WEBVTT - RERUN: COULD TRUMP PASS A SANITY TEST? - 10.3.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:14.755 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. If 0:00:14.795 --> 0:00:17.915 we all live through this, The subject that will surprise 0:00:18.075 --> 0:00:21.195 historians the most is for how long it was clear 0:00:21.235 --> 0:00:26.115 this man was mentally incoonfident and nobody did anything about it. Ordinarily, 0:00:26.155 --> 0:00:28.715 I would say my conscience was clear about this because 0:00:28.875 --> 0:00:31.795 I first brought it up in June of twenty sixteen 0:00:32.315 --> 0:00:37.275 on the Chelsea Handler Show on Netflix. Yes there was one, 0:00:37.315 --> 0:00:40.195 look it up. Then the next month Vanity Fair published 0:00:40.195 --> 0:00:43.595 a piece I did called could Trump Pass a Sanity Test? 0:00:43.715 --> 0:00:47.275 And we made a video of it. Apparently I didn't 0:00:47.275 --> 0:00:49.875 talk loud enough on the Chelsea Handler Show, or the 0:00:49.995 --> 0:00:52.435 article wasn't long enough, or we didn't make enough videos. 0:00:53.835 --> 0:00:56.955 I'm going to tank the could Trump pass a Sanity Test? 0:00:57.795 --> 0:01:01.235 Article and read it again now virtually unchanged with a 0:01:01.235 --> 0:01:06.835 few notes, because it's all still true, only way worse. 0:01:07.475 --> 0:01:11.475 But it was all there when this article came out 0:01:12.595 --> 0:01:18.155 one hundred and eleven months ago. One hundred and eleven 0:01:20.555 --> 0:01:25.955 Could Trump pass a Sanity Test? July twenty first, twoenty 0:01:26.155 --> 0:01:35.195 sixteen Short answer, probably not. First several important caveats. There 0:01:35.235 --> 0:01:39.235 is little worse and nothing cheesier than questioning the psychological 0:01:39.235 --> 0:01:42.755 stability of a public figure, especially a candidate for president, 0:01:42.875 --> 0:01:46.635 even in this case, except that in his year of campaigning, 0:01:46.675 --> 0:01:50.955 Donald Trump has called Lindsey Graham a nut job, Glen 0:01:50.995 --> 0:01:55.435 Beck a real nut job, and Bernie Sanders a wacko. 0:01:55.595 --> 0:02:00.555 Trump has insisted Ben Carson's got pathological disease, and asked 0:02:00.635 --> 0:02:05.035 about Barack Obama is our president insane? He called Ted 0:02:05.115 --> 0:02:08.675 Cruz unstable, unhinged, a little bit of a maniac, and 0:02:09.035 --> 0:02:12.555 crazy or very dishonest. He also called the entire CNBC 0:02:12.875 --> 0:02:17.915 channel crazy. He called Megan Kelly crazy at least six times. 0:02:19.155 --> 0:02:23.915 Respectful reticence about aspersions and cliches and mental health questions 0:02:23.915 --> 0:02:27.515 in a time in which mocking was seemingly slowly maturing 0:02:27.595 --> 0:02:31.875 into concern. That died a long time ago in this 0:02:32.035 --> 0:02:36.395 presidential cycle of twenty sixteen, and it died at Donald 0:02:36.435 --> 0:02:40.635 Trump's hands. Moreover, if the question is asked seriously and 0:02:40.675 --> 0:02:44.555 not gratuitously, just the examination might explain how Trump has 0:02:44.555 --> 0:02:48.435 seemingly survived dozens of moments that might each have been 0:02:48.595 --> 0:02:53.075 campaign enders for almost anybody else. Why have we not 0:02:53.315 --> 0:02:57.155 asked if a given presidential candidate might be disqualified from 0:02:57.235 --> 0:03:01.515 office due to psychological reasons, because we not only can't 0:03:01.555 --> 0:03:04.795 see this forest for the trees, but each time we try, 0:03:04.795 --> 0:03:08.835 there are even more trees blocking our view. In the 0:03:08.875 --> 0:03:13.155 twenty four hour news cycle, each successive John Yerke's Iceland 0:03:13.235 --> 0:03:17.995 moment is not registered cumulatively. It merely supplants the one 0:03:18.035 --> 0:03:24.555 from last week or yesterday this morning. This could also 0:03:24.595 --> 0:03:28.915 explain Trump's seeming imperviousness to his own mind bending campaign. 