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Is Trump Wearing a Brace? He Struggles to Walk & Acts Like a Toddler. Psychiatrist Weighs In · Breaking Absurdity — Today's Top Headlines That Can't Be Unheard. Brought to you by @ItsNotSatire.

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  What the hell is going on with Trump's legs?
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  How is it even possible to stand like that? He
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  can't even walk in a straight line, or apparently
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  sit down without assistance. Today on Breaking
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  Absurdity, we've got whatever Trump's legs are
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  doing, another emergency landing, a psychiatrist
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  comparing his behavior to that of a toddler,
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  and Trump's latest attempt to rename AI to SI,
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  and it's not going well. Leading off today, Trump
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  recently hosted some of the biggest names in
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  tech at the White House to discuss artificial
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  intelligence, and apparently somewhere between
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  lunch and the executive order, AI became SI.
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  Trump announced that the artificial intelligence
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  would now be called superintelligence, or SI,
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  and ordered the federal government to use the
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  new terminology. Here's Trump saying it now.
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  Yes, that's quite an announcement. Trump identified
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  a problem that didn't exist, just like when he
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  renamed Lake Ontario, Lake America, to Royal
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  Canada for not playing nice with his economically
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  hurtful tariffs, which has resulted so far in…
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  Absolutely no concessions from Canada. So we
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  predict that this naming announcement will probably
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  achieve a similar result, but Trump seemed particularly
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  pleased with himself. Here's what he told reporters
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  about who made the name change. That's quite
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  a claim, but there's one small problem. Superintelligence
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  already means something in the world of AI. It
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  refers to a hypothetical form of intelligence
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  that would vastly exceed human cognitive abilities.
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  And apparently, none of the tech leaders who
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  most certainly knew this had the balls to explain
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  it to Trump's face, which is pretty consistent
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  with how tech leaders have cowered to Trump throughout
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  his second term. So Trump has essentially taken
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  an existing technical term and decided it now
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  means AI. And the world's biggest and brightest
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  tech leaders couldn't even tell him that it made
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  absolutely no sense. And the world's reaction?
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  Well, let's just say the machines may be more
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  willing to cooperate than the humans. That's
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  because tech leaders couldn't even get the name
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  straight. Repeatedly they kept calling it AI
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  instead of SI. See how Elon Musk actually corrects
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  himself in front of Trump. Close call Elon, and
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  here's NVIDIA CEO doing the same thing. Those
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  CEOs look about as comfortable saying SI as a
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  billionaire being asked to explain his connections
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  to Epstein's island. But let's get to the real
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  issue of the day, because while Trump was talking
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  about his SI renaming bullshit, people started
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  focusing on something else, his legs. The cameras
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  caught Trump standing in an almost impossible
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  formation, his legs were crossed strangely at
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  the knees, his feet were pointing in slightly
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  different directions, one toe was barely touching
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  the ground, as he turned and pointed towards
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  reporters. It was not normal in any way. In fact,
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  it became something of an internet obsession
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  over the last 24 hours. But one user had a likely
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  explanation. Maybe his legs simply weren't screwed
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  on straight. In fact, maybe his assistant Natalie
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  Harp had screwed them on backwards that day.
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  And several hundred thousand reactions later
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  on Instagram and Facebook would seem to suggest
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  that this may be the most plausible explanation
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  we have. If that's true, Natalie Harp's job description
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  is getting bigger and bigger. At this point,
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  maybe she did really earn that illegal $43 ,000
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  payment Trump gave her. And people started noticing
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  other things. Here's Trump walking to his brand
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  new helipad trying to board Marine One, where
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  he can't even walk straight down the sidewalk.
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  He just kind of zigzags back and forth. It's
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  kind of like a game of pong. President Trump
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  keeps hitting the grass edge and then moves the
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  other direction. I'm not sure where he gets off
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  talking about superintelligence because he's
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  exhibiting about as much intelligence as an old
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  to my sub stack and look for the ad -free podcast
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  option. The link is in the show notes. Now let's
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  get into the absurdity. And the moments kept
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  coming. Just the other day, Trump announced a
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  new website, America .gov, and to sign a new
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  executive order, but it looked like the hardest
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  thing of the day was going to be to get in that
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  chair in front of a big crowd. Dr. Oz pulled
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  out the chair and pushed him in, kind of like
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  you do for your grandparent when they're just
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  sitting down for a luncheon. And Trump didn't
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  look comfortable. In fact, when he sat down,
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  he let out a big sigh, and there was just this
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  look of dread on his face. Frankly, he looks
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  exhausted and embarrassed. And this isn't the
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  first time we've been covering this. I did a
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  whole video called Emergency Landing about the
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  G7 meeting and there's many moments like this.
