Just read an interesting article called "Is it time to call Trump mentally ill?"

Richard A. Friedman, professor of clinical psychiatry and director of the psychopharmacology clinic at the Weill Cornell Medical College, says that it is unprofessional for a psychiatrist to remotely diagnose a person (has to be done through testing of the patient at a clinic).

In addition, he says that mentally ill presidents in the history of America, 18 out of 37 presidents, were able to do their job (and many non mentally ill presidents were not able to do theirs!!).

But most important in my opinion is the following reason, he says, not to easily/quickly/remotely diagnose mental illness:

There is one last reason we should avoid psychiatrically labeling our leaders: It lets them off the moral hook. Not all misbehavior reflects psychopathology; the fact is that ordinary human meanness and incompetence are far more common than mental illness. We should not be in the business of medicalizing bad actors.

So the nation doesn’t need a shrink to help it to decide whether President Trump is fit to serve, mentally or otherwise. Presidents should be judged on the merits of their actions, statements and, I suppose, their tweets. No experts are needed for that — just common sense.

We learned through the many CSI (crime scene investigation) series of the last decade, and through watching highly publicized trials, that doing horrible things is not in itself a sign of mental illness. It could be, although unlikely (most mentally ill people are not violent). But most likely it is just the result of a morally bankrupt person. As the author writes, "human meanness". We know that Hitler and Mussolini were not mentally ill. They were just mean.