I have not heard of one, but times change and so do definitions.

I know that Lincoln often suffered from severe depression, but that's a mood disorder, of course and Dubya was a simpleton or dunce, but that's was a congenital condition.

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They were on point and normal. He knew how to speak without looking like an idiot. Then something went wrong around 2000. I'm convinced he had head trauma.

First I thought it was early Alzheimer's, but he has remained stable for the past 18 years or so.

I hadn't been exposed much to him prior to the election other than news bytes.

Interesting to note. Thanks.

Right?

This seems to me to be the Republican argument?

In addition, I'm inclined to take findings from the 'soft science' of psychiatry with a grain of salt. Going on empirical evidence, however, I believe a case can be made that Tricky Dick was barking-at-the-moon mad at times. If I observed anyone having conversations with portraits of dead presidents or making a midnight escape to the Lincoln Memorial to engage protestors in an impromptu debate, I'd say that ol' boy just ain't right. I have no doubt about rump, and in this age of the ubiquitous smart phone, I anticipate a performance for the ages before he's ousted from office.

I would say that he was, at the very least, bipolar. I think that the people who voted for Trump are about as sophisticated as those who voted for Jackson, as well.

embarrasses himself, he just keeps digging in his heels.
The distractions are part of his communications style, but they're also rooted in narcissism.

Just my 2 cents. lol

And, a stupid one, at that. Probably drug-addicted, as well.

senile dementia, but I don't believe he is clinically "insane". He is and always has been a hateful, cruel, narcissistic, immoral asshole and his behavior appears insane to most normal people, but he's really just a raging dickhead.

More than anything, I want to see him humiliated and ruined. I want to see him destroyed and imprisoned and then shortly after that, I hope he kicks off and finally leaves the world in peace.

A mean, selfish, hateful, asshole. In other words, a repug.

He's playing this game like his tv show! (the Apprentice)

but I don't think any of them were this extreme.

rabid primary voters got going, - unfortunately in 1980. He was definitely downhill, and nancy had difficulty getting him out of the family quarters to go to work as the Inauguration wore off. The Hinckley shooting in March 1981 was immediately seized upon as an excuse for his 'different' work habits. [Even during the 1979- '80 campaign reagan was never left alone. Not even for 1 on 1 meetings with important outsiders, etc. This practice, noted in numerous sources, continued through reagan's Presidency and long life].

By the time of the Iran-Contra Scandal, the November 1986 Tower Commission, run by reagan appointees, tower, Dem Muskie, and Scowcraft, dealt very gingerly with the underlying treason issue. The Commission Report was issued in March 1987. Others were convicted, and later all pardoned by Bush. reagan though, was treated as, and reported as in the Tower Commission Report, as not being able to remember important decisions - which may have been true. Inside DC, decided it was best to gloss over the problem and let reagan harmlessly finish out his term. GH Bush famously said in January 1988, reagan would not be seen in public again. That turned out to be true.

Finely tuned Washington, DC coverup.

More importantly, Reagan had a competent staff and handlers. Trump is untethered.

...though I don't know if they were technically insane. (Wilson was certainly showing some signs of clinical paranoia at Versailles; and the stress broke him finally.) FDR and Reagan were both sick men by the end, and neither probably should have run in 1944 or 1984. Andrew Johnson clearly had psychological issues. But none of them put together, matches what we're experiencing today...

LBJ's Nam problem had no solution. Though physically very ill, LBJ still had his marbles at the end.

He isn't insane, he's a RW asshole.

He says what he says cuz his base likes it.
He's another grifter, PT Barnum. If we call him insane, he likes it.

He's like Benny Hinn and all those RW televangelists. They all act crazy, but it's money in the bank.