Trump gave a Freudian clue about his true relationship with Laura Loomer, by Hal Brown, MSW

 

Above: The AI image I made is meant to ask the question "is Laura Loomer wearing more than Melania's famous jacket?"

We don't know if Laura Loomer is having an affair with Donald Trump. I surmise she is down for it, but is he up for it?

This is not social distance.

This article was posted on RawStory just after I completed today's blog:

'Melania, check your man': Trump's wife urged to intercede in campaign crisis

Excerpts:

According to former RNC chair Michael Steele, Donald Trump's increasing interactions with controversial Laura Loomer is not only hurting him with fellow Republicans, it is also fueling rumors of an affair at a time when his campaign is reeling from his disastrous debate performance.

"We have seen the photo, she is all up on her chest, we know what her deal is," he added. "Why are we the people, yeah — that photo, that photo — where is Melania? Melania, check your man! I don't understand. I don't get why we are so susceptible to this kind of BS." 

In the past few days there have been articles like this:

and this in RawStory:

'Where’s Melania?' There's speculation Trump and Loomer are 'cozying up at Mar-a-Lago'

The Miami-based reporter, quoting Internet personality Mike Sington, noted Trump has been seen “hanging out with” Loomer. The "Internet personality" also included a video “with their hands all over each other at Mar-a-Lago.” You can watch it here:

Above, Trump puts his arm around her and pulls her close and kisses her.

There have been numerous articles (which you can find here) about Trump and Loomer which don't speculate on whether or not their relationship involves sexual intimacy.

It was the comment he made when asked about her by a reporter that gave me a clue as to how physically intimate their relationship may be. It was in this CNN article:

Trump says he doesn’t control far-right agitator Laura Loomer, calls her a ‘free spirit’

Asked about why she travelled with him on his plane he said this:

“A lot of people do. It’s a very big plane.” The telling part of this is the last sentence.

Freudians interpreting a dream or a slip of the tongue would say that a plane can be a phallic symbol. We already know how Trump is obsessed with things being associated with him being big. Not just big, but the biggest.

He's talked about his very large brain, for example saying that China respected his very large brain, not merely his very large brain but his "very, very large brain" (here). Of course we know how important it is to claim his crowd sizes are huge. When Kamala baited him about this not being true in the debate he attacked her by lying that she paid people to be bused in to her rallies. Maybe it is a "stretch" to say that a bus can also be a phallic symbol.

We don't know whether he has decided to ignore the severe criticism about having her appear with him and for having her travel on his very big Freudian plane because she is having sexual relations with him.

Addendum 1:

Somewhere in the recesses of Trump's mind may be his resenting Kamala Harris for running against him the less obvious reason that if she wins she will be able to travel on Air Force One, which is a Boeing 747 (bottom red arrow). His plane is a much smaller 757 (top red arrow). 

Worse for Trump is that the replacement Air Force One is due to go into service sometime in 2024. Read Article.

Addendum 2:

I can't find any photos of Melania Trump wearing bright red lipstick. From what I can tell Laura Loomer didn't used to do this but now she is. Make of this what you will.

Lower left from this photo:

Addendum 3:

Below: When I asked Perchance Photo AI for a picture of Trump and Laura Loomer on and airplane these are two of the six that came up. Make what you will of how the AI generator postioned Trump's hands.

Bonus: Video of a drunk  (allegedly) Laura Loomer hitting on a man in a bar talking about herself being Jewish and the Nazis wanting to kill her.

I have a suspicion that when it comes to sex she is the most unhibited woman Turmp has even been with.

And then there's this:

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I'm not the only mental health professional who says that Trump needs a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness, by Hal Brown, MSW

 The article, above, Trump's Repetitive Speech Is a Bad Sign has been summarized in RawStory with the title Psychiatrist flags 'alarming' debate tic — and urges Trump to seek a neurologist, the EconoTimes with the title Psychiatrist Urges Donald Trump to Seek Neurological Exam After 'Alarming' Debate Behavior Raises Cognitive Concerns, and elsewhere.

They save me from the task of summarizing it. Still, I recommend that you read the entire article here.

I have been writing about this issue ever since the debate firmed up my own diagnostic assessment that Trump had a cognitive disorder, either early dementia, mania, or a combination of the two. But then again I am not an eminent mental health professional. I was what could be called a country psychotherapist for 40 years because I practiced in rural areas and graduated from what was once called a cow college, originally Michigan Agricultural College, now Michigan State University. 

The author of this article is what can be called eminent. He's  Richard A. Friedman, who  also has a Wikipedia page.

Two days ago I wrote BEDLAM IN HIS BRAIN: Call it insanity, mental illness, or cognitive impairment, Trump gave us ample evidence he needs professional help. 

