Trump administration chief of staff John Kelly studied experts’ dire assessments of Donald Trump’s mental health to help him learn to deal with his boss’ erratic behavior, according to a shocking revelation in a upcoming book
Trump’s behavior was so disturbing that members of his own cabinet tentatively discussed using the 25th Amendment to force him out of office just months into his term, according to “The Divider: Trump in the White House , 2017-2021”. The book, written by Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker, is out next week.
But cabinet members chose not to take action because they feared the amendment’s flaws could make Trump more dangerous if they didn’t get him out of the White House, according to the book.
As for Kelly, she secretly bought “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” the first year Trump was in office. The book featured 27 mental health experts who warned that Trump was unfit for the presidency.
Kelly, a retired Marine general, consulted the book while “seeking help in understanding the president’s particular psychoses” while running the White House, which Kelly referred to as “Crazytown,” according to “The Divider,” a copy from which it was obtained by The Guardian.
“Kelly told others that the book was a useful guide for a president who came to consider himself a pathological liar whose inflated ego was in fact the sign of a deeply insecure person,” Baker and Glasser reported.
Other unnamed senior officials apparently shared Kelly’s view. “The Divider” quotes one as saying, “I think there’s something wrong [Trump]. He doesn’t listen to anyone and feels he shouldn’t. He just doesn’t care what other people say and think. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
