Dr. John Gartner: “I'm predicting that Donald Trump will kill more people than Hitler"
Don't dismiss this as over the top
Many of you know Dr. John Gartner—a psychologist and founder of Duty To Warn—who for years had been raising red flags about Donald Trump’s cognitive decline. In the past, Dr. Gartner appeared on my show where he alerted us to Trump’s mental slide and slammed the corporate media for covering up his dementia. But this is the first time he said something as blunt as, “I’m predicting that Donald Trump will kill more people than Hitler.”
Before you dismiss this as over the top, keep in mind this is the first time I spoke to Dr. Gartner since Trump began his unprovoked war against Iran. He has now seen Trump’s reaction to war and the joy it brings him. That is why Dr. Gartner has upped his warning. Plus it’s not just Dr. Gartner alerting us--36 leading medical experts recently signed a letter to Congress warning that Trump is mentally unfit to serve.
As Dr. Gartner explained in our discussion this week, during the Iran war we’ve seen Trump enjoy the bombing and killing of people. “Donald Trump is becoming pure, sadistic id with no brakes, with no frontal lobe,” he explained.
Dr. Gartner continued, Trump’s “impulses are basically rash, sadistic, and destructive, and grandiose, and he has no judgment, and he has no breaks, and he has no impulse control.” He rightly added, Trump “has no empathy for any of the people who he might harm or destroy.”
He laid out how Trump is following the “Hitler playbook.” Gartner then ticked off what Trump has done which mimics Hitler: “Demonizing minorities and putting them in concentration camps. He’s seizing control over elections. He’s destroying, or trying to, he’s trying to destroy free speech. He’s using the government to go after his enemies. He’s purging the government of people who aren’t lackeys at all levels.”
There are other world leaders like Vladimir Putin who are authoritarians and have nuclear weapons. But what makes Trump dangerously unique is he is a malignant narcissist with dementia. As the Doctor explained, malignant narcissists “gain their sense of power through omnipotent destructiveness. They love to blow things up, and harm people, and dominate people, and destroy, because that makes them feel powerful.”
When you combine those Trump traits with his control of the world’s most lethal military, you could have mass casualty event. I asked Dr. Gartner what Trump was capable of given his mental state, he warned, “I believe that he will use nuclear weapons, I believe it’ll be a first strike. And that will not be provoked, it will be just because he wants to.”
Again, before you dismiss this as too extreme, do you doubt the Trump we are seeing now would order the use tactical nuclear weapons?! We all woke up just two months ago to Trump declaring war on Iran without making the case to the American people in advance. He based it on whim.
This is same Trump who in January told the NY Times that international law doesn’t confine him in any way. Instead, Trump told us the “one thing” that restrains him is, “my own morality. My own mind.” He added ominously, “It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
As Dr. Gartner noted that Trump’s impulse control is gone because “he no longer has a frontal lobe.” He continued, “whatever restraint, or judgment, or impulse control he once had. That is now biologically gone.” All of this is why Trump’s behavior in recent months has been especially egregious from going to war on a whim to telling a reporter on Air Force One to, “Shut up, piggy!”
Now you get why 36 medical experts recently sent a letter to congressional leaders that flagged Trump’s “marked deterioration in cognitive functioning,” his “severely impaired judgment and impulse control” and “grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself” involved in a “divine mission.”
These esteemed doctors ended their letter with this warning, “For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States.” They then added this call to action, “steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency.”
This letter was entered into the congressional record by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI).
All of this is deeply alarming. And it’s going to get worse. As Doctor Gartner noted--like all people with dementia—Trump will decline each day. We have been warned. The only question is what will it take for Congress—especially Republicans—to remove him?!
Hope you watch my discussion with Dr. Gartner below:
The ass@@@e Republicans don’t give a sheet about our democracy. The fact that they lay down like lambs at the slaughter is the saddest and most dangerous thing since the Civil War.
Well, this is scary af. He’s right, of course.