It’s going to be a blue tsunami this November as long as everyone votes. We could see Lindsay Graham, Susan Collins, and other sycophantic politicians finally tossed out of office.
In a way the world is voting by reducing their dependence and interaction with America. As the rest of the world stops spending tourist dollars here, stop sending the brightest of the bright (or even second brightest...we need all the Doctors/scientists we can get!) and stop doing trade with the US they are telling us a lot, and having more impact than the GOP seems to understand.
The groundwork for the decline of the US has already taken place, thanks to DOGE and this admin. It isn't apparent now to those who aren't in the habit of paying attention, but it will be within 5 years. Will the US ever recover? If it does, it will no longer be the world leader. It's China's turn.
I don't think we will ever recover. Hopefully we will restore democracy and the rule of law but that's about it. It would seem it's China's turn...they seem pretty far out in front in so many areas, from environmental things (I think they have the biggest solar farm in the world maybe and are making a decent but not yet perfected EV..seems they are on the right track with that stuff) to scientific discoveries and advancements, they have near universal health care, strict gun control laws....seems they have a lot going for them. I'm not exactly sure what it means anymore to be a world leader, but those things that they are doing seem like good things for the world. Oh wait, most of the world except the US has universal health care, are making great strides toward relying on renewable energy and have strict gun control AND things like freedom of speech/religion.
Don't worry, I won't! I'm posting and sharing on Substack, Threads and Bluesky all the time. Nobody I know will visit America anymore while this fascist regime is in power so that's a blow for Trump’s 'numbers'. One look at my Social media accounts and a visa would be refused anyway, lol!
It’s not “how” votes are counted, but WHO counts them-Putin to trump. That’s why we should all be concerned that 75 vote counters have been replaced by trump loyalists. This, apparently, has only just happened, during this illegal war. We must keep our eyes and ears open and stay focused on taking our government back. The insanity is overwhelming, as is the utter lack of principles.
If the US can summon up a turn out like Hungary did, they will not be able to step in. Only an overwhelming voter turnout will save the results. That is why Orban had to secede. Not even Putin or trump could interfere for him when such a percent of people turned out.
It’s the midterms not a presidential race. I dare say that most Americans even know who’s on the ballot in their own state OR if they’re taking aipac money. Traditionally, turn out has been low; however this president has raised the ire of everyone and turnout should hit record numbers. I do think that the vote ‘counters’ need supervision. Safeguards MUST be in place or we will be robbed. Again.
Assuming he doesn't do something crazy to declare a State of Emergency so he can cancel elections altogether. There are no lengths he won't go to to protect himself, as we know from J6 and this uncalled for war with it's long-term global repercussions. The worse it looks for him the more dangerous he becomes. Never forget the man's insane.
I just heard that Congress released more military funding for Israel. Does anyone know who voted for it/against it? We can’t afford our own missiles. Why in God’s name are we giving the murderous Israeli regime money and missiles?
Keep on keeping on, MTN! As depressing as this post is, people need to hear it. Thank you for saying what needs to be said; shout it from the rooftops! You are speaking up for millions of us who cannot speak up for ourselves❤️
You said it's amazing how much damage one person can do to the United States. It isn't one person. If he had a competent cabinet and a congress that checked and balanced him, he couldn't have done it.
This message needs to be shouted from the rooftops, as well. We have a long way to go even after Trump is gone…the folks who used him and enabled him must be held accountable. Our democracy and constitution will still be very much in danger without holding every last criminal and war criminal accountable or they will rise again.
I would love an explanation as to why R Congress continues to be in lockstep doing his dirty work for him. They must think they are “winning.” What do they know that we don’t? If they thought there was going to be a blue wave they would be jumping ship, but they are not. Doesn’t compute.
All 240 Rs in Congress grifting and getting rich and filling bank accounts? Hard to believe there are no dissenters except the occasional R. Paul and Massey. We are missing something. Something that has not been exposed.
Schumer....Rosen...Blumenthal are not just Maga collaorators.........they are now fascists for supporting more $$$$$ to Israels genocide!!!! Hats off to the Dems who voted against a rogue.murderous evil Israel.
We cannot make the same mistakes we made last time by not prosecuting the sycophants. (I'm looking at you, Merrick Garland.) This is not just a one-off anomaly; it is a game plan for them.
Miriam, you are absolutely correct! I was hoping a demand to remove him in a straight jacket, taken to a mental institution (@ his expense) heavily medicated and televise it around the entire world so we could finally have a world celebration! Then hoping not to see or hear from or about him ever again!!!
Editor's note: The following letter was sent to the bipartisan leadership of Congress on Monday, April 13, 2026 in regard to recent rhetoric and actions taken by US President Donald J. Trump.
Dear Senate Majority Leader Thune, Senate Minority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and House Minority Leader Jeffries:
We write to you today with a sense of urgency that we do not use lightly. The behavior and rhetoric of President Donald Trump have crossed a threshold that demands the immediate and bipartisan attention of Congress. This is not a partisan assessment. It is a judgment grounded in observable fact, consistent professional assessment, and the constitutional responsibilities that your offices carry.
President Trump exhibits what forensic mental health experts have, across dozens of independent assessments, identified as the “Dark Triad” of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. Rather than constituting a clinical diagnosis, this trait-based assessment is grounded in behavioral observation and is particularly useful for assessing the level of danger an individual poses in a political leadership position. We do not offer this as a clinical verdict. We offer it as the considered judgment of a substantial body of professional opinion, based on well-researched evidence that is consistent, accumulating, and impossible to dismiss.
What makes this more than an academic matter is what predictably happens when this personality structure collides with immovable obstacles. The clinical literature is clear: individuals with Dark Triad profiles, when confronted with situations they cannot control or escape, do not recalibrate. They escalate. The psychological imperative to relieve narcissistic collapse overrides strategic calculation, concern for consequences, and ordinary self-restraint. Rage surges to domination. Impulsivity overrides caution. The urgent need to extinguish psychological pain eclipses every other consideration.
We are watching this dynamic unfold in real time.
The President’s recent public communications have been, by any normal standard of political discourse, alarming. His posts demanding that Iran “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” and his threat to bomb Iran “back to the stone ages,” adding that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” are not the rhetoric of calculated geopolitical pressure. They are the expressions of a man in profound psychological distress who is reaching for the most extreme retaliatory threats available to him. That these statements were addressed to an adversary in the context of an active military confrontation makes them not merely shocking but profoundly dangerous.
President Trump has now ordered a US naval blockade of Iran — an action that has sent world oil prices soaring and placed the United States in direct opposition to the international community. His ongoing actions carry the potential to trigger a global economic catastrophe, draw in regional and great powers, and ignite a wider conflict with consequences that no one can bound. These orders are being issued without adequate deliberation, without congressional authorization, and in a context in which the President’s judgment is, by every visible measure, severely compromised.
We urge three specific actions.
First, Congress must immediately retake its constitutional authority over war. The bombing of Iran and the initiation of a naval blockade — acts of war under both US and international law — cannot be authorized by presidential fiat. Article I of the Constitution vests in Congress the sole power to declare war and to regulate commerce with foreign nations. The Framers intended Congress to deliberate upon and be accountable for precisely such consequential actions. Congress must assume its constitutional authority now, before further escalation renders the question moot.
Second, congressional leadership — on a bipartisan basis — must convene urgent consultations with senior administration officials, including the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of State, and the Director of National Intelligence. The purpose is not routine oversight. It is to create a circuit breaker capable of preventing escalation toward catastrophe, including the potential use of nuclear weapons. Those officials have their own constitutional and statutory obligations. Congress should insist on those obligations and provide a forum in which they can be exercised.
Third, Congress should formally initiate consultation with the Vice President and Cabinet regarding the President’s fitness for office under Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. We do not prejudge the outcome. We are not calling for the President’s immediate removal. We are calling for the process that the Constitution itself provides for this contingency: when a President’s capacity to discharge the duties of office is in question and poses a potential imminent danger to the nation. The Amendment exists because those who drafted it recognized that the question of presidential incapacity would occasionally arise, and that it required a constitutional answer rather than a political improvisation.
He is a constitutional emergency. The mechanisms for addressing such an emergency exist. They were placed in the Constitution and its amendments for moments precisely like this one.
We recognize the gravity of what we are asking. We ask it because the gravity of the situation demands it.
A President who publicly threatens to destroy a foreign civilization, who launches a bombing campaign and then imposes a naval blockade without congressional authorization, and who shows every behavioral sign of a personality in acute crisis is not merely a political problem. He is a constitutional emergency. The mechanisms for addressing such an emergency exist. They were placed in the Constitution and its amendments for moments precisely like this one.
The war with Iran will not wait. The escalation dynamics of this active military confrontation will not wait. The psychological conditions driving the President’s decisions will not improve under pressure — they will worsen.
We urge you to act without delay. The Constitution gives you the tools. Your oath of office assigns you the responsibility.
Respectfully,
James Gilligan, M.D.Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of MedicineAdjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of LawFormer Faculty of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolFormer President, International Association of Forensic Psychotherapy
Prudence L. Gourguechon, M.D.Former President, American Psychoanalytic AssociationFormer Vice President, World Mental Health Coalition
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.President, World Mental Health CoalitionCo-Founder, Preventing Violence NowFormer Faculty of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolFormer Faculty of Law and Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
James R. Merikangas, M.D.Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, George Washington UniversityResearch Consultant, National Institute of Mental HealthCo-Founder, American Neuropsychiatric AssociationFormer President, American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ph.D.University Professor, Columbia University
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Thank you, Janet, for posting this letter here, and many thanks to the esteemed group of professors and psychiatrists for warning the Congressional leadership of the extreme danger presented by the person now occupying the Oval Office. Most if not all of them have been warning us about him ever since he descended the golden escalator. Everyone but the most rabid members of his cult knows that he is not normal, but normal folks often don't recognize abnormal behavior as dangerous, because the thinking behind that behavior is alien to them. These experts recognize his behavior and are urgently warning our leaders to rein him in by the legal, Constitutional means they have at their disposal. Leaders are supposed to lead, to honor their oath of office, to defend our Constitution and country from enemies foreign and domestic--not cower silently in fear of losing their cushy sinecures.
Thank you for posting this letter. It will do no good, though. Every one of the officials listed is there because of their personal loyalty to Trump. If they had taken their oaths of office, in which they pledged to defend the Constitution, seriously, they would have acted a long time ago.
There are also lots of people in the mid and lower income levels that were counting on the World Cup Games for money. And localities need the tax dollars too. All at risk thanks to Trump's incompetence.
Yes, that is a shame for our economy, but he caused it. I heard they asked him (you think that "peace" award was out of the goodness of their hearts?) to pause ICE for 39 days because people are afraid to come.here now. It will be the same with the Olympics. Plus the cost of flights now and security?
“It’s almost hard to believe how much damage one person can do to the global standing of the United States.” From an outsider’s point of view, I just cannot believe that he can’t just be removed. He is doing so much damage to the USA and seriously upsetting the apple cart worldwide. I, for one, will be celebrating with a lot of alcohol on the day he finally leaves the earthly domain. Concerned Aussie 🇦🇺
I feel concerned about what is happening today. As an Afghan veteran, I believed in America’s strength and promises, but now it seems there is confusion and weak leadership.
When trust and alliances become weak, it affects not only Americans but also people like us who stood with them. I still hope the U.S. becomes strong and stable again.
Mike little Johnson must be worried about losing the gavel in November. It has to be the most useless congress in history. The only thing passed was the Big Ugly Bill which was jammed down the throats of the American people. The GOP did absolutely nothing to help people. Let's kick them to the curb.
Thanks for the update Ben...we watch all of your posts EVERY day from where we now live in Gibraltar. But we are actively resisting as much as is possible and your coverage helps us understand what we can do from here.