0:03:29.155 --> 0:03:32.915 Surely it must be exhausting to attack the Pope February 0:03:32.995 --> 0:03:39.675 eighteenth attack President Clinton, May eighteenth, attack, John McCain July eighteenth, 0:03:39.915 --> 0:03:45.955 attack Mexicans June sixteenth, attack Muslims December eighth attack. Candidates 0:03:45.955 --> 0:03:49.275 who use a teleprompter, May twenty sixth, just before you 0:03:49.355 --> 0:03:53.355 give a speech using a teleprompter, May twenty sixth. It's 0:03:53.395 --> 0:03:57.315 got to be exhausting unless, as the old joke goes, 0:03:57.875 --> 0:04:05.595 no pain no gain, also no brain, no pain anyway. 0:04:06.195 --> 0:04:09.955 The actual sanity test I found for this article is called, 0:04:09.995 --> 0:04:16.715 by delicious coincidence, the hair Psychopathy Checklist Revised, introduced by 0:04:16.715 --> 0:04:21.275 a Canadian criminal psychologist named Robert D. Hare in nineteen 0:04:21.355 --> 0:04:25.835 eighty and that's Hare. It's still in use. In some quarters, 0:04:25.875 --> 0:04:29.155 though with ever more diffuse and specific mental health diagnoses. 0:04:29.315 --> 0:04:32.915 It is not without its critics, however, as a practicing 0:04:32.995 --> 0:04:36.155 therapist who walked me through it agreed, it serves as 0:04:36.155 --> 0:04:40.355 a kind of triage device to separate the injured from 0:04:40.395 --> 0:04:46.555 the tripping from the psychopathic. And about that word, we 0:04:46.595 --> 0:04:52.475 seem to have completely muddled up sociopath and psychopath. Sociopath 0:04:52.955 --> 0:04:56.475 think Ted Kaczynski, the unibomber, living out there and his 0:04:56.715 --> 0:05:00.635 shack in the woods, feeling nothing for other humans and 0:05:00.955 --> 0:05:07.115 unable to interact with them, literally mailing it in psychopath 0:05:07.475 --> 0:05:11.795 think Ted Bundy feeling nothing for other humans, but having 0:05:11.875 --> 0:05:16.155 long ago learned how to expertly mimic relationships by being 0:05:16.195 --> 0:05:20.075 whatever he needed to be to whomever he needed to use, 0:05:20.635 --> 0:05:23.755 killing at least thirty women serving as his own counsel, 0:05:23.835 --> 0:05:28.075 and cross examining a female witness, proposing marriage to her 0:05:28.115 --> 0:05:30.435 while she was on the stand, and getting her to 0:05:30.475 --> 0:05:36.315 say yes. For each of the twenty items on the 0:05:36.355 --> 0:05:40.315 hair psychopathy checklist, you're supposed to assign the subject a zero, 0:05:40.915 --> 0:05:45.435 one point or two. The highest and most dangerous score 0:05:45.915 --> 0:05:50.155 is thus forty. In the United States, the accepted minimum 0:05:50.235 --> 0:05:55.875 score for possible psychopathy meaning you might be nuts is thirty. 0:05:56.795 --> 0:06:01.315 So those are the rules. Let's play the freud. The 0:06:01.355 --> 0:06:07.515 test begins with an assessment of charm that is superficial, 0:06:08.635 --> 0:06:15.835 forced charm, faked charm? May I dare say this Trump charm? 0:06:16.555 --> 0:06:18.955 I had interviewed Donald Trump as long ago as nineteen 0:06:18.995 --> 0:06:21.355 eighty three, and I always thought he was a horse's ass. 0:06:21.395 --> 0:06:24.315 But after running into him when we both worked at NBC, 0:06:25.075 --> 0:06:27.315 and then in the lobby of one of his apartment 0:06:27.315 --> 0:06:30.355 buildings in which I lived, I was stunned to encounter 0:06:30.435 --> 0:06:38.595 a quiet, succinct, seemingly sincere co worker and in essence landlord. 0:06:39.675 --> 0:06:42.235 In one role, he described himself as an anti Bush 0:06:42.315 --> 0:06:45.755 pro Obama Liberal. In the other, he urged me to 0:06:45.915 --> 0:06:50.435 contact him personally with any problems or suggestions about the 0:06:50.475 --> 0:06:52.195 building in which I lived. And then he got on 0:06:52.235 --> 0:06:56.715 the campaign stage, and boom, he was America's newest Mussolinium personator. 