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His revelations about Donald Trump (74) caused a stir in Washington last week. Bob Woodward’s book (77) on the President of the United States is now officially available in stores. All Americans can now read for themselves how Trump deliberately downplayed the crown pandemic in the spring, exchanged love letters with the ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, and spoke about a new American nuclear program.
Donald Trump and his party colleagues have already dismissed the book as “fake news,” even though Woodward has released sound recordings. The US president told Fox News on Tuesday that he had read the book briefly the night before. “It was very boring,” Trump said. But there are doubts as to whether the president was telling the truth. Because on Monday he claimed to have read the book “the night before.” The same statement twice in 24 hours. Trump confusion!
Woodward’s bad suspicions
Journalist legend Bob Woodward, who started the Watergate affair, was able to conduct a total of 18 interviews with Trump in recent months. Not only did the revelations come out of this. Woodward, who has been writing books on American presidents for decades, has never come to a conclusion in his career. With Trump he has now made an exception.
In the last pages, Woodward reaches a damning conclusion about the president of the United States and explicitly calls for his election. Now he has defended this step in a CNN interview and has expressed serious suspicions.
“I don’t know if he understands what is real and what is unreal,” says Woodward. “That’s why at the end of the book I come to the conclusion that this is the wrong man for the job.” He had many conversations with the president of the United States and also with “people from the White House, the secret services and the Pentagon.” “How can you have this experience and not come to this conclusion?” Woodward defends himself.
What a psychologist says about Trump
His first statement caused a stir. Woodward expresses the suspicion that several psychologists have already expressed in the media in the past: Does the president of the United States suffer a loss of reality?
John D. Gartner, a psychotherapist who has taught at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, classified Trump in an interview with “US News” as “dangerously mentally ill.” He believes that Trump shows signs of “malignant narcissism,” the combination of a narcissistic personality disorder, highly aggressive antisocial behavior, and a tendency toward paranoia. Pathological grandiosity (development of a self that does not correspond to reality or a loss of reality) with a claim to power within a group, up to and including sadism and hatred, are characteristic.
CNN host Anderson Cooper asked the journalist’s legend toward the end if he had ever interviewed another US president about whom he would say the same thing. Bob Woodward’s succinct answer: “No.”
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