“Trump advisers and allies characterize [it] as a lost summer defined by self-inflicted controversies and squandered opportunities. ... [M]any of the president’s advisers and outside allies bemoan what they consider to be a period of missed opportunity and self-sabotage.”
“[S]ome White House aides and outside Trump allies ... describ[e] an administration in which the president has crashed through the remaining guard rails. ... [J]obs that multiple aides once handled are now being filled by fewer staffers ....”
“... and the president and his team failed to drive a sustained message or capitalize on what they view as winnable fights on the economy and immigration.”
“A Republican operative in frequent touch with the White House described the mood from the ‘staff guys and gals’ as one of weariness. ‘Exhaustion, fatigue, wake us when it’s over’ ... ‘They’re just tired.’”
For now the 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙 time since we launched @PsychoPAC24 with a video in which I explained how our object was to educate the public and the media about @realDonaldTrump’s Cluster B personality disorders (Narcissistic and Antisocial) under the DSM-5, and about how these personality disorders explain, predict, and allow us and others to trigger, his aberrant behavior, Trump has referred to himself in a rally as having a “personality defect.”
I do think we’ve given this man some psychological insight about himself. @PsychoPAC24 should send him a bill.
VIDEO 👉
(The first time he used the phrase “personality defect l” was just under a month and a half ago, in Asheville.) 👉
And here’s a clip from our @PsychoPAC24 launch video, where I explain that @realDonaldTrump’s personality disorders essentially explain everything about him.
How much do you think we should charge him for his therapy sessions with us?
As I’m sure many of you have, I’ve been thinking a lot about the electoral choice we have in 2020 with more focus over the past few days, and I keep returning to a conclusion I reached a while back, but felt was not realistic enough as a scenario to be worth expressing.
And that is that, for the good of the country and their own good, both of the major-party presidential candidates should retire.
Joe Biden has served his country honorably for over a half-century. He deserves our thanks for that, and in particular for saving our Constitution, our democracy, and the rule of law by running for president and winning in 2020.
Absolutely agree with @Delavegalaw, @MichaelCohen212, and @meiselasb. I was in the courtroom that day, and I found that moment to be a good one for the defense, but felt it was only a small one and essentially the only good moment during a rather long, meandering, and ineffective cross-examination.
I was astonished—shocked, in fact—when I learned that television viewers, particularly on @CNN, had been misled into believing that the defense had dealt some kind of death blow to the prosecution’s case.
Some of the mainstream media coverage of the case has been downright bizarre, and remains so. 🤷🏻♂️
Here’s what I said about that day right after court, at 5:04 pm EDT on May 16, 2024. I’m not patting myself on the back for being right; I’m just expressing mystification about how many others could have been so wrong.
I think it may have the herd instinct we all have. If just one legal analyst sitting in a studio vigorously pronounces a misguided, albeit well-meaning, take (let’s leave aside the Trump shills the networks absurdly decided to air), that can influence how others (particularly the nonlegal journalists) how they perceive or express things (because they want to appear to play things down the middle). And the public gets misled.
Chris defends the Goldwater rule in his “deep dive.” It has been the subject of severe criticism among many mental health professionals. Their informed criticisms are far more persuasive than Chris’s cursory defense. I attach a (small) sampling of their articles: