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.”

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    2 hours ago

    I think hiring psychologists pales in comparison to the other strategy of treating him like a 5 year old.

  • Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    4 hours ago

    “We are giving you the Iranian world peace prize and the golden key the the straight of Hormuz”…thx for the billions

  • adarza@piefed.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    35
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 hours ago

    addressing exploiting

    he deserves it.

    we pay the price.

    just another day in america

      • Murse@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        40 minutes ago

        It is if you acknowledge who the perpetrator is, which isn’t Iran. America is one of many of Trump’s victims.

        …course, Trump himself was the result of America shooting itself in the foot in the first place. Then instead of learning its lesson, shooting itself in the other foot one presidency later. So… I hate to victim blame, but we kinda stuck our dick in the hornet’s nest. This particular victimhood was glaringly foreseeable and easily avoidable. We’re getting what we asked for.

        Apologies to the rest of the world for being the meth house of the global neighborhood.

          • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            5
            ·
            2 hours ago

            Trump caused this; while it could be seen as justified for Iran to exploit the situation, the American People, the majority of whom did not want to be in this position, are the ones mostly paying the price.

            • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              5
              ·
              1 hour ago

              Iran getting reparations for hundreds of school children America murdered and its assets unfrozen is not Iran exploiting anybody, if I spend half a century repeatedly stabbing you, and then pull the knife out 1 inch, that’s not you stabbing me, thats a slight decrease in how much I am currently stabbing you.

        • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          3 hours ago

          Let me clarify, America and Americans are in no way being exploited by Iran because we are unfreezing Iranian assets and paying reparations for hundreds of children we murdered, what the fuck.

    • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      4 hours ago

      Better he be exploited than Palestinian babies keep exploting. Now all there’s remaining is that Bibi gets the memo and slinks off.

  • dizzle18@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    4 hours ago

    I got news for you if you think Iran is the first and only country to negotiate with Trump in this manner…

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    14
    ·
    4 hours ago

    Bruce doesn’t know he has dementia either, but he’s not making movies anymore unfortunately:

    Last movie he was in was meh. He was there as the magic famous person.

    • irinotecan@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      35 minutes ago

      Actually, I’m pretty sure he does know he has dementia. Or at least did at the early stages. After he got all those Razzie nominations, it came out that he had deliberately phoned it in on a ton of garbage movies at the end because he was bankrolling his family’s future, preparing for the fact that he wouldn’t be working for much longer.

      The Razzies rescinded his nominations and apologized when they found out.

      • altphoto@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 hours ago

        Me either, I forgot 😔.

        I hope Israel doesn’t have to intervene in my future dementia development.