The Unbound Grandiosity of Trump’s Ego and Its Frailty as the Most Powerful Man in the World Craves and Demands Praise and Flattery
We will begin with more evidence of Trump’s mental impairment from a deranged rant he posted on Truth Social about Tylenol and vaccines at 4.19 AM Sunday offering dangerously absurd medical advice. Joining us to discuss the sociopathic and psychopathic characteristics Trump shares with patients in mental institutions is Dr. Bandy Lee, We examine the paradox of the unbound grandiosity of his ego at the same time its apparent frailty since the most powerful man in the world so desperately yearns and expects praise and flattery. Dr. Lee is a medical doctor, forensic psychiatrist and a world expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years. She led a group of mental health professional colleagues in breaking the silence about Donald Trump’s dangerous psychology in publishing the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition and her latest books are Profile of a Nation: Trump’s Mind, America’s Soul, Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Danger to American Democracy and All Humankind and the updated and expanded edition, The Much More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 50 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Warn Anew. She also blogs at bandyxlee.substack.
Trump’s Declaration of Economic War on Canada Over a Reagan TV Ad
Then with Trump having previously threatened to invade Canada and make it a 51st state, we look into his latest attack on our neighbor by slapping an additional 10% tariff on Canada for a TV commercial featuring President Reagan warning against tariffs that played on the first two the World Series baseball games between the LA Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays. Joining us from Toronto is Stephen Marche, a novelist and culture writer who has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Esquire, and many other outlets. His recent books include, The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future, and The Last Election, co-authored with Andrew Yang.
An Assessment of What Was Achieved and What Was Not at the ASEAN Summit
Then finally we assess what happened at the just-concluded ASEAN summit in Malaysia and what was not achieved and speak with Sarang Shidore, director of the Global South program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft where his research focuses on geopolitical risk, grand strategy, and climate security, with a special emphasis on Asia and the Global South. We will discuss his article at Responsible Statecraft, “‘America First’ meets ‘ASEAN Way’ in Kuala Lumpur”
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