Nobel Prize-Winning Psychiatrist Warns He’s Seeing Signs That Trump Could Drop a Nuke ‘In a Fit of Pique or Rage’

Dr. Henry Abraham, a psychiatrist who shared in the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, warned Wednesday that he is seeing signs President Donald Trump could use a nuclear weapon “in a fit of pique or rage or confusion.”

Abraham received the honor as a member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. He was also among 36 physicians who signed an April letter entered into the congressional record calling for Trump’s removal from office, claiming he is mentally unfit to serve.

His comments came on a Wednesday edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show. When asked by host Dean Obeidallah about his April letter and if “anything’s changed,” Abraham responded, “Yeah. If anything, it’s worse.”

“If an airline pilot had half of the symptoms that the president of the United States has, we would not let him on an airplane,” he continued. “And yet, we have a system which enfolds the president’s health in a shroud of secrecy.”

Abraham added:

When a person has sole access to the nuclear armamentaria, it’s crazy, and this is what we’re doing. I think, you know, we’re in even more danger of Donald Trump using a nuclear weapon in a fit of pique or rage or confusion or poor impulse control than ever before. So yes, he’s more dangerous.

The psychiatrist went on to mention an approach highlighted by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby at a U.S. Strategic Command conference last month, during which he said officials want to give the president and defense secretary “credible, rational nuclear options.”

Notably, Tucker Carlson mentioned the same remarks by Colby in a podcast episode last week, determining Trump should be removed from office “immediately” if he is actively considering the first use of nuclear weapons, arguing that such a move should represent an absolute “red line” for any president.

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