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Nobel Peace Prize-winning psychiatrist says Trump mentally unfit

newsMay 30, 202610220

A Nobel Peace Prize-winning psychiatrist and 35 other physicians published an open letter declaring Donald Trump "mentally unfit" to serve as president. The signees wrote that Trump’s behaviors are "neither momentary lapses nor political theater" and reflect "a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline." The letter cites examples such as Trump’s repeated false claim that he ended eight wars while seeking a Nobel Peace Prize as evidence of impaired reality testing. The public medical judgment from a Nobel laureate and dozens of doctors raises the stakes on scrutiny of Trump’s fitness for office and could increase pressure for formal evaluation or political consequences.

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