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Yale Psychiatrist: Trump’s Personality Type is Common in the Criminal Justice System

Lee Claims Trump’s Dangerousness Disqualifies Him From Office

Manny Otiko
4 min readApr 17, 2020
President Donald Trump (Gage Skidmore)

Dr. Bandy Lee, M.D., is a Yale forensic psychiatrist who has warned about the dangers of President Donald Trump’s rapidly deteriorating mental state. This was more than a year before Trump’s daily rage-filled press conferences. She joined with several other mental health professionals in authoring “The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” to continue to warn about the danger that Trump presented to the country. Lee has continued to spread her message through various television and print media interviews.

Here is my interview with her:

Otiko: You and several other mental health professionals have diagnosed President Donald Trump as a narcissist. How did you come up with that diagnosis?

Lee: I have not diagnosed, nor have the thousands of members of the World Mental Health Coalition. He certainly exhibits…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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