“I was sober in recovery when I worked on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and I believe that is what allowed me tune in to Trump’s obvious triggers and addictions. To see clearly what was really going on and what was underneath his obviously unhealthy behavior. The crushed Adderall abuse for example, usually came when he had to read publicly from a cue card or teleprompter. He always struggled with reading any word that was three syllables or more; in my armchair diagnosis it stemmed from a childhood learning disability that was never properly addressed, my guess is some type of dyslexia. Of course, there is no shame in learning disabilities, but in Trump’s case it was probably seen as a weakness, which the family chose to hide rather than treat. They paid others to take his tests and Trump himself hid his school grades from military academy all the way through university (both Fordham and Penn) from the world for his entire adult life. Suffice it to say the dude is no scholar. His illiteracy has clearly followed him into adulthood. When you hear him sniffing a lot when he is reading - such as this past week’s address to the nation - that is because he has most likely just snorted Adderall. I believe the speed makes him feel sharper and more in control of his ability to read, and that this dynamic runs deep in Trump. He uses stimulants to feel in charge and avoid the sloppier elements of addiction he witnessed in both of his brothers’ alcoholism. And in several of his own children’s falling-down-drunk days. Don Jr. especially was a very loud and obnoxious drunk who got into a ‘Page Six’ type melee after a bout of public intoxication at the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village in 2002. When I started speaking out about his addictions in 2015, I was trying to warn people that it wasn’t the substances themselves that presented a problem, as much as it was the personality defects underneath them that we needed to fear the most. You do not want a leader who spends all day thinking about himself and acting out of his own self-centered fear. That is precisely what led him to ignore the COVID pandemic and lie to the American people in the early days of the global health crisis. Trump’s inability to face reality beyond how it would affect his own personal re-election chances and the economy led directly to the deaths of over one million citizens when all was said and done.” open.substack.com/pub/noelca…