Let me issue the standard disclaimer of psychiatrists who discuss the
mental health of public figures: I have not personally examined
President Trump.
Now, let me put to rest the concerns of Sen. Al
Franken and political commentators John Oliver and Andrew Sullivan and
anyone else who publicly or privately has questioned the president’s
sanity:
Donald Trump is stone cold sane.
When a man acquires billions of dollars through
complex real estate transactions, invests in many countries, goes on to
phenomenal success in television and turns his name into a worldwide
brand, it is very unlikely that he is mentally unstable.
When the same man obviously enjoys the love and
respect of his children and his wife, who seem to rely on him for
support and guidance, it is
extraordinarily unlikely that he is mentally unstable.
When the same man walks into the political arena and
deftly defeats 16 Republican opponents and then the Democratic
heir-apparent to a two-term president’s administration, the odds of that
man being mentally unstable become vanishingly thin.
And when that very same man attracts to his team the
kind of intellect and gravitas represented (to name just a few) by
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson, Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of
Defense James Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general and commander of
the U.S. Central Command, he cannot be mentally deranged. Period. It is a
statistical impossibility.