At this point, a few months out from the World Cup, everything’s quiet. It’s sad, but we all know why. One man is fucking up the world. Think I’ll be taking a miss this Cup. It’s not worth the energy. I’ve got TBSS. Trump Bull Shit Syndrome
It’s going to be a blue tsunami this November as long as everyone votes. We could see Lindsay Graham, Susan Collins, and other sycophantic politicians finally tossed out of office.
Yes if it’s not rigged
I think he’s trying already
Thank goodness Marc Elias and Democracy Docket is all over everything he tries.
If he’s so good at rigging how come he hasn’t been successful in rigging all the special elections?
Perhaps., not as successful rigging the State elections yet.🤔
Indeed! I fear it will be rigged. I hope not, but will keep my expectations low.
The efforts the GOP are putting in to ensure that doesn't happen are astronomical. Good luck America. It's a pity the world can't vote.
In a way the world is voting by reducing their dependence and interaction with America. As the rest of the world stops spending tourist dollars here, stop sending the brightest of the bright (or even second brightest...we need all the Doctors/scientists we can get!) and stop doing trade with the US they are telling us a lot, and having more impact than the GOP seems to understand.
The groundwork for the decline of the US has already taken place, thanks to DOGE and this admin. It isn't apparent now to those who aren't in the habit of paying attention, but it will be within 5 years. Will the US ever recover? If it does, it will no longer be the world leader. It's China's turn.
So sorry that this is true.
I don't think we will ever recover. Hopefully we will restore democracy and the rule of law but that's about it. It would seem it's China's turn...they seem pretty far out in front in so many areas, from environmental things (I think they have the biggest solar farm in the world maybe and are making a decent but not yet perfected EV..seems they are on the right track with that stuff) to scientific discoveries and advancements, they have near universal health care, strict gun control laws....seems they have a lot going for them. I'm not exactly sure what it means anymore to be a world leader, but those things that they are doing seem like good things for the world. Oh wait, most of the world except the US has universal health care, are making great strides toward relying on renewable energy and have strict gun control AND things like freedom of speech/religion.
Your resistance helps . We are fighting hard. You all standing up and saying how wrong all this is helps. Do not stop.
Don't worry, I won't! I'm posting and sharing on Substack, Threads and Bluesky all the time. Nobody I know will visit America anymore while this fascist regime is in power so that's a blow for Trump’s 'numbers'. One look at my Social media accounts and a visa would be refused anyway, lol!
Thank you Pauline. 😊
It’s not “how” votes are counted, but WHO counts them-Putin to trump. That’s why we should all be concerned that 75 vote counters have been replaced by trump loyalists. This, apparently, has only just happened, during this illegal war. We must keep our eyes and ears open and stay focused on taking our government back. The insanity is overwhelming, as is the utter lack of principles.
Who will be counting the votes? It’s my understanding that voting personnel have been replaced with tr*mp loyalists.
Until the fall there is imo no telling. But the courts should prevent any change in how votes are being counted.
The final court, SCOTUS, is on his side.
I don't want to sound naive, but I give them a small chance of doing the right thing.
If the US can summon up a turn out like Hungary did, they will not be able to step in. Only an overwhelming voter turnout will save the results. That is why Orban had to secede. Not even Putin or trump could interfere for him when such a percent of people turned out.
It’s the midterms not a presidential race. I dare say that most Americans even know who’s on the ballot in their own state OR if they’re taking aipac money. Traditionally, turn out has been low; however this president has raised the ire of everyone and turnout should hit record numbers. I do think that the vote ‘counters’ need supervision. Safeguards MUST be in place or we will be robbed. Again.
Assuming he doesn't do something crazy to declare a State of Emergency so he can cancel elections altogether. There are no lengths he won't go to to protect himself, as we know from J6 and this uncalled for war with it's long-term global repercussions. The worse it looks for him the more dangerous he becomes. Never forget the man's insane.
Sure hope Graham is voted out. He’s done nothing for SC. Democrats Dr. Annie Andrews gets my vote 💙💙
Don’t wake me up, let me dream.
VOTE!!!!!
