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Mental Issues

Calvin Trillin

February 23, 2017

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump listens to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the third presidential debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Wednesday, October 19, 2016. (AP Photo / David Goldman)

“Is It Time to Call Trump Mentally Ill?” —Headline, The New York Times Attempts to divine how this president thinks Will soon turn us into a nation of shrinks. His lie after lie and his boast after boast Lead some to believe he should be diagnosed. That frightening question won’t cease to bedevil: Is this chosen leader a bubble off level?

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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