1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,275 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Quote 2 00:00:24,795 --> 00:00:31,195 Speaker 1: the President is unhinged, he is unwell. The president is unwell. 3 00:00:32,355 --> 00:00:35,915 Speaker 1: Representative Madeline Dean of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with perhaps the 4 00:00:35,955 --> 00:00:39,155 Speaker 1: most important eleven words in the past decade, perhaps the 5 00:00:39,195 --> 00:00:41,795 Speaker 1: most important eleven words in the history of this country, 6 00:00:42,035 --> 00:00:45,035 Speaker 1: certainly the most important eleven words for the future of 7 00:00:45,075 --> 00:00:50,435 Speaker 1: this country, if any the president is unwell. We have 8 00:00:50,595 --> 00:00:55,755 Speaker 1: at least one, probably two presidential health crises in full 9 00:00:55,835 --> 00:00:59,595 Speaker 1: flower at the same time right now, and as near 10 00:00:59,635 --> 00:01:02,955 Speaker 1: as I can tell, only Representative Dean is talking about them. 11 00:01:03,155 --> 00:01:07,915 Speaker 1: Representative Dean and Governor Pritzker of Illinois, anyway, whose diagnosis 12 00:01:07,995 --> 00:01:11,475 Speaker 1: was sixteen words long, and his was just as important quote, 13 00:01:11,715 --> 00:01:15,275 Speaker 1: there is something genuinely wrong with this man, and the 14 00:01:15,315 --> 00:01:19,995 Speaker 1: twenty fifth Amendment ought to be invoked. The two crises 15 00:01:20,475 --> 00:01:24,715 Speaker 1: are obvious. At his insane speech to the General's Tuesday, 16 00:01:24,755 --> 00:01:28,355 Speaker 1: Trump sounded as if his charger had been left unplugged 17 00:01:28,355 --> 00:01:33,795 Speaker 1: for three weeks. His voice was husky, indistinct, words slurred 18 00:01:34,035 --> 00:01:37,595 Speaker 1: and slowed and trailing off, and what he did say 19 00:01:38,435 --> 00:01:42,755 Speaker 1: made next to no sense. Pritzker suggests dementia, which could 20 00:01:42,795 --> 00:01:46,915 Speaker 1: explain both the rapidly declining mental capacity and the audible collapse, 21 00:01:47,195 --> 00:01:50,355 Speaker 1: and why Trump was invisible yesterday and why he had 22 00:01:50,355 --> 00:01:53,795 Speaker 1: to send JV Vance to try to and fail to 23 00:01:53,875 --> 00:01:56,795 Speaker 1: bully the White House Press Corps on day one of 24 00:01:56,875 --> 00:02:01,555 Speaker 1: the government shutdown that Trump orchestrated. Where the hell was he? 25 00:02:02,555 --> 00:02:05,595 Speaker 1: It would all also explain that missy week around Labor 26 00:02:05,675 --> 00:02:08,675 Speaker 1: Day and the Cabinet meeting, the last televised cabinet meeting, 27 00:02:08,875 --> 00:02:13,355 Speaker 1: in which his departmental slaves shoveled twice as much laudatory 28 00:02:13,435 --> 00:02:16,515 Speaker 1: bullshit as usual as if it were a going away 29 00:02:16,675 --> 00:02:22,835 Speaker 1: roast for Trump. Maybe it was the President is unwell. 30 00:02:24,315 --> 00:02:27,715 Speaker 1: Congress Woman Dean did not just say that. She said 31 00:02:27,715 --> 00:02:31,115 Speaker 1: it directly to one of Trump's most shameless political prostitutes, 32 00:02:31,235 --> 00:02:35,675 Speaker 1: speaker Mike Johnson. She said it with video rolling down 33 00:02:35,715 --> 00:02:40,395 Speaker 1: a house corridor. The audio fights for your attention, but 34 00:02:40,515 --> 00:02:44,155 Speaker 1: it's there. She said it. She said it, Thank God. 35 00:02:44,315 --> 00:02:48,075 Speaker 1: Some Democrats said it to some Republican seriously and carrying 36 00:02:48,195 --> 00:02:51,635 Speaker 1: enough weight to convey the risk the nation. Not just 37 00:02:51,715 --> 00:02:54,955 Speaker 1: the Democrats, not just the immigrants, not just the people 38 00:02:54,995 --> 00:02:57,835 Speaker 1: who are not in on Trump's corruption, not just the 39 00:02:57,835 --> 00:03:01,515 Speaker 1: blue states the risk the nation is at because the 40 00:03:01,555 --> 00:03:07,475 Speaker 1: president is unwell. Was recorded from Afar, and the audio 41 00:03:07,755 --> 00:03:11,275 Speaker 1: hurts your ear and it hurts your brain, but the 42 00:03:11,315 --> 00:03:14,915 Speaker 1: words are there. Here is just a few seconds of them, 43 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:28,355 Speaker 1: plus the remarks from Pritzker. The president is unwell, Hockey. 44 00:03:28,595 --> 00:03:30,555 Speaker 2: And she. 45 00:03:32,355 --> 00:03:32,915 Speaker 1: Is dispriss. 46 00:03:38,795 --> 00:03:39,595 Speaker 2: Is it racist? 47 00:03:39,835 --> 00:03:41,955 Speaker 1: You put us a rare up on the blacks, the 48 00:03:42,035 --> 00:03:44,555 Speaker 1: leader of the House. You don't see that as racist. 49 00:03:46,715 --> 00:03:49,755 Speaker 2: Appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, 50 00:03:49,835 --> 00:03:55,475 Speaker 2: but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin, sending troops into cities, 51 00:03:55,915 --> 00:03:58,915 Speaker 2: thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war, 52 00:03:59,755 --> 00:04:02,835 Speaker 2: or that indeed there's some sort of internal war. 53 00:04:02,795 --> 00:04:08,795 Speaker 3: Going on in the United States. It is just frankly inane, 54 00:04:09,515 --> 00:04:13,315 Speaker 3: and I'm concerned for his health. There is something genuinely 55 00:04:13,355 --> 00:04:16,075 Speaker 3: wrong with this man, and the twenty fifth Amendment ought 56 00:04:16,115 --> 00:04:16,875 Speaker 3: to be invoked. 57 00:04:17,035 --> 00:04:21,035 Speaker 1: The rest of the tape is only intermittently clear. Representative 58 00:04:21,035 --> 00:04:24,715 Speaker 1: Dean was confronting Speaker Johnson about Trump's deranged and rambling 59 00:04:24,715 --> 00:04:28,435 Speaker 1: speech to the generals summoned to Virginia by the equally 60 00:04:28,555 --> 00:04:34,275 Speaker 1: unwell Secretary of Defense, Pete brill cream hegseeth quote the 61 00:04:34,315 --> 00:04:37,755 Speaker 1: president is unhinged, he is unwell, and later from the congresswoman, 62 00:04:38,035 --> 00:04:40,915 Speaker 1: oh my god, that performance in front of the generals. 63 00:04:41,195 --> 00:04:45,355 Speaker 1: The president is unwell. He said the military should use 64 00:04:45,395 --> 00:04:48,515 Speaker 1: American cities as training grounds. He said America is under 65 00:04:48,515 --> 00:04:51,715 Speaker 1: invasion from within. He appeared on the stage in Quatico 66 00:04:51,795 --> 00:04:55,035 Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, and he was expecting applause and didn't know 67 00:04:55,035 --> 00:04:56,715 Speaker 1: what to do when he didn't get it, and he 68 00:04:56,755 --> 00:05:02,235 Speaker 1: then begged for it because the president is unwell. And 69 00:05:02,355 --> 00:05:07,435 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Dean bless Her set it out loud, said it 70 00:05:07,475 --> 00:05:10,995 Speaker 1: without spin, said it without any of the soul sucking 71 00:05:11,075 --> 00:05:14,835 Speaker 1: rehearsed add ons like and he should be focused on 72 00:05:14,915 --> 00:05:21,155 Speaker 1: helping Americans, just saying it, just saying in essence, no, no, no, no. 73 00:05:21,155 --> 00:05:24,515 Speaker 1: The rest of this is trivia. The president is unhinged, 74 00:05:24,755 --> 00:05:28,115 Speaker 1: the president is unwell, yet the president is still in 75 00:05:28,235 --> 00:05:34,155 Speaker 1: charge and the speaker, he answered by telling the congresswoman 76 00:05:34,195 --> 00:05:36,795 Speaker 1: he didn't see Trump unravel in front of the generals, 77 00:05:37,115 --> 00:05:39,395 Speaker 1: which could be true, but I bet it's not what 78 00:05:39,475 --> 00:05:43,875 Speaker 1: he told Trump. Johnson also said the AI racist video 79 00:05:43,955 --> 00:05:46,955 Speaker 1: of Schumer and Jeffries was just a joke and asked 80 00:05:46,955 --> 00:05:50,195 Speaker 1: Dean if it really was racist, which could be true, 81 00:05:50,195 --> 00:05:53,195 Speaker 1: but I bet that's not what he told himself. Once 82 00:05:53,235 --> 00:05:55,875 Speaker 1: you live one line, Mike Johnson, the next fifty thousand 83 00:05:55,875 --> 00:06:00,875 Speaker 1: are easy. The President also posted a nauseating, racist, demeaning 84 00:06:00,995 --> 00:06:04,555 Speaker 1: AI video. It had a fake Chuck Schumer and a 85 00:06:04,555 --> 00:06:07,595 Speaker 1: fake Akeem Jeffries, and the fake Akeem Jeffries had a 86 00:06:07,635 --> 00:06:12,235 Speaker 1: sombrero and what is commonly referred to as a mustache, 87 00:06:12,635 --> 00:06:17,515 Speaker 1: an exaggerated mustache added onto his head. Trump did this 88 00:06:17,555 --> 00:06:21,475 Speaker 1: after having posted a nauseating, deceptive, dangerous AI video with 89 00:06:21,595 --> 00:06:24,995 Speaker 1: a fake Fox News report supposedly narrated by his own 90 00:06:25,075 --> 00:06:28,515 Speaker 1: daughter in law, in which he essentially promised Americans immortality 91 00:06:28,755 --> 00:06:34,715 Speaker 1: in special hospital beds that don't actually exist. Early yesterday afternoon, 92 00:06:34,755 --> 00:06:38,235 Speaker 1: his ren Field. In this equation, Vance mocked those who 93 00:06:38,275 --> 00:06:43,195 Speaker 1: called the racist video you know racist, said he didn't 94 00:06:43,235 --> 00:06:45,875 Speaker 1: understand why a black man would find a fabricated video 95 00:06:45,915 --> 00:06:50,635 Speaker 1: of himself wearing a sombrero racist. Late yesterday afternoon, someone 96 00:06:50,675 --> 00:06:52,875 Speaker 1: acting in Trump's name made sure we all got the 97 00:06:52,915 --> 00:06:55,715 Speaker 1: point that the Trump White House is this close to 98 00:06:55,835 --> 00:07:00,115 Speaker 1: having Press Secretary Levitt or somebody else wear blackface. It 99 00:07:00,195 --> 00:07:04,555 Speaker 1: began to play Trump's sombrero video on a loop on 100 00:07:04,795 --> 00:07:09,835 Speaker 1: monitors in the White House Press briefing room. In other words, 101 00:07:09,875 --> 00:07:13,395 Speaker 1: Trump did just about the usual number of insane things, 102 00:07:13,555 --> 00:07:16,675 Speaker 1: or others did them on his behalf. That a functioning 103 00:07:16,795 --> 00:07:20,955 Speaker 1: but still insane man will do every day as he's 104 00:07:20,955 --> 00:07:24,315 Speaker 1: done for most of the last ten years. Only these 105 00:07:24,395 --> 00:07:28,515 Speaker 1: days have been different, and that day was totally different. 