Don't get cocky. We could still lose this thing.
I just heard that Congress released more military funding for Israel. Does anyone know who voted for it/against it? We can’t afford our own missiles. Why in God’s name are we giving the murderous Israeli regime money and missiles?
Republicans voted en masse FOR supplying Israel with bombs and bulldozers, every single one (of course)
Only 7 Dems voted for it:
Blumenthal - Connecticut
Coons - Delaware
Cortez Masto - Nevada
Rosen - Nevada
Fetterman - Pennsylvania
Gillibrand - New York
Schumer - New York
They gotta go.
That's the problem. Rational Americans often choose not to vote.
From your comment to God's ear!
Oh, please, let your words become reality!
Keep on keeping on, MTN! As depressing as this post is, people need to hear it. Thank you for saying what needs to be said; shout it from the rooftops! You are speaking up for millions of us who cannot speak up for ourselves❤️
You said it's amazing how much damage one person can do to the United States. It isn't one person. If he had a competent cabinet and a congress that checked and balanced him, he couldn't have done it.
This message needs to be shouted from the rooftops, as well. We have a long way to go even after Trump is gone…the folks who used him and enabled him must be held accountable. Our democracy and constitution will still be very much in danger without holding every last criminal and war criminal accountable or they will rise again.
I would love an explanation as to why R Congress continues to be in lockstep doing his dirty work for him. They must think they are “winning.” What do they know that we don’t? If they thought there was going to be a blue wave they would be jumping ship, but they are not. Doesn’t compute.
Money. They’re getting rich. It appears that they care most about that. They will grift as long as they can.
Trump wants loyalists. Congress has been bought and threatened.
Maybe they are filling their bank accounts too
I believe many are on the Epstein files!!!!
All 240 Rs in Congress grifting and getting rich and filling bank accounts? Hard to believe there are no dissenters except the occasional R. Paul and Massey. We are missing something. Something that has not been exposed.
Exactly. Inside trading
Sycophants who are grifters taking airpac $’s who also supports Netanyahu and Epstein
Schumer....Rosen...Blumenthal are not just Maga collaorators.........they are now fascists for supporting more $$$$$ to Israels genocide!!!! Hats off to the Dems who voted against a rogue.murderous evil Israel.
It's still on him for selecting that incompetent cabinet.
We cannot make the same mistakes we made last time by not prosecuting the sycophants. (I'm looking at you, Merrick Garland.) This is not just a one-off anomaly; it is a game plan for them.
The only way Trump is leaving that office is in a body bag. He is not resigning.
The sooner, the better with that body bag!
Oh yes! I dream about this every night! 🤞
Perhaps, a straight jacket.
Sucks, but very true… hmmm 🤔 I think I see a heart issue coming on 🤞
You need a heart to have a heart issue 😫
What heart?
Wouldn’t that be wonderful?!
Miriam, you are absolutely correct! I was hoping a demand to remove him in a straight jacket, taken to a mental institution (@ his expense) heavily medicated and televise it around the entire world so we could finally have a world celebration! Then hoping not to see or hear from or about him ever again!!!
It’s now more difficult for us to travel to Europe. We can no longer count on our US passport alone to get us there thanks to trump. 🤬
What are you talking about? Who can’t go to Europe?
Most of us! We’ve never been able to afford it.
Isn’t that a separate issue?
It definitely is. But just couldn’t ignore “Who can’t go to Europe?”
Has the EU declared a travel ban on the U.S.?
That's what I'd like to know. I'm not sure what Deborah is referring to? I haven't heard anything about it. 🤔
Editor's note: The following letter was sent to the bipartisan leadership of Congress on Monday, April 13, 2026 in regard to recent rhetoric and actions taken by US President Donald J. Trump.
Dear Senate Majority Leader Thune, Senate Minority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and House Minority Leader Jeffries:
We write to you today with a sense of urgency that we do not use lightly. The behavior and rhetoric of President Donald Trump have crossed a threshold that demands the immediate and bipartisan attention of Congress. This is not a partisan assessment. It is a judgment grounded in observable fact, consistent professional assessment, and the constitutional responsibilities that your offices carry.
