[ICAN] Medical Experts: Concerns About Trump And Nuclear Weapons

[Ellen Thomas]

From:  mch...@ippnw.org

Dear Friends,

A number of prominent American health professionals released the attached statement just days ago warning of President Trump's serious mental decline and calling for his legal removal from office.  27 of the 36 signers are psychiatrists or psychologists, including several senior leaders from IPPNW's earliest days who organized the effort.  The statement and list of medical signers was entered into the Congressional Record on April 30, 2026 by Senators Whitehouse and Reed of Rhode Island.  Below is the accompanying press release.  

Best,

Michael Christ

IPPNW Executive Director

https://www.ippnw.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Medical-Concerns-about-Donald-Trump-5_5_26.docx.pdf

MEDICAL EXPERTS DECLARE PRESIDENT TOO UNSTABLE TO REMAIN IN OFFICE

Washington, DC -- On April 30, 2026, a group of 36 leading physicians and other doctors with expertise in mental health issued a statement calling for President Donald J. Trump’s immediate, lawful removal from office for medical reasons. His mental instability, coupled with his sole, unchecked authority to launch nuclear weapons, makes him a clear and present danger to the safety of all Americans, they declared. The U.S. Senate offices of Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) entered the experts’ statement into the Congressional Record, Vol. 172, No. 76.

While they did not offer diagnoses, the mental health experts were informed by voluminous evidence from the historical record of the president’s bizarre and impulsive behavior, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, and his deeply impaired judgment. Since they circulated their concerns among their medical colleagues, Mr. Trump has exhibited more signs of grandiosity, e.g., posting images of himself on social media shaking hands with God, acting like Jesus, and dressing as a Pope. And he has continued nocturnal bingeing on social media posts that are filled with accusations of multiple conspiracies against him, as often as 150 times a night. Most worrisome are his outbursts of extreme, seemingly uncontrollable rage, such as his threat to destroy Iran, saying, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

Current nuclear policy permits a president, and the president alone, to choose the time and target of a nuclear launch, without his orders being subject to review. The U.S. has a policy that permits a first use of nuclear weapons. These policies, combined with an emotionally unstable leader, is a formula for unspeakable tragedy waiting to happen. For this reason above all others, the group of medical experts urged that lawful steps be taken to remove the president from office.

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