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Shrinking Trump

Trump is in trouble, even with his base!

Shrinking Trump

Really American Media

News, Politics

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Psychologists John Gartner and Harry Segal review “the week in Trump,” paying particular attention to Pam Bondi. They are joined again by Vince Greenwood, clinical psychologist and expert on psychopathy, who has new insights on Trump’s criminal behavior.

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0:00.0

I'm Dr. John Gartner.

0:01.6

And I'm Dr. Harry Siegel.

0:03.7

And welcome to another session of shrinking Trump.

0:07.3

This is not just another session.

0:09.8

This is session number 50.

0:12.1

John and I have been at this for more than a year now.

0:14.5

And as clinical psychologists, we've been for a long time, very concerned about Donald

0:20.8

Trump's mental capacities. His severe

0:24.3

personality disorder with sociopathic tendencies, what we call malignant narcissism. This is a well-defined

0:32.2

and researched construct in clinical psychology. Also, signs of early stages of dementia,

0:41.1

which we saw throughout the campaign.

0:44.3

And we see less of these days because of how protected he is.

0:49.8

But, you know, this week we saw some.

0:52.4

So we're here to review the week.

0:54.1

I have to say I'm both... you know, this week we saw some. So we're here to review the week.

1:07.6

I have to say I'm both, I continue to be alarmed by what's going on, but some of the polling shows that the country is starting to realize what is happening. And that is a bit heartening, right, John?

1:13.6

Well, absolutely. And we're going to talk about those heartening signs. But I want to talk

1:18.6

about someone who's really, really scaring me. Pam Bondi. Pam Bondi scares me.

1:26.6

You know, we've talked about how Trump had some guardrails around him with the people in his first administration.

1:33.0

I mean, remember Jeff Sessions?

1:34.9

We thought, oh, my God, that's the worst attorney general ever, that bigot, that Klansman, you know.

1:40.8

But at least he had the ethics to recuse himself, right?

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