President Trump exhibits what forensic mental health experts have, across dozens of independent assessments, identified as the “Dark Triad” of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. Rather than constituting a clinical diagnosis, this trait-based assessment is grounded in behavioral observation and is particularly useful for assessing the level of danger an individual poses in a political leadership position. We do not offer this as a clinical verdict. We offer it as the considered judgment of a substantial body of professional opinion, based on well-researched evidence that is consistent, accumulating, and impossible to dismiss.
What makes this more than an academic matter is what predictably happens when this personality structure collides with immovable obstacles. The clinical literature is clear: individuals with Dark Triad profiles, when confronted with situations they cannot control or escape, do not recalibrate. They escalate. The psychological imperative to relieve narcissistic collapse overrides strategic calculation, concern for consequences, and ordinary self-restraint. Rage surges to domination. Impulsivity overrides caution. The urgent need to extinguish psychological pain eclipses every other consideration.
We are watching this dynamic unfold in real time.
The President’s recent public communications have been, by any normal standard of political discourse, alarming. His posts demanding that Iran “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” and his threat to bomb Iran “back to the stone ages,” adding that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” are not the rhetoric of calculated geopolitical pressure. They are the expressions of a man in profound psychological distress who is reaching for the most extreme retaliatory threats available to him. That these statements were addressed to an adversary in the context of an active military confrontation makes them not merely shocking but profoundly dangerous.
President Trump has now ordered a US naval blockade of Iran — an action that has sent world oil prices soaring and placed the United States in direct opposition to the international community. His ongoing actions carry the potential to trigger a global economic catastrophe, draw in regional and great powers, and ignite a wider conflict with consequences that no one can bound. These orders are being issued without adequate deliberation, without congressional authorization, and in a context in which the President’s judgment is, by every visible measure, severely compromised.
We urge three specific actions.
First, Congress must immediately retake its constitutional authority over war. The bombing of Iran and the initiation of a naval blockade — acts of war under both US and international law — cannot be authorized by presidential fiat. Article I of the Constitution vests in Congress the sole power to declare war and to regulate commerce with foreign nations. The Framers intended Congress to deliberate upon and be accountable for precisely such consequential actions. Congress must assume its constitutional authority now, before further escalation renders the question moot.
Second, congressional leadership — on a bipartisan basis — must convene urgent consultations with senior administration officials, including the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of State, and the Director of National Intelligence. The purpose is not routine oversight. It is to create a circuit breaker capable of preventing escalation toward catastrophe, including the potential use of nuclear weapons. Those officials have their own constitutional and statutory obligations. Congress should insist on those obligations and provide a forum in which they can be exercised.
Third, Congress should formally initiate consultation with the Vice President and Cabinet regarding the President’s fitness for office under Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. We do not prejudge the outcome. We are not calling for the President’s immediate removal. We are calling for the process that the Constitution itself provides for this contingency: when a President’s capacity to discharge the duties of office is in question and poses a potential imminent danger to the nation. The Amendment exists because those who drafted it recognized that the question of presidential incapacity would occasionally arise, and that it required a constitutional answer rather than a political improvisation.
He is a constitutional emergency. The mechanisms for addressing such an emergency exist. They were placed in the Constitution and its amendments for moments precisely like this one.
We recognize the gravity of what we are asking. We ask it because the gravity of the situation demands it.
A President who publicly threatens to destroy a foreign civilization, who launches a bombing campaign and then imposes a naval blockade without congressional authorization, and who shows every behavioral sign of a personality in acute crisis is not merely a political problem. He is a constitutional emergency. The mechanisms for addressing such an emergency exist. They were placed in the Constitution and its amendments for moments precisely like this one.
The war with Iran will not wait. The escalation dynamics of this active military confrontation will not wait. The psychological conditions driving the President’s decisions will not improve under pressure — they will worsen.
We urge you to act without delay. The Constitution gives you the tools. Your oath of office assigns you the responsibility.