0:06:58.395 --> 0:07:02.195 For a long while, I was flummixed as to which 0:07:02.195 --> 0:07:07.915 of these truly mutually ex exclusive personalities was the act. 0:07:08.155 --> 0:07:10.395 Then I was reminded that it didn't really matter, which 0:07:10.995 --> 0:07:15.435 that having multiple personalities should by itself preclude one from 0:07:15.515 --> 0:07:22.115 having access to multiple nuclear warheads. I was explaining this 0:07:22.275 --> 0:07:27.715 on Bill Maher's show in November twenty fifteen when mar 0:07:27.875 --> 0:07:31.795 suddenly got so g whiz that I almost didn't recognize him. 0:07:32.035 --> 0:07:36.475 Me too, he exclaimed boyishly. Mar cynical to such a 0:07:36.475 --> 0:07:39.035 degree that it makes me seem as earnestly faithful as 0:07:39.075 --> 0:07:42.475 a pope, said he had just been as convinced as 0:07:42.555 --> 0:07:47.355 I was, and thus just as stunned by this hydra 0:07:47.555 --> 0:07:53.555 of Trumpian personas he'd always been nice to me. I 0:07:53.595 --> 0:07:56.795 can easily imagine myself being taken in by a con 0:07:56.875 --> 0:07:59.435 artist like Donald Trump. I mean, Trump wrote me a 0:07:59.475 --> 0:08:04.035 fan letter once. But mar mar who called me a 0:08:04.075 --> 0:08:07.195 corporate allowed in nineteen seventy eight, when I had to 0:08:07.235 --> 0:08:10.835 that point earned about two hundred dollars from all the 0:08:10.875 --> 0:08:15.835 corporations in the world combined. He fooled Bill Maher. So 0:08:15.955 --> 0:08:18.755 if you're giving out points about fake charm, Trump gets 0:08:18.755 --> 0:08:22.795 both of them. The next topic was an excessive sense 0:08:22.795 --> 0:08:27.795 of self worth. No kidding, I feel like a supermodel, 0:08:28.075 --> 0:08:31.595 he said on June eighteenth, twenty sixteen, in Phoenix, except 0:08:31.635 --> 0:08:35.555 like times ten, it's true, I'm a supermodel. I'm on 0:08:35.595 --> 0:08:37.995 the cover of these magazines. I'm on the cover of 0:08:38.035 --> 0:08:43.955 the biggest magazines. This was stated by the first Umpealoopa 0:08:44.035 --> 0:08:49.515 American to run for national office. He is bright orange. 0:08:50.515 --> 0:08:54.355 He is an old man, affecting a hair color and 0:08:54.475 --> 0:08:58.275 style that would have been rejected by the eighties synth 0:08:58.475 --> 0:09:04.275 pop group A flock of seagulls. I served with supermodels. 0:09:04.795 --> 0:09:09.595 I knew supermodels. Supermodels were friends of mine. Donald, You're 0:09:09.675 --> 0:09:13.475 no supermodel. But that is two more points for you. 0:09:15.155 --> 0:09:17.995 The test moves on to ask if the subject can't 0:09:17.995 --> 0:09:22.035 mentally sit still, must he always try to make things 0:09:22.115 --> 0:09:25.195 happen good, bad, or otherwise? Not easily bored but almost 0:09:25.235 --> 0:09:28.915 impossible to focus? Acknowledging that a lot of us get 0:09:28.955 --> 0:09:30.875 a point or two here, I certainly do not. All 0:09:30.915 --> 0:09:33.755 of those job changes of mine were their fault. Let 0:09:33.795 --> 0:09:36.595 me first quote the introduction from Trump's think like a 0:09:36.635 --> 0:09:40.755 billionaire quote, don't take vacations. What's the point? Have a 0:09:40.795 --> 0:09:44.475 short attention span? Most successful people have very short attention spans. 0:09:44.555 --> 0:09:48.515 It has a lot to do with imagination. Here are 0:09:48.555 --> 0:09:52.155 some of the wide ranging businesses Trump's short attention span 0:09:52.435 --> 0:09:59.635 has dragged him and the world into real estate, vitamins, rentals, books, condos, 0:09:59.755 --> 0:10:04.315 trucolate bars, golf courses, pro football, beauty pageants, stakes, board 0:10:04.355 --> 0:10:12.395 game television hosting, bottled water, universities, men's wear, professional wrestling, mortgages, airlines, fragrances, coffee, restaurants, 0:10:12.515 --> 0:10:15.555 energy drinks, vodka, search, engines your analysis, and of course, 0:10:15.675 --> 0:10:21.875 bicycle racing. Bicycle racing the Tour de Trump in which 0:10:21.915 --> 0:10:25.595 I noted at the time, contestants raced three hundred laps 0:10:25.635 --> 0:10:31.595 around his ego. As a twenty twenty five aside. Can 0:10:31.595 --> 0:10:35.355 we add crypto and flags and bibles and merch and 0:10:35.635 --> 0:10:39.035 twenty sixteen hats and twenty twenty hats and twenty twenty 0:10:39.075 --> 0:10:42.115 eight hats and twenty thirty two hats and mugshot merch 0:10:42.875 --> 0:10:50.755 and influenced pedling and two more points? The test now 0:10:50.795 --> 0:10:56.315 gets heavy. Is there lying involved? Again? To June eighteenth, 0:10:56.355 --> 0:11:01.355 twenty sixteen, at the Woodlands in Texas after the horrible 0:11:01.475 --> 0:11:05.035 Pulse Club shooting. Quote. If some of those wonderful people 0:11:05.075 --> 0:11:07.915 had