106 00:07:29,275 --> 00:07:32,755 Speaker 1: It was only a start, but it was a start. 107 00:07:33,955 --> 00:07:39,475 Speaker 1: Dean said something, Pritzker said something. What it could mean 108 00:07:39,555 --> 00:07:42,435 Speaker 1: in a moment, what it has meant in the last decade, 109 00:07:42,475 --> 00:07:45,995 Speaker 1: in a moment, first those receipts from Quantico, and then 110 00:07:46,115 --> 00:07:47,875 Speaker 1: one more time from Representative Dean. 111 00:07:48,315 --> 00:07:51,155 Speaker 4: I've never walked into a room so silent before. This 112 00:07:51,235 --> 00:07:54,035 Speaker 4: is very don't left on't lif if you're not allowed 113 00:07:54,075 --> 00:07:55,755 Speaker 4: to do that, you know. 114 00:07:55,715 --> 00:07:57,675 Speaker 1: I just have a good time. And if you want 115 00:07:57,715 --> 00:07:59,235 Speaker 1: to applaud, you applugg. 116 00:07:59,515 --> 00:08:01,595 Speaker 4: And if you want to do anything you want, you 117 00:08:01,595 --> 00:08:03,355 Speaker 4: can do anything you want. And if you don't like 118 00:08:03,395 --> 00:08:05,555 Speaker 4: what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, 119 00:08:05,595 --> 00:08:07,675 Speaker 4: there goes your rank, there goes your future. And I 120 00:08:07,715 --> 00:08:10,875 Speaker 4: told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities 121 00:08:10,875 --> 00:08:15,595 Speaker 4: as training grounds for our military National Guard, but military 122 00:08:16,595 --> 00:08:19,475 Speaker 4: because we're going into Chicago versus that's a big city 123 00:08:19,915 --> 00:08:23,835 Speaker 4: with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor, stupid. They threw him 124 00:08:23,835 --> 00:08:26,075 Speaker 4: out of his family business. He was so stupid, I 125 00:08:26,115 --> 00:08:31,395 Speaker 4: know the family. He becomes governor, he's got money, not 126 00:08:31,515 --> 00:08:34,555 Speaker 4: money that he made, but he ran for governor won, 127 00:08:34,635 --> 00:08:37,195 Speaker 4: and now he criticizes us all the time. And last 128 00:08:37,195 --> 00:08:40,755 Speaker 4: month I signed an executive order to provide training for 129 00:08:40,955 --> 00:08:45,995 Speaker 4: a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. 130 00:08:46,035 --> 00:08:48,115 Speaker 4: And this is going to be a big thing for 131 00:08:48,195 --> 00:08:51,315 Speaker 4: the people in this room because it's the enemy from 132 00:08:51,315 --> 00:08:54,115 Speaker 4: within and we have to handle it before it gets 133 00:08:54,115 --> 00:08:56,115 Speaker 4: out of control. It won't get out of control, and 134 00:08:56,195 --> 00:08:57,915 Speaker 4: this is going to be a major part for some 135 00:08:58,035 --> 00:08:59,875 Speaker 4: of the people in this room. That's a war too, 136 00:08:59,915 --> 00:09:00,955 Speaker 4: it's a war from within. 137 00:09:04,195 --> 00:09:11,875 Speaker 1: The president is unwell. I have literally grown old insisting 138 00:09:11,955 --> 00:09:16,875 Speaker 1: the president is unwell. When I started, he wasn't even president. 139 00:09:18,075 --> 00:09:21,235 Speaker 1: I have been the boy who cried wolf because there 140 00:09:21,275 --> 00:09:25,155 Speaker 1: has been a wolf at the door since twenty fifteen, 141 00:09:25,435 --> 00:09:28,795 Speaker 1: and it's Trump's mental instability, and it has been getting worse, 142 00:09:28,835 --> 00:09:31,835 Speaker 1: which is pretty bad because it started at narcissism and 143 00:09:31,875 --> 00:09:36,435 Speaker 1: self obsession and not really human like. And now now 144 00:09:36,435 --> 00:09:40,355 Speaker 1: it's ten years later, plus whatever is physically wrong with him, 145 00:09:40,915 --> 00:09:44,475 Speaker 1: whatever that is, seems to be on the way to 146 00:09:44,675 --> 00:09:49,435 Speaker 1: its victory. And you are not hearing about this on 147 00:09:49,555 --> 00:09:54,475 Speaker 1: the news, right wing news understandably, why would they want 148 00:09:54,555 --> 00:09:57,875 Speaker 1: to talk about this, But for the rest of it, 149 00:09:58,395 --> 00:10:00,635 Speaker 1: you're not hearing about it because the entirety of the 150 00:10:00,675 --> 00:10:04,275 Speaker 1: mainstream political media in this country is still equipped only 151 00:10:04,315 --> 00:10:08,315 Speaker 1: to cover about eight kinds of stories, and a desperately 152 00:10:08,395 --> 00:10:12,715 Speaker 1: mentally ill or desperately physically ill president is not one 153 00:10:12,715 --> 00:10:17,755 Speaker 1: of those eight kinds of stories. Government shutdowns, about which 154 00:10:17,795 --> 00:10:21,235 Speaker 1: the media always always always looks into the wrong end 155 00:10:21,235 --> 00:10:25,595 Speaker 1: of the telescope, are one of the eight. That one 156 00:10:25,715 --> 00:10:28,075 Speaker 1: of eight or so is also about how many American 157 00:10:28,115 --> 00:10:31,275 Speaker 1: citizens have even the slightest awareness of or interest in 158 00:10:31,435 --> 00:10:34,835 Speaker 1: a shutdown, certainly in its first week. That's just a coincidence. 159 00:10:36,675 --> 00:10:40,115 Speaker 1: I can't speak to what's wrong with Donald Trump physically, 160 00:10:41,075 --> 00:10:44,075 Speaker 1: but it's not good. And you and I have already 161 00:10:44,115 --> 00:10:47,795 Speaker 1: gone through the clues that have escaped from the pavement, 162 00:10:48,035 --> 00:10:50,995 Speaker 1: like gray skin on the hand that he covers up 163 00:10:51,035 --> 00:10:54,075 Speaker 1: with the other hand, whenever he can, to the makeup 164 00:10:54,115 --> 00:10:57,235 Speaker 1: atop the plastic wrap used on that hand, to the 165 00:10:57,355 --> 00:11:02,355 Speaker 1: often indistinct and slurring voice, the slurred words, the eyes 166 00:11:02,635 --> 00:11:07,115 Speaker 1: for some reason reduced to slit. Yes, but if we 167 00:11:07,315 --> 00:11:10,995 Speaker 1: all live through this, the subject that will surprise historians 168 00:11:11,035 --> 00:11:13,635 Speaker 1: the most is for how long it was clear this 169 00:11:13,675 --> 00:11:18,395 Speaker 1: man was mentally incompetent and nobody did anything about it. Ordinarily, 170 00:11:18,435 --> 00:11:20,995 Speaker 1: I would say my conscience was clear about this because 171 00:11:21,155 --> 00:11:24,075 Speaker 1: I first brought it up in June of twenty sixteen 172 00:11:24,595 --> 00:11:29,555 Speaker 1: on the Chelsea Handler Show on Netflix. Yes there was one, 173 00:11:29,595 --> 00:11:32,475 Speaker 1: look it up. Then the next month Vanity Fair published 174 00:11:32,475 --> 00:11:35,835 Speaker 1: a piece I did called could Trump Pass a Sanity Test? 175 00:11:35,995 --> 00:11:39,555 Speaker 1: And we made a video of it. Apparently I didn't 176 00:11:39,555 --> 00:11:42,155 Speaker 1: talk loud enough on the Chelsea Handler Show, or the 177 00:11:42,235 --> 00:11:44,715 Speaker 1: article wasn't long enough, or we didn't make enough videos. 178 00:11:46,115 --> 00:11:48,875 Speaker 1: I'm going to tank the could Trump pass a Sanity 179 00:11:48,955 --> 00:11:53,315 Speaker 1: Test article and read it again, now virtually unchanged with 180 00:11:53,435 --> 00:11:59,115 Speaker 1: a few notes, because it's all still true, only way worse. 181 00:11:59,755 --> 00:12:03,755 Speaker 1: But it was all there when this article came out 182 00:12:04,875 --> 00:12:10,435 Speaker 1: one hundred and eleven months ago, one hundred and eleven 183 00:12:12,835 --> 00:12:17,715 Speaker 1: could Trump Pass a Sanity Test? July twenty first two 184 00:12:17,835 --> 00:12:27,035 Speaker 1: thy sixteen short answer, probably not. First, several important caveats. 185 00:12:27,275 --> 00:12:30,715 Speaker 1: There is little worse and nothing cheesier than questioning the 186 00:12:30,755 --> 00:12:35,035 Speaker 1: psychological stability of a public figure, especially a candidate for president, 187 00:12:35,155 --> 00:12:38,875 Speaker 1: even in this case, except that, in his year of campaigning, 188 00:12:38,955 --> 00:12:43,235 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has called Lindsey Graham a nut job, Glen 189 00:12:43,275 --> 00:12:47,715 Speaker 1: Beck a real nut job, and Bernie Sanders a wacko. 