The madness of President Trump

It would take a psychiatrist, make that a team of psychiatrists, to unravel the twisted mental condition of Donald Trump. Yesterday he said that pandemic is ‘fading away and will soon be behind us’. He didn’t say this in an FDR style Fireside Chat. He said it at one of his now daily ‘Super Spreader’ campaign rallies with thousands of idolatrous supporters, many maskless, packed together. They cheered every delusional word uttered, not from a loudmouth drunk in a bar…but from the president of the United States. He said this as the U.S. enters its third wave of rising infections and deaths. Some of those rally attendees with contract covid, even die, just by attending.

This was not a unique ‘one-off’ comment. Such delusional comments have been his governing pandemic response since covid was identified last January. His national pandemic strategy was not to have one. He fought with Democratic governors, demeaning them for pandemic restrictions. He told his base to 'liberate' Michigan, prompting extremist supporters to target the the Michigan governor for kidnapping. He sidelined the infections disease experts on his task force to favor a radiologist with no expertise or experience with infectious diseases. This ‘X-Ray guy promotes herd immunity which has the potential to kill millions.

Trump may not be clinically insane. But at some point we must question whether he is clearly out of his mind. Of course, if voters somehow give him four more years to spread disease and destruction across the land….we might ponder the same question about them.