy! Your statement: "... the military can be returned to a command that will not drop a nuke," Really? Who's going to appoint and approve this magical command?? JD Vance? Mike Johnson? The whole bunch is rotten to the core. And simply because Trump selected them and the Republicans approved them. All legal.
I've been shouting Dr. Lee's message from the rooftops that Trump's behavior indicates a psychiatric emergency that his base, Republican loyalists, and cabinet members can no longer deny. Allowing him to continue is not only dangerous for us, but also cruel to allow him to unravel so publicly. I've had patients with dangerous delusions that I've had to hospitalize because they are a danger to others.
I don’t believe that trump has the capacity for insight or awareness of his behavior. Or he just will never admit it. But he definitely needs a psychiatric intervention.
The real point is that regardless..he should not be in that office. Its all been rehashed to death....repeatedly since 2015. And yes..he's worse.
Exactly to have allowed a lifetime criminal to even get a sniff of the Oval Office reveals a horrible flaw in the government constitutional apparatus. I still have not gotten over that.
I just wonder how everyone got that way? Please, tell us.
We in U.S. can NOT believe that 1/3 of the population is sick too? Masochists voting three times for DJT and still believing want he says? His first campaign told me he despises United States. I just thought because he LOST so many times, bankruptcies, Russian laundry and Daddy Bailouts. Didn't know how really close Jeffy and Donnie were. Before Jeffrey, there was Roy Cohn. Roger Stone and wife threw the Eyes Wide Shut type 'parties'.
The future movies would have to be shown in XXX snuff houses, where young Donnie may have hung out when no elementary school would have him, including Private.
Russian Psyops had a huge part in this. Like YouTube and Meta algorithms, they basically rewired the brains of many vulnerable people for a long time.
Money. It has long ceased to be a fair means of exchange and has become an ever more powerful means towards uncontrolled individual power over others. The more it is acceptable for individuals to have vast sums of money, the more twisted and inhuman those in charge become. I'm not saying this is all that's wrong, but it is quite a large part of it.
It would never help. People with his disorders, in general, are incapable of changing, hearing, or even wanting psychiatric treatment.
So true, exactly because of that lack of insight capacity.
Narcissists don’t have insight. They can’t honestly assess themselves.
Adam Mockler posted Friday's press gaggle. Barely exaggerated: at 12:03 PM, President Trump told reporters he wanted a ceasefire with Iran. At 12:05 he declared victory. At 12:07 he announced he was sending Marines. At 12:08 he said no boots on the ground. At 12:11 he said he did not want a ceasefire. At 12:16 he declared victory again. At 12:17 he asked for a ceasefire. At 12:23 he told NATO they were cowards. At 12:29 he said Iran was begging for a ceasefire. At 12:31 he said everything was perfect. At 12:36 he said $500 oil was a good thing. At 12:37 he demanded Iran open Hormuz. At 12:39 he said Hormuz was never closed. At 12:41 he said the US was not at war with Iran. At 12:42 he declared victory in Iran.
This was SO perfect👏🏼👏🏼 shows the chaos in the mind of a ‘very stable genius’ ….🤪😂
Article II, Section 4. All of the disturbed, narcissistic psychopaths he gathered under one roof need to be removed asap.
Conservatives have never belived that mental illness is real, so why should they start now?
The dark triad parasite needs to be forcefully removed from office. Because look at what his malignancy has done to the world. Pair that with his dementia and forget it! Natanyahu is the same way. We're living in the worse timeliness with all these malignant narcissistic psychopaths. And Congress doesn't do anything to stop the monster. What they're doing though, is trying to rig the voting 🗳 system and disenfranchise women from voting and minorities. They're all evil.
Not Congress but Congressional Republicans. The Dems have tried to break through with hearings & two impeachment efforts, etc. It’s Republicans who stand in the way. They are either scared of Trump or they actually like what he’s doing but hide behind d him. Also, they may be waiting to see how primaries go. Whatever the cause, they are betraying & endangering not just the US but the world. Their irresponsible behavior is beyond comprehension. They must be voted out in crushing defeat in November - if we are able to vote!!!
Yes, rig things for more of the same evil. Ugh!
People in charge have to know that. That man is treated at Walter Reed abd seen by all the best medical professionals. They know he's a psychopath with co- occurring disorders.... Everybody's known it for years. Thats the troubling part. He has been enabled...allowed.
