Trump: A Psychiatrist's View

Dr. Gail Saltz discusses possible psychological roots of Donald Trump's personality traits, including pretending to be his own publicist, and what it means

[Fairland]

It does not take a psychiatrist to see that Donald Trump has mental issues. The fact that people continue to defend his behavior and ignore the problem doesn’t help.

[dalekdx]

“I’ve been a specialist in personality disorders for 35 years, ” Gartner says. “Trump is the most severe case I’ve seen in my career.”

[jimpankey]

Great Leader? As a retired military person, I would rather have a five year old kid leading the nation. Oh, wait...that's what we have!

[uniquelylily]

Anyone watching this in 2022? This woman was right!

[MrGloriousg]

Narcissist’s cannot ever admit fault. They convince their supplicant’s to carry on their agenda.

[SnarkyStuff]

I guess I view it this way; he's really devided our country. It makes it crystal clear those who are delusional and those who aren't.

[chrisbradley]

Donald does have a tendency to project his faults on his opponents

[BarbaraLyne-fd]

I can’t even try to understand how anyone would want this Man back in the White House. Everything about him terrible. There is no qualities in him to be an example to our children. I am very concern that people know better and is enabling this man. Couldn’t the Republican do better than. He is real a cult leader writing his own Bible . We are in trouble if this man is elected.

[pagalley]

Trump iis the textbook definition of a narcissist or, more specifically, a megalomaniac...There's a big difference, between wanting to be the best and being a narcissist...Great question, Chuck!

[sondrakaplan]

Good view of our narcissistic Pres....very scary

[goranselin]

Trump has not reached the age of 9 yet. "Me, me, me!"
At that age children start to develop an understanding of the social interaction between people.
Interpreting people's feelings and conversations addressed to the child in question or among themselves.

[jayrod]

Many psychologist and psychiatrists agree with her point. Trump is crazy for real.

[nettiewatkins]

We need to listen to psychiatrists like this woman. I just don't understand why the Republican House just sit on their butts and ignores it. We are in trouble, guys! Do you something!

[romanianisraeli]

Trump needs to be put in jail or a mental institution.

[larrybing]

I work for a Trump loyalist in a small Mom N Pop, and it is terrifying to hear him talk about how much he backs Trump. But I understand the freedom of speech and thought so I have no problem with him, because he also respects my point of view. We MUST understand the importance of letting everyone have that freedom or we lose it and we have no one to blame but ourselves if we become the "thought police."

[berthayellowfinch]

We can see so easily by this video, why psycho shrinks should be shut down. They have done untold damage to countless people and in contrast it would be impossible to find one single patient they have healed.

The gig is up. We've had enough of this fraud.

[brianhyde]

The Spirit of every man is of God but when he ignores his Spirit he can become a monster. Such is Donald Trump.

[mahoganysqueeze]

People in the comments section literally did what they said you were going to do regarding information. Someone constantly lying, and literally making things up should not be a partisan issue

[carlossaroufim]

Well she describes good leaders like they come from some utopia land. Speaking from a psychiatrists perspective (if you wanna call it that) most bosses have narcissistic characteristics, they are drawn into leadership positions nothing new here. She also forgot to mention that the less agreeable the person is they have higher chance to achieve financial advancement (it's psy 101). I am not a trump supporter but was appalled to see a psychiatrist diagnosing someone as narcissistic with pure judgment without any counseling session or proper diagnosis on a national television, it's just biased on so many levels.

[scratchy]

Donald Trump is no different than any other person who occupies a government position