Respectfully,
James Gilligan, M.D.Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of MedicineAdjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of LawFormer Faculty of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolFormer President, International Association of Forensic Psychotherapy
Prudence L. Gourguechon, M.D.Former President, American Psychoanalytic AssociationFormer Vice President, World Mental Health Coalition
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.President, World Mental Health CoalitionCo-Founder, Preventing Violence NowFormer Faculty of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolFormer Faculty of Law and Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
James R. Merikangas, M.D.Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, George Washington UniversityResearch Consultant, National Institute of Mental HealthCo-Founder, American Neuropsychiatric AssociationFormer President, American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ph.D.University Professor, Columbia University
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Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.
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Thank you, Janet, for posting this letter here, and many thanks to the esteemed group of professors and psychiatrists for warning the Congressional leadership of the extreme danger presented by the person now occupying the Oval Office. Most if not all of them have been warning us about him ever since he descended the golden escalator. Everyone but the most rabid members of his cult knows that he is not normal, but normal folks often don't recognize abnormal behavior as dangerous, because the thinking behind that behavior is alien to them. These experts recognize his behavior and are urgently warning our leaders to rein him in by the legal, Constitutional means they have at their disposal. Leaders are supposed to lead, to honor their oath of office, to defend our Constitution and country from enemies foreign and domestic--not cower silently in fear of losing their cushy sinecures.
Too many for too long have excused this behavior as “Trump being Trump’. But Trump being Trump is horrifyingly what’s described in this letter.
Thank you for posting this letter. It will do no good, though. Every one of the officials listed is there because of their personal loyalty to Trump. If they had taken their oaths of office, in which they pledged to defend the Constitution, seriously, they would have acted a long time ago.
You forgot to mention that Trump is also Netanyahu's sycophant.
Schumer and Jeffires are also Satanyahu's--AIPACS sycophants
Never forget Epstein!
There are also lots of people in the mid and lower income levels that were counting on the World Cup Games for money. And localities need the tax dollars too. All at risk thanks to Trump's incompetence.
Yes, that is a shame for our economy, but he caused it. I heard they asked him (you think that "peace" award was out of the goodness of their hearts?) to pause ICE for 39 days because people are afraid to come.here now. It will be the same with the Olympics. Plus the cost of flights now and security?
“It’s almost hard to believe how much damage one person can do to the global standing of the United States.” From an outsider’s point of view, I just cannot believe that he can’t just be removed. He is doing so much damage to the USA and seriously upsetting the apple cart worldwide. I, for one, will be celebrating with a lot of alcohol on the day he finally leaves the earthly domain. Concerned Aussie 🇦🇺
I feel concerned about what is happening today. As an Afghan veteran, I believed in America’s strength and promises, but now it seems there is confusion and weak leadership.
When trust and alliances become weak, it affects not only Americans but also people like us who stood with them. I still hope the U.S. becomes strong and stable again.
Thank you for standing with us.
I certainly do too! Trump is a disaster for the USA and the world.
Thank you for standing with The US ,
In BritBuzz Update received yesterday —Japan Dumps $1.2T US Bonds.
Mike little Johnson must be worried about losing the gavel in November. It has to be the most useless congress in history. The only thing passed was the Big Ugly Bill which was jammed down the throats of the American people. The GOP did absolutely nothing to help people. Let's kick them to the curb.
Thanks Ben for speaking truth to power on a daily basis. You and your team do an amazing job. Thank you!
Thanks for the update Ben...we watch all of your posts EVERY day from where we now live in Gibraltar. But we are actively resisting as much as is possible and your coverage helps us understand what we can do from here.
At this point, a few months out from the World Cup, everything’s quiet. It’s sad, but we all know why. One man is fucking up the world. Think I’ll be taking a miss this Cup. It’s not worth the energy. I’ve got TBSS. Trump Bull Shit Syndrome
Sad to see something fun, unifying thrown under the bus. I hope they move the venue out of the United States
Julie. Hope you don't mind if I use your TBSS. Its too good to not spread around 🤣🤣
It’s all yours. Spread the joy
It's hilarious