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Trump, Jesus and the Pope

Readers respond to front-page articles about President Trump’s erratic behavior.

April 14, 2026

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To the Editor:

Re “

Trump’s Volatile Talk Revives Doubts on Stability

” and “

Trump Denies Portraying Self as Jesus in Post

” (front page, April 14):

Mental health professionals like me are not suggesting long-distance diagnoses of President Trump’s mental fitness. The examples are in our faces many times a day, and the picture is clear. He’s not doing a strategic impression of a grandiose, impulsive, malignant narcissist; his every word and every action reinforce that picture.

As manipulative as he thinks he is, it is also clear that he is not clever enough nor disciplined enough to be posing so as to keep his enemies off balance, as some of his allies have suggested.

Everyone can see this, and it behooves us all — not just medical professionals but the media and the public as well — to speak the truth about it. We should not be silent while the most important story of our generation unfolds before our eyes.

Cecilia Martin Ford

East Hampton, N.Y.

The writer is a licensed clinical psychologist.

To the Editor:

The calls for Congress to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from power for disability are growing more frequent and louder. I personally don’t care whether the president continues to ace tests designed to identify cognitive impairment. I have seen and heard all I need to decide.

I don’t believe he is fit to determine what is good for me and other Americans, or to serve as a dignified representative of Americans on the world stage.

Alice Bray

New York

To the Editor:

I have to admit, when I first saw the post of President Trump in red and white flowing robes laying his hand on the forehead of a sick man, I thought he was portraying himself as Jesus.

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