#behavioral-science — Public Fediverse posts
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@ExtinctionR Most Scandinavian countries have superior educational systems.
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@ExtinctionR Most Scandinavian countries have superior educational systems.
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@ExtinctionR Most Scandinavian countries have superior educational systems.
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@ExtinctionR Most Scandinavian countries have superior educational systems.
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@ExtinctionR Most Scandinavian countries have superior educational systems.
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@infobeautiful @ourworldindata It helps to learn Root Cause Analysis: most diseases are caused by a range of inherited hardware, and the system they're born into, along with the level of ignorance.
The wealthiest 1% know this, and work to condition the masses into buying into their effects, rather than evolving from root causes - like nutrition. Ultraprocessed foods are largely rooted in disease effects. Brainwashing you into believing you're getting as much as you're giving - also a critical function of their oppression/#AbuseOfPower.
Any historian of note claimed, rightfully, that ignorance is the ultimate enemy. That's why teaching single-solve mindsets in Western #Capitalism is crucial in maintaining subjugated subservience. Finally realizing that millions of years of evolution, was due to eating healthy proteins and carbs, is too late when you're lifespan is already crippled by ultraprocessed foods, antiquated baseload power/#FossilFuels, and addiction to cell phones.
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@infobeautiful @ourworldindata It helps to learn Root Cause Analysis: most diseases are caused by a range of inherited hardware, and the system they're born into, along with the level of ignorance.
The wealthiest 1% know this, and work to condition the masses into buying into their effects, rather than evolving from root causes - like nutrition. Ultraprocessed foods are largely rooted in disease effects. Brainwashing you into believing you're getting as much as you're giving - also a critical function of their oppression/#AbuseOfPower.
Any historian of note claimed, rightfully, that ignorance is the ultimate enemy. That's why teaching single-solve mindsets in Western #Capitalism is crucial in maintaining subjugated subservience. Finally realizing that millions of years of evolution, was due to eating healthy proteins and carbs, is too late when you're lifespan is already crippled by ultraprocessed foods, antiquated baseload power/#FossilFuels, and addiction to cell phones.
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@infobeautiful @ourworldindata It helps to learn Root Cause Analysis: most diseases are caused by a range of inherited hardware, and the system they're born into, along with the level of ignorance.
The wealthiest 1% know this, and work to condition the masses into buying into their effects, rather than evolving from root causes - like nutrition. Ultraprocessed foods are largely rooted in disease effects. Brainwashing you into believing you're getting as much as you're giving - also a critical function of their oppression/#AbuseOfPower.
Any historian of note claimed, rightfully, that ignorance is the ultimate enemy. That's why teaching single-solve mindsets in Western #Capitalism is crucial in maintaining subjugated subservience. Finally realizing that millions of years of evolution, was due to eating healthy proteins and carbs, is too late when you're lifespan is already crippled by ultraprocessed foods, antiquated baseload power/#FossilFuels, and addiction to cell phones.
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@infobeautiful @ourworldindata It helps to learn Root Cause Analysis: most diseases are caused by a range of inherited hardware, and the system they're born into, along with the level of ignorance.
The wealthiest 1% know this, and work to condition the masses into buying into their effects, rather than evolving from root causes - like nutrition. Ultraprocessed foods are largely rooted in disease effects. Brainwashing you into believing you're getting as much as you're giving - also a critical function of their oppression/#AbuseOfPower.
Any historian of note claimed, rightfully, that ignorance is the ultimate enemy. That's why teaching single-solve mindsets in Western #Capitalism is crucial in maintaining subjugated subservience. Finally realizing that millions of years of evolution, was due to eating healthy proteins and carbs, is too late when you're lifespan is already crippled by ultraprocessed foods, antiquated baseload power/#FossilFuels, and addiction to cell phones.
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@infobeautiful @ourworldindata It helps to learn Root Cause Analysis: most diseases are caused by a range of inherited hardware, and the system they're born into, along with the level of ignorance.
The wealthiest 1% know this, and work to condition the masses into buying into their effects, rather than evolving from root causes - like nutrition. Ultraprocessed foods are largely rooted in disease effects. Brainwashing you into believing you're getting as much as you're giving - also a critical function of their oppression/#AbuseOfPower.
Any historian of note claimed, rightfully, that ignorance is the ultimate enemy. That's why teaching single-solve mindsets in Western #Capitalism is crucial in maintaining subjugated subservience. Finally realizing that millions of years of evolution, was due to eating healthy proteins and carbs, is too late when you're lifespan is already crippled by ultraprocessed foods, antiquated baseload power/#FossilFuels, and addiction to cell phones.
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@skinnylatte It would be a whale of a time, directly opposing humans who do the direct opposite.
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@skinnylatte It would be a whale of a time, directly opposing humans who do the direct opposite.
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@skinnylatte It would be a whale of a time, directly opposing humans who do the direct opposite.
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@skinnylatte It would be a whale of a time, directly opposing humans who do the direct opposite.
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@skinnylatte It would be a whale of a time, directly opposing humans who do the direct opposite.
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@quixoticgeek Then we get to the greater root causes: a Mastodon account is more valued, from roots to branches, by the content consistently adding value to the middle-masses of people.
Should the wealthiest 1% be likewise held accountable?.. and replaced through repeated failure?
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@quixoticgeek Then we get to the greater root causes: a Mastodon account is more valued, from roots to branches, by the content consistently adding value to the middle-masses of people.
Should the wealthiest 1% be likewise held accountable?.. and replaced through repeated failure?
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@quixoticgeek Then we get to the greater root causes: a Mastodon account is more valued, from roots to branches, by the content consistently adding value to the middle-masses of people.
