Doctors voiced concerns to ex-Speaker that Trump’s mental health ‘was in decline,’ new book reveals

Nancy Pelosi detailed how medical professionals expressed concern to her regarding then-President Donald Trump’s mental health during her time as Speaker of the House, according to her new memoir.

A copy of The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House, to be published next week, was obtained by The Guardian.

At a 2019 memorial service for psychiatrist Dr David Hamburg, doctors and other mental health professionals shared their deep concern “that there was something seriously wrong” with Trump and that “his mental and psychological health was in decline,” Pelosi detailed in the book.

Pelosi said she found Trump’s behavior “difficult to understand.” The former speaker frequently clashed with Trump during her second stint in the top job in the lower chamber. She was speaker between 2007 and 2011 and between 2019 and 2023, which coincided with the latter half of Trump’s presidency and the beginning of President Joe Biden’s time in the White House.

Trump is now the Republican presidential nominee yet again, for the third straight election cycle. The 78-year-old former president is the oldest-ever candidate for the office.

His often bizarre behavior has come under increasing scrutiny following his two impeachments, including for the Capitol riot, his 34 felony convictions, the orders for him to pay hundreds of millions in damages in several civil cases, including one in which he was found liable for sexual abuse, his comments that he would spend day one of his next term as a “dictator, and his questioning of Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity during an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists on Wednesday.

By the time January 6, 2021, the day of the