190 00:12:47,875 --> 00:12:52,835 Speaker 1: Trump has insisted Ben Carson's got pathological disease, and asked 191 00:12:52,915 --> 00:12:57,275 Speaker 1: about Barack Obama is our president insane? He called Ted 192 00:12:57,395 --> 00:13:00,955 Speaker 1: Cruz unstable, unhinged, a little bit of a maniac, and 193 00:13:01,315 --> 00:13:04,555 Speaker 1: crazy or very dishonest. He also called the entire cnb 194 00:13:04,795 --> 00:13:09,395 Speaker 1: C channel crazy. He called Megan Kelly crazy at least 195 00:13:09,435 --> 00:13:15,355 Speaker 1: six times. Respectful reticence about aspersions and cliches and mental 196 00:13:15,355 --> 00:13:18,835 Speaker 1: health questions in a time in which mocking was seemingly 197 00:13:18,915 --> 00:13:23,755 Speaker 1: slowly maturing into concern that died a long time ago 198 00:13:23,875 --> 00:13:27,595 Speaker 1: in this presidential cycle of twenty sixteen, and it died 199 00:13:27,875 --> 00:13:32,235 Speaker 1: at Donald Trump's hands. Moreover, if the question is asked 200 00:13:32,315 --> 00:13:36,355 Speaker 1: seriously and not gratuitously, just the examination might explain how 201 00:13:36,395 --> 00:13:40,355 Speaker 1: Trump has seemingly survived dozens of moments that might each 202 00:13:40,355 --> 00:13:44,955 Speaker 1: have been campaign enders for almost anybody else. Why have 203 00:13:45,075 --> 00:13:48,395 Speaker 1: we not asked if a given presidential candidate might be 204 00:13:48,475 --> 00:13:53,075 Speaker 1: disqualified from office due to psychological reasons? Because we not 205 00:13:53,195 --> 00:13:56,075 Speaker 1: only can't see this forest for the trees, but each 206 00:13:56,155 --> 00:13:59,795 Speaker 1: time we try, there are even more trees blocking our view. 207 00:14:00,915 --> 00:14:04,195 Speaker 1: In the twenty four hour news cycle, each successive John 208 00:14:04,315 --> 00:14:09,915 Speaker 1: Yerkey's Iceland moment is not registered cumulatively. It merely supplants 209 00:14:09,955 --> 00:14:16,275 Speaker 1: the one from last week or yesterday this morning. This 210 00:14:16,355 --> 00:14:20,115 Speaker 1: could also explain Trump's seeming imperviousness to his own mind 211 00:14:20,195 --> 00:14:23,755 Speaker 1: bending campaign. Surely it must be exhausting to attack the 212 00:14:23,795 --> 00:14:29,795 Speaker 1: Pope February eighteenth attack, President Clinton, May eighteenth, attack, John 213 00:14:29,875 --> 00:14:36,715 Speaker 1: McCain July eighteenth, attack, Mexicans June sixteenth, attack Muslims December 214 00:14:36,795 --> 00:14:40,755 Speaker 1: eighth attack, candidates who use a teleprompter May twenty sixth, 215 00:14:41,035 --> 00:14:43,795 Speaker 1: just before you give a speech using a teleprompter, May 216 00:14:43,835 --> 00:14:48,515 Speaker 1: twenty sixth. It's got to be exhausting, unless, as the 217 00:14:48,595 --> 00:14:54,715 Speaker 1: old joke goes, no pain no gain, also no brain, 218 00:14:54,915 --> 00:15:00,875 Speaker 1: no pain anyway. The actual sanity test I found for 219 00:15:00,955 --> 00:15:06,235 Speaker 1: this article is called, by delicious coincidence, the hair psychopathy 220 00:15:06,395 --> 00:15:11,595 Speaker 1: checklist revised, introduced by a Canadian criminal psychologist named Robert D. 221 00:15:11,995 --> 00:15:16,915 Speaker 1: Hare in nineteen eighty, and that's Hare. It's still in 222 00:15:17,035 --> 00:15:19,635 Speaker 1: use in some quarters, though with ever more diffuse and 223 00:15:19,675 --> 00:15:24,155 Speaker 1: specific mental health diagnoses. It is not without its critics, however, 224 00:15:24,235 --> 00:15:27,275 Speaker 1: as a practicing therapist who walked me through it agreed, 225 00:15:27,715 --> 00:15:31,195 Speaker 1: it serves as a kind of triage device to separate 226 00:15:31,235 --> 00:15:37,595 Speaker 1: the injured from the tripping from the psychopathic. And about 227 00:15:37,635 --> 00:15:41,555 Speaker 1: that word, we seem to have completely muddled up sociopath 228 00:15:41,635 --> 00:15:48,235 Speaker 1: and psychopath. Sociopath think Ted Kaczynski, the unibomber, living out 229 00:15:48,235 --> 00:15:51,715 Speaker 1: there and his shack in the woods, feeling nothing for 230 00:15:51,835 --> 00:15:57,035 Speaker 1: other humans and unable to interact with them, literally mailing 231 00:15:57,075 --> 00:16:03,675 Speaker 1: it in. Psychopath think Ted Bundy feeling nothing for other humans, 232 00:16:03,675 --> 00:16:07,755 Speaker 1: but having long ago learned how to expertly mimic relationships 233 00:16:07,915 --> 00:16:11,355 Speaker 1: by being whatever he needed to be to whomever he 234 00:16:11,475 --> 00:16:15,155 Speaker 1: needed to use, killing at least thirty women serving as 235 00:16:15,195 --> 00:16:19,395 Speaker 1: his own counsel, and cross examining a female witness, proposing 236 00:16:19,515 --> 00:16:21,955 Speaker 1: marriage to her while she was on the stand, and 237 00:16:22,075 --> 00:16:27,755 Speaker 1: getting her to say yes. For each of the twenty 238 00:16:27,755 --> 00:16:31,395 Speaker 1: items on the hair psychopathy checklist, you're supposed to assign 239 00:16:31,395 --> 00:16:35,875 Speaker 1: the subject a zero, one point or two. The highest 240 00:16:35,915 --> 00:16:40,995 Speaker 1: and most dangerous score is thus forty. In the United States, 241 00:16:41,275 --> 00:16:46,155 Speaker 1: the accepted minimum score for possible psychopathy meaning you might 242 00:16:46,235 --> 00:16:51,075 Speaker 1: be nuts, is thirty. So those are the rules. Let's 243 00:16:51,195 --> 00:16:56,395 Speaker 1: play the freud. The test begins with an assessment of 244 00:16:56,635 --> 00:17:05,075 Speaker 1: charm that is superficial, forced charm, faked charm? May I 245 00:17:05,155 --> 00:17:10,075 Speaker 1: dare say this Trump charm? I had interviewed Donald Trump 246 00:17:10,075 --> 00:17:12,155 Speaker 1: as long ago as nineteen eighty three, and I always 247 00:17:12,155 --> 00:17:14,635 Speaker 1: thought he was a horse's ass. But after running into 248 00:17:14,715 --> 00:17:17,995 Speaker 1: him when we both worked at NBC, and then in 249 00:17:18,035 --> 00:17:20,355 Speaker 1: the lobby of one of his apartment buildings in which 250 00:17:20,355 --> 00:17:24,635 Speaker 1: I lived, I was stunned to encounter a quiet, succinct, 251 00:17:25,115 --> 00:17:32,595 Speaker 1: seemingly sincere co worker and in essence landlord. In one role, 252 00:17:32,635 --> 00:17:35,995 Speaker 1: he described himself as an anti Bush pro Obama liberal. 253 00:17:36,155 --> 00:17:39,475 Speaker 1: In the other, he urged me to contact him personally 254 00:17:39,635 --> 00:17:43,515 Speaker 1: with any problems or suggestions about the building in which 255 00:17:43,515 --> 00:17:45,515 Speaker 1: I lived. And then he got on the campaign stage, 256 00:17:45,595 --> 00:17:50,955 Speaker 1: and boom, he was America's newest Mussolini impersonator. For a 257 00:17:51,035 --> 00:17:54,835 Speaker 1: long while, I was flummoxed as to which of these 258 00:17:55,475 --> 00:18:00,915 Speaker 1: truly mutually exclusive personalities was the act. Then I was 259 00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:04,675 Speaker 1: reminded that it didn't really matter, which that having multiple 260 00:18:04,795 --> 00:18:08,915 Speaker 1: personalities should by itself preclude one from having access to 261 00:18:09,115 --> 00:18:16,075 Speaker 1: multiple nuclear warheads. I was explaining this on Bill Maher's 262 00:18:16,195 --> 00:18:21,035 Speaker 1: show in November twenty fifteen when mar suddenly got so 263 00:18:21,435 --> 00:18:24,755 Speaker 1: g whiz that I almost didn't recognize him. Me too, 264 00:18:25,195 --> 00:18:29,155 Speaker 1: he exclaimed boyishly. Mar cynical to such a degree that 265 00:18:29,155 --> 00:18:31,835 Speaker 1: it makes me seem as earnestly faithful as a pope, 266 00:18:32,515 --> 00:18:35,355 Speaker 1: said He had just been as convinced as I was, 267 00:18:36,155 --> 00:18:40,475 Speaker 1: and thus just as stunned by this hydra of Trumpian 268 00:18:40,595 --> 00:18:46,675 Speaker 1: personas he'd always been nice to me. I can easily 269 00:18:46,715 --> 00:18:49,675 Speaker 1: imagine myself being taken in by a con artist like 270 00:18:49,755 --> 00:18:52,675 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I mean, Trump wrote me a fan letter once. 271 00:18:53,555 --> 00:18:57,355 Speaker 1: But Mar mar who called me a corporate sellout in 272 00:18:57,435 --> 00:19:00,235 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, when I had to that point earned 273 00:19:00,275 --> 00:19:04,035 Speaker 1: about two hundred dollars from all the corporations in the 274 00:19:04,035 --> 00:19:08,795 Speaker 1: world combined. He fooled Bill Maher. So if you're giving 275 00:19:08,835 --> 00:19:11,795 Speaker 1: out points about fake charm, Trump gets both of them. 276 00:19:13,035 --> 00:19:15,955 Speaker 1: The next topic was an excessive sense of self worth 277 00:19:16,635 --> 00:19:20,795 Speaker 1: no kidding, I feel like a supermodel, he said on 278 00:19:20,915 --> 00:19:24,995 Speaker 1: June eighteenth, twenty sixteen, in Phoenix. Except like Times ten, 279 00:19:25,155 --> 00:19:28,355 Speaker 1: It's true, I'm a supermodel. I'm on the cover of 280 00:19:28,395 --> 00:19:31,555 Speaker 1: these magazines. I'm on the cover of the biggest magazines. 281 00:19:33,675 --> 00:19:37,355 Speaker 1: This was stated by the first Oompealoopa American to run 282 00:19:37,395 --> 00:19:43,755 Speaker 1: for national office. He is bright orange. He is an 283 00:19:43,835 --> 00:19:47,675 Speaker 1: old man, affecting a hair color and style that would 284 00:19:47,675 --> 00:19:51,795 Speaker 1: have been rejected by the eighties synth pop group A 285 00:19:51,875 --> 00:19:58,435 Speaker 1: flock of seagulls. I served with supermodels. I knew supermodels. 286 00:19:58,675 --> 00:20:04,155 Speaker 1: Supermodels were friends of mine. Donald, You're no supermodel, but 287 00:20:04,275 --> 00:20:08,195 Speaker 1: that is two more points for you. The test moves 288 00:20:08,195 --> 00:20:11,995 Speaker 1: on to ask if the subject can't mentally sit still, 289 00:20:12,835 --> 00:20:15,235 Speaker 1: must he always try to make things happen good, bad, 290 00:20:15,315 --> 00:20:18,715 Speaker 1: or otherwise? Not easily bored, but almost impossible to focus? 