Your Opinion: Diagnosing Trump through the media

Sherwood Watson

Jefferson City

Dear Editor:

OK, I’ll bite. I have been following Mr. Haslag’s dialogue with himself regarding the possible mental health issues of President Trump. I have a question about his armchair diagnosis. I’d like to know where he got his master’s degree in social work, or his doctorate in psychology or psychiatry. No qualified health care professional would diagnose anything based upon what they read in the news about a client. That’s why they have private sessions with their clientele. Unless Mr. Haslag has had numerous sessions with Donald Trump, and has the credentials to diagnose, I have trouble believing the credibility of his commentary.

Anyone aspiring to be president of the United States might need to have their head examined. It’s my opinion, to even approach the job, one would need a flaming ego, and serious delusions of grandeur. It’s also required they have lots of money or at least access to a lot of money. As the Libernazis would advise us, he must be morally and ethically as pure as the driven snow, yet support all of the bizarre, immoral and unethical behavior the Democrats and liberals hold most dear.

Trump was doomed from the start. He’s a political outsider and has fought an uphill battle ever since his inauguration. If Trump does anything right, we’ll never hear it. Unfortunately, Mr. Haslag suffers from what we all must endure: a collective media with the inability to do anything that vaguely resembles telling the truth.