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Showing Original Post only (View all)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 Dont worry about giving orders.
00:05 We need Greenland for reasons of
00:10 national security.
00:11 And its not Denmark thats going to manage that, I tell you.
00:15 And theres laughter, and more laughter on Donald Trumps 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 Im 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 Womens Couch) in a few weeks.
01:05 In three weeks.
01:08 Thats 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 Youre 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 Well 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 moments 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 dont diagnose someone you dont know
02:24 Thats true.
02:25 I think this scene is decisive
02:29 why? Because
02:30 he delivers a Shakespearean scene
02:32 we dont need Freud for that
02:34 but
02:35 its 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 its a delusional act
02:42 that doesnt at all mean hes clinically
02:45 crazy
02:46 I said he wasnt psychotic
02:48 but its 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 hes not schizophrenic
03:14 hes not psychotic
03:15 but there is still
03:15 an extraordinary narcissistic delusion
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