B X Lee -- The Solution is Nothing Less than Our Recognition of Our Own Power
‘The Most Dangerous Days of Our Lifetimes’ The Solution is Nothing Less than Our Recognition of Our Own Power Bandy X. Lee Jul 02, 2026 Here are excerpts from my recent interview with the coeditor of MindSite News : Diana Hembree : When we last spoke a year ago, you observed that Trump had deteriorated greatly from his first term, and that the level of danger has vastly increased. How have things changed since? Dr. Bandy Lee : We predicted his dramatic deterioration since the very early days in 2016, when my colleagues and I began to speak of how someone with his psychological structure should never be given power. The factor that is most responsible for his decline is the granting of his pathological desire…. That his grandiosity would transmogrify into grotesque delusions of grandeur, and his narcissism into violent, insatiable megalomania, was only a matter of course, once he occupied the most powerful position on the planet. In May, when you and 19 other psychiatrists and clinician...