291 00:20:19,675 --> 00:20:21,755 Speaker 1: Acknowledging that a lot of us get a point or 292 00:20:21,795 --> 00:20:23,755 Speaker 1: two here, I certainly do not. All of those job 293 00:20:23,835 --> 00:20:26,755 Speaker 1: changes of mine were their fault. Let me first quote 294 00:20:26,795 --> 00:20:31,075 Speaker 1: the introduction from Trump's think like a billionaire quote, don't 295 00:20:31,075 --> 00:20:34,075 Speaker 1: take vacations. What's the point? Have a short attention span? 296 00:20:34,355 --> 00:20:37,075 Speaker 1: Most successful people have very short attention spans. It has 297 00:20:37,075 --> 00:20:41,115 Speaker 1: a lot to do with imagination. Here are some of 298 00:20:41,155 --> 00:20:45,355 Speaker 1: the wide ranging businesses Trump's short attention span has dragged 299 00:20:45,395 --> 00:20:51,915 Speaker 1: him and the world into real estate, vitamins, rentals, books, condos, 300 00:20:52,035 --> 00:20:57,035 Speaker 1: trucolate bars, golf courses, pro football, beauty pageants, stakes, board games, 301 00:20:57,075 --> 00:21:03,475 Speaker 1: television hosting, bottled water, universities, men's wear, professional wrestling, mortgages, airlines, fragrances, 302 00:21:03,515 --> 00:21:07,435 Speaker 1: coffee restaurants, energy drinks, vodka, search, engines, your analysis, and 303 00:21:07,475 --> 00:21:12,435 Speaker 1: of course, bicycle racing. Bicycle racing the Tour de Trump, 304 00:21:13,835 --> 00:21:16,915 Speaker 1: in which I noted at the time, contestants raced three 305 00:21:16,955 --> 00:21:23,515 Speaker 1: hundred laps around his ego as a twenty twenty five aside. 306 00:21:23,675 --> 00:21:27,435 Speaker 1: Can we add crypto and flags and bibles and merch 307 00:21:27,555 --> 00:21:31,035 Speaker 1: and twenty sixteen hats and twenty twenty hats and twenty 308 00:21:31,075 --> 00:21:33,355 Speaker 1: twenty eight hats and twenty and thirty two hats and 309 00:21:33,435 --> 00:21:40,755 Speaker 1: mugshot merch, oh and influenced pedling and two more points? 310 00:21:42,275 --> 00:21:47,635 Speaker 1: The test now gets heavy? Is there lying involved? Again? 311 00:21:47,755 --> 00:21:52,315 Speaker 1: To June eighteenth, twenty sixteen, at the Woodlands in Texas 312 00:21:52,355 --> 00:21:55,995 Speaker 1: after the horrible Pulse Club shooting. Quote, if some of 313 00:21:56,035 --> 00:21:59,555 Speaker 1: those wonderful people had guns strapped right here right to 314 00:21:59,595 --> 00:22:01,715 Speaker 1: their waist or right to their ankle, and this son 315 00:22:01,755 --> 00:22:03,675 Speaker 1: of a bitch comes out and starts shooting, and one 316 00:22:03,675 --> 00:22:05,195 Speaker 1: of the people in that room happen to have it 317 00:22:05,235 --> 00:22:07,395 Speaker 1: and goes boom. You know what. That would have been 318 00:22:07,435 --> 00:22:09,955 Speaker 1: a beautiful, beautiful site, folks. That would have been a beautiful, 319 00:22:09,955 --> 00:22:14,915 Speaker 1: beautiful sight. June twenty two days later on Twitter, when 320 00:22:14,955 --> 00:22:17,835 Speaker 1: I said that if within the Orlando club you had 321 00:22:17,835 --> 00:22:20,635 Speaker 1: some people with guns, I was obviously talking about additional 322 00:22:20,675 --> 00:22:26,835 Speaker 1: guards or employees. Can I stop here or should I 323 00:22:26,875 --> 00:22:30,315 Speaker 1: walk you through the hot and cold running lies? Alternating 324 00:22:30,315 --> 00:22:32,635 Speaker 1: with the admissions of the Times in the nineties, he 325 00:22:32,755 --> 00:22:36,955 Speaker 1: pretended to be his own spokesman, John Miller and John 326 00:22:37,155 --> 00:22:41,835 Speaker 1: barn Or say virtually every other thing he said since 327 00:22:41,835 --> 00:22:45,155 Speaker 1: this article came out nine years ago. Another two points 328 00:22:45,155 --> 00:22:48,595 Speaker 1: on your scoreboard, please. The test then asks if the 329 00:22:48,635 --> 00:22:56,075 Speaker 1: patient is manipulative or cons people you think I'll add 330 00:22:56,115 --> 00:22:58,835 Speaker 1: today from the perspective of twenty twenty five, who should 331 00:22:58,875 --> 00:23:02,155 Speaker 1: we ask to write the guest essay on this question? Here? 332 00:23:02,515 --> 00:23:09,755 Speaker 1: Mike Pence, maybe Trump's own daughter Ivanka. I'm giving another 333 00:23:09,875 --> 00:23:14,155 Speaker 1: two points here. Next, we remove to the absence of 334 00:23:14,195 --> 00:23:19,475 Speaker 1: any sense of guilt or regret. Ask about his faith 335 00:23:19,635 --> 00:23:23,155 Speaker 1: at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa by the 336 00:23:23,195 --> 00:23:27,875 Speaker 1: moderator Frank Lunce in July twenty fifteen, Trump said, people 337 00:23:27,915 --> 00:23:30,275 Speaker 1: are so shocked when they find out I am Protestant, 338 00:23:30,595 --> 00:23:33,235 Speaker 1: I am Presbyterian, and I go to church and I 339 00:23:33,275 --> 00:23:37,115 Speaker 1: love God and I love my church. Lunce then followed 340 00:23:37,195 --> 00:23:42,035 Speaker 1: up with the soft fall of literally biblical proportions. Whether 341 00:23:42,115 --> 00:23:45,715 Speaker 1: Trump has ever asked God for forgiveness for his own 342 00:23:45,795 --> 00:23:50,795 Speaker 1: actions quote, I'm not sure I have. I just go 343 00:23:50,835 --> 00:23:52,675 Speaker 1: on and try to do a better job from there. 344 00:23:52,955 --> 00:23:55,715 Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think if I do something wrong, 345 00:23:55,795 --> 00:23:58,155 Speaker 1: I think I just try and make it right. I 346 00:23:58,235 --> 00:24:02,995 Speaker 1: don't bring God into that picture. I don't. Trump then 347 00:24:03,035 --> 00:24:07,875 Speaker 1: explained that Holy can Union sufficed. Quote when I drink 348 00:24:07,915 --> 00:24:10,675 Speaker 1: my little wine, which is about the only wine I drink, 349 00:24:10,875 --> 00:24:12,955 Speaker 1: and have my little cracker, I guess that is a 350 00:24:12,955 --> 00:24:15,395 Speaker 1: form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as 351 00:24:15,435 --> 00:24:19,275 Speaker 1: often as possible because I feel cleansed. I think in 352 00:24:19,355 --> 00:24:22,075 Speaker 1: terms of let's go on and let's make it right 353 00:24:22,595 --> 00:24:30,355 Speaker 1: unquote the art of the deal. Indeed, Trump picked up 354 00:24:30,395 --> 00:24:33,595 Speaker 1: this thread with Jake Tapper in January twenty sixteen, Again 355 00:24:33,635 --> 00:24:36,395 Speaker 1: the subject was religion. Quote, I like to be good. 356 00:24:36,475 --> 00:24:40,395 Speaker 1: I don't like to have to ask for forgiveness. Tapper 357 00:24:40,435 --> 00:24:43,035 Speaker 1: then asked about arrival, presumed to be Ted Cruz, who 358 00:24:43,075 --> 00:24:46,755 Speaker 1: was conducting field research into the efficacy of questioning Trump's 359 00:24:46,795 --> 00:24:50,915 Speaker 1: religious convictions. Quote, he shouldn't be doing that, very unethical. 360 00:24:51,675 --> 00:24:56,275 Speaker 1: Within a few weeks, Trump attacked Cruises religious convictions on 361 00:24:56,275 --> 00:24:59,395 Speaker 1: February twelfth. In fact, he tweeted, how can Ted Cruz 362 00:24:59,475 --> 00:25:02,435 Speaker 1: be an evangelical Christian when he lies so much and 363 00:25:02,595 --> 00:25:07,515 Speaker 1: is so dishonest. Not a week after that, Pope Francis 364 00:25:07,595 --> 00:25:10,795 Speaker 1: answered a question about Trump's overall tone quote, A person 365 00:25:10,795 --> 00:25:14,035 Speaker 1: who thinks only about building walls wherever they may be, 366 00:25:14,435 --> 00:25:19,275 Speaker 1: and not building bridges is not Christian. Within hours, Trump 367 00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:23,435 Speaker 1: slammed the Pope fantasized about an ISIS attack on the 368 00:25:23,515 --> 00:25:26,355 Speaker 1: Vatican that only he Trump could stop, and concluded this 369 00:25:26,475 --> 00:25:29,915 Speaker 1: remarkable circle of illogic by writing, for a religious leader 370 00:25:29,955 --> 00:25:33,755 Speaker 1: to question a person's faith is disgraceful. This is right 371 00:25:33,795 --> 00:25:37,635 Speaker 1: after he questioned a person's faith after he twice admitted 372 00:25:37,635 --> 00:25:40,515 Speaker 1: that his faith included the option to not ask forgiveness 373 00:25:40,515 --> 00:25:44,835 Speaker 1: and not quote bring God into that picture, and just 374 00:25:44,915 --> 00:25:46,995 Speaker 1: four months before he'd go back to this well and 375 00:25:47,155 --> 00:25:52,115 Speaker 1: question Hillary Clinton's faith again. That's two more solid points. 376 00:25:53,915 --> 00:25:58,195 Speaker 1: The next item had to be explained to me thoroughly 377 00:25:58,275 --> 00:26:04,035 Speaker 1: from my analyst friend. It's the psychological jargon term shallow affect. 