Deepak Chopra: Trump Is 'Emotionally Retarded, Maybe Mentally Retarded'
The guru lamented how The Donald brings out the 'worst' in America—and then proceeded to lob insults.
Andrew Kirell
Updated Apr. 13, 2017 3:40PM ET / Published Jun. 08, 2016 11:09AM ET
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The political rise of Donald Trump is so disturbing, even New Age guru Deepak Chopra has lost his good vibes.
In an interview Tuesday with Fox News Radio host Alan Colmes, the famed preacher of Transcendental Meditation and alternative medicine unleashed on the presumptive Republican nominee, using a pejorative to describe his mental capacities.
"I would never say this unless I believed it was 100 percent true, but he represents the racist, the bigot, the one who's prejudiced, the one who is full of fear and hatred, the one who represents emotional retardation of a 3-year old," he said Tuesday. "And yet he's so popular because he's given permission to our collective psyche to express their darkest demons.
"He's full of fear. He is angry. He has a lot of hatred. He pouts, he's belligerent, he's emotionally retarded," the mindfulness meditation advocate reiterated.
In a Huffington Post column earlier this week, Chopra wrote that Trump has brought out the "shadow" in American politics—the "dark impulses" inside everyone, including himself.
"What I said just now [about Trump's 'retardation'], I would never say these things about anybody," the guru confessed. "It's not like me. But he's bringing out the worst in me, because I, too, am fearful of what would happen to the United States of America and the rest of the world if, God forbid, he became president."
After several minutes of scorning himself for giving into such negative "demons," effectively feeding Trump's desire for controversy, Chopra took it a step further: "Maybe I was too kind when I said he was emotionally retarded, maybe he's mentally retarded too."