#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump

In the armed forces,

there's a nuclear weapons program

called the Personnel Reliability Program.

Do you have personal defects?

Do you have financial problems which could compromise you?

Do you have a problem with infidelity?

This is the program where they screen you

to see if you can be trusted

to hold an M16 to guard the truck

that might carry a nuclear weapon.

Not that it will, that it might.

That also is the program where they determine

whether you're an Air Force missile flight officer,

whether you can go down into a bunker

and be responsible to turn the keys on

a Minuteman-III missile.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

- That is an entire scaled evaluation program

that shows your personal reliability

to carry out your orders and to do the highest risk things

like fly a B-52 bomber or B-2 bomber

and drop a nuclear weapon.

The President of the United States

doesn't have to meet any of these parameters,

none of them whatsoever,

because the electorate choosing you

clears you into all of these programs.

We have a president of the United States

who was duly elected, he was put into office,

given the great faith of the people who voted him in.

- I Donald John Trump do solemnly swear.

- I Donald John Trump do solemnly swear.

- And if we look at the great presidents

of the United States,

there's one unifying thing:

they maintained the continuity

in how the Constitution was upheld and defended.

So help me God.

So help me God.

- Congratulations, Mr. President.

- At first, it was just political name calling

and insults suggesting Donald Trump was a lunatic.

- This man is a pathological liar.

- Guarantee I have a vocabulary better than all of 'em,

I know I have an IQ better than all of them.

I'm very highly educated.

I know words.

I have the best words

but there's no better word than stupid.

Oh, I don't know what I said.

I don't remember.

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue

and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?

But more recently,

the conversation about the president's mental state

has taken a more serious tone.

- I can't explain this crazy behavior,

but I can call it crazy.

We've taken this big, beautiful ship

and it's being turned around very quickly.

I'm not a psychologist or a psychiatrist

but the guy needs therapy.

USA!

USA!

I am the chosen one.

Almost everyone seems to have an opinion.

Could Donald Trump be unfit for office?

Good evening.

Thank you guys for coming.

I know our first official press briefing

is gonna to be on Monday

but I wanted to give you a few updates

on the President's activities.

But before I get to the news of the day,

I think I'd like to discuss a little bit of the coverage

in the past 24 hours.

Yesterday, at a time when our nation and the world

was watching the peaceful transition of power,

some members of the media were engaged

in deliberately false reporting.

Photographs of the inaugural proceedings

were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular tweet,

to minimize the enormous support

that had gathered on the National Mall.

No one had numbers.

This was the largest audience

to ever witness an inauguration, period,

both in person and around the globe.

Even the New York Times printed a photograph.

- Why put him out there for the very first time

and utter a falsehood?

Why did he do that?

It undermines the credibility

of the entire White House press office on day one.

No it doesn't.

Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck.

You're saying it's a falsehood

and they're giving Sean Spicer, our Press Secretary,

gave alternative facts to that

but the point remains that there is--

- Wait a minute, alternative facts?

Look, alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods.

My name's George Conway.

I'm a lawyer, I'm a litigator.

I principally practice securities litigation.

I've argued appeals

including a big case in the Supreme Court.

My wife was Donald Trump's Campaign Manager

and now is Counselor to the President.

- And he said a lot about these instances.

- I was a Republican since probably about 1980

when Ronald Reagan was elected president.

I voted for Donald Trump in 2016

and I almost took a job in the Justice Department myself

to run the Civil Division of the Department of Justice.

Donald Trump wasn't my first choice

among the Republican nominees

but I was hopeful that he would calm down

and get better as time went on.

He started to show a little more discipline.

He would only go off the rails every third day

instead of every day,

but the problem was

once he got into the supreme position of power,

he lost some of his incentive to be disciplined

and I'm thinking at this point in time,

"What is wrong with him?"

Donald Trump is like a practical joke that got out of hand.

I mean, that's the problem.

I mean, I didn't go into the administration

for a lot of reasons

but the fundamental reason was it was a mess.

I guess I must've been googling Trump and mental health

because I clearly thought

there's something seriously wrong with him

and I came across an article in Rolling Stone magazine,

Is Trump a Malignant Narcissist?

And a number of people like Dr. Gartner were interviewed

and as soon as I read that I realized that's it.

You cannot understand his presidency without knowing this.

My name is John Gartner.

I'm a psychologist.

I taught in the Department of Psychiatry

at Johns Hopkins University for 28 years.

I've written some books and I'm the founder of Duty to Warn,

an organization of mental health professionals

that believe that Donald Trump should be removed

because he's psychologically unfit.

My name is Lance Dodes.

I'm a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst.

I've spent most of my research career

looking at compulsive and addictive behavior

and I've become interested in the importance of psychology

in politics in recent years

because of the threat to our country.

My name is Justin Frank,

a psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist.

I've been in practice in DC for about 40 years.

Is Donald Trump fit to serve as the President

and Commander in Chief?

I can answer that with one word, no.

Trump is a sociopath, a sadist, a con artist,

a racist, a misogynist, a sexist in general,

and I think it is a problem.

- How dare liberals, people on the left,

try to undo democracy by accusing a president

of being mentally ill without any basis?

Look, these psychiatrists now who are trying to diagnose

without ever having met the man.

This is not the first time

the left has gone at Republicans.

They did the same thing to Barry Goldwater,

they did the same thing to Ronald Reagan.

- Over 1,000 psychiatrists diagnosed Barry Goldwater

and said he was mentally ill,

they were then rebuked

by the American Psychiatric Association

and said,

"Do not make diagnosis without seeing the patient."

And they continue to do it today.

The election campaign's

in full swing in New Hampshire,

bellwether state of the nation.

It goes to the polls on March 10th

and growing support for Goldwater.

- So, the Goldwater rule has an interesting history.

In 1964, Barry Goldwater ran for president

and a now defunct magazine, Fact Magazine,

did a survey of psychiatrists and published an article

saying psychiatrists think that Goldwater is unfit.

Goldwater sued them and he won

and as it turns out, actually, he deserved to win.

It was libelous.

He was not unstable.

And the psychiatrists

who wrote those statements about Goldwater,

it's important for people to understand

the history of our field,

this was in the '60s when Freudian psychiatry

really ruled the roost.