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Philip Roth and others analyse Donald Trump’s personality

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Published: 24 January 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Philip Roth e-mails on Trump – Judith Thurman – The New Yorker January 30, 2017 Issue
In 2004, the writer published ‘The Plot Against America’, about an election that upends the country. Has it happened here?

Is Donald Trump mentally ill? 3 professors of psychiatry ask[ed] President Obama to conduct ‘a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation’ – Richard Greene - The Huffington Post 20.12.16
Includes amazing letter to then president Obama and videos of short and long interviews with Dr Lynne Meyer, a psychologist specialising in narcissistic and other personality disorders [4:28, 27:33]  ‘[H]is widely reported symptoms of mental instability — including grandiosity, impulsivity, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality — lead us to question his fitness for the immense responsibilities of the office.’

Best-case scenario? Trump is just a dangerous demagogue
– Chemi Shalev – Haaretz 23.01.17
The new president’s first days in office spark concerns that, unable to handle the truth, he creates delusional reality instead.

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