Should the wealthiest 1% be likewise held accountable?.. and replaced through repeated failure?
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@quixoticgeek Then we get to the greater root causes: a Mastodon account is more valued, from roots to branches, by the content consistently adding value to the middle-masses of people.
Should the wealthiest 1% be likewise held accountable?.. and replaced through repeated failure?
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@quixoticgeek Then we get to the greater root causes: a Mastodon account is more valued, from roots to branches, by the content consistently adding value to the middle-masses of people.
Should the wealthiest 1% be likewise held accountable?.. and replaced through repeated failure?
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@VeroniqueB99 Roots feed the branches.
Any historian of note has correctly claimed that ignorance, is the ultimate enemy. Enough MAGAts voting for this current administration, proves this point.
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@VeroniqueB99 Roots feed the branches.
Any historian of note has correctly claimed that ignorance, is the ultimate enemy. Enough MAGAts voting for this current administration, proves this point.
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@VeroniqueB99 Roots feed the branches.
Any historian of note has correctly claimed that ignorance, is the ultimate enemy. Enough MAGAts voting for this current administration, proves this point.
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@VeroniqueB99 Roots feed the branches.
Any historian of note has correctly claimed that ignorance, is the ultimate enemy. Enough MAGAts voting for this current administration, proves this point.
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@VeroniqueB99 Roots feed the branches.
Any historian of note has correctly claimed that ignorance, is the ultimate enemy. Enough MAGAts voting for this current administration, proves this point.
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Recent research demonstrates that while moderate ambient temperature increases can benefit bumble bees by expanding optimal foraging hours, extreme heat events severely threaten colony survival, particularly for populations utilizing above-ground nests.
#Entomology #Ecology #BehavioralScience #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
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Recent research demonstrates that while moderate ambient temperature increases can benefit bumble bees by expanding optimal foraging hours, extreme heat events severely threaten colony survival, particularly for populations utilizing above-ground nests.
#Entomology #Ecology #BehavioralScience #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/ent05062601.html -
Recent research demonstrates that while moderate ambient temperature increases can benefit bumble bees by expanding optimal foraging hours, extreme heat events severely threaten colony survival, particularly for populations utilizing above-ground nests.
#Entomology #Ecology #BehavioralScience #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/ent05062601.html -
Recent research demonstrates that while moderate ambient temperature increases can benefit bumble bees by expanding optimal foraging hours, extreme heat events severely threaten colony survival, particularly for populations utilizing above-ground nests.
#Entomology #Ecology #BehavioralScience #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/ent05062601.html -
Recent research demonstrates that while moderate ambient temperature increases can benefit bumble bees by expanding optimal foraging hours, extreme heat events severely threaten colony survival, particularly for populations utilizing above-ground nests.
#Entomology #Ecology #BehavioralScience #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/ent05062601.html -
@baronvonj @georgetakei Your stagnant 'belief' is exactly why so many democrat/republican duopolists, are collapsing the US.
Most modern industrialized nations have more than two parties, for that very reason. Capitalistic greed is the driving force to minimizing sustainable differentials, and now it's not only the poorest class in the US suffering from these abuses of power, it's the middle classes as well - a long developed grift from the upper 1%, wealthiest oppressors.
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@baronvonj @georgetakei Your stagnant 'belief' is exactly why so many democrat/republican duopolists, are collapsing the US.
Most modern industrialized nations have more than two parties, for that very reason. Capitalistic greed is the driving force to minimizing sustainable differentials, and now it's not only the poorest class in the US suffering from these abuses of power, it's the middle classes as well - a long developed grift from the upper 1%, wealthiest oppressors.
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@baronvonj @georgetakei Your stagnant 'belief' is exactly why so many democrat/republican duopolists, are collapsing the US.
Most modern industrialized nations have more than two parties, for that very reason. Capitalistic greed is the driving force to minimizing sustainable differentials, and now it's not only the poorest class in the US suffering from these abuses of power, it's the middle classes as well - a long developed grift from the upper 1%, wealthiest oppressors.
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@baronvonj @georgetakei Your stagnant 'belief' is exactly why so many democrat/republican duopolists, are collapsing the US.
Most modern industrialized nations have more than two parties, for that very reason. Capitalistic greed is the driving force to minimizing sustainable differentials, and now it's not only the poorest class in the US suffering from these abuses of power, it's the middle classes as well - a long developed grift from the upper 1%, wealthiest oppressors.
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@baronvonj @georgetakei Your stagnant 'belief' is exactly why so many democrat/republican duopolists, are collapsing the US.
Most modern industrialized nations have more than two parties, for that very reason. Capitalistic greed is the driving force to minimizing sustainable differentials, and now it's not only the poorest class in the US suffering from these abuses of power, it's the middle classes as well - a long developed grift from the upper 1%, wealthiest oppressors.
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Medical Experts Call for Donald Trump Removal From Office.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency…
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo via PeaceandHealthBlog.com | May 6, 2026
[Editor’s note: I have nothing more to add to the profound, sane, focused warning message from this group of medical experts. Peace.]
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Medical Experts Declare President Trump Too Unstable to Remain in Office, Cite Nuclear Weapons Risks
May 5, 2026
tags: medicine, nuclear weapons, Trump, USA
by IPPNW
On April 30, 2026, a group of 36 leading physicians and other doctors with expertise in mental health issued a statement calling for President Donald J. Trump’s immediate, lawful removal from office for medical reasons. His 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, they declared. The U.S. Senate offices of Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) entered the experts’ statement into the Congressional Record, Vol. 172, No. 76.
Read the statement in full here and below.
