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    1. TubeframeMR2 on

      Why not both? It’s not a binary; sometimes the venn diagram is just a circle.

    2. mikesmithhome on

      look a common dreams article that isn’t blaming dems! quick, take a picture

    3. Yes on the earlier comments – mental illness and evil are not mutually exclusive. But, even acknowledging both descriptions, “profound stupidity” is a glaring omission and should be included for full disclosure.

    4. NoReserve7293 on

      He’s evil and pathetic. “You’re a rotter, Mr Trump. You’re the king of sinful sots, your hearts a dead tomato with moldy purple spots, Mr.Trump, Your a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce! The Grinch’s Theme Song says it in a language even a child can understand.

    5. He is evil to everyone and everything he is involved with. His wife, kids, ‘friends’, everyone.

    6. “The love of money (greed) is the root of all evil”

      Money hoarding isn’t really all that different than the hoarding you see on that “Buried Alive” show if one truly thinks about it, other than being currency that they obsess over rather than physical items.

      It seems to be that he’s both, and both states are entangled with one another.

    7. NotAnotherEmpire on

      Both can be true. He has a mean narcissistic personality and his frontal lobe decay means he can’t hide it anymore and is erratic. 

    8. Easy-Marsupial3268 on

      Trump is just your average capitalist with some political power. He’s not special, he’s just the perfect representative of his class.

    9. Front-Anteater3776 on

      Their parents traumatized the brother into fatal alcoholism and Trump into pure evil.

    10. Financial-Desk-669 on

      Welcome to the party Common Dreams! Glad you figured it out after spending all of 2024 attacking the Democrats. Lesson taught, right?

    11. Cool-Crew791 on

      I have been saying this for years!! But the people who voted and supported him are more evil

    12. Diced_and_Confused on

      Well, Epstein called him “Evil”. I’d say that was a professional opinion.

    13. Appropriate_Value122 on

      He’s both. Your headline should’ve said, “Trump doesn’t have dementia; He’s evil.”

      His “mental illnesses” are insanity, mania, paranoia, stupidity, schizophrenia, narcissism, being bipolar, psychotic, and sociopathic, at a minimum. Because Republicans correctly talked about how “diminished” Biden was because he CLEARLY had dementia after having had multiple brain aneurysms in his lifetime, Democrats want to constantly say Trump has “dementia.” Whether he does or doesn’t pales in comparison to all of his other mental issues.

      If liberals say Trump has “dementia,” then they’re really saying he’s not in control of his own decisions and he isn’t really lying, the dementia is doing all that, whether they want to accept that fact or not, and I refuse to grant Trump that excuse.

      He knows everything he’s doing because, yes, he’s evil, because he’s an insane, psychotic, sociopathic maniac.

    14. I mean, I think both can be true, but I get the point of the article is that any mental illness he may have shouldn’t be used to explain away his evilness.

    15. moonsnowdragon on

      He is absolutely evil. He can be prosecuted. (Hopefully)
      He is absolutely mentally ill… Teflon Don insanity plea and no punishment for evil. Donald Trump has punished and destroyed so many innocent people. He needs to be brought to justice for the sake of ethical decency and because he is NOT above laws, morality, or ethical behavior.

    16. He’s definitely got dementia, and is mentally ill. But is also evil. This article is pushing aside the fact that he is mentally incompetent, which is not a good thing.

    17. Yes , hate is the purpose! Enabled by so many others. As an immigrant when I was 13 (68 now) I never thought this country was so fucking racist. I’ll never live to see this country great again.

    18. LordSiravant on

      Trump is both stupid and evil, which is a devastating combination for any world leader.

    19. ShrimpleyPibblze on

      Whilst the choice of wording isn’t correct (it’s unlikely ontological evil exists if morality isn’t absolute/intrinsic) – the sentiment is correct;

      He’s not “crazy”, he knows what he’s doing and that it has overtly negative effects. It’s not that he doesn’t understand the effects of his behaviour, it’s that he doesn’t care.

      And why should he – America has literally indulged his every whim, including raping children, making him president, never holding him to account, and on and on.

      He has literally no reason to believe he will ever suffer any negative consequences for his actions because he essentially never has before.

      This is also just part of a micro-industry that sells “isn’t Trump terrible” fluff pieces whilst doing nothing to stop him – in fact, actively encouraging him by opining about how bad he is whilst also giving him the attention he craves, and nothing bad whatsoever.

      At this point the real surprise is that anyone is even remotely shocked, or that Americans don’t recognise that they literally made Trump from the ground up, themselves, and have no one but themselves to blame for him and everything he does.

    20. StoppableHulk on

      Hes 100% both. Most Republicans are evil, almost none are as profiundly demented as Donald Trump

    21. hes both. hes also not educated either. I vet hes read less than 5 books his entire life