Toronto Star Points to Trump’s ‘Erratic Behaviour’ and Asks, ‘Is Donald Trump OK?’
“Is Donald Trump OK?”
That’s the question the Toronto Star is asking.Â
Canada’s most-read newspaper highlights several people, many in Republican politics, who are asking the same question.
Calling it the “elephant in the election,” the Star notes Mike Bloomberg’s plea at the Democratic National Convention: “Let’s elect a sane, competent person.â€Â
“The billionaire former mayor of New York City was suggesting that Donald Trump is not sane himself,” the Star says.
A few more who question Trump’s sanity:
“Donald Trump is not of sound mind,†conservative Stephen Hayes wrote two weeks ago in the Weekly Standard.
“Have we stopped to appreciate how crazy Donald Trump has gotten recently?†liberal Ezra Klein wrote last week on Vox.
He “appears haunted by multiple personality disorders,†conservative David Brooks wrote last week in the New York Times.
“We can gloss over it, laugh about it, analyze it, but Donald Trump is not a well man,†Stuart Stevens, chief strategist to Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, wrote last week on Twitter.
“Trump is crazy. And you can’t fix crazy,†Kevin Sheekey, a Bloomberg adviser, told The New York Times on Thursday.
Northwestern University psychology professor Dan McAdams wouldn’t offer a diagnosis but says that Trump is “kind of off the map.”
“Putting his name on everything, talking about himself all the time: this is beyond the pale,†said McAdams, who conducted a detailed personality assessment of Trump for the Atlantic. “I don’t want to argue that it’s a clinical condition … but if there’s a continuum, in terms of narcissistic personality characteristics within a relatively normal population, he’s really way off on the extreme end.â€
And the Star points to Trump’s “conduct this summer” saying it “has been even more erratic than his conduct before.”
“At a rally early last month, Trump became distracted and then angered by a mosquito. At a rally on Thursday, he ranted about his desire to ‘hit’ Bloomberg. When a fire marshal stopped letting people into a rally on Friday, Trump baselessly accused him of being a Clinton agent.”
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