To the editor:

This is how mad men come to rule a country while the people stand idly by just watching. In the recent book titled “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump”: subtitled “37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” we are given a detailed analysis of Donald Trump’s mental health.

In the book, contributor Ian Hughes describes the toxic triangle of destructive leaders, susceptible followers and a conducive environment that allows these madmen to flourish. He describes how these crazed leaders lack any empathy for others while viewing them as mere objects to be manipulated. A second author, Jerrold Post describes these mirror-hungry narcissists as requiring the constant adulation of their followers. The book describes the serial lies in Trumps fantasy world while followers pour out chants of hatred and threats of violence while pouring praise and adulation on their most beautiful leader.

In a second book, Trump’s own niece, PhD psychologist Mary Trump published her book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man”. In the book’s epilogue, she describes her fear that Trump’s cruelty and incompetence would end up getting people killed.

As failure surrounds him, this petty narcissist, fearing to look weak, uses superlatives like great, perfect and beautiful. Mary Trump fives a first-hand description of how”a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse” while growing up in a toxic house created the man who now occupied the White House. Her warnings are ominous.

Donald Trump lives in an artificially constructed universe that he has created for himself so that he can present the illusion of his perfection and beauty to the world. But in his wretched little houses called the White House and Mar-a-Lago lives a demented little man, the best friend of Jeffrey Epstein. As ICE carries out his commands to occupy America, he sits alone, grinning, and daydreaming about how wonderful he is and how beautiful are all of the things that he has done.

Richard Greene

New Ulm