Trump’s Memorial Day and West Point Politicization of the Military
We begin on this Memorial Day with Trump’s remarks at Arlington National Cemetery today and his commencement speech at West Point, in which he spoke to the 1,002 Army cadets about trophy wives. Joining us is a member of a famous American military family, Lucian Truscott IV, a journalist, screenwriter, and author of five bestselling novels. A graduate of West Point, he has covered the wars in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He is a regular contributor at Salon and he blogs at luciantruscott.substack.com, where his latest article, which we discuss, is “I Watched Trump’s West Point Commencement Speech So You Don’t Have To.”
An Investigation of the Evident Deterioration of Trump’s Mental Health
Then we investigate the evident deterioration of Trump’s mental health and speak with Dr. Bandy Lee, 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 became known to the public by leading a group of mental health professional colleagues in breaking the silence about Donald Trump’s dangerous psychology and 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 and Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Danger to American Democracy and All Humankind. Her new book, out tomorrow, is The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 50 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Warn Anew – Updated and Expanded with New Essays. She also blogs at bandyxlee.substack.com
Instead of Randomly Imposing Tariffs, The World’s Biggest Debtor Should Be Showing Some Humility Towards Its Creditors
Then finally, we go to Stockholm, Sweden for an analysis of Trump’s remark that Putin is “absolutely crazy” and speak with Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum, a professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University and a former senior fellow at The Atlantic Council. A member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, he worked as a Swedish Diplomat in Moscow and served as an economic advisor to the governments of Russia and Ukraine. His books include Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It and Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path From Market Economy to Kleptocracy. We discuss his article at The National Interest titled “The Biggest Debtor in the World had Better Show Some Humility: With its giant public debt, the United States is far more dependent on foreign creditors than any other country in the world.”