Psychiatrist On Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Response To Coronavirus Crisis | The Last Word | MSNBC

It's time for the

last

word

tonight, the

coronavirus

crisis

is going to get worse for Donald Trump, although the president will likely remain physically healthy during the

crisis

, his mental health could worsen with each day of the crisis. Some mental health professionals, like our next guest, believe that the president's mental health has been and will continue to be in decline. The incompetence of Donald Trump and his administration is on dramatic and

dangerous

display every day. Now the president showed in

last

night's press conference that he has no idea how to deal with the

coronavirus

crisis. a complete lack of understanding of the dimensions of the crisis, contradicted public health experts before and after who spoke as if he had not heard a

word

they said and made it very clear that he cares much more about the health of the population. stock market than the health of human beings I really think the stock market is something I know a lot about.

I think it was affected for maybe two reasons. I think they look at the people that you saw decline last night and say if there's even a chance that could happen, I think it's really affected by that and it certainly was affected by this and I understand that also because of supply chains and various other things and people coming in, but I think the stock market will recover. believe that the stock market will recover and of course the stock market continued with record losses today, dropping almost 1200 points, it is the largest one-day point drop in history, the day after Donald Trump said " I think the stock market will recover," joining us now is dr.

Lance DotA is a former assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, dr. DotA's collaborates with the best-selling book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. 37

psychiatrist

s and mental health experts evaluate a president dr. Jonas, what do you think you were watching last night when the president participated in that press conference where we went from a president who seems to know nothing about what's going on worrying about the stock market to public health experts explaining things that the president then immediately? contradicts well, I think what was shown is what we really should have already known and, as you pointed out, Lawrence, this man is about himself, it's not really about the country, it's not about Public Health and, Although he has already severely damaged the country by being a psychopath or sociopath in many ways, he has damaged democracy.

I think people's lives will be lost now individual lives will be lost because of the way you're mishandling the coronavirus issue, so as you pointed out, you're lying, you've contradicted yours. health officials and in a very

dangerous

move he has apparently gagged them so that now they can't speak if you listen to the interview just listening to the way he presented it. I think a dozen times he said what a wonderful job he's done. It's hard to imagine any other president in American history, addressing the country during a public health crisis, talking about the wonderful job he's done personally, but this is where he is, this is what he cares about, he also cares. worries about the stock market. because he reflects on him and his candidacy, including the democratic debate is completely irrelevant and is also incorrect because the market had fallen before the debate, but again it tells you where his mind is, that his mind is on him and we know it and that he is a pathological liar, we know, in a way, what's fascinating in a terrible way is that not everyone understands this, you know, most of America sees this, sees him contradicting public health officials and saying that this man must be incompetent, but what he does is what became famous as the big lie technique in Germany, he repeats what he wants you to hear over and over again against the statements that have just been made in opposition to it. ; the act of repeating it makes people think it must be true, it may not make sense but that's how it works, he's an extremely successful scammer as we know his whole life is about it so I think that explains why people can watch this and see him deny what his own officials just said.

Watch him lie about things and say that he must be doing the right thing, he must be taking care of us, that's why he's a successful scammer. What has to happen if we are good and we all survive is for this to reach a tipping point and eventually the fact that the emperor is naked is revealed and then everyone will understand that he has been lying all along. We're not there yet. Unfortunately, there was a surprising moment last night when dr. Falchi had to grab the microphone to basically say that Donald Trump was wrong when he said we will have a vaccine quickly.

I just want to show you some of what dr. Feld said because what interests me this time, since we all heard what he said, is watching Donald Trump do whatever he's doing, but he sure doesn't seem to listen. I told them we would have a vaccine that we would be testing. see if it is safe and if it induces a

response

that you would predict would be protective in about three months. I think it will be a little less than that, it will probably be closer to two months, which would then take about three months to determine if it is safe and it is an administered Enic that gives us six months, then you graduate from a trial which is the phase one of 45 people to a trial involving hundreds, if not thousands, of people.

The doctor's party continued for a couple of minutes there and as I watched Donald Trump, I guess he wasn't understanding a word. I think he didn't care, yeah, I think he listens to what he hears, what's in his head and the rest, the rest doesn't matter. Add to your original point, Lawrence, yes, he is getting it. The worse things go wrong for him, the more paranoid he becomes, the more out of touch with reality, and the more bad decisions he makes, the more desperate he will be to hold on to what he needs in his possession, dr.

Lance Notice gets the final word tonight. Thanks dr. Nodas for joining us once again, I really appreciate it.