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Two psychologists are warning that President Donald Trump’s frequent confusion and mounting physical issues may be pointing to something more troubling than just aging. On their podcast Shrinking Trump, psychologists John Gartner and Harry Segal argued that the 79-year-old president is showing both physical and linguistic symptoms of what they call “early dementia.”
Dude’s fallen asleep on duty several times before. Why the sudden debate?
Trump should be forced to do what he wanted Biden to do. Where’s all those cognitive tests now? What happened to all the concern about elderly presidents in the last 3 years? It was a #1 crisis when Biden was president and every yawn in public was dissected, but now that Trump is dozily walking around, suddenly age doesn’t matter.
How many people will need to get shot in the neck till you realize they are hypocrites ?
hypocrisy is a defining characteristic of the modern right. That’s why discourse and argument with them has become pointless. Nothing they say can be trusted to be in good faith.
I like him better when he’s sleeping. It’s the only time he shuts up.
Why are psychologists opining on a neurological disorder? Did they think they went to med school?
Daily Beast, stop publishing garbage.
Neuropsychologists have the ability to diagnose dementia in all states in America. They shouldn’t be doing it without a full evaluation.
Also the Goldwater rule
“Early” ?!?!?
Yeah… As someone who has a lot of geriatric patients, even elderly people in good health can regularly doze off during certain parts of the day. Not sure how anyone could claim any cognitive decline at his age and weight could be considered early onset.
Tbh he is doing fairly well for his weight at that age, meaning he’s still alive. Which is baseline better than most 80 year old overweight and inactive men.
Imo I think he had a little stroke when he went up to Alaska to meet Putin. I think that’s why all his staff looked scared as shit during that trip, and why he’s been less active and traveling less since then. Long plane rides are pretty bad for people with peripheral edema, and clotting issues. Also explains the bruising on his hands, they got that dude stuffed to the gills with blood thinners.
This was my reaction.
To be fair, I’m pretty sure they’re basing 100% of their analysis on his public appearances, which is likely when he’s at his best. He’s either following a script or he’s been coached on what to say immediately prior to going in front of a camera.
In any case, America is cooked. He’s not going to step down, and there’s still a nontrivial amount of support for him to be installed as grand pubah.
The insane MAGA cult is Trump; they’re inseparable. After he dies, Trump’s gonna be pickled and put on display like Lenin on the National Mall. They can’t let him go.
That’s optimistic, I expect them to prop him up and have him continue being their leader well after he starts to decay, weekend at Bernie’s style.
He sure as shit won’t be getting any better. But it won’t matter. A big part of his usefulness is distracting us from what the real fascists are doing in the background. Should Vance, for some reason, have to take over, he’ll serve a similar function.
Is it just me or does anyone else remember when everyone and their mother was in an outrage over Bidens age? Did that really happen or am I just dreaming?
Biden was also the worst human to ever exist in the history of the world, according to MAGA.
A bumbling idiot and an evil genius at the same time apparently.
That was different
/S
Guess it’s like the whole kids getting shot versus a cunt of a podcaster getting shot thing.
… and Erdogan has cancer, Putin is seriously ill and the Russian economy is about to collapse any day now …
Instead of wishful thinking, protest, resist, and challenge authoritarianism in every way possible.
…we can assess his brain for abnormalities during autopsy. For now let’s just treat him as what he is currently: a domestic enemy to the US and its constitution, a rapist, and a pedophile, among other things.
Maybe a small, round projectile will give us a glimpse of those abnormalities at the same time as his death. A girl can dream!
Add murder to the list. Having Epstein killed in his cell is likely, but is obviously impossible to nail down at this point.
He has however bragged about bombing those Venezuelan fishermen on his order.
On the other hand, none of this is true and the “psychologists” are just bad guessers. Any real news out there or just made up scenarios?
Sleepy Don! That’s what everyone calls him folks. He’s low energy and old. So old. I remember when my dog was old like that. Kristi Noem said to me “just shoot him, take him out back and shoot him” and I did. Just like that! Bang! No more sleepy useless old dog. And lots of people said it was a good thing, including my good friend Jeff.
EARLY? He’s 79 years old.
Early dementia refers to the progression of the disease, he’s unlikely to die from it during this term.
As opposed to early onset dementia which is when a younger person than usual is diagnosed.
Yeah, he’s already seven years past the average lifespan here in the US.
For plebs, yes. The life expectancy for the rich is something absurd like 10 years longer. But only in the U.S., of course.
Except he eats like the poor.
Early as in the stage/symptoms, not “early on-set”.
OK but he’s been showing symptoms for years.
Listen to interviews of him in the 80s, 2000s, and 2016. His vocabulary and coherence had dropped significantly before his first term. It hasn’t gotten better.
Not even our first Republican president to get carried through his second term with the onset of dementia.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/17/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-president-son
Woodrow Wilson had a stroke and his wife secretly ran things.
The GOP president was always a mouthpiece anyway.
It’s why I try to talk about the Heritage Foundation policies instead of Trump. It’s a lot of rich assholes, not old white crazy guys with mob-boss style speaking.
He was mentally unfit long before signs of aging and dementia started appearing. His supporter base will remain in denial about it for as long as he has a pulse.
I’m betting on longer. They’ll worship him for another 100 years.
Reagan 2.0, now with more stupid and twice the spite!
you’re optimistic !
No. Fucking. Shit.
If it weren’t for his army of handlers he’d be answering a hot iron instead of his phone whole trying to rape an AC power outlet while waiting on hold with Epsteins office
Bullshit. No way he can multitask like that. I mean, he’s already trying to do all of that anyway, and just look at how well that’s gone for him.
They just need to feed him some more uppers with his hamberders
