This week on the Thom Hartmann Program, when asked about Dave Kaufman's interview with Casler, Dr. Frank explained:
"His [Trump's] behavior is very similar to people who are very heavily into cocaine or Adderall...He does sniff an awful lot when he gives his talks. Even now you can hear them, him sniffing between sentences or even in the middle of a sentence. And that's something that you see with people who have had their nasal passages slightly worn down by cocaine or Adderall that is snorted...Clearly he is speeding in certain ways. His tweets in the middle of the night, his getting up very early. All are consistent with kind of abuse of a psychic stimulant...The biggest problem with the stimulants in a president or anybody with a responsible job is that the first thing that gets compromised is judgment, so people can actually assess the sanity of what they're saying, but they don't have the judgment in terms of thinking about the consequences of what they're saying and what's going to happen. The second problem that's specifically related to stimulants is impulsive behavior. People are much more comfortable being impulsive, shooting from the hip, saying things impulsively. And then the third thing is rage reactions. People who use a lot of amphetamines have acute rage reaction."
Frank explained in an interview with Chauncey DeVega for Salon that Trump's impeachment letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is characteristic of "how a drug addict's mind works."
He said:
"We see this in addicts who are in recovery. When there is stress and pressure on drug addicts, they revert to their earlier state of anxiety and accusations. They act like they're cornered. As Donald Trump becomes more and more cornered, he behaves exactly the way addicts behave, which is to accuse other people. Drug addicts make themselves into victims.
"Trump is doing something else that drug addicts do: They try to make other people anxious. In this case, Trump is trying to make the public, Nancy Pelosi, members of Congress and other people nervous and full of anxiety, as a way of denying it in himself. Trump is forcing anxiety out on to other people, so he does not have to feel it. Unfortunately, many people are succumbing to this by feeling the president's outward projected anxiety."
Multiple leading mental health professionals have described Trump's rambling in that letter as "psychotic."
So, is our president a drug addict?
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