Iranians say addressing Trump's 'mental illness' head on helped secure deal

[LetMyPeopleVote]

The Iranians know that trump is mentally ill and used that knowledge to get a deal

This is brilliant. Everyone knows he's crazy as his handlers deny it excessively. Iran knew what we all know & used it to their advantage. Lousy deal for us, fab move for them.

Iranians say addressing Trump’s 'mental illness' head on helped secure deal: journalist

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— ScruffyR (NO LISTS!) (@scruffyr.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T16:27:16.969Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2677041558/

The United States and Iran reached a tentative agreement Sunday to bring about an end to the war, which one Iranian official involved in the negotiations credited, in part, to Tehran’s unorthodox approach to addressing what they considered to be President Donald Trump’s “mental illness.”

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.”

Trump’s cognitive function has come under renewed scrutiny during his second term in office, with The Washington Post reporting last week that the president was assessed by 22 medical specialists during his most recent medical checkup, a figure “nearly double the number of specialists who assessed Trump for his past medical checkups as president.” The president has also been spotted appearing to doze off during important meetings.

[Ocelot II]

1. They profiled him, like the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit does with serial killers!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. This was a smart strategy

[H2O Man]

13. Exactly.

Recommended.

[Lovie777]

2. Looks like they came out on top.. ...

how long will the Republican party baby walk him while he destroys the USA, although Vance is really bad too.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Obama had a better deal compared to trump

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[niyad]

18. And let us please remember that it was THEIR money. President

Obama simply unfroze some of their assets. In orange screwworm's case, it is OUR money!!! OUR service members. OUR military bases and equipment. OURS!!!

This isn't even beginning to talk about what has been done in our names in Iran, and hat is being done to the world in general.

[MadameButterfly]

14. If you can called being bombed like that and losing your family coming out on top

i suppose. I bet they would rather have skipped the whole thing. But Trump certainly came out on the bottom.

What I haven't heard mentioned is Iran's water crisis. I thought Tehran had run out of water and it was causing the city to sink, losing underground water storage permanently. This even before Trump bombed a water supply. Partly their fault for not taking US advice back when we had humans in charge, but there is has also been a lot of drought. But it won't be a picnic over their no matter what they get out of this.

[Akakoji]

16. Trump was already at the bottom.

There is a Difference between surrender and retreat. The people that live in the US came out on the bottom by losing all international trust, respect, trillions of dollars in munitions, accusations of war crimes, lots of dead US military, and hope. The American people have suffered badly because Trump and his Republican elected officials and toadies lied to their own supporters and the entire American population, left financial scars that will take years to heal - all without anything immediately happening to actually accomplish the original hodge dodge of objectives that were given by the administration for why they chose to spend some much money and get us all cucked and punked at the same time by Iranian clerics who were more than eager to kill off dissenters. Have you heard anything about the water fights over the Colorado River, by any chance? Or just whom the state of Israel thinks came out on top?

[MadameButterfly]

23. Are you upset with something I said

or just the whole situation?

[Torchlight]

3. Tehran's tac appears to have worked. Rather well.

Iran won a significant world-wide PR victory in this confrontation, while Mr. trump merely projected weakness and retreat, tail tucked, dignity surrendered, and heading home to bask in the applause of the very idiots who mistake humiliation for strength.

With the Rose Garden's destruction complete, I'm sure Mr. trump can find something else that needs to be retarred.

[Scrivener7]

6. Let's us Democrats learn from that. His psychology is not complicated. In fact it's very basic.

And he's very, very easily manipulated.

[Mad_Machine76]

10. And easily flattered

[snot]

8. Ok...

but it would have been interesting to see more detail so as to compare Iranian diagnoses & tactics with those I might have speculated about.

[Mad_Machine76]

9. We need some clinical assistance here as well!

Democrats (and Republicans) need to bring some people in for the next two years- or we could, you know, impeach him or get him to resign?

[littlemissmartypants]

11. More power to them. It's a playbook that many in our country...

Should have considered long, long ago.

Psychopaths. Learn how to spot one.

Characteristics of Psychopaths
1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Completely void of conscience and empathy
3. Adept at manipulating others
4. Willing to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willing to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willing to use force, intimidation, and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willing to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Completely lacking any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions cause
11. Rationalize their own immoral behavior
12. Attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own bad conduct
13. Will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Display utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of others
15. Exhibit pathological lying, will compulsively say anything without any concern for the truth to advance their own agendas
16. Able to fake normal human emotions and empathy with the exception of joy, laughter
17. Have a distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Totally fail to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strongly believe that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

https://psychopathyis.org/stats/

[Katcat]

12. Psychotrumppath

A politician who uses fear to control followers.

[ShazzieB]

15. I've never been a fan of that regime.

Between taking over the US embassy and holding dozens of Americans hostage, launching widespread persecutions of minority religions, and forcing women back into second class citizenship, I have been opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran from the getgo. But boy howdy, did they ever get this right!

The Iranians aren't the only ones who havef igured out how to use Trump's mental illness to their advantage, though. I have no doubt that Netanyu got the US into this war by convincing the Orange One that attacking Iran would make him a big hero with the American people and around the world. It probably wasn't a hard job, considering Trump's towering narcissism, but I will grudgingly give Bibi some credit for figuring out to manipulate our demented president so successfully.

Trump's incomprtence and the urgent need to remove him from office have never been more glaringly apparent. If the Republicans in both houses of Congress weren't as corrupt and incompetent as he is, he would have been impeached, convicted, and removed from office a long time ago.

[mopinko]

19. u forgot funding hamas and hezzbolah, among other terrorists.

[NoMoreRepugs]

17. It's really hard for me to not believe this story, when the entire world can see what the Deplorable shitbirds refuse

to acknowledge - that TrumpenFuhrer is suffering dementia in plain sight.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. The whole world knows Trump is nuts.

[Johnny2X2X]

21. I don't even think there's really a deal

Trump cannot take being mocked and the whole world is mocking him for this deal right now. Israel wants to blow up the deal and Trump will want to start bombing again to save some face.

Trump thought they could sell this deal as a win, it's clear early that he cannot, so he will blow up the deal IMO.

[Cosmocat]

22. This is instructive, but the bigger reason Iran appears to be coming out of this OK

is that:

1) They have been preparing for this possibility for many decades now and had a brilliant asymmetric defense utilizing their geography to their advantage in many ways.

2) Because of this they were able to stand off the US's overwhelming military power.

3) But, along with that ... from day one they never backed down to him.

To this point here in the US everyone has either fully or partially rolled over to him. And, our allies at first indulged him. Their positions have improved once they resigned themselves that he is incapable of being a honest partner and they stopped indulging him and started to decouple from the US.

Iran is the first country / entity that was truly prepared and had the right mentality to deal with him.