Medical Concerns about President Donald J. Trump and His Fitness for Office
The following is not a political statement. It is a medical one, made by individuals holding both conservative and liberal ideologies, identifying as both Republicans and Democrats, from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and religions.
We are a group of neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, and other physicians, along with other mental health professionals, experienced in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders and in evaluating dangerousness to self and others. Among us are professionals whom the courts and criminal justice system regularly turn to for our expert opinion in these matters. We are also consulted by governments in matters related to national security and the psychological profiles of world leaders. Prior to the presidential election in the Fall of 2024, a statement assessing Donald J. Trump’s mental fitness for the presidency was issued. At that time, serious signs of cognitive decline were identified, and in our expert opinion, these signs warranted disqualification from office.
It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump’s mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further. In keeping with our professional ethics, and for those of us who are physicians, with the Declaration of Geneva—the successor to the Hippocratic Oath that binds us to the humanitarian principles of medicine since the Nuremberg trials—we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.
We do not take our statement, and the responsibility that comes with making it, lightly.
The President was not examined face to face, and he is not a patient of any member of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in this case is not our role. We have closely followed his behavior and his statements over the past year.
Objectively observable signs of serious medical concern include:
- Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.
- Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as combat pilot—dropping feces on civilians, and claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited—with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his “own morality.”
- Severely impaired judgment and impulse control, reflected in reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions by armed supporters, repeated threats and often actions—judicial, prosecutorial, police, military, and by invoking emergency powers—against political opponents and others who disagree with him.
- Significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications—e.g., 150 social media posts in one night—fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions.
- Escalating violence that threatens national and global stability. As Commander-in-Chief of our military—more than 5000 nuclear warheads in inter-continental missile silos, on submarines, and in bombers around the world, are ready for launch solely upon his order, and no one now has the authority to countermand his order.
On August 7, 1974, as President Richard Nixon’s impeachment loomed, White House Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, was so alarmed by Nixon’s wandering the halls of the White House at night, sleepless, distraught, and heavily intoxicated, talking out loud to portraits of past presidents on the walls, that he alerted Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. Equally alarmed, Schlesinger directed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George S. Brown, that any military orders from Nixon—especially nuclear ones—first be cleared through him or Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It has been reported that the nuclear “football” that contains the codes for a nuclear launch was then quietly removed from Nixon’s control.
The public and those with the power to address such potentially catastrophic conditions must ask themselves if they—and we—are confident that officials such as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would do the same.
It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater. It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline. If we were called upon under the 25th Amendment to judge the President’s present ability to discharge the duties of his office, we would have to conclude that he lacks the capacity to do so.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency, with vital responsibilities on the shoulders of those in positions of leadership.
Signatories,
Henry David Abraham, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
Tufts University School of Medicine
Bernard D. Beitman, M.D.
Professor Emeritus and Former Chair of Psychiatry
University of Missouri School of Medicine
William Bernet, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Ravi Chandra, M.D.
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Eric Chivian, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Lance Dodes, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Jennifer I. Downey, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
George Drinka, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Oregon Health Sciences University
Former Medical Director, CPC Cedar Hills Hospital
Portland, Oregon
Julian Fisher, M.D.
Former Lecturer in Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Justin Frank, M.D.
Former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Co-Director, Metropolitan Center for Object Relations
New York City
Mindy T. Fullilove, M.D.
Professor Emerita of Urban Policy and Health
The New School
Nanette Gartrell, M.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Former Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Prudence L. Gourguechon, M.D.
Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association
Gordan P. Harper, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Ira Helfand, M.D.
Former Chair of Emergency Medicine
Cooley-Dickinson Hospital
International Steering Group
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Julia C. Hoigaard, Ph.D.
Former Lecturer in Psychology
University of California, Irvine
Co-author of Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales
Howard Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D.
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine of USC
University of Southern California
Jerome Kroll, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Medical School
Robert S. Lawrence, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Former Chief of Medicine, Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.
President, World Mental Health Coalition (Washington, DC)
Co-Founder, Preventing Violence Now (New York)
Former Faculty of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Former Faculty of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Rosanne M. Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Craig Malkin, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Former Chief Inpatient Psychologist
Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
James R. Merikangas, M.D.
Neuropsychiatrist and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Denis J. O’Keefe, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Professor of Social Work
New York University
Past President, International Psychohistorical Association
Jennifer C. Panning, Psy.D.
Founder, Mindful Psychology Associates (Evanston, IL)
John O. Pastore, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Former Research Physician
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mark Peppercorn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Harvard Medical School
Claire Pouncey, M.D., Ph.D.
Former President
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Robert C. Rutherford M.D. M.P.H.
Emergency Physician
Former Director, Monroe County Health Department
Florida
Larry S. Sandberg, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Stephen Soldz, Ph.D.
Professor, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Former President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Co-Founder, Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Lise Van Susteren, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Consultant Profiler to the Executive Branch, Federal Government
Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology
Northwestern University Medical School
Mark W. Weber, Ph.D., L.I.C.S.W.
Former Lecturer in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
John Zinner, M.D.
Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
George Washington University Medical Center
Former Head of Family Therapy Studies,
National Institute of Mental Health
#BehavioralScience #DonaldTrump #HarvardMedicalSchool #Health #Medicine #Psychiatry #Psychology -
Medical Experts Call for Donald Trump Removal From Office.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency…
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo via PeaceandHealthBlog.com | May 6, 2026
[Editor’s note: I have nothing more to add to the profound, sane, focused warning message from this group of medical experts. Peace.]
