Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 247 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin on this Memorial Day with Trump's remarks at Arlington National Cemetery

today and his commencement speech at West Point in which he spoke to the

1002 Army cadets about trophy wives. Joining us is a member of a famous American military family, Lucy and Truscott

the fourth, a journalist, screenwriter, and author of five bestselling novels. A graduate of West Point,

he has covered the wars in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He is a regular contributor at

Salon, and he blogs at Lucian truscott dot substack.com

where his latest article we will discuss is i watch trump's west point commencement speech

so you don't have to then we'll investigate the evident deterioration of trump's mental health

and speak with dr bandy lee a doctor, forensic psychiatrists and world

expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years.

She became known to the public by leading a group of mental health professional colleagues

in breaking the silence about Donald Trump's dangerous psychology and publishing the New York Times bestseller,

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,

37 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president.

She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition,

and his latest books are

Profile of a Nation, Trump's Mind, America's Soul,

Psychology of Trump Contagion, and existential danger to American democracy and all humankind.

And out tomorrow is her latest book, The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.

50 psychiatrists and mental health experts warn anew, updated and expanded with new essays. She also blogs at bandyxlead.

Substack. Then finally we'll go to Stockholm, Sweden for an analysis of Trump's remark that

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