guns strapped right here, right to their waist or 0:11:07.955 --> 0:11:09.875 right to their ankle, and this son of a bitch 0:11:09.915 --> 0:11:11.795 comes out and starts shooting, and one of the people 0:11:11.795 --> 0:11:13.755 in that room happen to have it and goes boom. 0:11:13.995 --> 0:11:16.555 You know what, that would have been a beautiful, beautiful site, folks, 0:11:16.675 --> 0:11:20.635 that would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight. June twenty 0:11:20.875 --> 0:11:23.915 two days later on Twitter, when I said that if 0:11:23.955 --> 0:11:26.355 within the Orlando club you had some people with guns, 0:11:26.515 --> 0:11:32.795 I was obviously talking about additional guards or employees. Can 0:11:32.835 --> 0:11:35.355 I stop here or should I walk you through the 0:11:35.635 --> 0:11:38.835 hot and cold running lies? Alternating with the admissions of 0:11:38.875 --> 0:11:41.275 the Times in the nineties, he pretended to be his 0:11:41.315 --> 0:11:47.955 own spokesman, John Miller and John barn Or say virtually 0:11:47.955 --> 0:11:50.475 every other thing he said since this article came out 0:11:50.555 --> 0:11:53.955 nine years ago. Another two points on your scoreboard, please. 0:11:54.995 --> 0:11:58.955 The test then asks if the patient is manipulative or 0:11:59.075 --> 0:12:05.115 cons people you think I'll add today from the of 0:12:05.115 --> 0:12:07.875 twenty twenty five, who should we ask to write the 0:12:07.915 --> 0:12:12.835 guest essay on this question? Here? Mike Pence, maybe Trump's 0:12:12.835 --> 0:12:20.195 own daughter Ivanka. I'm giving another two points here. Next 0:12:20.275 --> 0:12:23.035 we remove to the absence of any sense of guilt 0:12:23.275 --> 0:12:29.035 or regret, ask about his faith. At the Family Leadership 0:12:29.075 --> 0:12:32.475 Summit in Ames, Iowa by the moderator Frank Lunce in 0:12:32.555 --> 0:12:36.475 July twenty fifteen, Trump said people are so shocked when 0:12:36.515 --> 0:12:39.835 they find out I am Protestant, I am Presbyterian, and 0:12:39.875 --> 0:12:41.875 I go to church and I love God and I 0:12:41.915 --> 0:12:45.915 love my church. Lunce then followed up with the softball 0:12:46.635 --> 0:12:51.795 of literally biblical proportions. Whether Trump has ever asked God 0:12:51.875 --> 0:12:56.835 for forgiveness for his own actions quote, I'm not sure 0:12:56.875 --> 0:12:59.275 I have. I just go on and try to do 0:12:59.315 --> 0:13:02.115 a better job from there. I don't think so. I 0:13:02.155 --> 0:13:04.355 think if I do something wrong, I think I just 0:13:04.395 --> 0:13:07.355 try and make it right. I don't bring God into 0:13:07.355 --> 0:13:12.875 that picture. I don't. Trump then explained that Holy Communion 0:13:13.155 --> 0:13:17.075 sufficed quote when I drink my little wine, which is 0:13:17.115 --> 0:13:19.835 about the only wine I drink, and have my little cracker, 0:13:19.915 --> 0:13:22.235 I guess that is a form of asking for forgiveness, 0:13:22.355 --> 0:13:24.715 and I do that as often as possible because I 0:13:24.795 --> 0:13:28.555 feel cleansed. I think in terms of let's go on 0:13:28.715 --> 0:13:35.155 and let's make it right, unquote the art of the deal. Indeed, 0:13:37.315 --> 0:13:40.035 Trump picked up this thread with Jake Tapper in January 0:13:40.035 --> 0:13:43.515 twenty sixteen. Again the subject was religion. Quote. I like 0:13:43.595 --> 0:13:45.475 to be good. I don't like to have to ask 0:13:45.515 --> 0:13:49.835 for forgiveness. Tapper then asked about arrival, presumed to be 0:13:49.915 --> 0:13:53.275 Ted Cruz, who was conducting field research into the efficacy 0:13:53.275 --> 0:13:57.475 of questioning Trump's religious convictions. Quote, he shouldn't be doing that, 0:13:57.715 --> 0:14:02.715 very unethical. Within a few weeks, Trump attacked Cruise's religious 0:14:02.715 --> 0:14:06.315 convictions on February twelve, health In fact, He's tweeted, how 0:14:06.355 --> 0:14:09.555 can Ted Cruz be an evangelical Christian when he lies 0:14:09.595 --> 0:14:14.035 so much and is so dishonest. Not a week after that, 0:14:14.315 --> 0:14:18.155 Pope Francis answered a question about Trump's overall tone quote, 0:14:18.195 --> 0:14:21.435 A person who thinks only about