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