I call it a gangster/cult, including those professionals as well as the politicians and voters. The politicians and professionals closest to Trump get the message from the gangster leader--comply, or else! The model may well be Jonestown. Some people have wondered that many of those members there drank the poison at gunpoint held by the guy who killed that congressman.
The corrupt conservatives on the SC know it too. And they gave him complete immunity anyway.
Gravest error EVER… IMO.
Also I will be emailing this to Keith Elllison AG. He has openly discussed the need for mental health experts to convene at this time.
Count me in on that effort
Same
I wonder why you don’t have many comments…I have read your book on your president and have the redacted one from 2024…So clear, so frightening and unfortunately so true. it’s a pity you can not interfere…your association should have the power for preventing dangerous persons to destroy their country and above all the whole world. Wish you a lot of courage to continue.
Amazing book. I read it twice, in 2017 and again this year. Thank you Dr. Lee. I am ready to help in any way I can to support efforts to have him removed under the 25th Amendment as quickly as possible.
Excellent and exigent post, Bandy. You have been dead-on accurate since the inception of Trump's highly abnormal presidency that America and the world have been existentially endangered by a crisis of mental pathology before a political, social and cultural one.
Trump: "Now with the death (sic) of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party!"
This is the batshit crazy, violent death and injury-instigating eructation of an unhinged, mentally-deranged individual (riven with ominous, rapidly accelerating malignant narcissism) who wields the apocalyptic and existential power to destroy the planet with nuclear weapons. In Trump's anomalous, standard case of reality-dissociated behavior, accusation is confession and projection self-inculpation. No rational, morally sensible and objective reality-tethered human being can any longer doubt that Trump needs to be isolated and contained immediately, followed by swift removal from power, by whatever nonviolent means necessary.
Dr Lee ty for your continued perseverance. I am going to be emailing this to my State Senators and following up with phone calls every day this week. This article needs to get into the hands of ALL Congressional Leaders they must have the courage and insight to think differently to save Humankind. I too am gravely concerned. We will not make it to November without intervention.
Seems that only half of the Congress even knows he has severe mental illness.
Treasonous Traitor would be a compliment.
They know.
The man is a criminal psychopath ... a malignant narcissist with dementia.
What “Finishing Off” Iran Would Actually Require
It has been estimated a full invasion and occupation of Iran would require between 500,000 and 1.6 million U.S. troops, at the upper end, nearly three-quarters of the entire U.S. military, including reserves and the National Guard. (Preble 2026)
The nearest comparison is instructive: the 2003 Iraq invasion committed roughly 295,000 troops, peaked at 170,000 during the occupation, lasted eight years, cost $1.9 trillion, and resulted in more than 4,400 American deaths in a country one-quarter the size of Iran with one-third of its population.
Iran is the 18th-largest country in the world by land area, with a population of 88 million. (”Iran Population (2026)” 2026) Using troop density figures from the 2004 Battle of Fallujah, analysts at UnHerd calculated that capturing and pacifying Tehran alone, a city of 15 million, ringed by mountains, would require more than 600,000 soldiers, roughly the entire U.S. deployment at the height of the Vietnam War.
Any serious invasion of Iran, they concluded, “would likely rival or exceed the scale of Vietnam or the 1991 Gulf War, making it the largest U.S. military undertaking since the Second World War.”
Terrain compounds the problem further: mountain ranges dominate roughly half of Iran’s territory, its major urban centers are inland and buffered by vast desert corridors, and no regional basing infrastructure exists from which a large-scale operation could be launched.
The U.S. lost its Afghan foothold in 2021, and only around 2,000 American troops remain in Iraq, a country whose government would almost certainly deny access for an invasion of its neighbor.
RANE analyst Freddy Khoueiry was direct: “Iran is far larger and geographically more complex than Iraq, and any invasion would require hundreds of thousands of troops, months of preparation, and regional basing support that currently does not exist.”
Iran’s military capacity is formidable and layered. The regular Artesh army fields approximately 350,000 active-duty personnel. The IRGC operates 31 autonomous provincial commands with pre-delegated authority, enabling sustained resistance without central command.
Beneath both sits the Basij, a vast paramilitary militia embedded in neighborhoods across the country, modeled on the insurgent infrastructure that made Iraq and Afghanistan so costly.