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  Check it out with the link below. But there appears
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  to be something going on with Trump's legs. A
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  lot of eagle -eyed viewers notice these photos
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  where there appears to be something underneath
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  Trump's pant legs, kind of sticking out and making
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  indentations in the fabric. And here's another
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  recent photo where he appears bow -legged standing
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  in front of Air Force One. Medical expert Dr.
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  Adam James, who's got 15 years experience treating
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  the elderly, has his own theory. Here he is now.
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  Cankel's McGrifty legs can stand like this because
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  he's had a stroke on the left side of his brain,
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  causing weakness in his right leg. I'm a physical
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  therapist with a doctor in my field and 15 years
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  experience working in home health care, treating
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  geriatric patients with dementia, heart failure,
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  kidney disease, heart attack, and history of
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  stroke, like this sack of artificial stupidity.
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  We've already seen photographic evidence that
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  he was wearing braces on his lower legs, probably
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  something like an AFO or an ankle foot orthosis,
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  which is a classic assistive device for somebody
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  who's had a stroke. Also, stroke face. This is
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  most likely the type of brace he's wearing on
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  his right leg most of the time to address foot
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  drop, which is a very common stroke symptom.
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  But what's not intuitive about a patient wearing
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  one of these is it also addresses hamstring weakness.
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  In a stroke patient with lower extremity involvement,
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  you also often have hamstring weakness where
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  the knee can easily hyperextend when you put
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  all of your body weight on it, like when you're
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  standing talking to reporters or you're walking.
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  prevents that violent hyperextension of the knee
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  so that you don't fall over. For whatever reason,
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  he doesn't wear the braces all the time, which
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  allows his knee to hyperextend like this when
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  he rotates his trunk to the right to see or talk
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  to someone on his right. He's probably feeling
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  pretty confident because he is gacked out of
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  his mind on Pro Vigil. It's just more evidence
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  that he is a stroke patient. He's either had
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  a stroke, an actual CVA, or a pin stroke, or
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  a series of TIAs, or transient ischemic attacks.
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  And the thing about having had a stroke in the
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  past is it makes it easier to have another one
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  or several more in the future. You just need
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  one or two more of those little blood vessels
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  to give the fuck up and put us out of this misery.
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  And that could happen any day now. Happy Wednesday.
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  So Adam James provides some insight on this.
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  He actually thinks that Trump has a leg brace.
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  But the reason why he was standing in such a
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  bizarre way was because he actually wasn't wearing
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  the leg brace that day and his knee was hyperextending.
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  Listen, I'm not a medical professional. I don't
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  know. But what he's saying does sound plausible.
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  Any medical professionals watching this video,
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  please let me know what you think in the comments.
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  So we've talked about Trump's physical state,
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  but what about his mental state? Dr. Bandy Lee
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  is an American forensic psychiatrist who edited
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  the best -selling 2017 book, The Dangerous Case
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  of Donald Trump. And when Trump got re -elected,
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  appropriately she came out with the book, The
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  More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Dr. Lee
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  appeared on the Midas Touch Network over the
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  weekend and talked about the President Trump's
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  mental state and compared it to one of a toddler.
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  In essence, the nation is him, and he cannot.
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  be excluded from the central events of 9 -11.
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  And so that's why he places himself in the middle
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  of ground zero, claims to have deployed numerous
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  workers on site, and also makes claims against
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  others to create in -groups and out -groups.
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  And of course he has always paranoid mentality.
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  the degree to which he needs to do that for every
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  significant event in national history and every
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  significant monument in the nation has to bear
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  his name. All of this goes back to just how fragile
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  he is in his sense of self. This is normally
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  what toddlers do. They have to be king or queen
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  or ruler of the universe in order to fight the
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  feeling that they are quite helpless and dependent
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  on others' care. But of course, that's normal
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  for a two or three year old. It is abnormal and
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  pathological when it involves a fully grown adult,
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  whether it's because of arrested development
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  or because one has regressed to that state. Wow,
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  so Dr. Lee has just explained that some of Trump's
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  mystifying actions, such as claiming he was at
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  ground zero during 9 -11, tapping into paranoia
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  about perceived enemies, and his constant insertion
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  of himself into naming landmarks and erecting
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  monuments, because he's currently exhibiting
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  the mental state of a toddler tyrant. And she
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  says that could be because of arrested development
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  or regression. I don't know what's worse, having
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  a toddler for a president, or having to see Trump
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  renaming everything from landmarks all the way
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  to forms of intelligence. Let me know in the
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  comments if you think this is because of Arrested
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  Development, regression, or maybe a combination
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  of both. Thanks for watching Breaking Absurdity,
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  and remember, don't stare into the abyss alone,
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