My conclusion was the same as psychiatrist and professor Friedman's. This is that this debate showed is that if Trump was anybody else his family would be seeking professional help for him.

The number one reason Trump should never set foot in the Oval Office is that he will destroy democracy. The related reason is that dementia never gets better and as I wrote yesterday there will be a point where his symptoms will be so severe he'd be removed through the 25th Amendment and J.D. Vance would become president.

The country would go from having a sociopathic president who was mentally impaired, irrational, and unstable like Idi Amin who didn't have nuclear weapons, to having a sociopathic one who is as sane, rational, and calculating as Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un who do have nukes, and dare I say, as Adolph Hitler was. 

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Consider sane malignant narcissist J.D. Vance as president. By Hal Brown, MSW

Trump is a narcissistic sociopath (aka malignant narcissist), but also after the debate he has given us conclusive proof that he has an organic brain disease - dementia, mania, or a combination of the two. Of course this makes him even more dangerous. But there is another element to consider. 

This means that if elected there's a good chance his condition will deteriorate to the point that he will be removed through the 25th Amendment and then we will have J.D. Vance as president. He too is a malignant narcissist, but he doen't have an organic brain disease. 

Remember, Hitler was a sociopath but there has been controversy among experts over whether or not he suffered from organic psychopatholgy (see Wikipedia). I am not an expert on Hitler but my own impression is that no matter whether or not he might have had any of the disorders listed in the following chart none of them significantly impaired his ability to think rationally.

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I don't see any indications that J.D. Vance suffers from any organic, or brain, psychopatholgy. Narcissistic sociopathy is psychopathogy, but it is a personalty disorder. He fits into the category of people without severe organic mental disorders that led to the coining of the term "the banality of evil" by Hannah Arendt. Below from Wikipedia:

Famed is Hannah Arendt's invention of the phrase the "banality of evil"; in 1963, she stated that for a Nazi perpetrator as Adolf Eichmann, mental normality and the ability to commit mass murder were not mutually exclusive. Harald Welzer came to a similar conclusion in his book Täter. Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden (Perpetrators: How ordinary people become mass murderers).

We all know the kind of country J.D. Vance wants to turn the United States into.

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BEDLAM IN HIS BRAIN: Call it insanity, mental illness, or cogntive impairment, Trump gave us ample evidence he needs professional help, by Hal Brown, MSW

Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as Bedlam, was England’s first asylum for the treatment of mental illness. 
Bedlam has become a word meaning a scene of uproar and confusion.

What Trump did last night in the debate may not offer a precise psychiatric or medical diagnosis though it does demonstrate that his mind is not working properly. I don't like to use the dated and coloquial term "insanity" in place of mental illness, but I do so because it gets the point across. In fact Trump also used the word "insane" in the debate.  He was trying to make his point when he repeated his unsupported claim that "millions of people" are "pouring into our country from prisons, jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums."

Trump is lumping  people who, through no fault of their own, have a mental illness with people who have commited crimes. This is interesting because he has both committed crimes and, after this, I have to say he also has a mental illness. 

I wrote yesterday (here) that the debate could provide evidence that he has early dementia, mania, or a combination of the two. What I am left with is the fall-back diagnosis clinicians use when someone has elements of several diagnoses but not enough of them to fulfill the requirment for making a firm diagnosis. This is to say they have an atypical condition with symptoms of two or more disorders. Trump may be showing us what happens when someone with a narcisstic personality disorder gets dementia or mania. Trump meets the diagnostic criteria for this disorder.

The fact is that old insane asylums like Bedlam actually had many patients who manifest behavior very much like what Trump expressed during the debate. Before the first medications, Thorazine and lithium for example, were able to control psychosis and mania these hosptials were filled with raving and ranting patients whose words made no logical sense. Patients with dementia were among those who ended up in these hospitals in addition to people with those with scizophrenia and bi-polar disorder (previously called manic-depressive disorder).

In my 40 years as a psychotherapist I saw just a few patients whose symptoms were as blatant as Trump's. This is because my program was outpatient and by the time they came to us they'd already been stabilized on medication. I only saw them when they stopped coming for a period of time, went off their medication, and then came back.

(Aside: As I have this on, just this second, Joe Scarborough said "any sane Republican" in reference to what Trump should have done differently and then used the word "addled" to decribe his performance.)

The word "sane" has now become the prefix to the newest word in the media, sanewashing. I have seen it hyphenated and as two words. I expect it will end up being on the top of lists of words added to the dictionary in 2024.

Even Fox News, much to the rage of Donald Trump in the spin room afer the debate, didn't try to sanewash his debate performance.

You can call it mental illness, insanity,or cognitive impairment, but what this debate showed is that if Trump was anybody else his family would be seeking professional help for him.