378 00:26:05,195 --> 00:26:08,315 Speaker 1: In some its tone deafness when it comes to explaining 379 00:26:08,395 --> 00:26:11,795 Speaker 1: relationships between people. For instance, if somebody got up on 380 00:26:11,915 --> 00:26:15,875 Speaker 1: stage the sake of argument, we'll say it's Billy Joel 381 00:26:15,995 --> 00:26:20,635 Speaker 1: with Madison Square Garden, and that person insulted you by 382 00:26:20,755 --> 00:26:25,275 Speaker 1: sarcastically dedicating to you his song the Entertainer as a 383 00:26:25,275 --> 00:26:27,955 Speaker 1: way of saying you weren't a leader or a politician, 384 00:26:27,955 --> 00:26:31,835 Speaker 1: but merely an entertainer. You might take umbrage or at 385 00:26:31,915 --> 00:26:36,915 Speaker 1: least recognize the insult, not if you are suffering from 386 00:26:36,955 --> 00:26:41,875 Speaker 1: shallow effect. Thank you, Billy Joel, Trump tweeted on May 387 00:26:41,915 --> 00:26:44,995 Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty sixteen. Many friends just told me you 388 00:26:44,995 --> 00:26:48,355 Speaker 1: gave me a very kind shout out at MSG appreciated 389 00:26:48,835 --> 00:26:55,075 Speaker 1: love your music. Another example of shallow affect would be 390 00:26:55,115 --> 00:26:58,315 Speaker 1: a kind of approach to how people influence each other's 391 00:26:58,395 --> 00:27:02,915 Speaker 1: lives that could be diagrammed as event B follows event, 392 00:27:03,075 --> 00:27:08,755 Speaker 1: a therefore event a caused event. B If say a 393 00:27:08,835 --> 00:27:12,875 Speaker 1: prominent athlete ignored you, or in some other tangential way 394 00:27:12,915 --> 00:27:16,755 Speaker 1: interacted with you before failing or being injured, you might 395 00:27:16,795 --> 00:27:20,595 Speaker 1: think in passing that you would somehow jinxed him, especially 396 00:27:20,635 --> 00:27:23,355 Speaker 1: if you were still nine or ten years old, but 397 00:27:23,675 --> 00:27:27,675 Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't publicly claim it, not unless you're suffering 398 00:27:27,715 --> 00:27:31,955 Speaker 1: from shallow affect. Quote Derek Jeter had a great career 399 00:27:32,035 --> 00:27:36,395 Speaker 1: until three days ago. Trump tweeted on October fifteenth, twenty twelve, 400 00:27:36,635 --> 00:27:39,635 Speaker 1: after the baseball player shattered his ankle during a game 401 00:27:39,875 --> 00:27:42,555 Speaker 1: when he sold his apartment at Trump World Tower, I 402 00:27:42,595 --> 00:27:48,395 Speaker 1: told him not to sell karma. The answer this chain 403 00:27:48,515 --> 00:27:52,195 Speaker 1: letter or many ankles will be broken theme was not 404 00:27:52,355 --> 00:27:55,915 Speaker 1: some early passing expression of the now familiar syndrome we 405 00:27:55,995 --> 00:28:02,035 Speaker 1: might describe as TWT tweeting, while Trump five days later 406 00:28:02,155 --> 00:28:04,675 Speaker 1: quote Derek Jeter broke ankle one day after he sold 407 00:28:04,755 --> 00:28:09,595 Speaker 1: his apartment in Trump World Tower, and just to finish 408 00:28:09,635 --> 00:28:12,195 Speaker 1: this off. Another aspect to shallow affect would be an 409 00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:17,875 Speaker 1: unwillingness to acknowledge reliance on others. On March sixteenth, twenty sixteen, 410 00:28:17,915 --> 00:28:21,435 Speaker 1: Trump was asked about which foreign policy consultancy was speaking 411 00:28:21,475 --> 00:28:24,715 Speaker 1: to I'm speaking with myself number one, because I have 412 00:28:24,755 --> 00:28:28,955 Speaker 1: a very good brain, he said, apparently seriously, I know 413 00:28:29,035 --> 00:28:31,115 Speaker 1: what I'm doing, and I listen to a lot of people. 414 00:28:31,155 --> 00:28:32,595 Speaker 1: I talk to a lot of people, and at the 415 00:28:32,595 --> 00:28:34,995 Speaker 1: appropriate time, I'll tell you who the people are. But 416 00:28:35,155 --> 00:28:38,995 Speaker 1: my primary consultant is myself, and I have a good 417 00:28:39,075 --> 00:28:44,635 Speaker 1: instinct for this stuff. As an aside, is the narrator 418 00:28:44,755 --> 00:28:50,715 Speaker 1: anywhere to know? He's off its break. On June twenty fourth, 419 00:28:50,715 --> 00:28:54,355 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, in Scotland, Trump again described his dream consultant, 420 00:28:54,755 --> 00:28:58,235 Speaker 1: saying he spoke to quote foreign policy advisors all the time, 421 00:28:58,275 --> 00:29:01,995 Speaker 1: but the advice has to come from me. The advice 422 00:29:02,235 --> 00:29:07,275 Speaker 1: has to come from me. The effect is shallow. The 423 00:29:07,315 --> 00:29:11,755 Speaker 1: points score is not like that last statement. There's two 424 00:29:11,835 --> 00:29:16,355 Speaker 1: of them. Then it's on to lack of empathy. How 425 00:29:16,435 --> 00:29:21,675 Speaker 1: much lack of empathy can you have? June twelfth, twenty sixteen, 426 00:29:21,715 --> 00:29:23,715 Speaker 1: hours after the last shots had been fired at the 427 00:29:23,715 --> 00:29:28,075 Speaker 1: Pulse Club in Orlando, quote, appreciate the congrats for being 428 00:29:28,195 --> 00:29:31,755 Speaker 1: right on radical Islamic terrorism. I don't want congrats. I 429 00:29:31,755 --> 00:29:36,435 Speaker 1: want toughness and vigilance. We must be smart. As a reminder, 430 00:29:37,035 --> 00:29:39,955 Speaker 1: you cannot give fifteen hundred points for just one item 431 00:29:39,995 --> 00:29:43,115 Speaker 1: on the hair psychopathy checklist, even if that total is 432 00:29:43,155 --> 00:29:47,875 Speaker 1: seemingly deserved. Just just two more here, then there's a 433 00:29:47,915 --> 00:29:51,555 Speaker 1: lifestyle question. Does the subject of your exam live his 434 00:29:51,715 --> 00:29:56,555 Speaker 1: life as you know a parasite? This does not mean, 435 00:29:56,635 --> 00:29:59,315 Speaker 1: as I originally thought, living materially off mom and dad 436 00:29:59,435 --> 00:30:02,355 Speaker 1: or others, although that can be a minor component, especially 437 00:30:02,435 --> 00:30:05,795 Speaker 1: if dad gave you a million dollar loan own circle 438 00:30:05,915 --> 00:30:08,915 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy and you get nine million more from a 439 00:30:08,955 --> 00:30:11,675 Speaker 1: bank on the promise of your inheritance, and ultimately you 440 00:30:11,755 --> 00:30:14,835 Speaker 1: got about forty million on your father's death, and you 441 00:30:14,955 --> 00:30:19,195 Speaker 1: considered all that just a small start in life. No, 442 00:30:19,315 --> 00:30:21,075 Speaker 1: it has more to do with taking credit for the 443 00:30:21,075 --> 00:30:24,755 Speaker 1: work of others to the degree of erasing all record 444 00:30:24,795 --> 00:30:28,675 Speaker 1: of their contributions and slapping your name on their efforts, 445 00:30:28,995 --> 00:30:32,595 Speaker 1: often in transactions in which you are literally renting the 446 00:30:32,715 --> 00:30:36,155 Speaker 1: use of your name as a brand and nothing else. 447 00:30:37,635 --> 00:30:41,835 Speaker 1: You know, like Trump Pallace, the Tour to Trump, Trump Steaks, 448 00:30:42,115 --> 00:30:45,995 Speaker 1: Trump taj Mahal, Donald Trump, the Fragrance, and of course 449 00:30:46,995 --> 00:30:51,635 Speaker 1: Castle Trump you law. And just as in court, a 450 00:30:51,675 --> 00:30:54,555 Speaker 1: wife cannot be forced to give evidence of parasitic lifestyle 451 00:30:54,595 --> 00:30:58,115 Speaker 1: against her husband, despite Millennia Trump's convention speech fiasco in 452 00:30:58,115 --> 00:31:01,115 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, unless her husband wrote or stole that for her, 453 00:31:01,115 --> 00:31:04,675 Speaker 1: remember that where her speech sounded suspiciously like Michelle Obamas. 454 00:31:04,755 --> 00:31:10,755 Speaker 1: Again just two points. The midpoint two point question asks 455 00:31:10,795 --> 00:31:15,875 Speaker 1: if the subject had poor behavioral controls, Well, what's your 456 00:31:15,915 --> 00:31:19,635 Speaker 1: definition of poor? As a twenty twenty five aside, I'd 457 00:31:19,715 --> 00:31:21,915 Speaker 1: like to note the next sentence was written by me 458 00:31:22,635 --> 00:31:27,715 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. Well, he had poor behavioral controls, but 459 00:31:27,915 --> 00:31:31,795 Speaker 1: everybody agrees he's going to dial it all back this 460 00:31:31,955 --> 00:31:37,315 Speaker 1: time right after he pivots pivots towards dialing it back, 461 00:31:39,075 --> 00:31:45,195 Speaker 1: right Judge Gonzalo Curiel, right, Don King, Joel Austin, Ben Roethlisberger, 462 00:31:45,235 --> 00:31:48,035 Speaker 1: Pete Rose, or anybody else who Trump claimed had endorsed 463 00:31:48,115 --> 00:31:50,955 Speaker 1: him when they had not, Or the Hispanic ABC reporter 464 00:31:50,995 --> 00:31:54,115 Speaker 1: he called a sleeze, or the losing Republican presidential hopefuls 465 00:31:54,155 --> 00:31:56,835 Speaker 1: he mocked in a video the day after he insisted 466 00:31:56,835 --> 00:32:02,115 Speaker 1: he was going to unite the Republican Party. So we 467 00:32:02,155 --> 00:32:05,195 Speaker 1: are at the halfway mark of this twenty sixteen exam, 468 00:32:05,275 --> 00:32:08,315 Speaker 1: and the article I wrote, could Trump pass a sanity test? 469 00:32:08,635 --> 00:32:11,955 Speaker 1: Two points per topic? Thirty or thirty five points is 470 00:32:12,075 --> 00:32:15,675 Speaker 1: real trouble. So far he's been graded for a possible 471 00:32:15,755 --> 00:32:20,915 Speaker 1: twenty points, and he has twenty points the rest of it. 472 00:32:21,355 --> 00:32:30,035 Speaker 1: The next topic is promiscuous sexual behavior. Oh, that's next. 473 00:32:30,275 --> 00:32:39,635 Speaker 1: This is countdown back with the second half of the 474 00:32:39,715 --> 00:32:43,395 Speaker 1: July twenty sixteen Vanity Fair article I wrote, can Trump 475 00:32:43,435 --> 00:32:47,235 Speaker 1: pass a sanity Test? Where, with the help of a therapist, 476 00:32:47,275 --> 00:32:49,595 Speaker 1: I tried to score how nuts he was even then 477 00:32:49,715 --> 00:32:56,035 Speaker 1: from afar. All this in light of Congresswoman Dean's pithy 478 00:32:56,195 --> 00:33:01,555 Speaker 1: and quick observation the President is unwell and Governor Pritzker's 479 00:33:01,635 --> 00:33:05,635 Speaker 1: invocation of invoking the twenty fifth Amendment to remove him 480 00:33:05,635 --> 00:33:10,595 Speaker 1: from office because there's something really wrong with him. Now, 481 00:33:10,715 --> 00:33:14,475 Speaker 1: to remind you, you're supposed to give the patient no 482 00:33:14,555 --> 00:33:17,475 Speaker 1: points one point or two point per topic. That's it, 483 00:33:18,715 --> 00:33:21,795 Speaker 1: no variations. So far we've done half of the topics, 484 00:33:21,795 --> 00:33:24,235 Speaker 1: ten of them, he's gotten twenty points. That's not the 485 00:33:24,275 --> 00:33:26,835 Speaker 1: flex that he would think it would be if you 486 00:33:26,915 --> 00:33:31,355 Speaker 1: told him to resume with the test. Is the individual 487 00:33:31,475 --> 00:33:38,355 Speaker 1: sexually promiscuous? Ahem. When I was a young radio sportscaster. 