'Falling off the cliff': Dementia expert shows 4 ways Trump is exhibiting 'shocking decline' https://www.alternet.org/dementia-trump-decline/ One prominent psychologist and psychotherapist is warning that former President Donald Trump is deep in the throes of cognitive decline, and that his dementia is only worsening by the day. For his Substack newsletter, attorney Jay Kuo interviewed Dr. John Gartner, the founder of Duty to Warn. Gartner's organization is a collection of mental health professionals sounding the alarm about the former president's declining mental faculties since he took office in 2017. In his interview, Gartner laid out four examples that he says show proof that Trump is teetering ever closer to full-blown dementia. First, Gartner explained that, to him, Trump has shown a "decline from baseline" since he first announced his run for the presidency in 2015. He argued that while the 45th president of the United States used to speak "in polished paragraphs with a sophisticated vocabulary," he now is exhibiting a "shocking decline in verbal fluency" and "often can’t finish a sentence or even a word." "Typical of dementia patients, he repeats himself and overuses superlatives and filler words," Gartner said. "Based on his current accelerating rate of decline, it seems very unlikely that Trump could see out a second term without falling off the cliff and becoming totally incapacitated." Second, Gartner pointed to Trump's failing memory as evidence of cognitive decline. He noted that earlier this year, he mistook former UN ambassador Nikki Haley for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), saying "Nikki Haley" was in charge of security at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He also noted that Trump has, on multiple occasions, confused President Joe Biden with former President Barack Obama on the campaign trail. While Trump's campaign played it off and suggested that Trump was just joking or that Biden was somehow a puppet of Obama, Gartner was not convinced. "The more plausible explanation is that once again we are watching the workings of his demented mind in real time," he said. "Obama and Biden have something very important in common in Trump’s brain that can allow them to be fused in his molten mind: two Democratic presidents who bested and humiliated him have become one imaginary super-villain." The third sign of Trump's dementia is, according to Gartner, Trump's "disordered speech" that he said is typical of "organically impaired dementia patients." He observed that in 2024, Trump has exhibited a pattern of using "non-words in place of real words," like "saying 'mishuz' instead of missile, or 'Chrishus' instead of Christmas." Other examples he listed include "'President U-licious S Grant' (For Ulysses S. Grant), 'space-capsicle' (for space capsule), 'combat infantroopen' (for combat infantry), 'sahhven country' (for sovereign country) [and] 'renoversh' (For renovations)." "As he deteriorates, these deficits will make themselves apparent more and more often. Now he can’t get through a rally without an example," Gartner told Kuo. "Cornell psychologist Harry Segal speculated Trump may be 'sundowning' and hence most vulnerable to going off the rails at night-time rallies." Lastly, Gartner referenced Trump's pattern of poor "motor performance" as another reason for his decline. He pointed out that the former president has "shown deterioration in his fine motor coordination," noting that Trump sometimes "swings his right leg in a semi-circle as if it were dragging a dead weight." He added that he sometimes has "difficulty drinking a bottle or a glass of water without two hands." Early on in the interview, Gartner addressed criticisms that mental health experts were being unprofessional in diagnosing Trump without him personally being a patient of theirs. He argued that "as a professional community, thousands of us have observed hundreds of hours of Trump’s public behavior" and that they "also have dozens of informant reports." "So all the people hyperventilating about 'diagnosing from a distance' should take a breath," he said. "This is more business as usual than you might think. In real life, we’ve institutionalized tens of thousands of patients on far less data."
This idea that Trump has the same disease as Biden will not work When we see them in public, Biden is an embarrassment
Let's catch up with the latest lie coming out of Donald Trump's mouth. He led chants of "Lock her up" in rally after rally. Just how cognitively impaired is he? Fact check: Trump falsely claims he didn’t call to lock up Hillary Clinton https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/02/poli...alse-claim-lock-up-hillary-clinton/index.html
'He had this vacant look': Author alarmed by Trump's 'severe memory issues' https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cognitive-abilities/
"He has severe memory issues. He couldn't remember things. He couldn't even remember me. We spent an hour together in 2021 in May and then a few months later I went back and he had no recollection of our interview". Trump Biographer Raises Alarms About His Memory https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-memory-age-joe-biden-2024-election-1913839 A Donald Trump biographer recently raised alarms about the former president's memory and mental acuity. On Monday, Ramin Setoodeh, author of Apprentice in Wonderland, about Trump, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe to speak about his book and how the former president acted in a number of interviews together. "Over the weekend, he was talking about how [President] Joe Biden needs to take a cognitive test, 'Joe Biden isn't all there,'" Setoodeh said. "Donald Trump had severe memory issues. As the journalist who spent the most time with him, I have to say he couldn't remember things. He couldn't even remember me. We spent an hour together in 2021 in May and then a few months later I went back to Trump tower to talk to him about his time in the White House...and he had no recollection of our lengthy interview that we had." "I think that the American public really needs to see this portrait of Donald Trump because this shows what he is like and who he is and who he has always been." In a statement to Newsweek, Trump communications director Steven Cheung said: "President Trump was aware of who this individual was throughout the interview process, but this 'writer' is a nobody and insignificant so of course he never made an impression. After recognizing the importance of The Apprentice and its significant cultural impact on a global scale, this 'writer' has now chosen to allow Trump Derangement Syndrome to rot his brain like so many other losers whose entire existence revolves around President Trump." The comments by Setoodeh came in the lead-up to the 2024 election, which is shaping up as a rematch of the 2020 race between Trump and President Joe Biden. Both have faced questions about their age, with many Republicans questioning Biden's mental acuity at 81. Many Republicans have continued to seek the release of audio recordings of the president and Special Counsel Robert Hur, following an investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents. Hur's report described Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory." On Wednesday, the House voted 216-207—almost entirely along party lines—to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for refusing to comply with a request from lawmakers to hand over the recordings. The Justice Department said Friday that it will not prosecute Garland. Trump recently celebrated his 78th birthday and a poll from February found a majority of voters saying both candidates are "too old" for the White House. The poll, conducted by ABC News/Ipsos, found that 59 percent of respondents believe that both Biden and Trump are too old to serve another term as president. According to the poll, 27 percent said "only Biden" was too old and 3 percent said "only Trump" was too old. This month, the Wall Street Journal published a report detailing that Biden has recently shown signs of "slipping" amid questions surrounding his age and mental acuity. It said that mostly Republicans who have had closed-door conversations with Biden expressed concern over his age but added that "some Democrats said that he showed his age in several of the exchanges." The White House quickly pushed back on the report, with spokesman Andrew Bates telling Axios that "It's a little surprising that the Wall Street Journal thought it was breaking news when congressional Republicans told them the same false claims they've spouted on Fox News for years, but it's also telling that the only individuals willing to smear the president in this story are political opponents afraid to use their names—plus one proven liar."
Biden's cognitive problems began after brain surgery to repair two aneurysms. RFK Jr's cognitive problems began after a brain-eating worm died inside of his head after it ate part of his brain. Trump's cognitive problems began after he fucked a porn star without wearing a condom. wrbtrader