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Jilly_in_VA

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Sun Sep 21, 2025, 08:07 PM Sep 2025

This Is What Proves Trump's Dementia: Psychologist [View all]

At least one psychologist is convinced that President Donald Trump has dementia.

Dr. John Gartner told The Daily Beast Podcast’s Joanna Coles that he has observed a “major deterioration” in Trump’s language skills, motor skills, and impulse control. The former Johns Hopkins professor and co-host of the podcast Shrinking Trump explained how he arrived at a diagnosis of dementia for the president, telling The Daily Beast that doing so involves assessing someone’s against their own baseline.

“We have to see a major deterioration in functioning in language and thinking and psychomotor performance and impulse control and a whole variety of areas... what a lot of people don’t realize is that Donald Trump used to be a very articulate person.”

“He used to speak with a high level of vocabulary in very polished paragraphs. Now what we see is not only has his vocabulary gone down, but... there are times when he’s really unable to complete a thought. Sometimes he’s unable to complete a word,” Gartner continued.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-what-demonstrates-donald-trumps-dementia-psychologist/

But we already knew that, right?

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I observed this with my Dad's slide into dementia. Midnight Writer Sep 2025 #1
My father was a writer before dementia misanthrope Sep 2025 #8
Every person I've known with dementia... ananda Sep 2025 #10
It doesn't always go that way. I've had many patients who got the happy type Maru Kitteh Sep 2025 #21
What did your good friend say? misanthrope Sep 2025 #22
I had success with some natural products for my elderly mom. JudyM Sep 2025 #33
Thank You Desert grandma Sep 2025 #34
Glad to share, Desert grandma, hoping it might help some folks. JudyM Sep 2025 #36
Mine were a series of bridge psrtners. ananda Sep 2025 #35
Were you friends before his diagnosis? babylonsister Sep 2025 #23
The person I knew as him misanthrope Sep 2025 #24
Yeah Katcat Sep 2025 #25
""He used to speak with a high level of vocabulary in very polished paragraphs..." ProfessorGAC Sep 2025 #2
I distinctly remember wondering in the first campaign why his family didn't insist tanyev Sep 2025 #3
Good Comment ProfessorGAC Sep 2025 #4
THIS malaise Sep 2025 #5
I believe he was referring to the years well before his first term. n/t ariadne0614 Sep 2025 #6
So Am I ProfessorGAC Sep 2025 #7
Prof, I read the OP True Dough Sep 2025 #11
K&R for, What? When was that?" UTUSN Sep 2025 #15
Yeah, that stuck out to me as well. progressoid Sep 2025 #16
I agree with the MyOwnPeace Sep 2025 #17
Prior to his first real run for president. Shipwack Sep 2025 #26
Thinking the same thing Bayard Sep 2025 #28
Nobody besides us cares Fiendish Thingy Sep 2025 #9
Yep. That's certainly true. calimary Sep 2025 #19
Maybe he'll just fucking die already Orrex Sep 2025 #12
Here is the video of that interview. I though it was well done and more than a little scary. mackdaddy Sep 2025 #13
Through the years mountain grammy Sep 2025 #14
I'm a native New Yorker mokeyz Sep 2025 #18
Me too, also from New York. Javaman Sep 2025 #20
I remember seeing him in a few interviews during his Apprentice days... Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #27
My Dad had dementia, my Mom had Alzheimer's Bayard Sep 2025 #29
This is what I think shows his inability to think rationally. He suddenly changes subject to talk to the media about the Doodley Sep 2025 #30
Recommended. H2O Man Sep 2025 #31
archive link BWdem4life Sep 2025 #32
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