Dr. Allen Frances, former chairman of Duke University’s Psychiatry Department, went unchallenged on Sunday when he used an appearance on CNN to compare President Donald Trump to several of the worst mass-murdering autocrats of the 20th century, reports Mediaite.
Frances was on with Brian Stelter, who just finished a monologue defending the media’s place in raising questions about the president’s mental stability. His appearance was part of a discussion about whether mental health professionals can make any assessments about Trump from afar, without a personal interaction with him.
Frances argued that its a “terrible insult” to the mentally ill by lumping the president in with them.
“They have enough problems and stigma as it is,” Frances said. “Calling Trump ‘crazy’ hides the fact that we’re crazy for having elected him and even crazier for allowing his crazy policies to persist.”
The absurd Trump comment in question comes at the 2:29 time mark:
Two psychiatrists offer their perspectives on how to discuss President Trump’s mental health in the news. pic.twitter.com/bfPN0ds4Bq— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) August 25, 2019
I agree that I should have interrupted after that line. I wish I had heard him say it, but I was distracted by tech difficulties (that's why the show open didn't look the way it normally does, I had two computers at the table, etc). Not hearing the comment is my fault.— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 25, 2019
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