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Medical Experts Declare President Trump Too Unstable to Remain in Office, Cite Nuclear Weapons Risks
May 5, 2026
tags: medicine, nuclear weapons, Trump, USA
by IPPNW
On April 30, 2026, a group of 36 leading physicians and other doctors with expertise in mental health issued a statement calling for President Donald J. Trump’s immediate, lawful removal from office for medical reasons. His 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, they declared. The U.S. Senate offices of Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) entered the experts’ statement into the Congressional Record, Vol. 172, No. 76.
Read the statement in full here and below.
Medical Concerns about President Donald J. Trump and His Fitness for Office
The following is not a political statement. It is a medical one, made by individuals holding both conservative and liberal ideologies, identifying as both Republicans and Democrats, from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and religions.
We are a group of neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, and other physicians, along with other mental health professionals, experienced in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders and in evaluating dangerousness to self and others. Among us are professionals whom the courts and criminal justice system regularly turn to for our expert opinion in these matters. We are also consulted by governments in matters related to national security and the psychological profiles of world leaders. Prior to the presidential election in the Fall of 2024, a statement assessing Donald J. Trump’s mental fitness for the presidency was issued. At that time, serious signs of cognitive decline were identified, and in our expert opinion, these signs warranted disqualification from office.
It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump’s mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further. In keeping with our professional ethics, and for those of us who are physicians, with the Declaration of Geneva—the successor to the Hippocratic Oath that binds us to the humanitarian principles of medicine since the Nuremberg trials—we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.
We do not take our statement, and the responsibility that comes with making it, lightly.
The President was not examined face to face, and he is not a patient of any member of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in this case is not our role. We have closely followed his behavior and his statements over the past year.
Objectively observable signs of serious medical concern include:
- Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.
- Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as combat pilot—dropping feces on civilians, and claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited—with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his “own morality.”
- Severely impaired judgment and impulse control, reflected in reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions by armed supporters, repeated threats and often actions—judicial, prosecutorial, police, military, and by invoking emergency powers—against political opponents and others who disagree with him.
- Significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications—e.g., 150 social media posts in one night—fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions.
- Escalating violence that threatens national and global stability. As Commander-in-Chief of our military—more than 5000 nuclear warheads in inter-continental missile silos, on submarines, and in bombers around the world, are ready for launch solely upon his order, and no one now has the authority to countermand his order.
On August 7, 1974, as President Richard Nixon’s impeachment loomed, White House Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, was so alarmed by Nixon’s wandering the halls of the White House at night, sleepless, distraught, and heavily intoxicated, talking out loud to portraits of past presidents on the walls, that he alerted Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. Equally alarmed, Schlesinger directed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George S. Brown, that any military orders from Nixon—especially nuclear ones—first be cleared through him or Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It has been reported that the nuclear “football” that contains the codes for a nuclear launch was then quietly removed from Nixon’s control.
The public and those with the power to address such potentially catastrophic conditions must ask themselves if they—and we—are confident that officials such as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would do the same.
It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater. It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline. If we were called upon under the 25th Amendment to judge the President’s present ability to discharge the duties of his office, we would have to conclude that he lacks the capacity to do so.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency, with vital responsibilities on the shoulders of those in positions of leadership.
Signatories,
Henry David Abraham, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
Tufts University School of Medicine
Bernard D. Beitman, M.D.
Professor Emeritus and Former Chair of Psychiatry
University of Missouri School of Medicine
William Bernet, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Ravi Chandra, M.D.
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Eric Chivian, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Lance Dodes, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Jennifer I. Downey, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
George Drinka, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Oregon Health Sciences University
Former Medical Director, CPC Cedar Hills Hospital
Portland, Oregon
Julian Fisher, M.D.
Former Lecturer in Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Justin Frank, M.D.
Former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Co-Director, Metropolitan Center for Object Relations
New York City
Mindy T. Fullilove, M.D.
Professor Emerita of Urban Policy and Health
The New School
Nanette Gartrell, M.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Former Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Prudence L. Gourguechon, M.D.
Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association
Gordan P. Harper, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Ira Helfand, M.D.
Former Chair of Emergency Medicine
Cooley-Dickinson Hospital
International Steering Group
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Julia C. Hoigaard, Ph.D.
Former Lecturer in Psychology
University of California, Irvine
Co-author of Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales
Howard Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D.
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine of USC
University of Southern California
Jerome Kroll, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Medical School
Robert S. Lawrence, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Former Chief of Medicine, Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.
President, World Mental Health Coalition (Washington, DC)
Co-Founder, Preventing Violence Now (New York)
Former Faculty of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Former Faculty of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Rosanne M. Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Craig Malkin, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Former Chief Inpatient Psychologist
Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
James R. Merikangas, M.D.
Neuropsychiatrist and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Denis J. O’Keefe, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Professor of Social Work
New York University
Past President, International Psychohistorical Association
Jennifer C. Panning, Psy.D.
Founder, Mindful Psychology Associates (Evanston, IL)
John O. Pastore, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Former Research Physician
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mark Peppercorn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Harvard Medical School
Claire Pouncey, M.D., Ph.D.
Former President
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Robert C. Rutherford M.D. M.P.H.
Emergency Physician
Former Director, Monroe County Health Department
Florida
Larry S. Sandberg, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Stephen Soldz, Ph.D.
Professor, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Former President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Co-Founder, Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Lise Van Susteren, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Consultant Profiler to the Executive Branch, Federal Government
Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology
Northwestern University Medical School
Mark W. Weber, Ph.D., L.I.C.S.W.
Former Lecturer in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
John Zinner, M.D.
Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
George Washington University Medical Center
Former Head of Family Therapy Studies,
National Institute of Mental Health
#BehavioralScience #DonaldTrump #HarvardMedicalSchool #Health #Medicine #Psychiatry #Psychology -
Medical Experts Call for Donald Trump Removal From Office.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency…
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo via PeaceandHealthBlog.com | May 6, 2026
[Editor’s note: I have nothing more to add to the profound, sane, focused warning message from this group of medical experts. Peace.]
***
Medical Experts Declare President Trump Too Unstable to Remain in Office, Cite Nuclear Weapons Risks
May 5, 2026
tags: medicine, nuclear weapons, Trump, USA
by IPPNW
On April 30, 2026, a group of 36 leading physicians and other doctors with expertise in mental health issued a statement calling for President Donald J. Trump’s immediate, lawful removal from office for medical reasons. His 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, they declared. The U.S. Senate offices of Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) entered the experts’ statement into the Congressional Record, Vol. 172, No. 76.
Read the statement in full here and below.
Medical Concerns about President Donald J. Trump and His Fitness for Office
The following is not a political statement. It is a medical one, made by individuals holding both conservative and liberal ideologies, identifying as both Republicans and Democrats, from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and religions.
We are a group of neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, and other physicians, along with other mental health professionals, experienced in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders and in evaluating dangerousness to self and others. Among us are professionals whom the courts and criminal justice system regularly turn to for our expert opinion in these matters. We are also consulted by governments in matters related to national security and the psychological profiles of world leaders. Prior to the presidential election in the Fall of 2024, a statement assessing Donald J. Trump’s mental fitness for the presidency was issued. At that time, serious signs of cognitive decline were identified, and in our expert opinion, these signs warranted disqualification from office.
It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump’s mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further. In keeping with our professional ethics, and for those of us who are physicians, with the Declaration of Geneva—the successor to the Hippocratic Oath that binds us to the humanitarian principles of medicine since the Nuremberg trials—we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.
We do not take our statement, and the responsibility that comes with making it, lightly.
The President was not examined face to face, and he is not a patient of any member of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in this case is not our role. We have closely followed his behavior and his statements over the past year.
Objectively observable signs of serious medical concern include:
- Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.
- Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as combat pilot—dropping feces on civilians, and claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited—with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his “own morality.”
- Severely impaired judgment and impulse control, reflected in reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions by armed supporters, repeated threats and often actions—judicial, prosecutorial, police, military, and by invoking emergency powers—against political opponents and others who disagree with him.
- Significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications—e.g., 150 social media posts in one night—fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions.
- Escalating violence that threatens national and global stability. As Commander-in-Chief of our military—more than 5000 nuclear warheads in inter-continental missile silos, on submarines, and in bombers around the world, are ready for launch solely upon his order, and no one now has the authority to countermand his order.
On August 7, 1974, as President Richard Nixon’s impeachment loomed, White House Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, was so alarmed by Nixon’s wandering the halls of the White House at night, sleepless, distraught, and heavily intoxicated, talking out loud to portraits of past presidents on the walls, that he alerted Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. Equally alarmed, Schlesinger directed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George S. Brown, that any military orders from Nixon—especially nuclear ones—first be cleared through him or Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It has been reported that the nuclear “football” that contains the codes for a nuclear launch was then quietly removed from Nixon’s control.
The public and those with the power to address such potentially catastrophic conditions must ask themselves if they—and we—are confident that officials such as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would do the same.
It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater. It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline. If we were called upon under the 25th Amendment to judge the President’s present ability to discharge the duties of his office, we would have to conclude that he lacks the capacity to do so.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency, with vital responsibilities on the shoulders of those in positions of leadership.
Signatories,
Henry David Abraham, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
Tufts University School of Medicine
Bernard D. Beitman, M.D.
Professor Emeritus and Former Chair of Psychiatry
University of Missouri School of Medicine
William Bernet, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Ravi Chandra, M.D.
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Eric Chivian, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Lance Dodes, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Jennifer I. Downey, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
George Drinka, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Oregon Health Sciences University
Former Medical Director, CPC Cedar Hills Hospital
Portland, Oregon
Julian Fisher, M.D.
Former Lecturer in Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Justin Frank, M.D.
Former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Co-Director, Metropolitan Center for Object Relations
New York City
Mindy T. Fullilove, M.D.
Professor Emerita of Urban Policy and Health
The New School
Nanette Gartrell, M.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Former Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Prudence L. Gourguechon, M.D.
Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association
Gordan P. Harper, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Ira Helfand, M.D.
Former Chair of Emergency Medicine
Cooley-Dickinson Hospital
International Steering Group
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Julia C. Hoigaard, Ph.D.
Former Lecturer in Psychology
University of California, Irvine
Co-author of Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales
Howard Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D.
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine of USC
University of Southern California
Jerome Kroll, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Medical School
Robert S. Lawrence, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Former Chief of Medicine, Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.
President, World Mental Health Coalition (Washington, DC)
Co-Founder, Preventing Violence Now (New York)
Former Faculty of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Former Faculty of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Rosanne M. Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Craig Malkin, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Former Chief Inpatient Psychologist
Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
James R. Merikangas, M.D.
Neuropsychiatrist and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Denis J. O’Keefe, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Professor of Social Work
New York University
Past President, International Psychohistorical Association
Jennifer C. Panning, Psy.D.
Founder, Mindful Psychology Associates (Evanston, IL)
John O. Pastore, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Former Research Physician
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mark Peppercorn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Harvard Medical School
Claire Pouncey, M.D., Ph.D.
Former President
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Robert C. Rutherford M.D. M.P.H.
Emergency Physician
Former Director, Monroe County Health Department
Florida
Larry S. Sandberg, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Stephen Soldz, Ph.D.
