Thread by @BandyXLee1

I never diagnosed Donald Trump or his supporters. Do you know who diagnosed Trump, in extensive detail, without full information and with faulty assumptions? A past president of the APA:
vice.com/en/article/wjj…
What was the APA’s response to him? As you guessed: total silence.

Yet we, who merely called out dangerousness and the urgent need for an evaluation, were slandered with “armchair psychiatry,” “use of psychiatry as a political tool,” and “self-aggrandizing”—without examination and authorization, thereby breaking its own gag order.

I never imagined I would hear such unprofessional phrases (not to mention inaccurate) from a professional organization, but then the past APA president libeled the MOST renowned experts with: “tawdry, indulgent, fatuous, tabloid psychiatry” (while accusing others of what he did).

This had enormous consequences, as it gave disgraced White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, ammunition to dismiss press inquiries about us as “tabloid psychiatry,” thereby pushing his 10-minute irrelevant screen as proof that the president was “fit”.

As a reminder:

https://twitter.com/BandyXLee1/status/1286661405203140615