Re: “” Feb. 18 guest commentary.
Talk about “fake news.” This article by Dan Recht belongs in the National Enquirer. He makes the case that the president is not sane. Is he calling the president insane? Not so. Recht states that the president is not insane, just not sane. He goes on to support his “thesis” by citing a published letter in The New York Times written by “Dr. Lance Dodes, a retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Dr. Joseph Schachter, a former chairman of the Committee on Research Proposals, International Psychoanalytic Association.” These two state “explicitly that the president is suffering from grave emotional instability.” I’m not sure that this defines sanity.
Bottom line is that we have an article written by a man who admits that he has no training in psychology, but proceeds to call the president of the United States not sane. There may be words to describe President Donald Trump’s actions, some good and some not so good, but I would hardly refer to the president as “not sane.”
Larry Dorner, Aurora
Thank you to Dan Recht for trying to explain to people something I’ve been thinking ever since Donald Trump began his campaign.
When it comes to all the stupid, totally untrue things that Trump has said and repeated, I have never believed he was “lying.” To my mind, a liar is someone who tells people things he knows are untrue. Trump actually believes these untruths. What this means is that he is not a liar. He is delusional, which is worse. Trump believes these things even when confronted with factual evidence that they are not true. Itap like when someone continues to believe that they are Napoleon, even when shown evidence to the contrary.
And that comparison to believing one is Napoleon might not be so far off. The ways in which Trump is “governing,” writing executive orders one after another, show he obviously believes that he has the power of an emperor, who can issue a royal decree and expect everyone to follow it, no questions asked.
The American people should be very afraid of who is in the White House now.
Paul Ruzicka, Aurora
The Democrats are looking for a way to impeach President Donald Trump and are hoping to invoke the 25th Amendment, regarding mental or emotional fitness for office. Thus, Dan Recht writes this article suggesting Trump may not be sane.
Recht lists five “lies” that Trump has told. How about a couple of “whoppers” told by Barack Obama: If you like your doctor or health care plan, you can keep them and health care costs will go down; the attack against the U.S. in Benghazi was due to a video. I would elaborate, but I’m only allowed 150 words.
Did anyone question Obama’s mental or emotional fitness?
Steve Lange, Littleton
“Is Donald Trump sane?” asks Dan Recht on the front page of the Perspective section. Curiously, I did not see Recht’s credentials, including a doctorate in psychiatry, so his judgment fails before it begins. Please reflect on the time that Donald Trump has been in office and the adversarial role the press played in the election and their unhinged reaction to his unexpected win. Personally, I would question the “sanity” of the left only four weeks into the new presidency.
All the name-calling will not change the fact that Trump is president and will remain so for the balance of his term and possibly the next as well. I don’t believe America is ready for Hillary Clinton’s socialists to take over yet.
Robert Tucker, Denver
Dan Recht’’s opinion piece questioning Donald Trump’s sanity is on target. Beside the need to constantly pound his own drum and his inability to separate fact from fiction, there are other indicators of craziness. One is his fixation with his Electoral College win. He brought it up at his first news conference (with inaccuracies) and he brings it up in conversations with foreign leaders.
Trump also seems to perceive anyone who disagrees with him or states anything negative about him as a threat. If he were just an average citizen, most people would avoid him, as anyone that thin-skinned tend to be on the scary side.
Martin Petters, Centennial
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