Professor, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Former President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Co-Founder, Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Lise Van Susteren, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Consultant Profiler to the Executive Branch, Federal Government
Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology
Northwestern University Medical School
Mark W. Weber, Ph.D., L.I.C.S.W.
Former Lecturer in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
John Zinner, M.D.
Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
George Washington University Medical Center
Former Head of Family Therapy Studies,
National Institute of Mental Health
#BehavioralScience #DonaldTrump #HarvardMedicalSchool #Health #Medicine #Psychiatry #Psychology -
Medical Experts Call for Donald Trump Removal From Office.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency…
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo via PeaceandHealthBlog.com | May 6, 2026
[Editor’s note: I have nothing more to add to the profound, sane, focused warning message from this group of medical experts. Peace.]
***
Medical Experts Declare President Trump Too Unstable to Remain in Office, Cite Nuclear Weapons Risks
May 5, 2026
tags: medicine, nuclear weapons, Trump, USA
by IPPNW
On April 30, 2026, a group of 36 leading physicians and other doctors with expertise in mental health issued a statement calling for President Donald J. Trump’s immediate, lawful removal from office for medical reasons. His 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, they declared. The U.S. Senate offices of Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) entered the experts’ statement into the Congressional Record, Vol. 172, No. 76.
Read the statement in full here and below.
Medical Concerns about President Donald J. Trump and His Fitness for Office
The following is not a political statement. It is a medical one, made by individuals holding both conservative and liberal ideologies, identifying as both Republicans and Democrats, from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and religions.
We are a group of neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, and other physicians, along with other mental health professionals, experienced in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders and in evaluating dangerousness to self and others. Among us are professionals whom the courts and criminal justice system regularly turn to for our expert opinion in these matters. We are also consulted by governments in matters related to national security and the psychological profiles of world leaders. Prior to the presidential election in the Fall of 2024, a statement assessing Donald J. Trump’s mental fitness for the presidency was issued. At that time, serious signs of cognitive decline were identified, and in our expert opinion, these signs warranted disqualification from office.
It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump’s mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further. In keeping with our professional ethics, and for those of us who are physicians, with the Declaration of Geneva—the successor to the Hippocratic Oath that binds us to the humanitarian principles of medicine since the Nuremberg trials—we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.
We do not take our statement, and the responsibility that comes with making it, lightly.
The President was not examined face to face, and he is not a patient of any member of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in this case is not our role. We have closely followed his behavior and his statements over the past year.
Objectively observable signs of serious medical concern include:
- Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.
- Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as combat pilot—dropping feces on civilians, and claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited—with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his “own morality.”
- Severely impaired judgment and impulse control, reflected in reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions by armed supporters, repeated threats and often actions—judicial, prosecutorial, police, military, and by invoking emergency powers—against political opponents and others who disagree with him.
- Significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications—e.g., 150 social media posts in one night—fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions.
- Escalating violence that threatens national and global stability. As Commander-in-Chief of our military—more than 5000 nuclear warheads in inter-continental missile silos, on submarines, and in bombers around the world, are ready for launch solely upon his order, and no one now has the authority to countermand his order.
On August 7, 1974, as President Richard Nixon’s impeachment loomed, White House Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, was so alarmed by Nixon’s wandering the halls of the White House at night, sleepless, distraught, and heavily intoxicated, talking out loud to portraits of past presidents on the walls, that he alerted Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. Equally alarmed, Schlesinger directed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George S. Brown, that any military orders from Nixon—especially nuclear ones—first be cleared through him or Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It has been reported that the nuclear “football” that contains the codes for a nuclear launch was then quietly removed from Nixon’s control.
The public and those with the power to address such potentially catastrophic conditions must ask themselves if they—and we—are confident that officials such as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would do the same.
It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater. It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline. If we were called upon under the 25th Amendment to judge the President’s present ability to discharge the duties of his office, we would have to conclude that he lacks the capacity to do so.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency, with vital responsibilities on the shoulders of those in positions of leadership.
Signatories,
Henry David Abraham, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
Tufts University School of Medicine
Bernard D. Beitman, M.D.
Professor Emeritus and Former Chair of Psychiatry
University of Missouri School of Medicine
William Bernet, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Ravi Chandra, M.D.
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Eric Chivian, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Lance Dodes, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Jennifer I. Downey, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
George Drinka, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Oregon Health Sciences University
Former Medical Director, CPC Cedar Hills Hospital
Portland, Oregon
Julian Fisher, M.D.
Former Lecturer in Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Justin Frank, M.D.
Former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Co-Director, Metropolitan Center for Object Relations
New York City
Mindy T. Fullilove, M.D.
Professor Emerita of Urban Policy and Health
The New School
Nanette Gartrell, M.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Former Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Prudence L. Gourguechon, M.D.
Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association
Gordan P. Harper, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Ira Helfand, M.D.
Former Chair of Emergency Medicine
Cooley-Dickinson Hospital
International Steering Group
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Julia C. Hoigaard, Ph.D.
Former Lecturer in Psychology
University of California, Irvine
Co-author of Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales
Howard Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D.
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine of USC
University of Southern California
Jerome Kroll, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Medical School
Robert S. Lawrence, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Former Chief of Medicine, Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.
President, World Mental Health Coalition (Washington, DC)
Co-Founder, Preventing Violence Now (New York)
Former Faculty of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Former Faculty of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Rosanne M. Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Craig Malkin, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Former Chief Inpatient Psychologist
Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
James R. Merikangas, M.D.
Neuropsychiatrist and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Denis J. O’Keefe, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Professor of Social Work
New York University
Past President, International Psychohistorical Association
Jennifer C. Panning, Psy.D.
