For all the other issues swirling around him, could it be a simple case a very deep depression?

[Stinky The Clown]

I am not a psychologist and don't play one on TV, but I have a very close friend (a man) who has battled depression for as long as I have known him (decades). When uncontrolled or inadequately controlled as meds come and go in their effectiveness, his whole persona changes. He can also get to a point where he shuts people out, including his wife and (adult) children.

Could that be the case with Trump in France and later here, with Arlington?

[elleng]

1. I've thought the same.

[marylandblue]

2. He seems to have a lot of mood swings, but it doesn't look like clinical depression

More consistent with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, of which he has many symptoms. They go through periods of low mood when things don't go their way, but it doesn't last weeks or months like depressive disorder does.

[Blue_Tires]

6. I saw a hypothesis put forward that

Narcissistic Personality Disorder and knowing one's mortality can't co-exist since death is the only thing that Donnie can't lie/bribe/deal his way out of, and that's the source of his being even more weird than usual.

But me personally I think it's paranoia because Mueller is closing the walls in around him

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. I think he's too narcissitic to be depressed.

People who are depressed take their frustrations out inwardly.

Trump is pathologically incapable of blaming himself for anything.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. It could be the heartbreak of psoriasis for all I care

Just as long as he GTFO!

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. Maybe the horror of hemorrhoids