AlterNet - Trump fuels mental health speculation 

May 25, 2026

Speaking with AlterNet earlier this month, Dr. Henry Abraham - an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Tufts University who led a group of 36 top physicians and mental health experts that issued a public statement to Congress warning about Trump’s mental state - explained how Trump appears to exhibit symptoms consistent with cognitive decline.

 

The group argued in its statement that Trump’s “mental instability, coupled with his sole, unchecked authority to launch nuclear weapons, makes him a clear and present danger to the safety of all Americans.” 

 

Because they have not personally treated the president, they did not officially diagnose him, but offered instead a detailed description of his publicly-exhibited symptoms including “bizarre and impulsive behavior, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, and his deeply impaired judgment.” ...

 

Abraham told AlterNet that “there has been a frightening progression of symptoms. These include grandiosity without moral safeguards, paranoia, impulsivity, vindictiveness, easy misperception of being harmed, moments of omnipotence, uncontrolled rage, and sole control over the use of nuclear weapons in a time of war.”

 

He concluded, “As a psychiatrist reviewing these, I can only say Yikes!”