What Psychiatrists Say About Donald Trump

FEATURING DR. BANDY X. LEE – President Donald Trump’s mental health status has always been in question as the nation reels from two years of abusive rhetoric, incessant lying, violent threats, and shameless narcissism. Most Americans who have watched his Presidency unfold with horror, have worried that we are being led into a dark abyss by a madman.

In a powerful book collecting essays and assessments of Trump’s mental health by dozens of experts, my guest Dr. Bandy Lee lays out The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.

Dr. Bandy Lee, Assistant Clinical Professor in Law and Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She was previously Chief Resident at Mass General and a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and has also been a Fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health. She is the editor of the New York Times bestselling book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. The book is now out in its second updated and expanded edition, featuring essays by 37 experts.

**This segment was originally broadcast on April 4, 2019.