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Dr. Lance Dodes, retired Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Donald Trump reportedly making false claims that he will be “reinstated” as president by August and why “lack of power is the thing Trump can’t stand and doesn’t acknowledge.”

37 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president. dr. dodes, thank you for joining us once again tonight. it was the talk of being reinstated that made me want to talk to you again tonight. this is donald trump thinking, perhaps, that in august he will be president again. what is your professional reaction to that? >> well, donald trump is delusional. this is not news. weve known this for the past four years at least. he keeps insisting on things as true which are demonstrably false...

>> is it possible that there might come a day if he is, say, convicted of a crime in new york that something could happen where he could have that moment where he kind of admits where he really is in the world? >> i dont think so. that would be a sign of mental health actually. the ability to grieve is normal. i dont think he can do that. i think he can only become more enraged and psychotic. >> dr. lance dodes, thank you very much for joining us once again. we always appreciate it. >> sure. goo...

Mental illness is hobbling donald trump is contained in this tweet by the "new york times" maggie haberman. trump has been telling a number of people he is in contact with that he expects he will be reinstated by august. a former crack addict is now taking credit for the idea of trumps august resurrection. mike lindell who sells pillows and is being sued for his lies about the election told "the daily beast" today, quote, if trump is saying august, that is probably because he heard me say it pub...

comments Last Wednesday, thousands of Donald Trumps white supremacist supporters, at his de facto command, launched an assault on the U.S. Capitol with the goal of stopping Joe Biden from becoming the next president. While investigations are ongoing, some people in the mob may have planned to kidnap or assassinate members of Congress they consider "traitors," along with Vice President Mike Pence, who presided over the ceremonial count of the electoral votes. Trumps fascist mob was well equ...

He doesnt have that, and thats why he can treat other people with complete abandon and literally abandon. if theyre for him, he loves them, if theyre against him, theyre horrible. as black and white and very simple. >> writing in 2017 in the book that we mentioned, the danger case of donald trump, you said that these characteristics will only become worse. do you see evidence that that has happened? >> absolutely. and they will continue to be worse. if he didnt have his party behind him, he woul...

Its a psychotic-like state. the more you press him, the more you see how disorganized and empty he is. the more he flies into a disorganized rage. so yeah, and by the way, in terms of being god, he also made several what you might call freudian slips during the interview today. he kept mixing up who he was and who the country was. he said "i have the best economy." i, not the country. "i defeated the caliphate." its not just a slip of the tongue. he really doesnt get it. he thinks of himself as ...

He really doesnt get it. he thinks of himself as a dictator and its all him and no one else really matters. >> dr. lance dodes, thank you for joining us once again, thank you for starting this conversation on this program. back in what was the second month, basically, of the trump presidency. when i know it wasnt comfortable for people in your profession to be entering this discussion, but as you said at that time, you felt more driven by the duty to warn, and thats what youve been joined in ton...

Governance, and finds it impossible to put into simple, declarative sentences what hes talking about. >> i want to listen to a professional diagnosis here. this is from lance dodes, a former professor at harvard medical school, professor of psychiatry. lets listen to what he had to say about the president on this show. >> lying in the way that he does it, repeated, dangerous lying makes him unfit and is a sign of serious mental disturbance. and to the extent he doesnt know reality -- and i agree...