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Our Own George or Our Ceausescu?

George III is well known in children’s history books for being the “mad king who lost America”. Trump will soon be remembered as the mad man who lost America into ashes if we don’t stop him. 

How can it be proved that Trump is mad? In the same way evidence of thousands of George III’s own handwritten letters, have, Donald’s Tweets can. For instance, during his episodes of illness, the king’s sentences were much longer than when he was well. A sentence containing 400 words and eight verbs was not unusual. George III, when ill, often repeated himself, and at the same time his vocabulary became much more complex, creative and colourful.

“These are features that can be seen today in the writing and speech of patients experiencing the manic phase of psychiatric illnesses such as bipolar disorder,” Dr Peter Garrard says.

But if mania, or harmful euphoria, is at one end of a spectrum of mood disorders, with sadness, or depression, at the other, what can we say about Trump’s outbursts? He surely does not have moments of eloquence. To the contrary he rarely employs more than 150 words, as Ceausescu, the Romanian departed dictator was known for not long ago. Moreover, unlike George’s, Trump’s “incessant loquacity” is mostly on Twitter, at night, when he finds himself alone. Surely, there is a rational explanation for that: he can use the extremity he is most obsessed with, his fingers. Then, while no one sees him, Trump probably foams (around his mouth).

Trump has rants, the self-absorption, the lack of self-control, all indicative of maniacal mood swings.

So, before he loses America for all of us, people, let’s stop the madman!

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By DANA NEACSU: Our Own George or Our Ceausescu?

 

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