go back through the history of demagogues, they have an ability due to that personality that peter is describing to hold on to support longer than you think would be possible. and so there s a little bit of a cult element to that. there s a little bit of i can t break because i ll look like a turncoat or disloyal. one of the things the president is good at, he tries to humiliate people on twitter whether it s john legend or people like that in an effort to silence the people that he knows really hate his guts. i would say most of the hill hates him. members of congress hate him. people inside the cabinet, inside the white house have a siege mentality. and so he s trying to suppress all of that through the bullying and all of that anti-social behavior. so what you have to do is you have to create an off ramp. this is what i ve been saying to you and your colleagues and other people as i go around the united states and speak about this. you ve got to give people the opportunity just like
because what he said today. he takes nobody s counsel. there s nobody in the white house, you know if you remember chief of staff kelly at least had the strength of personality to sometimes say, hey, that s probably not the best thing to do. don t do that. so he probably curbed some of the exigencies of his personality. there s no one there? well, you tell me. look at what s gone on over the last five or six weeks. i mean, maybe you re saying that it can t get any worse, but i predict it will. it will get a lot worse. he almost looks sedated tonight. i don t know if you were watching the rally. i mean he looked sedated. he was using words that he typically doesn t use. he was reading off the prompter. he s got a loss of confidence going on, and he s got a loss of personality at the same time. okay, let me all right, before i bring peter in, people are going to say, anthony, you re not a psychiatrist. you re not a psychologist. i m not allowed to make an observation about ho
i don t if your car is you see smoke is coming out of the hood, you see puddles of oil underneath your car, you smell oil burning, you don t have to be a car mechanic to say, a, that your engine has problems, and, b, you re almost surely leaking oil. and in the same way, you don t have to be a psychologist or psychiatrist to know that this man is a disordered personality. it doesn t mean that anthony or i or you can say whether it s, you know, narcissistic personality disorder or anti-social personality disorder. those are things that experts have to decide. but in terms of whether this man is psychologically and emotionally unwell to the point that it s almost beyond prima facie. that s what i want to ask you, anthony, because you said again you were there. you re a person who supported them. i asked him, how do you convince people to see him how he really is? you came around to that. what s your advice on that?
was around the campaign, and i was with the guy. you get a sense for a person s personality. i mean you re allowed to armchair that and look at it clinically and critically. yeah. peter, you had a piece today for the atlantic entitled trump is not well. you write this. you said donald trump s disordered personality, his unhealthy patterns of thinking, funchsing and behaving as become the defining characteristic of his presidency. the taliban meeting, the false story about alabama getting hit by hurricane dorian, is this more of the same, you think? yeah, it is more of the same. but what i would say is that his condition is getting worse, and the guardrails are getting less. and so, you know, i said to a friend a long time ago, when there s no bottom, there s no bottom. with donald trump, there s no bottom. this is like a car on a steep hill without brakes. it s just going to accelerate, and there s not going to be a way to stop it. you know, you lose track of these. it s just an av
you get a sense for a person s personality. i mean you re allowed to armchair that and look at it clinically and critically. yeah. peter, you had a piece today for the atlantic entitled, trump is not well. you write this. you said donald trump s disordered personality, his unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning and behaving has become the defining characteristic of his presidency. the taliban meeting, the false story about alabama getting hit by hurricane dorian, is this more of the same, you think? yeah, it is more of the same. but what i would say is that his condition is getting worse, and the guardrails are getting less. and so, you know, i said to a friend a long time ago, when there s no bottom, there s no bottom. with donald trump, there s no bottom. this is like a car on a steep hill without brakes. it s just going to accelerate, and there s not going to be a way to stop it. you know, you lose track of these. it s just an avalanche of disordered personality traits,