Experts Say Trump Is Showing Signs Of Dementia And Obvious Cognitive Decline

Multiple mental health experts have come forward in recent interviews with STAT News to offer their take on Donald Trump’s mental health, and it isn’t good. Several of them suggested that his speaking style and patterns are indicative of Alzheimer's Disease, while others made it clear that he is suffering from a very serious form of cognitive decline. The media needs to focus more on these stories – just like they did after President Biden’s bad debate. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses these new reports.
 

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Mental health professionals are back out there sounding the alarm bells once again about Donald Trump's very obvious, very clear cognitive decline. In fact, during recent interviews with Stat News, multiple mental health professionals suggested that Donald Trump might actually be suffering from Alzheimer's disease. And it's not for the reasons you think these mental health professionals, and I'll read you what they said in just a minute, but they're not talking about, oh, Trump confuses people's names all the time, like confusing Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi or Biden for Obama. They say that that's, that's nothing. The real issue are the words that he does use, or the words he has to make up his linguistic abilities, his fumbles, his right. Let me read you this. This first one is from, uh, Ben McCall, a clinical psychologist who has done cognitive assessments for New York Supreme Court. He's the one who played down the issue of like, yeah, confusing the names that that does nothing for me.

But he did say there's reasonable evidence suggestive of forms of dementia. The reduction in complexity of sentences and vocabulary does lead you to a certain picture of cognitive diminishment. He also flagged Trump using words in the incorrect order and even inventing words as possible signs of cognitive issues, which can come from aging or certain conditions like Alzheimer's. Now, this is something I have pointed out as well. Donald Trump is using very small words and he's using very small words over and over and over and over and over. When Donald Trump says a sentence, he doesn't just say it and then he continues on. He will say the sentence and then he will say the sentence. He will say the sentence, and it's the sentence that he said. He will do like four or five times in a row, the same words, sometimes in the exact same order.

Sometimes he'll flip up the order, but that's not normal. These professionals are telling us, they're like, listen, I'm trained to recognize signs of cognitive decline, and that's one of 'em. Andrew Butson, neurology professor at Boston University, he said The habit of jumping around in conversation might reflect poor sleep, A DHD, or possibly be a sign of approaching Alzheimer's. There are absolutely changes that are occurring without any doubt, he said, and he was talking about Trump's tendency to veer off script. Uh, and it's likely to do with the frontal lobe, the region of the brain, most often affected by aging. And yeah, we have seen that in Trump's speeches too, right? He'll start on one point, then he starts talking about the toilets flushing. He starts talking about the water flow. Then he is talking about sharks, and then he is talking about electric vehicles, and they got so much electricity, they'll kill you. I'd rather be with the shark

And the, the windmills. They're killing the birds and they're killing the whales and all this. Have you ever seen a whale, the late great Hannibal Lecter, he saw whale one time. Yeah. That's not just Trump being weird. Those are symptoms. The experts are telling us. James Pennebaker, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, said, uh, that since 2020, Trump has also increasingly spoken about the past. He also remarked, pardon me, on Trump's speeches score in linguistic metric of analytical thinking, saying the former president who tends to use simple words and sentences is much lower than most presidential candidates. While those seeking the White House are generally in the 60 to 70 range in the, uh, linguistic metric, uh, Trump speeches range from 10 to 24. I can't tell you how staggering this is.

[davidraper]

He's always been mentally unfit for any form of high office position of responsibility but he used to hide it a lot better.

[nelsonassioc]

Retired after 30 years as a mental health professional, I would say he suffers from small vessel ischemic disease that can contribute to: mental decline, strokes, walking and balance problems, and dementia. We've seen all of this behavior from him

[prestonbarnes]

As long as he talks hate, his idiots don't care if his mind is gone.

[Fidgetbear]

Adderral addiction, a fast food diet, preservatives and toxins absorbed into the skin from bronzer and not being mentally sound from the beginning will cause future problems.

[bellinthetree]

I have been telling you that for six months. I nursed my wife in dementia for ten years. He has vascular or frontal lobe dementia, he is paraphrasic, he cannot pronounce words.

[courteouscarpenter]

We also need to talk about how the mainstream media is ignoring Trump's decline and how it's an insult to people with serious mental issues that are struggling because it doesn't matter oh it doesn't matter. The people who matter instead of this turd are struggling and how are they being taken seriously when the media won't take guy who's running for president seriously. America already has a problem dealing with mental health this doesn't help

[PurpleRain]

His so called press conference yesterday was brutal. 
He couldn’t keep a coherent thought together.

[dx]

"He doesn't think in a complex way at all." And I'm guessing he never did, but his mind is getting much, much worse.

[VSmithy]

I have fairly early Alzheimer's, and I think that Trump's mental deterioration is severe. The thought of this man having access to Nuclear armaments is very worrying. His threats against women's control over our own bodies horrifies me. Don't, please, put this man into a position of power, we could all pay a very high price for it.

[loiskampp]

Donald's stream-of-consciousness is circling the drain more rapidly than ever.

[stevespoor-ebuw]

After taking care of my father with Alzheimer's for more than six years, I can recognize the symptoms with the slurring of his speech, his facial expressions, and the repetitiveness of his speech. I am positive he is well into Alzheimer's, and it will get increasingly worse in the next year or two.

[rymdalkis]

Hasn't he spoken like a toddler for years?

[jcool]

The fact is, if this was your father or your grandfather talking like this, you'd take away his car keys and start researching nursing homes that specialize in dementia care.

[AWalkerbtweenworlds]

And here I thought he was using very small words because many of his devoted followers don't have the capacity to understand anything else.

[geraldmiller]

His ego has driven him mad. He can't accept defeat or that people won't praise him.

[wyvern]

The thing is... Does the GOP have the guts to replace Trump? Probably not.

[tonydarcy]

I'm no expert, but for Trump to leave the White House with all those documents shows he's at least lacking good judgement, or more likely, so arrogant that he thinks he could get away with it !

[PamSchmelz]

Trump is only running to get out of trouble. Let's hold him accountable!

[Jo-ixqp]

Why doesn't the main stream media talk/write about this..

[Sittingull]

I had a friend who used to do that. He would say a sentence forward, then backward, then inside out, then outside in. He also had a stutter and spoke with a heavy foreign accent. I really loved talking with him He was a very nice guy.