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MagaSmash

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Thu Jan 29, 2026, 12:03 PM Thursday

The French Press Asks: "Is Donald trump Crazy and Insane" [View all]



not sure if translation is available but you get the idea.
But where is the American Press? (GPT might be able to translate for you)

English Transcript (Available Portion)

00:00 — Don’t worry about giving orders.
00:05 — We need Greenland for reasons of…
00:10 — national security.
00:11 — And it’s not Denmark that’s going to manage that, I tell you.
00:15 — And there’s laughter, and more laughter on Donald Trump’s plane.
00:17 — Grandiloquence, erratic speech,
00:20 — absence of superego, impulsive reaction to the slightest criticism.
00:23 — Can we — should we —
00:25 — ask about the mental health of the American president?
00:30 — Can we even ask that question?
00:32 — Is Donald Trump crazy?
00:34 — Would that…
00:35 — Would that amount to disqualifying a political project that is perfectly coherent for him?
00:40 — Or is the situation serious?
00:42 — Are we under the grip of a narcissistic delusion
00:45 — from the most powerful man in the world?
00:47 — France Inter — La grande matinale.
00:48 — Sonia de Villers.
00:51 — And I’m pleased to debate with…
00:55 — historian and psychoanalyst Elisabeth Roudinesco.
00:57 — Hello.
00:58 — Hello.
01:00 — Welcome.
01:01 — You are about to publish Le divan des femmes (The Women’s Couch) in a few weeks.
01:05 — In three weeks.
01:08 — That’s right.
01:09 — And I should add that you are…
01:10 — also vice-president of the Institute for the History and Enlightenment of Thought.
01:15 — Welcome to France Inter.
01:17 — Opposite you is Henri Guaino.
01:18 — Hello.
01:19 — Former MP,
01:20 — former special advisor to President Nicolas Sarkozy.
01:23 — You’re going to tell us…
01:25 — whether power makes one crazy, for example,
01:27 — whether the presidency drives one mad.
01:30 — Elisabeth Roudinesco.
01:31 — We’ll start with you.
01:32 — Recently in Le Grand Continent magazine,
01:34 — we read a…
01:35 — fascinating interview.
01:36 — You began with a sequence that took place on…
01:40 — January 16.
01:41 — when the Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner awarded her medal
01:45 — to Donald Trump
01:46 — as though it were a real Nobel Prize…
01:50 — a moment you describe as an expression of delusion.
01:55 — I quote you:
01:56 — something collapses with this grotesque staging…
02:00 — without feeling even a moment’s fear of ridicule…
02:02 — a strange parallel reality emerges…
02:05 — a delusional parallel.
02:07 — So you talk about delusion when you talk about the American president, Elisabeth Roudinesco.
02:12 — First, I thank Le Grand Continent and Gilles Gresseni.
02:14 — They pushed me…
02:15 — They pushed you.
02:16 — You were reluctant.
02:17 — Yes, yes, because I think you have to…
02:19 — I…
02:20 — I applied the rule.
02:22 — You don’t diagnose someone you don’t know…
02:24 — That’s true.
02:25 — I think this scene is decisive…
02:29 — why? Because…
02:30 — he delivers a Shakespearean scene…
02:32 — we don’t need Freud for that…
02:34 — but…
02:35 — it’s true that…
02:36 — we always need Freud…
02:37 — and there…
02:38 — he believes…
02:39 — he really believes…
02:40 — because…
02:40 — if you want…
02:41 — it’s a delusional act…
02:42 — that doesn’t at all mean he’s clinically…
02:45 — crazy…
02:46 — I said he wasn’t psychotic…
02:48 — but it’s a delusional act…
02:50 — because he really believes…
02:53 — that receiving…
02:55 — essentially…
02:57 — the insignia…
02:58 — without the title…
03:00 — can fix something…
03:02 — since he considers he was persecuted…
03:04 — by not having…
03:05 — the Nobel Prize…
03:07 — so…
03:08 — if you want…
03:09 — the word “madness”…
03:10 — yes…
03:11 — there is a delusional act…
03:12 — without him being…
03:13 — he’s not schizophrenic…
03:14 — he’s not psychotic…
03:15 — but there is still…
03:15 — an extraordinary narcissistic delusion…
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Yes. And yes Deuxcents Thursday #1
Oui Historic NY Thursday #2
Mai Oui. Bien Sur. C'est un homme fou. NNadir Thursday #3
Great translation, MagaSmash! some_of_us_are_sane Thursday #4
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