To the Editor:

Re “Who Decides if Trump Is Unfit?,” by Peter D. Kramer and Sally L. Satel (Op-Ed, Aug. 29):

May I respectfully disagree with the esteemed psychiatrists, whose position is that politicians and not mental health professionals should decide on President Trump’s fitness for office. They write that “many experts believe that Mr. Trump has a narcissistic personality disorder.” These experts are concerned about his mental and emotional instability.

People with this disorder distort reality to meet their extreme ego needs, rendering them blind to other views and facts but their own. Mr. Trump is capable of any belief or action that feeds his extreme narcissism, no matter how absurd. His actions are driven by his obsession to gain the praise and adoration of others.

This inability to understand reality and the truth, which we have clearly seen in Mr. Trump, renders him incapable of evaluating situations and making informed, appropriate decisions. It is time the mental health community step up and join, if not lead, the effort to remove our president from office.

KEN LEFKOWITZ, MEDFORD, N.J.

To the Editor:

Concern about President Trump’s behavior has led many to posit mental instability as a way to remove him from office. The conflation of bad character and mental illness is both dangerous and unnecessary.