Founder, Mindful Psychology Associates (Evanston, IL)
John O. Pastore, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Former Research Physician
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mark Peppercorn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Harvard Medical School
Claire Pouncey, M.D., Ph.D.
Former President
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Robert C. Rutherford M.D. M.P.H.
Emergency Physician
Former Director, Monroe County Health Department
Florida
Larry S. Sandberg, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Stephen Soldz, Ph.D.
Professor, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Former President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Co-Founder, Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Lise Van Susteren, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Consultant Profiler to the Executive Branch, Federal Government
Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology
Northwestern University Medical School
Mark W. Weber, Ph.D., L.I.C.S.W.
Former Lecturer in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
John Zinner, M.D.
Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
George Washington University Medical Center
Former Head of Family Therapy Studies,
National Institute of Mental Health
#BehavioralScience #DonaldTrump #HarvardMedicalSchool #Health #Medicine #Psychiatry #Psychology -
Medical Experts Call for Donald Trump Removal From Office.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency…
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo via PeaceandHealthBlog.com | May 6, 2026
[Editor’s note: I have nothing more to add to the profound, sane, focused warning message from this group of medical experts. Peace.]
***
Medical Experts Declare President Trump Too Unstable to Remain in Office, Cite Nuclear Weapons Risks
May 5, 2026
tags: medicine, nuclear weapons, Trump, USA
by IPPNW
On April 30, 2026, a group of 36 leading physicians and other doctors with expertise in mental health issued a statement calling for President Donald J. Trump’s immediate, lawful removal from office for medical reasons. His 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, they declared. The U.S. Senate offices of Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) entered the experts’ statement into the Congressional Record, Vol. 172, No. 76.
Read the statement in full here and below.
Medical Concerns about President Donald J. Trump and His Fitness for Office
The following is not a political statement. It is a medical one, made by individuals holding both conservative and liberal ideologies, identifying as both Republicans and Democrats, from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and religions.
We are a group of neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, and other physicians, along with other mental health professionals, experienced in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders and in evaluating dangerousness to self and others. Among us are professionals whom the courts and criminal justice system regularly turn to for our expert opinion in these matters. We are also consulted by governments in matters related to national security and the psychological profiles of world leaders. Prior to the presidential election in the Fall of 2024, a statement assessing Donald J. Trump’s mental fitness for the presidency was issued. At that time, serious signs of cognitive decline were identified, and in our expert opinion, these signs warranted disqualification from office.
It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump’s mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further. In keeping with our professional ethics, and for those of us who are physicians, with the Declaration of Geneva—the successor to the Hippocratic Oath that binds us to the humanitarian principles of medicine since the Nuremberg trials—we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.
We do not take our statement, and the responsibility that comes with making it, lightly.
The President was not examined face to face, and he is not a patient of any member of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in this case is not our role. We have closely followed his behavior and his statements over the past year.
Objectively observable signs of serious medical concern include:
- Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.
- Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as combat pilot—dropping feces on civilians, and claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited—with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his “own morality.”
- Severely impaired judgment and impulse control, reflected in reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions by armed supporters, repeated threats and often actions—judicial, prosecutorial, police, military, and by invoking emergency powers—against political opponents and others who disagree with him.
- Significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications—e.g., 150 social media posts in one night—fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions.
- Escalating violence that threatens national and global stability. As Commander-in-Chief of our military—more than 5000 nuclear warheads in inter-continental missile silos, on submarines, and in bombers around the world, are ready for launch solely upon his order, and no one now has the authority to countermand his order.
On August 7, 1974, as President Richard Nixon’s impeachment loomed, White House Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, was so alarmed by Nixon’s wandering the halls of the White House at night, sleepless, distraught, and heavily intoxicated, talking out loud to portraits of past presidents on the walls, that he alerted Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. Equally alarmed, Schlesinger directed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George S. Brown, that any military orders from Nixon—especially nuclear ones—first be cleared through him or Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It has been reported that the nuclear “football” that contains the codes for a nuclear launch was then quietly removed from Nixon’s control.
The public and those with the power to address such potentially catastrophic conditions must ask themselves if they—and we—are confident that officials such as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would do the same.
It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater. It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline. If we were called upon under the 25th Amendment to judge the President’s present ability to discharge the duties of his office, we would have to conclude that he lacks the capacity to do so.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency, with vital responsibilities on the shoulders of those in positions of leadership.
Signatories,
Henry David Abraham, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
Tufts University School of Medicine
Bernard D. Beitman, M.D.
Professor Emeritus and Former Chair of Psychiatry
University of Missouri School of Medicine
William Bernet, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Ravi Chandra, M.D.
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Eric Chivian, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Lance Dodes, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Jennifer I. Downey, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
George Drinka, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Oregon Health Sciences University
Former Medical Director, CPC Cedar Hills Hospital
Portland, Oregon
Julian Fisher, M.D.
Former Lecturer in Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Justin Frank, M.D.
Former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Co-Director, Metropolitan Center for Object Relations
New York City
Mindy T. Fullilove, M.D.
Professor Emerita of Urban Policy and Health
The New School
Nanette Gartrell, M.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Former Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Prudence L. Gourguechon, M.D.
Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association
Gordan P. Harper, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Ira Helfand, M.D.
Former Chair of Emergency Medicine
Cooley-Dickinson Hospital
International Steering Group
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Julia C. Hoigaard, Ph.D.
Former Lecturer in Psychology
University of California, Irvine
Co-author of Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales
Howard Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D.
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine of USC
University of Southern California
Jerome Kroll, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Medical School
Robert S. Lawrence, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Former Chief of Medicine, Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.
