As coronavirus deaths approach 100,000, President Donald Trump spent his Saturday tweeting and retweeting insults at his perceived political adversaries, prompting a prominent psychiatrist to label him “a national mental health crisis.”
“This is why we have called Donald Trump, above all, to be a ‘national mental health crisis’ whose severest effects are yet to come,” warned Dr. Bandy Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine.
Dr. Lee was responding to a message posted by journalist Steven Beschloss, who wrote: “As Americans die, Trump spends his time golfing, attacking Joe Scarborough and fighting with Jeff Sessions for recusing himself. What a tragedy for the country to be held hostage by a malignancy like this.”
This is why we have called Donald Trump, above all, to be a “national mental health crisis” whose severest effects are yet to come. https://t.co/khyqhZX880
— Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) May 24, 2020
