Alarming new symptoms
Word is that Trump’s dementia is rapidly getting worse.
When more than 500 licensed mental health professions—including best-selling authors and well-respected psychologists—sign a petition warning that Donald Trump has clear signs of dementia, you would think corporate media would cover the story. But of course that would conflict with the corporate media’s non-stop narrative that President Biden is the one with cognitive issues.
But thankfully that has not deterred Dr. John Gartner–the founder of “Duty to Warn” and a prominent psychologist who was a contributor to the New York Times bestselling book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President”—from raising alarm bells.
So Dean Obeidallah had a conversation with Gartner.
…with Trump back in the spotlight, Gartner saw deeply alarming new symptoms prompting him to jump back into action. To put it bluntly, Gartner stated that with today’s Trump: “We see clear signs of dementia.”
The Doctor explained that since Trump left office, there has been an obvious acceleration in his cognitive deterioration. For example, “now he can’t get through a rally without committing one of these” tell-tale signs of dementia, such as saying the incorrect word or “combining or mixing up people and generations.”
I’d agree that it’s obvious. I’ve been thinking of it, in my amateurish way, as his being more stupid, but if he’s more demented rather than more stupid, I stand corrected.
But it’s not just Gartner raising alarm bells. Others who have signed the “Duty To Warn” petition are doing the same, such as psychologist Michael Tansey, Ph.D. who wrote about Trump, “Recent shocking video displayed what appears to be signs of a serious advancing dementia which have worsened in recent months. That will inflame his underlying psychological vulnerability to rogue rage, extreme recklessness, and impulsive and violent action.”
So definitely let’s put him in charge of the nukes again.
Dr. Michael Bader, a psychologist, explained, “This is not just ‘rambling.’ Trump evidences a type of cognitive impairment seen in dementia.” He highlighted Trump’s symptoms that led to this conclusion: “word salad (incoherence), ‘loose associations’ (a lack of connection between ideas), impairments of memory, and language problems (mis-pronouncing words or making up words that don’t exist).”
Alarmingly, as Gartner warns, Trump will only get worse—especially given the stress of the campaign and his criminal woes. “Now we’re noticing deterioration almost every day,” marked by Trump becoming more erratic, impulsive and with increasingly incomprehensible speech, Gartner noted. He added, “I honestly believe that if Trump were to get reelected that he would become completely incapacitated in office.”
I see no reason to think that’s unlikely.
Our greatest hope is that he will break down in a babbling mess during the debates. That won’t make a difference to the true believers, but hopefully enough it’ll convince people still on the fence of the danger he poses.
I admit, one of my hopes during the trial was that he’d get a few nights in a jail cell for contempt, and it would completely break him.
An incapacitated Trump would be even more useful to his handlers than the last go-round.
With Trump ga-ga and off with the fairies, maybe Stormy Daniels should seek Repblican nomination in his place.
Seems like he can fulfill his “sword of vengeance” role quite well even if he’s as mad as a spoon, so no worries there.
How would we tell?
The debates are to last 60 to 90 minutes.
Trump may not be able to hold it together for that long.
From the petition:
I completely disagree. There is plenty of video footage from the 80’s in which he’s the same illiterate bully. Sure, he’s worse now, possibly due to mental decline, but he’s been this way all along. His singsong salesman jive has never been articulate, sophisticated, or polished in any sense. He may be slipping, but not from any great height of eloquence.
I must say that his recent speech, ostensibly about EVs but which veered off into a wild fantasy about choosing between being eaten by a shark or electrocution, was hilarious.
His handlers blamed it on an autocue malfunction but either that’s bullshit or he suffers an autocue malfunction every time he gives a speech. The giveaway is that he says exactly the same thing when he’s about to go off script – ‘.. by the way…’ every single time.
And if POTUS again, and in his dementia he pushes the wrong button, and uninentionally starts World War 3, does he qualify for a get out of jail free card.?
Oh yes the sharks and the battery and the electrocution – the battery is very heavy and and and – that was a classic.
I can’t listen to him anymore, not for a few years now, not even for a half a minute, it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard. It’s beyond boring, all the lies and swaggering stupidness, mixed with his aggravating delivery. His TV appearances have always been unwatchable. I feel a little sorry for those mental health professionals who had to listen to him in depth enough to make some kind of determination. Brutal.
Well that’s true for everyone who’s not a monster raving loony, but we have to keep track of him all the same.