Here are the people closest to Trump who might doubt his mental fitness

President Trump just dived headfirst into a question that many won’t go near: Is he okay?

“The Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence,” he wrote Saturday on Twitter. “Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.”

So more than okay, in his opinion.

But, as Trump noted, others have expressed doubts. His tweet may have been in reaction to a new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” which says that some of the president’s advisers have privately belittled his sanity and intelligence.

Or he may have been thinking of Politico’s report that a Yale University psychiatrist met last month with a more than a dozen members of Congress — including an unnamed Republican senator — to discuss concerns that Trump was unstable. (He is, the psychiatrist said.)

But the book’s accuracy is in some doubt, and the Yale psychiatrist, Bandy X. Lee, shared her concerns despite the American Psychiatric Association's ban on diagnosing people who have not been personally evaluated.

And as Trump noted, the politicians who most commonly go on record to question his mental fitness tend to be his enemies.

But there is a shortlist of people in or near Trump’s inner circle who have voiced doubts about his competence, or who have been reported to have done so, even if some denied it later.
At the top of the list is Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who in 2016 was considered a front-runner to become Trump’s running mate and, later, was a candidate for secretary of state, according to CNN. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Corker called Trump’s foreign policy ideas “very thoughtful” and even met with the candidate that year.