building walls wherever they 0:14:21.475 --> 0:14:26.635 may be and not building bridges is not Christian. Within hours, 0:14:26.675 --> 0:14:31.075 Trump slammed the Pope fantasized about an ISIS attack on 0:14:31.115 --> 0:14:33.995 the Vatican that only he Trump could stop and concluded 0:14:34.035 --> 0:14:37.355 this remarkable circle of illogic by writing, for a religious 0:14:37.395 --> 0:14:41.275 leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. This is 0:14:41.355 --> 0:14:44.915 right after he questioned a person's faith, after he twice 0:14:44.955 --> 0:14:47.475 admitted that his faith included the option to not ask 0:14:47.595 --> 0:14:52.355 forgiveness and not quote bring God into that picture, and 0:14:52.475 --> 0:14:54.635 just four months before he'd go back to this well 0:14:54.675 --> 0:14:59.835 and question Hillary Clinton's faith again. That's two more solid points. 0:15:01.635 --> 0:15:05.955 The next item had to be explained to me thoroughly 0:15:05.995 --> 0:15:11.755 from my analyst friend. It's the psychological jargon term shallow affect. 0:15:12.915 --> 0:15:16.035 In some it's tone deafness when it comes to explaining 0:15:16.115 --> 0:15:19.555 relationships between people. For instance, if somebody got up on 0:15:19.635 --> 0:15:23.155 stage for the sake of argument, we'll say it's Billy 0:15:23.235 --> 0:15:27.635 Joel at Madison Square Garden, and that person insulted you 0:15:28.195 --> 0:15:32.875 by sarcastically dedicating to you his song the Entertainer as 0:15:32.915 --> 0:15:35.675 a way of saying you weren't a leader or a politician, 0:15:35.675 --> 0:15:39.555 but merely an entertainer. You might take umbrage or at 0:15:39.635 --> 0:15:44.635 least recognize the insult, not if you are suffering from 0:15:44.715 --> 0:15:49.595 shallow effect. Thank you, Billy Joel, Trump tweeted on May 0:15:49.635 --> 0:15:52.715 twenty seven, twenty sixteen. Many friends just told me you 0:15:52.715 --> 0:15:56.075 gave me a very kind shout out at MSG. Appreciated 0:15:56.555 --> 0:16:02.835 love your music. Another example of shallow affect would be 0:16:02.835 --> 0:16:05.995 a kind of approach to how people influence each other's 0:16:06.115 --> 0:16:11.675 lives that could be diagrammed as event B follows event A. 0:16:11.795 --> 0:16:16.995 Therefore event A caused event B. If say, a prominent 0:16:17.075 --> 0:16:21.235 athlete ignored you or in some other tangential way, interacted 0:16:21.235 --> 0:16:24.755 with you before failing or being injured. You might think 0:16:24.755 --> 0:16:28.515 in passing that you would somehow jinxt him, especially if 0:16:28.515 --> 0:16:31.475 you were still nine or ten years old, but you 0:16:31.635 --> 0:16:35.595 probably wouldn't publicly claim it, not unless you're suffering from 0:16:35.955 --> 0:16:40.035 shallow affect. Quote Derek Jeter had a great career until 0:16:40.035 --> 0:16:44.115 three days ago. Trump tweeted on October fifteenth, twenty twelve, 0:16:44.355 --> 0:16:47.355 after the baseball player shattered his ankle during a game 0:16:47.595 --> 0:16:50.275 when he sold his apartment at Trump World Tower. I 0:16:50.355 --> 0:16:56.115 told him not to sell karma. The answer this chain 0:16:56.235 --> 0:16:59.915 letter or many ankles will be broken theme was not 0:17:00.075 --> 0:17:03.635 some early passing expression of the now familiar syndrome we 0:17:03.715 --> 0:17:09.755 might describe as TWT tweeting, while Trump five days later 0:17:09.875 --> 0:17:12.435 quote Derek Jeter broke ankle one day after he sold 0:17:12.475 --> 0:17:17.275 his apartment in Trump World Tower, and just to finish 0:17:17.355 --> 0:17:19.915 this off. Another aspect to shallow affect would be an 0:17:19.995 --> 0:17:25.595 unwillingness to acknowledge reliance on others. On March sixteenth, twenty sixteen, 0:17:25.635 --> 0:17:29.275 Trump was asked about which foreign policy consultancy was speaking to. 0:17:29.995 --> 0:17:32.555 I'm speaking with myself, number one, because I have a 0:17:32.635 --> 0:17:36.875 very good brain, he said, apparently seriously. I know what 0:17:36.955 --> 0:17:38.835 I'm doing, and I listen to a lot of people. 