Bandy X. Lee
4 min readJun 13, 2020

The Accelerated Unraveling of Donald Trump

By Leonard L. Glass, Edwin B. Fisher, and Bandy X. Lee

June 13, 2020

Photograph: Gerd Altmann

The last few weeks have seen a marked and unmistakable deterioration in Donald Trump’s mental functioning. While his unfounded embrace of conspiracy theories have been a hallmark of his shaky capacity to assess external reality, in the past he only had to promote his views with enough gusto and repetition, buttressed by…

Bandy X. Lee

Forensic psychiatrist, violence expert, president of the World Mental Health Coalition (worldmhc.org), and New York Times bestselling author.