President, World Mental Health Coalition (Washington, DC)
Co-Founder, Preventing Violence Now (New York)
Former Faculty of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Former Faculty of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Rosanne M. Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Craig Malkin, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Former Chief Inpatient Psychologist
Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
James R. Merikangas, M.D.
Neuropsychiatrist and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Denis J. O’Keefe, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Professor of Social Work
New York University
Past President, International Psychohistorical Association
Jennifer C. Panning, Psy.D.
Founder, Mindful Psychology Associates (Evanston, IL)
John O. Pastore, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Former Research Physician
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mark Peppercorn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Harvard Medical School
Claire Pouncey, M.D., Ph.D.
Former President
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Robert C. Rutherford M.D. M.P.H.
Emergency Physician
Former Director, Monroe County Health Department
Florida
Larry S. Sandberg, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Stephen Soldz, Ph.D.
Professor, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Former President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Co-Founder, Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Lise Van Susteren, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Consultant Profiler to the Executive Branch, Federal Government
Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology
Northwestern University Medical School
Mark W. Weber, Ph.D., L.I.C.S.W.
Former Lecturer in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
John Zinner, M.D.
Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
George Washington University Medical Center
Former Head of Family Therapy Studies,
National Institute of Mental Health
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116517535576002455
The human behavioral range, filters overlapping data segments by learned, hard encoded, and individual bias...
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116517535576002455
The human behavioral range, filters overlapping data segments by learned, hard encoded, and individual bias...
#BehavioralScience #Scalar #Differential #Equations #DoingTheMath #BehavioralRange #ValueTheory #SetTheory
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116517535576002455
The human behavioral range, filters overlapping data segments by learned, hard encoded, and individual bias...
#BehavioralScience #Scalar #Differential #Equations #DoingTheMath #BehavioralRange #ValueTheory #SetTheory
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The human brain utilizes dopamine signaling to stretch the perceived time between distinct events, enabling the continuous flow of lived experience to be segmented into unique, easily retrievable memories.
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The human brain utilizes dopamine signaling to stretch the perceived time between distinct events, enabling the continuous flow of lived experience to be segmented into unique, easily retrievable memories.
#Neuroscience #Psychology #BehavioralScience #sflorg
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The human brain utilizes dopamine signaling to stretch the perceived time between distinct events, enabling the continuous flow of lived experience to be segmented into unique, easily retrievable memories.
#Neuroscience #Psychology #BehavioralScience #sflorg
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The human brain utilizes dopamine signaling to stretch the perceived time between distinct events, enabling the continuous flow of lived experience to be segmented into unique, easily retrievable memories.
#Neuroscience #Psychology #BehavioralScience #sflorg
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The human brain utilizes dopamine signaling to stretch the perceived time between distinct events, enabling the continuous flow of lived experience to be segmented into unique, easily retrievable memories.
#Neuroscience #Psychology #BehavioralScience #sflorg
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📊 Auf "Prediction Markets" werden Wetten auf zukünftige Ereignisse abgeschlossen, etwa den Ausgang von Wahlen oder sogar Kriegen.
Der Ökonom Jürgen Huber spricht im Interview über Ethik und potenziellen Nutzen dieser Prediction Markets:
🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2026/zwischen-insiderhandel-und-informationsaggregation/
#Ökonomie #Economics #Statistics #Finance #Finanzwissenschaft #BehavioralScience #BehavioralEconomics #BehavioralFinance #Verhaltensökonomie
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📊 Auf "Prediction Markets" werden Wetten auf zukünftige Ereignisse abgeschlossen, etwa den Ausgang von Wahlen oder sogar Kriegen.
Der Ökonom Jürgen Huber spricht im Interview über Ethik und potenziellen Nutzen dieser Prediction Markets:
🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2026/zwischen-insiderhandel-und-informationsaggregation/
#Ökonomie #Economics #Statistics #Finance #Finanzwissenschaft #BehavioralScience #BehavioralEconomics #BehavioralFinance #Verhaltensökonomie
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📊 Auf "Prediction Markets" werden Wetten auf zukünftige Ereignisse abgeschlossen, etwa den Ausgang von Wahlen oder sogar Kriegen.
Der Ökonom Jürgen Huber spricht im Interview über Ethik und potenziellen Nutzen dieser Prediction Markets:
🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2026/zwischen-insiderhandel-und-informationsaggregation/
#Ökonomie #Economics #Statistics #Finance #Finanzwissenschaft #BehavioralScience #BehavioralEconomics #BehavioralFinance #Verhaltensökonomie
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📊 Auf "Prediction Markets" werden Wetten auf zukünftige Ereignisse abgeschlossen, etwa den Ausgang von Wahlen oder sogar Kriegen.
Der Ökonom Jürgen Huber spricht im Interview über Ethik und potenziellen Nutzen dieser Prediction Markets:
🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2026/zwischen-insiderhandel-und-informationsaggregation/
#Ökonomie #Economics #Statistics #Finance #Finanzwissenschaft #BehavioralScience #BehavioralEconomics #BehavioralFinance #Verhaltensökonomie
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📊 Auf "Prediction Markets" werden Wetten auf zukünftige Ereignisse abgeschlossen, etwa den Ausgang von Wahlen oder sogar Kriegen.
Der Ökonom Jürgen Huber spricht im Interview über Ethik und potenziellen Nutzen dieser Prediction Markets:
🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2026/zwischen-insiderhandel-und-informationsaggregation/
#Ökonomie #Economics #Statistics #Finance #Finanzwissenschaft #BehavioralScience #BehavioralEconomics #BehavioralFinance #Verhaltensökonomie