0:17:38.875 --> 0:17:40.315 I talk to a lot of people, and at the 0:17:40.355 --> 0:17:42.715 appropriate time, I'll tell you who the people are. But 0:17:42.875 --> 0:17:46.715 my primary consultant is myself, and I have a good 0:17:46.795 --> 0:17:52.355 instinct for this stuff. As an aside, is the narrator 0:17:52.475 --> 0:17:58.395 anywhere to know he's off his break. On June twenty fourth, 0:17:58.475 --> 0:18:02.115 twenty sixteen, in Scotland, Trump again described his dream consultant, 0:18:02.475 --> 0:18:05.995 saying he spoke to quote foreign the advisors all the time, 0:18:05.995 --> 0:18:09.715 but the advice has to come from me. The advice 0:18:09.955 --> 0:18:15.035 has to come from me. The effect is shallow. The 0:18:15.075 --> 0:18:19.475 points score is not like that last statement. There's two 0:18:19.555 --> 0:18:24.355 of them. Then it's onto lack of empathy. How much 0:18:24.475 --> 0:18:29.395 lack of empathy can you have? June twelfth, twenty sixteen, 0:18:29.435 --> 0:18:31.435 hours after the last shots had been fired at the 0:18:31.435 --> 0:18:35.795 Pulse Club in Orlando, quote, appreciate the congrats for being 0:18:35.915 --> 0:18:39.475 right on radical Islamic terrorism. I don't want congrats. I 0:18:39.475 --> 0:18:44.155 want toughness and vigilance. We must be smart. As a reminder, 0:18:44.795 --> 0:18:47.675 you cannot give fifteen hundred points for just one item 0:18:47.715 --> 0:18:50.835 on the hair psychopathy checklist, even if that total is 0:18:50.875 --> 0:18:55.595 seemingly deserved. Just just two more here, then there's a 0:18:55.635 --> 0:18:59.275 lifestyle question. Does the subject of your exam live his 0:18:59.435 --> 0:19:04.315 life as you know a parasite. This does not mean, 0:19:04.315 --> 0:19:07.115 as I originally thought, living materially off mom and dad 0:19:07.155 --> 0:19:10.075 or others, although that can be a minor component, especially 0:19:10.155 --> 0:19:14.035 if dad gave you a million dollar loan circle nineteen 0:19:14.155 --> 0:19:16.955 seventy and you get nine million more from a bank 0:19:16.995 --> 0:19:19.595 on the promise of your inheritance, and ultimately you got 0:19:19.635 --> 0:19:23.195 about forty million on your father's death, and you considered 0:19:23.195 --> 0:19:27.115 all that just a small start in life. No, it 0:19:27.155 --> 0:19:28.995 has more to do with taking credit for the work 0:19:29.035 --> 0:19:32.555 of others, to the degree of erasing all record of 0:19:32.595 --> 0:19:37.035 their contributions and slapping your name on their efforts, often 0:19:37.075 --> 0:19:40.635 in transactions in which you are literally renting the use 0:19:40.715 --> 0:19:45.595 of your name as a brand and nothing else, you know, 0:19:45.715 --> 0:19:50.195 like Trump Pallace, the Tour, to Trump, Trump Steaks, Trump 0:19:50.235 --> 0:19:55.155 taj Mahal, Donald Trump, the Fragrance, and of course Castle 0:19:55.235 --> 0:19:59.995 TRUMPU law. And just as in court, a wife cannot 0:20:00.035 --> 0:20:03.035 be forced to give evidence of parasitic lifestyle against her husband, 0:20:03.075 --> 0:20:07.195 despite Millennia Trump's Conventions speech fiasco in twenty sixteen, unless 0:20:07.195 --> 0:20:09.275 her husband wrote or stole that for her. Remember that 0:20:09.835 --> 0:20:13.075 where her speech sounded suspiciously like Michelle Obama's. Again just 0:20:13.435 --> 0:20:18.635 two points. The mid point two point question asks if 0:20:18.675 --> 0:20:24.155 the subject had poor behavioral controls, Well, what's your definition 0:20:24.235 --> 0:20:27.515 of poor? As a twenty twenty five aside, I'd like 0:20:27.555 --> 0:20:30.475 to note the next sentence was written by me in 0:20:30.515 --> 0:20:36.155 twenty sixteen. Well, he had poor behavioral controls, but everybody 0:20:36.235 --> 0:20:40.075 agrees he's going to dial it all back this time 0:20:40.555 --> 0:20:46.995 right after he pivots pivots towards dialing it back. Right 0:20:47.115 --> 0:20:52.915 Judge Gonzalo Curiel, right, Don King, Joel Austin, Ben Roethlisberger, 0:20:52.955 --> 0:20:55.755 Pete Rose, or anybody else who Trump claimed had endorsed 0:20:55.835 --> 0:20:58.675 him when they had not, Or the Hispanic ABC reporter 0:20:58.715 --> 0:21:01.835 he called a sleeze, or the losing Republican presidential hopefuls 0:21:01.875 --> 0:21:04.515 