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February 16, Pacifica Radio affiliates aired 2 interviews [ianmasters.com] by broadcast journalist Ian Masters

Trump's Paranoid and Petulant Press Conference; A Psychiatrist on Trump as a Person, Not a Patient

We begin with the combative presidential press conference today that has prompted a lot of headlines and talking heads questioning Donald Trump's mental state. The Pulitzer prize-winning author of "The Making of Donald Trump", veteran investigative journalist and founder of DCReport.org [dcreport.org], David Cay Johnston [davidcayjohnston.com], joins us to discuss Trump's paranoid and petulant attacks on the two institutions that could hold him responsible and accountable, the press and the intelligence community, who are investigating his ties to the Russians.

KPFK's webcast [kpfk.org], 9.1MB of the 14MB file are relevant. Mono; spoken-word quality. Available until mid-April.
Segments are 2:45 - 18:00 / 19:15 - 38:30.
If your media player has speed control, you can consume it in a fraction of that time.
Permalink of 1st segment [ianmasters.com] (18MB; high-bitrate stereo)

[...]Then we examine further the psychiatric opinions about Trump that are proliferating as more of the real person who is president is put on display as was the case in today's press conference. Dr. Allen Frances [duke.edu], professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University who was chairman of the task force that wrote the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the author of the forthcoming book "Trump's Not Crazy But We Are", joins us. We will look into NPD, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which has been ascribed to Trump and has motivated 23,000 mental health professionals and others to sign a petition asking for Trump's removal.

Permalink of 2nd segment [ianmasters.com] (19MB; high-bitrate stereo)

The news microphone, Mic reports [mic.com]

President Donald Trump's Thursday afternoon press conference to announce his pick for labor secretary, Alex Acosta, turned into a two-hour, one-man show. An angry man, at that.

In what essentially became a diatribe against the world, Trump used the time to attack the press, blame the Obama administration for leaving him a "mess [foxnews.com]", and offer "alternative facts [mic.com]", aka lies, about his election victory--among a number of other subjects.

Trump's responses to journalists' questions were rife with contradictions [rawstory.com], paradoxes, and enmity.

He explained, for example, the need to clamp down on government leaks and why, simultaneously, media's coverage of those leaks is not to be trusted.

"The leaks are real", Trump said. "The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake."

The president also took on the hotly contested topic of his election victory, which he refuses to accept was won with an historically low margin [huffingtonpost.com].

He said he won with the biggest Electoral College victory since Reagan--but, out of 58 presidential elections, he actually comes in at 46th [nytimes.com].[Paywall] [soylentnews.org]

The page contains a full transcript of the president's remarks.

77-minute video [youtube.com] at YouTube.

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