State of mind is a matter of opinion

Is it reasonable to expect the same diplomatic behaviour from Donald Trump as would be expected of a president who came up through the ranks and is familiar with protocol, political lingo and diplomacy (hypocrisy and obscurantism)?

It isn’t clear if it was on the basis of his actions or attitude, substance or form, that prompted a large group of psychiatrists to sign a document recommending his removal from office. This action was challenged by a brave psychiatrist who pointed out that “compos mentis” could only be established on the basis of “habeas corpus.”

No one suggested, of course, that the psychiatrists themselves should first be observed, but Dostoevsky, weighing in on the issue over a hundred years ago in The Brothers Karamazov, noted that for every psychiatric opinion proffered concerning the accused’s state of mind, another psychiatric opinion could be found to refute it. Doris Wrench Eisler, St. Albert