he mocked in a video the day after he insisted 0:21:04.555 --> 0:21:09.835 he was going to unite the Republican Party. So we 0:21:09.875 --> 0:21:12.915 are at the halfway mark of this twenty sixteen exam, 0:21:12.995 --> 0:21:15.675 and the article I wrote, could Trump pass a sanity 0:21:15.755 --> 0:21:19.555 test two points per topic? Thirty or thirty five points 0:21:19.635 --> 0:21:23.395 is real trouble. So far, he's been graded for possible 0:21:23.475 --> 0:21:28.635 twenty points, and he has twenty points the rest of it. 0:21:29.075 --> 0:21:37.755 The next topic is promiscuous sexual behavior. Oh, that's next. 0:21:37.995 --> 0:21:47.635 This is countdown back with the second half of the 0:21:47.715 --> 0:21:51.435 July twenty sixteen Vanity Fair article I wrote, Can Trump 0:21:51.475 --> 0:21:55.275 pass a sanity Test? Where with the help of a therapist, 0:21:55.315 --> 0:21:57.635 I tried to score how nuts he was even then 0:21:57.755 --> 0:22:04.075 from afar All this in light of Congresswoman Dean's pithy 0:22:04.195 --> 0:22:09.595 and quick observation the President is unwell and Governor Pritzker's 0:22:09.675 --> 0:22:13.675 invocation of invoking the twenty fifth Amendment to remove him 0:22:13.675 --> 0:22:18.675 from office because there's something really wrong with him. Now, 0:22:18.755 --> 0:22:22.475 to remind you, you're supposed to give the patient no 0:22:22.595 --> 0:22:25.515 points one point or two point per topic. That's it, 0:22:26.755 --> 0:22:29.795 no variations. So far we've done half of the topics. 0:22:29.835 --> 0:22:32.275 Ten of them, he's gotten twenty points. That's not the 0:22:32.315 --> 0:22:34.835 flex that he would think it would be if you 0:22:34.955 --> 0:22:39.355 told him to resume with the test. Is the individual 0:22:39.515 --> 0:22:45.915 sexually promiscuous? Ahem. When I was a young radio sportscaster, 0:22:46.115 --> 0:22:48.915 I was given the great opportunity to interview by telephone 0:22:49.275 --> 0:22:51.795 a famous athlete who had just been suspended from his 0:22:51.875 --> 0:22:54.755 sport because he had gone to work for a casino 0:22:55.675 --> 0:22:58.835 the athlete now deceased, but will still use a pseudonym. 0:22:58.835 --> 0:23:02.715 We'll call him Jimmy Smith was expecting my call. This 0:23:03.115 --> 0:23:05.915 as near as I can remember, it was the transcript 0:23:05.955 --> 0:23:10.395 of the start of that call, ring, ring voice sounding 0:23:10.475 --> 0:23:13.715 kind of like Hattie McDaniel, the Academy Award winning actress 0:23:13.715 --> 0:23:19.875 from Gone with the Wind. Mister Smith's residence. Me uh hi. 0:23:21.275 --> 0:23:24.795 Milton Richmond from UPI gave me mister Smith's number and 0:23:24.835 --> 0:23:27.075 said he would be willing to give me a brief interview. 0:23:27.115 --> 0:23:31.235 May I may I speak with him? Please? Voice sounding 0:23:31.315 --> 0:23:34.195 kind of like Hattie McDaniel, the Academy Award winning actress 0:23:34.195 --> 0:23:39.715 from Gone with the Wind. Who's calling please me? My 0:23:39.835 --> 0:23:44.435 name is Keith Olderman from UPI Radio. Jimmy Smith. This 0:23:44.555 --> 0:23:48.715 is Jimmy. As silly as the story of the whole 0:23:49.195 --> 0:23:54.435 fake Trump spokesman was. Of course he has invisible friends. 0:23:54.955 --> 0:23:58.555 Of course they're pr flax. Lost in the laughter were 0:23:58.595 --> 0:24:03.155 three important details. Firstly, as my conversation with Jimmy Smith 0:24:03.235 --> 0:24:06.635 and his imaginary house keeper suggests, people do do this, 0:24:07.875 --> 0:24:10.275 but secondly, when they do it, they usually try to 0:24:10.395 --> 0:24:16.115 disguise their own voice. Thirdly, rarely do they assume other 0:24:16.195 --> 0:24:19.835 identities in order to provide the second component to what 0:24:19.875 --> 0:24:25.795 we categorize as promiscuity, besides multiple partners boasting about it. 0:24:27.275 --> 0:24:31.195 Nineteen ninety one, John Miller to sue carswell than of 0:24:31.275 --> 0:24:35.715 people as of twenty and fifteen with Vanity Fair, for 0:24:35.795 --> 0:24:41.155 whom I wrote this article. Quote, He's meaning Trump, somebody 0:24:41.155 --> 0:24:43.075 that has a lot of options, and frankly, he gets 0:24:43.155 --> 0:24:45.675 called by everybody. He gets called by everybody in the book. 0:24:45.715 --> 0:24:48.875 In terms of women, I mean they call, they just call. 0:24:49.035 --> 0:24:52.155 He's living with Marla and he's got three other girlfriends. 