actually the economy is doing quite well and that s one thing we re really excited about. i don t foe if he might have been being a bit sarcastic. but the rules are being taken away. democracy. hang on. it prejudges that the president has done anything illegal to begin with. the whole notion that the president is above the law and it s something that the democrats are attacking is just not accurate and it s not fair. we have a russia investigation out there. we will get some results. but it s early to be saying that and those that lost their businesses and their life savings in the dust bin of heartache in 2008, that is an outrageous comment, would you aeye in. we have to stop going back to 2008. we have a president who is unraveling a system. piece by piece. and as a psychonear miss, we have a raging narcissist in the office. and the classic symptoms of narcissim are a need to be
of the era of president trump. would donald trump pass the air force test for personnel working with weapons? that s the real question. somebody in that level of power with not only access to nuclear weapons or the ability to launch them within minutes, would he be certified around nuclear weapons? i have to start by saying absolutely not without further evaluation. looking at somebody were he to be in the air force or the military, we would look at past behaviors, sexually abusive behavior to women and cyber bullying through twitter. we look at paranoia of being persecuted by others or surveilled and untruthful comments or at least highly distorted comments and someone like that we would be suspect of giving authorization to be around nuclear weapons unless we
psychologist. he is the co-author of a clear and president danger, narcissim of the era of president trump. would donald trump pass the air force test for personnel working with weapons? that s the real question. somebody in that level of power with not only access to nuclear weapons or the ability to launch them within minutes, would he be certified around nuclear weapons? i have to start by saying absolutely not without further evaluation. looking at somebody were he to be in the air force or the military, we would look at past behaviors, sexually abusive behavior to women and cyber bullying through twitter. we look at paranoia of being persecuted by others or surveilled and untruthful comments or at least highly distorted comments and someone like that we would be suspect of giving authorization to be around nuclear weapons unless we
my panel is back. mark, to you first. obviously none of us are shrinks, but all these claims and worries about the president s fitness. what do you make of this? well, a couple things. one is you are absolutely right. we have to be careful about diagnosing somebody, right, who we actually don t have any medical qualifications to do so. however, however, there is something bigger there though that i think that we can diagnose as having. that is his narcissim, in that s his belief that everything revolves around him. and i think that has been very troublesome for this white house over the past year. if not the country for that matter. the fact is that donald trump thinks that every shot light shines on him, and he s right about that, except when that happens you have to be put in the position green up aown up a
than the president himself. i think chris makes an important point. conservative presidents think of ronald reagan. playing the victim was not in his vocabulary. it was about a larger purpose beyond himself, and the con nation of conservative populism and victimhood is significant. as tim o brien, his biographer has pointed out, everything can be in two prisms, self aggrandizement, self-preservation. that seems to be the president s two speeds. narcissim as well. narcissim as well. april, going after the senators, mccain and flake, from arizona in their back yards, the crowd seemed to like it, obviously. everybody there is predisposed to support president trump. where does that leave us today? what happens on capitol hill? how do people like mitch mcconnell and the arizona senators respond to him now? senator john mccain is really