Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill shared a startling revelation last week that Iranian negotiators had recruited psychologists to help navigate what they believed was Trump’s “impaired mental state.” And on Monday, Scahill provided an update on Iran’s unique approach to the negotiations, which he said Tehran partially credited for Sunday’s success.
“Senior Iranian psychologists began working with the negotiating team to try to cater the messages that the Iranians were sending via mediators back to Donald Trump to try to take into account what they say as his specific mental illness and mental deficiencies,” Scahill said in an interview with Democracy Now published on Monday.
“Almost quite clinically, they said they began to see this process yielding results as they worked with psychologists to send these communications to Donald Trump, and they credit that, in part, with getting to this point where Trump finally accepted some version of his manufactured and almost entirely false victory narrative.”
I do not care who is Trump or how person is he, But I’m sure Iran regime is the real mental and moral ill itself. Iran government is killing poor Iranian people every day.
Cheers from Iran!
3-Dementia Chess
I’m stealing this
Iran, if you’re reading this, can we uhh, hire your psychologists? Asking on behalf of most Americans.
“We are giving you the Iranian world peace prize and the golden key the the straight of Hormuz”…thx for the billions
I don’t think this is unique, it’s just rare for someone to openly say it.
Especially since openly saying it runs the rather high risk of undermining the whole approach. If Trump hears this, he’ll get all pissy and tank things for the sake of his fragile ego.
You can see it in most every person in Trump’s circle. They all play the game of manipulating the president, all you need to do is risk your dignity and you can pretty much get him to do whatever. If they dare to serve their own ego, they fail.
Maybe the con is longer than just this deal. Or maybe this is coming from someone other than Iran that wants the war to heat up rather than end (or even just to keep the strait closed).
Or maybe someone’s head got too big and they wanted to brag about manipulating Trump when it wasn’t yet strategically or tactically sound to do so.
Colud be someone bragging to someone not expecting it to work all the way out to the media.
Or a narrative that is probably fairly described, but editorialized. E.g. if they did state the fact they had the help of psychologists in negotiating, that statement by itself doesn’t necessarily insult a man that thinks only very smart people pass cognitive tests.
So the reporting actually extrapolates into the obvious, but unstated implications of why pyschologists would be useful in this situation.
all you need to do is risk your dignity
How quaint of you to think those psychos have a shred of dignity
Well that’s what they’re saying… they don’t have any dignity, that’s why they can get him to do all this stuff.
Yep, posessing a shred of dignity really gets in the way of manipulating Trump.
A lot of people know how to play Trump, give him some meaningless reward, a golden plane whatever. “best president the world has ever seen”
Tell him last time he said this even though he didn’t etc. like old people scammers.
Experts are not even needed.
The world needs to crowdfund a gold plated private jet and a “This person did not appear in the Epstein files” award to Trump, then tell him to send the military after the oligarchs and the theocratic fascists.
It could all be much simpler than we think. Half a million people on earth spend 1000 bucks each and it’s all over.
A few million to say JD Vance is “crooked” on TV A few million to deport Elon or Peter Thiel
Etc.
Did they give him the FIFA Bigly Deal Maker Prize?
He’s the UFC (Ultimate Failure Champion).
Narcissism? Dementia? Other?
Yes
This deal isn’t worth the paper it hasn’t been printed on…
But Iranians aren’t stupid, they know this too, and they won’t be caught with their pants down. They were ready 4 months ago, and they’ll be ready next time
It’s almost like they’ve been preparing for this for nearly 60 years or something. People are clever, and every time a major power decides to go to war they show the whole world what they’re capable of, which isn’t a good thing for someone like Trump. Man’s all bluff and no follow-through.
They’ve been preparing ever since Bolton was trying to force this war back in 2018/2019.
I think hiring psychologists pales in comparison to the other strategy of treating him like a 5 year old.
It sounds like the hired psychologists advised them on the specifics of how best to deal with a five year old.
Good luck with Netanyahu
I think he’d believe it if we told him his golden bunker moon base was completed and ready for him. Then we could just send him out there somewhere.
He’s a textbook malignant narcissist so that’s pretty easy to manipulate
trump is definitely demented but this is definitely a propaganda bait.
They probably are using actual psychologists, I know I would
Can’t say how much they helped, but probably a little
I mean of course they do - everyone does. That’s a given. The intelligence apparatus of every country is full of psychologists.
Are they refering to praying on his narcissism or his dementia??
Probably both.a combination of “don’t you remember when we agreed to this?” And “only a big strong president with large hands could make this deal, what a big boy you are.”
his post celebrating an increased trade deficit was [chef’s kiss].