0:24:53.435 --> 0:24:57.435 Unquote Trump in his own voice, pretending to be somebody 0:24:57.475 --> 0:25:02.675 else talking about Trump and the women he betted. That'll 0:25:02.715 --> 0:25:06.835 be two more points. Next. The test asks if there 0:25:06.875 --> 0:25:10.835 were conduct problems early in the subject's life. When I 0:25:10.915 --> 0:25:14.475 was a kid, probably four or five, I twice hit 0:25:14.515 --> 0:25:16.235 a friend of mine in the back of the head 0:25:16.995 --> 0:25:23.115 with a metal toy. I remember shock, blood, no stitches, 0:25:23.755 --> 0:25:28.835 and then a series of family meetings. We talked, the folks, 0:25:28.835 --> 0:25:32.075 got some professional advice. They got me into organized sports 0:25:32.075 --> 0:25:35.035 and exercise, and I quickly realized that just because I 0:25:35.195 --> 0:25:37.795 was frustrated with somebody that was not a good reason 0:25:37.835 --> 0:25:42.475 to hit them regardless. When I had my analyst friend 0:25:42.595 --> 0:25:46.595 run the hair psychopathy checklist on me, I insisted she 0:25:46.755 --> 0:25:49.635 give me a point on this because hitting a kid 0:25:49.675 --> 0:25:51.355 in the back of the head with a toy fire 0:25:51.395 --> 0:25:54.595 engine and later a magnet was at minimum an indicator 0:25:54.635 --> 0:26:00.075 of the potential for early behavior problems. So if you're 0:26:00.075 --> 0:26:02.595 given me a point for this, how many points would 0:26:02.635 --> 0:26:06.395 you give a child who attacked one of his own teachers. 0:26:08.155 --> 0:26:11.795 Quote I actually gave a teacher a black eye, Trump 0:26:11.835 --> 0:26:14.115 wrote in the Art of the Deal in nineteen eighty seven, 0:26:14.155 --> 0:26:18.035 barely concealing his retroactively. He placed the time of the 0:26:18.075 --> 0:26:23.515 assault as the second grade, likely making him seven years old. 0:26:23.875 --> 0:26:27.275 Quote I punched my music teacher because I didn't think 0:26:27.275 --> 0:26:30.675 he knew anything about music, and I almost got expelled. 0:26:32.915 --> 0:26:39.555 What kind of kid punches an adult in the face? 0:26:41.595 --> 0:26:47.035 I mean, we hear about punching up, but think back 0:26:47.075 --> 0:26:51.475 to being that age seven. The one universal I can 0:26:51.515 --> 0:26:54.315 recall was that no seven year old ever dreamt of 0:26:54.355 --> 0:26:57.675 trying to physically take on an adult, for the simple 0:26:57.955 --> 0:27:01.515 and unavoidable reason that virtually any adult was several times 0:27:01.555 --> 0:27:05.355 your own weight. If you pick the wrong one, they 0:27:05.435 --> 0:27:08.595 might do more than just defend themselves. Even knocking an 0:27:08.595 --> 0:27:13.235 adult down could be an exercise in self destruction if 0:27:13.235 --> 0:27:17.795 he fell on you. The most reality challenged of all 0:27:17.835 --> 0:27:21.195 of my young classmates the kid who ran headfirst into 0:27:21.235 --> 0:27:24.755 the side of a moving school bus for reasons that 0:27:24.835 --> 0:27:30.075 still remain unclear ten presidents later. He would never have 0:27:30.195 --> 0:27:33.875 hit an adult. There is a second version of the 0:27:33.915 --> 0:27:36.795 same story from a Trump biographer. He did indeed give 0:27:36.835 --> 0:27:38.555 the teacher a black eye, but not with a punch. 0:27:38.715 --> 0:27:41.675 He threw an eraser at him and hit him just right, 0:27:42.995 --> 0:27:50.035 because that's way better. Regardless, the version Trump tells is 0:27:50.075 --> 0:27:53.595 of the four foot tall edition of himself punching what 0:27:53.795 --> 0:27:57.155 was at least a five foot tall adult in the eye, 0:27:57.715 --> 0:28:01.755 hard enough to give the man a shiner. The only 0:28:01.915 --> 0:28:05.995 argument against calling this early behavior problems is that the 0:28:06.035 --> 0:28:10.155 first word implies that it stopped at some point two 0:28:10.195 --> 0:28:15.515 more points. The tests you will have noticed bounces around 0:28:15.555 --> 0:28:18.555