488 00:33:38,515 --> 00:33:41,315 Speaker 1: I was given the great opportunity to interview by telephone 489 00:33:41,675 --> 00:33:44,235 Speaker 1: a famous athlete who had just been suspended from his 490 00:33:44,275 --> 00:33:47,155 Speaker 1: sport because he had gone to work for a casino. 491 00:33:48,075 --> 00:33:51,235 Speaker 1: The athlete now deceased, but will still use a pseudonym. 492 00:33:51,275 --> 00:33:55,155 Speaker 1: We'll call him Jimmy Smith was expecting my call. This 493 00:33:55,555 --> 00:33:58,315 Speaker 1: as near as I can remember, it was the transcript 494 00:33:58,355 --> 00:34:02,835 Speaker 1: of the start of that call, ring, ring, voice sounding 495 00:34:02,875 --> 00:34:06,315 Speaker 1: kind of like Hattie McDaniel, Academy Award winning actress from 496 00:34:06,315 --> 00:34:12,315 Speaker 1: Gone with the Wind. Mister Smith's residence. Me uh hi. 497 00:34:13,715 --> 00:34:17,235 Speaker 1: Milton Richmond from UPI gave me mister Smith's number and 498 00:34:17,275 --> 00:34:19,475 Speaker 1: said he would be willing to give me a brief interview. 499 00:34:19,515 --> 00:34:23,995 Speaker 1: May I speak with him? Please? Voice sounding kind of 500 00:34:24,075 --> 00:34:27,035 Speaker 1: like Hattie McDaniel, the Academy Award winning actress from Gone 501 00:34:27,075 --> 00:34:32,595 Speaker 1: with the Wind, who's calling please me? My name is 502 00:34:32,715 --> 00:34:37,475 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman from UPI Radio. Jimmy Smith. This is Jimmy. 503 00:34:39,315 --> 00:34:42,475 Speaker 1: As silly as the story of the whole fake Trump 504 00:34:42,595 --> 00:34:47,795 Speaker 1: spokesman was. Of course he has invisible friends. Of course 505 00:34:47,835 --> 00:34:53,395 Speaker 1: they're pr flax. Lost in the laughter were three important details. Firstly, 506 00:34:53,715 --> 00:34:57,435 Speaker 1: as my conversation with Jimmy Smith and his imaginary housekeeper 507 00:34:57,475 --> 00:35:01,715 Speaker 1: suggests people do do this, but secondly, when they do it, 508 00:35:01,755 --> 00:35:07,435 Speaker 1: they usually try to disguise their own voice. Thirdly, rarely 509 00:35:07,515 --> 00:35:10,755 Speaker 1: do they assume other identities in order to provide the 510 00:35:10,795 --> 00:35:15,715 Speaker 1: second component to what we categorize as promiscuity, besides multiple 511 00:35:15,715 --> 00:35:22,115 Speaker 1: partners boasting about it. Nineteen ninety one, John Miller to 512 00:35:22,315 --> 00:35:26,595 Speaker 1: sue carswell than of people as of twenty and fifteen 513 00:35:26,795 --> 00:35:30,875 Speaker 1: with Vanity Fair, for whom I wrote this article. Quote, 514 00:35:30,995 --> 00:35:34,675 Speaker 1: He's meaning Trump, somebody that has a lot of options, 515 00:35:34,715 --> 00:35:37,115 Speaker 1: and frankly he gets called by everybody. He gets called 516 00:35:37,155 --> 00:35:39,275 Speaker 1: by everybody in the book. In terms of women, I 517 00:35:39,315 --> 00:35:42,595 Speaker 1: mean they call, They just call. He's living with Marla 518 00:35:42,715 --> 00:35:48,275 Speaker 1: and he's got three other girlfriends. Unquote Trump in his 519 00:35:48,355 --> 00:35:51,275 Speaker 1: own voice, pretending to be somebody else, talking about Trump 520 00:35:51,955 --> 00:35:57,675 Speaker 1: and the women he betted. That'll be two more points. Next, 521 00:35:57,875 --> 00:36:01,155 Speaker 1: the test asks if there were conduct problems early in 522 00:36:01,195 --> 00:36:05,515 Speaker 1: the subject's life. When I was a kid four or five, 523 00:36:05,995 --> 00:36:08,075 Speaker 1: I twice hit a friend of mine in the back 524 00:36:08,115 --> 00:36:14,595 Speaker 1: of the head with a metal toy. I remember shock blood, 525 00:36:14,875 --> 00:36:19,835 Speaker 1: no stitches, And then a series of family meetings we 526 00:36:19,915 --> 00:36:23,235 Speaker 1: talked the folks got some professional advice. They got me 527 00:36:23,235 --> 00:36:26,755 Speaker 1: into organized sports and exercise, and I quickly realized that 528 00:36:26,915 --> 00:36:29,555 Speaker 1: just because I was frustrated with somebody that was not 529 00:36:29,635 --> 00:36:33,955 Speaker 1: a good reason to hit them, regardless. When I had 530 00:36:33,955 --> 00:36:37,875 Speaker 1: my analyst friend run the hair psychopathy checklist on me, 531 00:36:38,275 --> 00:36:40,915 Speaker 1: I insisted she give me a point on this because 532 00:36:41,435 --> 00:36:43,035 Speaker 1: hitting a kid in the back of the head with 533 00:36:43,035 --> 00:36:45,755 Speaker 1: a toy fire engine and later a magnet was at 534 00:36:45,835 --> 00:36:49,955 Speaker 1: minimum an indicator of the potential for early behavior problems. 535 00:36:51,075 --> 00:36:54,275 Speaker 1: So if you're given me a point for this, how 536 00:36:54,275 --> 00:36:57,555 Speaker 1: many points would you give a child who attacked one 537 00:36:57,595 --> 00:37:02,555 Speaker 1: of his own teachers. Quote I actually gave a teacher 538 00:37:02,595 --> 00:37:05,235 Speaker 1: a black eye, Trump wrote in the Art of the 539 00:37:05,275 --> 00:37:09,235 Speaker 1: Deal in nineteen eighty seven, barely concealing his retroactively. He 540 00:37:09,355 --> 00:37:13,835 Speaker 1: placed the time of the assault as the second grade, 541 00:37:14,075 --> 00:37:17,555 Speaker 1: likely making him seven years old. Quote. I punched my 542 00:37:17,715 --> 00:37:21,075 Speaker 1: music teacher because I didn't think he knew anything about music, 543 00:37:21,435 --> 00:37:28,035 Speaker 1: and I almost got expelled. What kind of kid punches 544 00:37:28,915 --> 00:37:36,315 Speaker 1: an adult in the face? I mean, we hear about 545 00:37:36,635 --> 00:37:41,875 Speaker 1: punching up, but think back to being that age seven. 546 00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:45,195 Speaker 1: The one universal I can recall was that no seven 547 00:37:45,315 --> 00:37:48,075 Speaker 1: year old ever dreamt of trying to physically take on 548 00:37:48,275 --> 00:37:52,235 Speaker 1: an adult, for the simple and unavoidable reason that virtually 549 00:37:52,275 --> 00:37:56,635 Speaker 1: any adult was several times your own weight. If you 550 00:37:56,755 --> 00:37:58,795 Speaker 1: picked the wrong one, they might do more than just 551 00:37:58,835 --> 00:38:03,835 Speaker 1: defend themselves. Even knocking an adult down could be an 552 00:38:03,875 --> 00:38:08,315 Speaker 1: exercise in self destruction if he fell on you. The 553 00:38:08,315 --> 00:38:11,795 Speaker 1: most reality challenged of all of my young classmates the 554 00:38:11,875 --> 00:38:14,915 Speaker 1: kid who ran headfirst into the side of a moving 555 00:38:14,995 --> 00:38:20,795 Speaker 1: school bus for reasons that still remain unclear ten presidents later. 556 00:38:21,755 --> 00:38:25,435 Speaker 1: He would never have hit an adult. There is a 557 00:38:25,435 --> 00:38:28,355 Speaker 1: second version of the same story from a Trump biographer. 558 00:38:28,395 --> 00:38:30,315 Speaker 1: He did indeed give the teacher a black eye, but 559 00:38:30,355 --> 00:38:32,715 Speaker 1: not with a punch. He threw an eraser at him 560 00:38:32,995 --> 00:38:39,875 Speaker 1: and hit him just right, because that's way better. Regardless, 561 00:38:40,795 --> 00:38:44,195 Speaker 1: the version Trump tells is of the four foot tall 562 00:38:44,355 --> 00:38:47,275 Speaker 1: edition of himself punching what was at least a five 563 00:38:47,315 --> 00:38:51,075 Speaker 1: foot tall adult in the eye hard enough to give 564 00:38:51,075 --> 00:38:55,675 Speaker 1: the man a shiner. The only argument against calling this 565 00:38:55,835 --> 00:38:59,595 Speaker 1: early behavior problems is that the first word implies that 566 00:38:59,635 --> 00:39:05,355 Speaker 1: it stopped at some point two more points. The tests 567 00:39:05,395 --> 00:39:08,755 Speaker 1: you will have noticed bounces around a bit from topic 568 00:39:08,795 --> 00:39:12,435 Speaker 1: to topic. From early behavior, we switch back to long 569 00:39:12,555 --> 00:39:16,635 Speaker 1: term goals? Does the patient lack them? So far, mister 570 00:39:16,635 --> 00:39:20,155 Speaker 1: Trump is theoretically aced are exam but reality now invades 571 00:39:20,195 --> 00:39:24,955 Speaker 1: our idyllic scene. There could be a thousand things psychologically 572 00:39:24,995 --> 00:39:27,195 Speaker 1: wrong with the process by which Trump ends up with 573 00:39:27,235 --> 00:39:29,795 Speaker 1: a low score on this one. In the big picture, 574 00:39:29,875 --> 00:39:33,555 Speaker 1: you would never have thought Mussolini was less crazy just 575 00:39:33,595 --> 00:39:36,355 Speaker 1: because he left Italy for Switzerland in nineteen oh two 576 00:39:36,555 --> 00:39:40,675 Speaker 1: in part to avoid military service, and exactly twenty years 577 00:39:40,755 --> 00:39:43,875 Speaker 1: later Mussolini became head of the Italian state and often 578 00:39:43,995 --> 00:39:48,395 Speaker 1: dressed up in his military uniform. But tests are tests, 579 00:39:49,395 --> 00:39:52,795 Speaker 1: There are rules here. And if you say this guy 580 00:39:52,835 --> 00:39:55,875 Speaker 1: Trump so lacks realistic long term goals that he thinks 581 00:39:55,915 --> 00:40:01,355 Speaker 1: he can become president and he winds up president twice, 582 00:40:01,595 --> 00:40:04,635 Speaker 1: the long term goals turned out to be not that unrealistic. 