Iran’s fit-for-service population of roughly 41 million could be supplemented by Shia fighters from Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Bahrain. Iran ranks 13th globally in armored vehicles, 9th in towed artillery, and 8th in mobile rocket projectors. (”Comparing U.S. and Iran Military Might” 2020)
Professor Ata Atun of Girne American University described a ground invasion as “extremely difficult and almost impossible when viewed from military, geographic, and political perspectives,” with “more than a fifty percent chance” the U.S. could find itself in a Vietnam-like situation.
Neil Quilliam of Chatham House warned a ground mission is “likely to trigger a severe response from Tehran,” including both conventional forces and Iran’s regional proxy network. Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute was categorical: a full ground operation is “neither realistic nor under consideration.”
So, here’s the horror – could an impulsive Trump be thinking, let’s just use a few nukes, no boots, and neutralize the Republican Guard? Then his buddy Putin would have a precedent to also use nukes in Ukraine! And then … WHAT?
What military planners have acknowledged discussing instead are limited, specialized operations, small units targeting specific facilities, supported by rapid-deployment forces such as the 82nd Airborne, rather than anything approaching a full invasion.
Such operations, while more feasible, cannot deliver the political outcome implied by “finishing off” a state of Iran’s size and institutional depth. Senator Richard Blumenthal, emerging from a classified briefing, offered a rare moment of candor: “I emerge from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years. We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran;” a prospect he called deeply alarming.
Public opinion is unambiguous: a CNN poll found Americans oppose deploying ground troops by 60% to 12%; Quinnipiac put opposition at 74% to 20%. Even among Republicans, support reached only 27% in the CNN poll and 37% in Quinnipiac’s.
Trump dismissed the idea as “a waste of time” on March 6, then said the following day that troops could be sent if there was a “good reason.”
The White House’s official position, “there has been no decision to send ground troops at this time. But President Trump wisely keeps all options at his disposal,” captures the administration’s characteristic ambiguity: ruling nothing in, ruling nothing out, and leaving allies, adversaries, and the public to guess at the real intent behind “finished off.”
That's exactly the kind of stuff Trump could be thinking. He's throwing the word " obliterate" around a bit too much along with "the likes of which the world has never seen" rhetoric for my comfort...
I am sad to say that my neighbors do not recognize our president’s behavior as insane. They think he is funny, They think his behavior is acceptable and normal. They do not recognize what mental illness is. They have grown up in a world where the adults were helpless to deal with people who needed help. It was normal to witness people behaving similarly.
That's scary.
Too true 👍
The intervention should be done with the obstinate Republican Congress and now, especially, Trump's Cabinet. They are the ones who can remove him via the 25th Amendment. It should be done immediately based on his complete inability to conduct the office of the presidency.
Yes.. it should.
I don't disagree but the cabinet is also useless and incompetent and unfit. Bondi? Hegseth? Kash Patel? Luttnick? RFKjr? etc. We are in uncharted waters and once past this need a national discourse on how we can prevent this from ever happening again.
Yes, this speaks to so much, like what on earth caused people to vote for him, what motivates the GOP to rubber stamp him. Maybe we need another Constitutional Convention for starters.
The problem is historical and generational. He is the culmination.
America is in Dr. Strangelove territory. And we all know how THAT movie ends. I do not understand why the military doesn't step in and arrest Hegseth for treason, he is after all in charge of the military and he is colluding with Trump in giving Russia intelligence that kills Americans. With Hegseth in custody the military can be returned to a command that will not drop a nuke. And they can put Trump in protective custody, for his own good, seeing he has obviously had a complete break with reality. After all, only a guy suffering psychosis would give our enemy intelligence that kills our military members.
You make it sound so easy! Your statement: "... the military can be returned to a command that will not drop a nuke," Really? Who's going to appoint and approve this magical command?? JD Vance? Mike Johnson? The whole bunch is rotten to the core. And simply because Trump selected them and the Republicans approved them. All legal.
The mess is a bit messier than you calculate.
I've been shouting Dr. Lee's message from the rooftops that Trump's behavior indicates a psychiatric emergency that his base, Republican loyalists, and cabinet members can no longer deny. Allowing him to continue is not only dangerous for us, but also cruel to allow him to unravel so publicly. I've had patients with dangerous delusions that I've had to hospitalize because they are a danger to others.
Psychiatric problem that has become political
We already know what the problem is. It doesn’t need to be defined any further.
The REAL problem is who’s going to enforce whatever actions deemed necessary?
No one.
Who’s on first?