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.”
Did they give him the FIFA Bigly Deal Maker Prize?
He’s the UFC (Ultimate Failure Champion).
He’s clearly losing it, but this is also clearly propaganda from a country engaged in a war. Anyone who takes this seriously is a fool. Trump is a vacant turnip, but we can asses that for ourselves. Don’t be stupid. Of course they will say anything they can to smear him. They don’t need to. He’s already covered in shit.
Let’s hope his derangement leads to a direct attack on israel when they refuse to honor whatever peace deal we make to pretend we weren’t pantsed by Iran.
Using psychology to understand how to come to terms with a narcissistic shit baby doesn’t seem that implausible to me.
The next question: so why are they saying this? It seems to me that Iran values weakening the US more than they do a peace deal, even a lopsided $300B one. So Trump has a temper tantrum and goes back to bombing Iran. Through some twisted logic, that’s good for Iran.
Unironically, the people leaking this want the war. Could be Iranian hardliners, could be made up whole cloth. Hell, could be mossad agents that have infiltrated the Iranian government, hoping to reignite the war for Israel. I have no doubt that this was written to reignite the war; we’ll just have to see what comes out of it.
Just because it’s propaganda doesn’t mean it’s untrue. The story tracks and changes nothing I believe about the US’s tyrannical tangerine toddler.
I agree. Yes it may well be true but we really can’t trust what they say
Is there any chance that the administration isn’t making bets on whether Iran waits for the check to clear before invalidating the ‘deal’?
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.
He’s already tanked it several times thus far. That’s why he keeps saying they’re leaking false conditions. Like no grampa, you just weren’t told about those.
all you need to do is risk your dignity
How quaint of you to think those psychos have a shred of dignity
Yep, posessing a shred of dignity really gets in the way of manipulating Trump.
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.
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.
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.
Yet now they’ve let it get in the press that they see him as mentally ill. Trump’s ego will not like that despite how true it is.
His nurses will keep it from him. If he doesn’t see a fake version of the internet yet, he will be after this
What? You believe that fake news? This is negative news about Trump, obviously planted by dumocrats to undermine THE GREATEST DEAL OF ALL TIME.
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.
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].
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.
So all we got to say is: (“Mr. Trump your the bestist big great leader of da world! Unmatched! And you know what the best leaders in the world do right?.. That’s right they take this little pill. It’ll make your dick the biggest, your skin the fairest, and it’ll give you the hutzpah to take down your enimes with you big fists!” Trump proceeds in taking the cyanide pill and the hell will be over.) And here I thought we needed to be aggressive to kill the facisits. Nah aprently we just got to treat him like a kid.
3-Dementia Chess
I’m stealing this
Good luck with Netanyahu
Evidently Israel asked for a copy of the deal and Washington told them “no”. I was cracking up.
Iran, if you’re reading this, can we uhh, hire your psychologists? Asking on behalf of most Americans.
You don’t need them. Manipulating a narcissist is incredibly easy, like take candy from a baby easy.
They took advantage of a mentally disabled octogenarian?! /s
As they should have. All’s fair in love and war. No ‘/s’ needed.
They should have kept going. Like, get his banking info or something. Him getting scammed would just be chef’s kiss.
They are getting 300 billions out of this. Not from his own account, but still.
From our accounts
How hard do you think it would be to get him to convert?
They escaped an abusive relationship
No, no, America. They escaped a nasty fence dispute with a deranged neighbor.
You’re the one still stuck in the abusive relationship, unfortunately.
Lots of love from the north. Good luck.
Huh? The statement was that they escaped, not that they’re stuck in it.
And good luck to you Canadians, your government wants to implement ID age verification online.
Authoritarianism will be the bane of our generation!
Canada’s still the one stuck with Americans to your south. Stay frosty.
I don’t doubt this for even a second.
It’s literally the only way this could have ended.
And it illustrates the advantages of dealing with a delusional narcissist - once you set aside your tendency toward truth about reality and instead just tell them whatever ridiculous fantasy they want to hear, they’ll go along with anything you say.
Yup, though if Trump finds out, like from hearing this story, it might cause him to reverse course again.
I think his handlers and aides will keep it from him from now on
I’m vaguely impressed that he didnt find some dumb way to get 10,000 of our soldiers killed.
yet
“We are giving you the Iranian world peace prize and the golden key the the straight of Hormuz”…thx for the billions
The great thing is that they can publish this and it won’t change a thing.
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