583 00:40:04,715 --> 00:40:09,395 Speaker 1: Stick huh. As I look back at this article from 584 00:40:09,475 --> 00:40:11,915 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, I desperately want to give Trump a 585 00:40:11,955 --> 00:40:14,435 Speaker 1: point on this one here, because once again he boasts 586 00:40:14,435 --> 00:40:17,475 Speaker 1: about having the very thing that psychology says is a 587 00:40:17,515 --> 00:40:24,675 Speaker 1: warning sign. Except you know, he was right he became president. 588 00:40:25,875 --> 00:40:29,355 Speaker 1: In the preface to Think like a Billionaire, Trump quotes 589 00:40:29,395 --> 00:40:34,435 Speaker 1: the author Richard Konniff quote. Almost all successful alpha personalities 590 00:40:34,635 --> 00:40:38,555 Speaker 1: display a single minded determination to impose their vision on 591 00:40:38,635 --> 00:40:44,475 Speaker 1: the world and irrational belief in unreasonable goals, bordering sometimes 592 00:40:44,875 --> 00:40:53,995 Speaker 1: on lunacy. And it worked for him. So on this one, Trump, 593 00:40:54,075 --> 00:40:56,395 Speaker 1: you'll get nothing and you'll like it. He could have 594 00:40:56,435 --> 00:41:00,635 Speaker 1: twenty six points. He only has twenty four. Next is 595 00:41:00,635 --> 00:41:04,955 Speaker 1: the patient impulsive. In March twenty sixteen, writing in Psychology Today, 596 00:41:04,995 --> 00:41:08,955 Speaker 1: doctor Glenn Geher offered a different definition of impulsiveness. It's 597 00:41:08,955 --> 00:41:12,115 Speaker 1: not necessarily the same as rashness or its positive twin 598 00:41:12,315 --> 00:41:17,955 Speaker 1: quick thinking. True impulsiveness usually leaves fingerprints of edgy, though 599 00:41:17,995 --> 00:41:23,515 Speaker 1: not automatically pernicious behavior. Rather, it makes one do these 600 00:41:23,555 --> 00:41:29,395 Speaker 1: things in the wrong place at the wrong time, like 601 00:41:29,555 --> 00:41:32,715 Speaker 1: as doctor Geher was analyzing discussing the size of your 602 00:41:32,795 --> 00:41:37,915 Speaker 1: penis during a presidential debate. He didn't include the other 603 00:41:37,995 --> 00:41:41,195 Speaker 1: examples where the context turns that behavior or that language 604 00:41:41,235 --> 00:41:45,315 Speaker 1: from borderline to impulsive. You might appropriately bring up that 605 00:41:45,435 --> 00:41:49,075 Speaker 1: topic in bed, or at a bar, or even at 606 00:41:49,075 --> 00:41:53,635 Speaker 1: your tailor's, but it's like saying a female presidential candidate 607 00:41:53,635 --> 00:41:58,035 Speaker 1: had been schlonged in a primary, like criticizing the face 608 00:41:58,075 --> 00:42:01,235 Speaker 1: of one of your female rivals during a speech like 609 00:42:01,315 --> 00:42:05,435 Speaker 1: crudely referring to a network television figures menstruation while on 610 00:42:05,515 --> 00:42:10,635 Speaker 1: a rival television network back to two points out of two. 611 00:42:10,715 --> 00:42:16,675 Speaker 1: Here down the stretch we come. This is another seemingly 612 00:42:16,715 --> 00:42:19,355 Speaker 1: easy item that is actually difficult to nail to the wall. 613 00:42:19,595 --> 00:42:26,235 Speaker 1: What is irresponsibility? Not crediting John McCain's heroism because he 614 00:42:26,315 --> 00:42:29,955 Speaker 1: got captured when you yourself avoided the military draft and 615 00:42:30,115 --> 00:42:34,395 Speaker 1: service four maybe five times? Is irresponsibility shown by taking 616 00:42:34,395 --> 00:42:37,875 Speaker 1: a position on guns in nightclubs that's so extreme that 617 00:42:37,955 --> 00:42:41,635 Speaker 1: the president and legislative director of the National Goddamned Rifle 618 00:42:41,635 --> 00:42:47,395 Speaker 1: Association condemned. It is irresponsibility at least to the millions 619 00:42:47,395 --> 00:42:49,955 Speaker 1: of lost souls who actually thought you'd make a great 620 00:42:49,995 --> 00:42:53,995 Speaker 1: American president rather than merely the last American president. Is 621 00:42:54,035 --> 00:42:56,515 Speaker 1: irresponsibility to even make a joke if it was a 622 00:42:56,595 --> 00:42:59,315 Speaker 1: joke that if you were offered five billion dollars to 623 00:42:59,395 --> 00:43:03,195 Speaker 1: drop out quote, I guess we'd have to think about it. 624 00:43:03,235 --> 00:43:06,595 Speaker 1: Is the word more applicable or less applicable if it 625 00:43:06,595 --> 00:43:10,075 Speaker 1: comes out the next day that during May your campaign 626 00:43:10,155 --> 00:43:12,275 Speaker 1: spent more than twice as much at business as you 627 00:43:12,515 --> 00:43:18,475 Speaker 1: own than it did on payroll. The problem with this 628 00:43:18,715 --> 00:43:24,115 Speaker 1: heading is that so much of what fits vaguely into irresponsibility, promiscuity, bankruptcy, 629 00:43:24,115 --> 00:43:27,315 Speaker 1: punching out your teacher fits like jigsaw pieces into the 630 00:43:27,395 --> 00:43:30,955 Speaker 1: other categories in this test. That doesn't mean the examples 631 00:43:30,995 --> 00:43:34,635 Speaker 1: are ineligible, just imprecise, but it does mean we have 632 00:43:34,715 --> 00:43:38,075 Speaker 1: to score conservatively. So let's give him one of the 633 00:43:38,115 --> 00:43:43,035 Speaker 1: two points. We are asked next to assess whether the 634 00:43:43,075 --> 00:43:49,595 Speaker 1: patient accepts responsibility for their own actions. Again, you cannot 635 00:43:49,595 --> 00:43:53,195 Speaker 1: give more than two points in any category. Both of 636 00:43:53,195 --> 00:43:56,475 Speaker 1: my favorite examples here involve interviews with the Washington Post. 637 00:43:56,515 --> 00:43:59,795 Speaker 1: Remember the Washington Post. On May twenty fourth, twenty sixteen, 638 00:43:59,835 --> 00:44:02,835 Speaker 1: Trump was caught having not yet donated the money from 639 00:44:02,875 --> 00:44:07,915 Speaker 1: the purported veterans fundraiser he staged as counter programming to 640 00:44:08,035 --> 00:44:11,955 Speaker 1: the January Republican debate that he bailed out of. The 641 00:44:12,035 --> 00:44:16,075 Speaker 1: Post quoted his remarks at the fundraiser, which was televised nationally. 642 00:44:16,315 --> 00:44:20,195 Speaker 1: We just cracked six million dollars, right, six million? Trump 643 00:44:20,235 --> 00:44:24,275 Speaker 1: replied to them, I didn't say six. The somewhat startled 644 00:44:24,275 --> 00:44:27,435 Speaker 1: Post staffer said it was on tape. Play it for me, 645 00:44:27,875 --> 00:44:31,315 Speaker 1: Trump replied, because I'd like to hear it, the Post reported. 646 00:44:31,315 --> 00:44:35,595 Speaker 1: Trump then manipulated the conversation to another topic, precluding the 647 00:44:35,635 --> 00:44:40,475 Speaker 1: playing of the video. Eleven days later, the tape of 648 00:44:40,555 --> 00:44:42,715 Speaker 1: him speaking in his own voice but pretending to be 649 00:44:42,755 --> 00:44:47,595 Speaker 1: his spokesman John Miller was revealed when during a phone interview, 650 00:44:47,635 --> 00:44:50,995 Speaker 1: a Post reporter brought up that proof the John Miller tape, 651 00:44:51,115 --> 00:44:57,755 Speaker 1: Trump simply hung up the phone. Two more points next, 652 00:44:57,795 --> 00:45:01,155 Speaker 1: there's a question here about wedding vows, lots of marriages, 653 00:45:01,355 --> 00:45:06,515 Speaker 1: short ones. This depends on numerical deffait. Despite the falling 654 00:45:06,555 --> 00:45:09,555 Speaker 1: of religious barriers against divorce and the rise of the prenup, 655 00:45:09,595 --> 00:45:12,155 Speaker 1: the mean is still around just one point two to 656 00:45:12,395 --> 00:45:15,635 Speaker 1: one point three marriages per American and the number of 657 00:45:15,635 --> 00:45:18,635 Speaker 1: men who marry more than once is only about fifteen percent. 658 00:45:19,555 --> 00:45:23,275 Speaker 1: But Trump's marriage is still total only three and their 659 00:45:23,355 --> 00:45:28,315 Speaker 1: lengths fourteen six and now nearly twenty one years are 660 00:45:28,395 --> 00:45:32,875 Speaker 1: hardly in the annulled within thirty two hours range I 661 00:45:32,955 --> 00:45:37,635 Speaker 1: mentioned earlier. So no points here. Okay, once we again, 662 00:45:37,675 --> 00:45:41,315 Speaker 1: we swing, we swing back to youth. Was the guy 663 00:45:41,515 --> 00:45:46,635 Speaker 1: or gal ever a juvenile delinquent? Now not every student 664 00:45:46,675 --> 00:45:51,115 Speaker 1: at Trump's high priced alma mater, New York Military Academy NIMA, 665 00:45:51,195 --> 00:45:52,595 Speaker 1: as we used to call it when I was in 666 00:45:52,635 --> 00:45:56,115 Speaker 1: high school and our teams played theirs, was automatically the 667 00:45:56,155 --> 00:45:58,995 Speaker 1: son of rich parents who had been afforded the choice, 668 00:45:59,275 --> 00:46:03,395 Speaker 1: not offered their less affluent fellowed troubled kids military school 669 00:46:03,795 --> 00:46:08,915 Speaker 1: or reform school. That would be a cliche, but the 670 00:46:08,915 --> 00:46:11,715 Speaker 1: one on the record, first hand assessment we have of 671 00:46:11,755 --> 00:46:16,355 Speaker 1: Trump as child cuts through cliches and reputations. Quote. He 672 00:46:16,395 --> 00:46:19,355 Speaker 1: was a pretty rough fellow when he was small, said 673 00:46:19,355 --> 00:46:22,755 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's father, explaining why he had to pull him 674 00:46:22,755 --> 00:46:25,035 Speaker 1: out of a traditional prep school in their native Queen's 675 00:46:25,075 --> 00:46:29,275 Speaker 1: and ship him away to NIMA. There are plenty of 676 00:46:29,275 --> 00:46:32,035 Speaker 1: classmates at that military boarding school who painted picture of 677 00:46:32,035 --> 00:46:37,075 Speaker 1: a kid always throwing hands. On June twenty third, twenty sixteen, 678 00:46:37,115 --> 00:46:41,955 Speaker 1: the Washington Post profiled Trump as NIMA inmate quote struck 679 00:46:41,995 --> 00:46:44,555 Speaker 1: with a broomstick during a fight. He tried to push 680 00:46:44,555 --> 00:46:48,595 Speaker 1: a fellow cadet out the second floor window, only to 681 00:46:48,675 --> 00:46:54,635 Speaker 1: be thwarted when two other students intervened. The paper also 682 00:46:54,715 --> 00:46:58,035 Speaker 1: quoted one of his pre NEMA teachers quote, he would 683 00:46:58,115 --> 00:47:00,995 Speaker 1: sit with his arms folded with this look on his face. 684 00:47:01,675 --> 00:47:05,595 Speaker 1: I use the word surly, almost daring you to say 685 00:47:05,755 --> 00:47:09,795 Speaker 1: one thing or another that wouldn't settle with him. The 686 00:47:09,835 --> 00:47:13,715 Speaker 1: post quotes a younger neighbor named Dennis Burnham. Once, when 687 00:47:13,715 --> 00:47:16,395 Speaker 1: she left Dennis in a playpen in a backyard adjoining 688 00:47:16,395 --> 00:47:20,315 Speaker 1: the Trump's property, Martha Burnham returned to find Donald throwing 689 00:47:20,475 --> 00:47:24,355 Speaker 1: rocks at her son. She saw Donald standing at the fence, 690 00:47:24,475 --> 00:47:31,235 Speaker 1: Dennis Burnham said, using the playpen for target practice. This 691 00:47:31,435 --> 00:47:33,395 Speaker 1: is the sort of stuff that would make a true 692 00:47:33,475 --> 00:47:38,435 Speaker 1: bully flinch. Plus, we have the boast from little Donnie 693 00:47:38,475 --> 00:47:41,395 Speaker 1: Trump at about seven, blackening the eye of an adult. 694 00:47:42,435 --> 00:47:45,395 Speaker 1: Do we have records of the police being called? No, 695 00:47:45,395 --> 00:47:47,795 Speaker 1: nor does the category heading ask for them. And that 696 00:47:47,835 --> 00:47:51,435 Speaker 1: applies to the next question too. Has there been revocation 697 00:47:51,635 --> 00:47:58,555 Speaker 1: of conditional release? The what now? Revocation of conditional release? Now, 698 00:47:58,555 --> 00:48:01,235 Speaker 1: don't be worried if this confuses you, Your confusion only 699 00:48:01,275 --> 00:48:04,595 Speaker 1: means you are not a parole officer. This is legally 700 00:48:04,875 --> 00:48:08,355 Speaker 1: go for getting your parole revoked or your probation converted 701 00:48:08,355 --> 00:48:10,835 Speaker 1: into jail time because you were just caught doing that 702 00:48:10,995 --> 00:48:13,075 Speaker 1: illegal thing that had gotten you in trouble in the 703 00:48:13,115 --> 00:48:19,035 Speaker 1: first place. It is very specifically a criminal record issue. 704 00:48:19,075 --> 00:48:22,555 Speaker 1: It's tempting, based on what's happened since he left office 705 00:48:22,595 --> 00:48:25,475 Speaker 1: the first time, to give him a point here, but 706 00:48:25,595 --> 00:48:27,875 Speaker 1: I'm going to do it because that's not what the 707 00:48:27,955 --> 00:48:31,755 Speaker 1: record says at the moment. We'll revisit this in twenty 708 00:48:31,795 --> 00:48:37,835 Speaker 1: twenty nine if there is a twenty twenty nine. Finally, 709 00:48:38,235 --> 00:48:42,995 Speaker 1: is there true criminality and is it multifaceted? Not just 710 00:48:43,075 --> 00:48:45,635 Speaker 1: the same crime over and over again as in the 711 00:48:45,635 --> 00:48:50,875 Speaker 1: previous question, but lots of different kinds of crimes. The 712 00:48:50,915 --> 00:48:53,955 Speaker 1: psychological professional and I got into a big debate about 713 00:48:53,995 --> 00:48:56,955 Speaker 1: this one. She argued that criminal is not necessarily meant 714 00:48:57,075 --> 00:49:01,595 Speaker 1: literally here that if you scammed charities, stole money from 715 00:49:01,635 --> 00:49:06,795 Speaker 1: grandmothers via a phony university, and directed about twenty percent 716 00:49:06,875 --> 00:49:10,035 Speaker 1: of yourr own campaigns, monthly spending towards companies you own, 717 00:49:10,355 --> 00:49:14,395 Speaker 1: and the reimbursement for travel by your kids, it all qualified. 718 00:49:15,395 --> 00:49:18,995 Speaker 1: My point was that the word criminal is used, not dishonest, 719 00:49:19,275 --> 00:49:24,395 Speaker 1: not unethical, not nefarious, capital c criminal and the purp 720 00:49:24,435 --> 00:49:28,075 Speaker 1: walk or multimillion dollar fine in restitution, which that implies, 721 00:49:29,355 --> 00:49:31,275 Speaker 1: not that that couldn't have been the end result from 722 00:49:31,315 --> 00:49:40,795 Speaker 1: Trump you and then came you know his presidency and 723 00:49:41,115 --> 00:49:45,675 Speaker 1: stealing all those you know, espionage kind of document stuffs, 724 00:49:46,475 --> 00:49:49,515 Speaker 1: and the Egene Carol case and the other Egene Carol 725 00:49:49,555 --> 00:49:53,835 Speaker 1: case and January sixth and all the convictions, and and 726 00:49:54,115 --> 00:49:58,035 Speaker 1: this just proves, take heart, young man, no matter how 727 00:49:58,075 --> 00:50:03,315 Speaker 1: old you are, you still can get crazier. Give them 728 00:50:03,315 --> 00:50:09,115 Speaker 1: the two points for a final score of thirty three. 729 00:50:09,395 --> 00:50:14,155 Speaker 1: So there you have it. Trump peters out towards the 730 00:50:14,235 --> 00:50:16,555 Speaker 1: end there, but with thirty points being the marker at 731 00:50:16,555 --> 00:50:21,835 Speaker 1: which professionals could present a diagnosis of psychopathy your psychopath, 732 00:50:22,195 --> 00:50:27,435 Speaker 1: the implications are clear. Our Trumper's new clothes media rightly 733 00:50:27,475 --> 00:50:30,795 Speaker 1: sees the latest Trump event, whatever it is this time, 734 00:50:31,115 --> 00:50:34,515 Speaker 1: as one of the most unbelievable developments in American political history. 735 00:50:34,515 --> 00:50:37,355 Speaker 1: But the simple mechanics of following, reporting, and writing the 736 00:50:37,435 --> 00:50:41,795 Speaker 1: proverbial new high in low every single day means that 737 00:50:41,875 --> 00:50:45,395 Speaker 1: they could be missing one overriding truth about the mental 738 00:50:45,435 --> 00:50:51,115 Speaker 1: health of the most remarkable presidential candidate ever. In short, 739 00:50:51,835 --> 00:50:56,275 Speaker 1: our amateurs exercise with the very professional hair psychopathy checklist 740 00:50:56,355 --> 00:51:00,515 Speaker 1: suggests that if you were betting on it, you'd probably 741 00:51:00,595 --> 00:51:04,435 Speaker 1: want to bet that Donald Trump couldn't pass a sanity 742 00:51:04,475 --> 00:51:13,155 Speaker 1: to time open book. Now, having slogged through this inventory 743 00:51:13,275 --> 00:51:18,395 Speaker 1: of the Citizen Kane storage unit of bizarre presidential candidate conduct, 744 00:51:18,755 --> 00:51:21,835 Speaker 1: go look at social media because in the time it 745 00:51:21,875 --> 00:51:25,795 Speaker 1: has taken you to listen to this podcast, even if, 746 00:51:25,795 --> 00:51:31,755 Speaker 1: as Congresswoman Dean says, the president is unwell, He's probably 747 00:51:31,915 --> 00:51:35,355 Speaker 1: just done something new to raise his score, hasn't he. 748 00:51:55,595 --> 00:51:57,355 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 749 00:51:57,395 --> 00:52:00,115 Speaker 1: you for listening. Most of our Countdown music was arranged, produced, 750 00:52:00,155 --> 00:52:03,075 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneil, our 751 00:52:03,155 --> 00:52:06,315 Speaker 1: musical directors of Countdown. It was produced by Tko Brothers. 752 00:52:06,555 --> 00:52:09,075 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. Mister 753 00:52:09,155 --> 00:52:13,075 Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical 754 00:52:13,115 --> 00:52:16,595 Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. 755 00:52:16,915 --> 00:52:19,915 Speaker 1: The Elderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren 756 00:52:19,995 --> 00:52:23,595 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Is the sports music. Other 757 00:52:23,715 --> 00:52:26,235 Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 758 00:52:27,555 --> 00:52:30,395 Speaker 1: The Test is copyrighted by the people from the Test. 759 00:52:30,595 --> 00:52:33,555 Speaker 1: The article some of that's mine, some of that belongs 760 00:52:33,595 --> 00:52:37,195 Speaker 1: to Vanity Fair. Whatever they want ten dollars. I'll send 761 00:52:37,235 --> 00:52:41,275 Speaker 1: them ten dollars. Everything else was, as always, my fault. 762 00:52:42,275 --> 00:52:44,755 Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, Day two hundred and forty six 763 00:52:44,795 --> 00:52:48,475 Speaker 1: of America held hostage, just two hundred and seventeen days 764 00:52:48,515 --> 00:52:50,635 Speaker 1: until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame 765 00:52:50,635 --> 00:52:54,435 Speaker 1: brain term. Unless he is removed sooner by MAGA and 766 00:52:54,515 --> 00:52:57,035 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, or the pavement on his hand, or a 767 00:52:57,075 --> 00:53:00,115 Speaker 1: stuck escalator, or the psychopathy test or tail and Hall, 768 00:53:00,395 --> 00:53:04,835 Speaker 1: or the president is unwell. The next scheduled count on 769 00:53:04,995 --> 00:53:08,315 Speaker 1: is Monday till then. I'm Keith Ulreman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 770 00:53:08,595 --> 00:53:29,955 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Alreman is a production 771 00:53:30,155 --> 00:53:35,475 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 772 00:53:35,555 --> 00:53:38,915 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.