Updates: Later shows following Morning Joe on MSNBC are not focusing on the cognitive impairment Trump demonstrated in the debate.  They are talking about the policies he tried to expound on. They are sanewashing.

This is another indication of cognitive disorderL

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The debate may help determine if Trump has dementia and it may also demonstrate whether or not he has mania. By Hal Brown, MSW

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Peter Baker's OpEd in The NY Times, As Debate Looms, Trump Is Now the One Facing Questions About Age and Capacity (subscription) addresses the what he calls "the rambling sometimes incoherent statements" Trump makes. What struck me in his column was the following (my italics):

Stephanie Grisham, who served as Mr. Trump’s White House press secretary but broke with him after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and spoke at last month’s Democratic National Convention, said that Mr. Trump “can be disciplined when he wants to be” and that she expects him to get through Tuesday’s debate without looking diminished, given the rules and time limits.

For me this is a crucial test for clinically assessing Trump's mental acuity and may give others in the medical or mental health profession who, like me, have speculated about the possiblity, in some cases, the likelihood, that Trump has early dementia.

Mary Trump, a clincial psychologist and Trump's niece, wrote about this the other day 

Excerpt:

It’s deeply disturbing that somebody as unhinged and incoherent as Donald is allowed to run for the presidency in the first place (and that leaves aside all of the other disqualifying things about him), but the disturbance is compounded when you consider that corporate media can’t seem to muster any urgency in the face of Donald’s increasingly bizarre behavior. On any given day, he is demonstrably untethered from reality—and it often seems that the reason the warning lights aren’t constantly flashing red is because nobody covering him expects otherwise.

Surely a political press corps that spent months arguing that President Biden’s age rendered him mentally unfit, wouldn’t look the other way when the Republican candidate, the oldest person to run for president in American history, is not only old but decompensating before our very eyes. The difference of course is that Biden is aging while Donald is dementing.

So did Dr Jeffrey Kuhlman, a former White House medical director who worked with former Presidents George W Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Here's an excerpt from this article:

Speaking from his office in Florida, Dr Kuhlman said: “Watching Trump on TV during rallies, he doesn’t exhibit critical decision-making capability.

“When I hear his words, his thought patterns – he changes course.” 

He added: “If someone is going to be president until age 82, medically we would want to make sure they are not exhibiting accelerated cognitive decline or progressive dementia, which one in six Americans in their 80s have.”

In his opinion, Dr Kuhlman was confident that Trump “has cognitive decline”, which he said is very common with ageing and can reduce someone’s “executive function” to organise, plan, and problem-solve. 

Back to Stephanie Grisham saying that Trump "can be disciplined when he wants to be” and that she expects him to get through Tuesday’s debate without looking diminished, given the rules and time limits."

If Trump has dementia it is doubtful that he will be able to get through the debate, no matter what the rules and time limits are, without demonstrating symptoms. In fact, the rules and times limits may frustrate him and exacerbate the symptoms.

Someone with dementia can't turn off their symptoms. One can't tell someone with dementia to turn off their symptoms for 90 minutes. Can you imagine one of his advisors telling him that he has to be disciplined during the debate? 

I will keep an open mind as I watch the debate. If Trump does manage a coherent performance I will reassess my opinion that he most likely has dementia. 

I will also be watching for signs that Trump is suffering from mania. Like with dementia, someone with this disorder can't control the symtpoms.

If he has mania there's a good chance he will have a manic episode during the debate.  This hasn't been a focus of experts or of the media.

Here's a definition of mania from Wikipedia. Note that a symptom is a flight of ideas. This is excessive speech at a rapid rate that involves causal association between ideas. We often see this with Trump although he calls it "the weave" as if it is a brilliant oratory device.

Mania, also known as manic syndrome, is a mental and behavioral disorder defined as a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level, or "a state of heightened overall activation with enhanced affective expression together with lability of affect." During a manic episode, an individual will experience rapidly changing emotions and moods, highly influenced by surrounding stimuli. Although mania is often conceived of as a "mirror image" to depression, the heightened mood can be dysphoricas well as euphoric. As the mania intensifies, irritability can be more pronounced and result in anxiety or anger.

The symptoms of mania include elevated mood (either euphoric or irritable), flight of ideas and pressure of speech, increased energy, decreased "need" and desire for sleep, and hyperactivity. They are most plainly evident in fully developed hypomanic states, however, in full-blown mania, these symptoms become progressively exacerbated. In severe manic episodes, these symptoms may even be obscured by other signs and symptoms. 

If Trump doesn't have dementia and does have mania this can often be successfully treated with medication. 

Trump will have about 45 minutes, five minutes short of the typical 50 minute hour most therapists devote to their patients, to provide me with enough information to do what I had to do in my 40 years as a psychotherapist. This was to determine at least a tentative diagnosis to submit to insurance companies. 

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