Trump’s Third ‘Annual’ Checkup In 13 Months Leaves Mental Health Questions Unaddressed

His increasingly incomprehensible public rambling and increasingly bizarre and violent social media posts likely won’t be covered in a public report.

Senior White House Correspondent, HuffPost

WASHINGTON — Americans hoping that President Donald Trump’s third “annual” physical exam over a span of 13 months on Tuesday might offer insights into his increasingly bizarre and incomprehensible statements and social media posts are likely to be disappointed.

Neither Trump nor his White House is under any legal obligation to reveal observations about his mental health that might be made by the team of physicians who examined him at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist and former professor at Yale School of Medicine, said those doctors do, though, have an ethical responsibility to the American people to do just that.

“Of course, the White House physician has a duty, and so do we. The public is being shortchanged, and endangered, to the maximum,” said Lee, who in 2017 edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, one of the first warnings from mental health professionals about Trump’s behaviour pattern.

“The incoherence is worrisome, possibly dangerous,” said Allen Dyer, a retired psychiatrist and retired George Washington University professor who recommends a full battery........

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