A forensic and social psychiatrist said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is likely to become "more tyrannical" as his health declines.
Dr. Bandy X. Lee joined The Daily Beast's Joana Coles on "The Daily Beast" podcast on Wednesday to discuss Trump's mental fitness. The conversation happened at a time when some experts are questioning the president's health after he made a couple of public gaffes during speaking engagements.
Coles asked Lee whether Trump seems to be aware of the limitations that his age and mental fitness place on him.
"Absolutely, and that is why he is constantly on guard," Lee said. "He's paranoid. He is doing whatever he can to make people think he's the most powerful man on the planet. Why does he need more and more? He's now accumulating ICE agents as government police forces; he's now required every state to deploy 500 National Guard members to function essentially as a guard for himself against the people."
"And these kinds of acts come out of his own, almost limitless insecurity that is further being fed by his being allowed the kind of power and position that he has been given, because when he demands this kind of powerful positioning of himself, he's doing so from a place of pathology," she continued. "It's not a healthy demand. So he's doing so in a way that actually fuels his sense of insecurity, his own unfitness, his belonging, and he will become more tyrannical."
"So he will increasingly become more defensive and more dangerous, and it simply doesn't benefit anyone to continue to enable this, this drive," she added. "But what's important to understand is that the longer we allow this to go on, the more dangerous he will become, and we will not be keeping ourselves safe."
