Trump is ‘mentally unfit’ to act as president warn psychiatrists

A group of psychiatrists are beginning to confirm what many people feared to be true, that US President Donald Trump has a ‘dangerous mental illness’.

A recent conference on mental health held at Yale University attracted a number of psychiatrists from across the country. One of the items discussed during the conference was President Donald Trump and the ‘dangerous mental illness’ he possesses.

According to foreign media reports, the mental health experts have claimed that Trump is “paranoid and delusional”, further adding that they have issued the statement as it was their ethical responsibility to warn the American public about the “dangers” the US president poses to the country.

A practicing psychotherapist by the name of Dr. John Gartner, told the attendees that one o the earliest warning signs that President Trump displayed was at his inauguration ceremony when he talked about having the largest crowd, when in fact, it was quite small.

“Worse than just being a liar or a narcissist, in addition he is paranoid, delusional and grandiose thinking and he proved that to the country the first day he was President. If Donald Trump really believes he had the largest crowd size in history, that’s delusional,” he added.

James Gilligan, a psychiatrist and professor at New York University, told the conference opined “I’ve worked with some of the most dangerous people our society produces, directing mental health programmes in prisons,” he said.

“I’ve worked with murderers and rapists. I can recognise dangerousness from a mile away. You don’t have to be an expert on dangerousness or spend fifty years studying it like I have in order to know how dangerous this man is.”

Other psychiatrists also voiced similar concerns.

Based on these assessments, Dr. Gartner has started an online petition calling for Trump to be removed from office on the basis that he is “psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President”.

The petition has so far garnered more than 41,000 signatures.

It states: “We, the undersigned mental health professionals (please state your degree), believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States.

“And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office’.”

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