#trumps cognitive decline

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

“He likely came up with this weird description of birthright citizenship by free-associating the issue with the now-defunct policy of allowing Cuban migrants to stay within the United States and pursue citizenship upon touching American soil. The policy was known as “wet-foot, dry-foot.”

During this year’s presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly described immigrants as coming from jails and mental institutions. He was likely resurrecting assertions he heard during the era of the Mariel boatlift four decades ago.”

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[contemplatingoutlander]

In this article,* a professor of clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. Richard A. Friedman, explains why he believes that during the Sept.10th debate, Trump showed alarming signs of cognitive decline, including incoherent, "repetitive," "circumstantial and tangential speech."

Dr. Friedman is clear that from a distance, he cannot diagnose Trump, but he recommends that Trump go through a full neuropsychiatric evaluation (NOT a brief mental-status exam) as soon as possible, especially given that Trump is running to take on the job of president/ commander in chief of one of the world's major superpowers.

When mainstream psychiatrists like Dr. Friedman start to express concern about Trump's cognitive functioning, it is time that the mainstream media begin to treat this as seriously as they did signs of Biden's cognitive decline.

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________________ *This is an Internet Archive copy of The Atlantic article, so you can read the entire article, even if you don't subscribe to The Atlantic.

[tomorrowusa]

Trump is certainly impaired and unfit.

Donald Trump's 'Cognitive Decline' Is Clear: Mary Trump

He's clearly hiding something.

Trump refuses to release medical records as concerns about him being the oldest possible president grow

What happened to all those Republicans who claimed Biden was too old?

Trump says he'd hire a CEO his age. Only a handful of top chief executives are older.

He couldn't even finish a puff piece interview at his own place with a MAGA fanboy.

‘Exhausted’ Trump Can’t Make It Through Interview in His Home

Trump keeps cancelling public appearances. He actually stiffed the NRA.

Trump Abruptly Cancels Two Big Speeches in Sign of How Bad He’s Doing

Remember how Trump went into the first debate in 2020 even though he tested positive for COVID-19?

President best known for lying may have lied about Covid-19 status before first presidential debate in 2020

Trump is a sick puppy – in more ways than one.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Markos Moulitsas (kos) at Daily Kos:

Monday night, Donald Trump returned to X and joined a Spaces conversation with Elon Musk.  It was, objectively, a disaster for Trump. Thanks to a duplicitous, double-standards media, Trump has avoided the kind of “cognitive decline” stories that reporters couldn’t stop writing about President Joe Biden. Heck, The New York Times wrote dozens of stories about Biden’s age in the wake of the first presidential debate. But Trump? His increasingly unhinged rants and inability to go on the campaign trail don’t even muster a raised eyebrow.  After his “conversation” with Musk, however, it’s going to be impossible for the media to ignore. It wasn’t just his inability to have a straight conversation with Musk. We know Trump is no longer capable of expressing a coherent thought. It was worse than that.  Trump had a bizarre lisp the entire event, slurring words with the letter “s.

The so-called “conversation” with Elon Musk and Donald Trump on X Spaces last night was a giant disaster, similar to his X Spaces with Ron DeSantis.

In that call, Trump was the same old senile and unhinged self.

See Also:

HuffPost: The 5 Wildest Moments From Donald Trump And Elon Musk’s 2-Hour Bro-Fest

The Guardian: Trump revisits most divisive talking points in rambling interview with Musk

[liberalsarecool]

Nikki comes to life. Media needs to follow this up. Don's bragging about these tests is super pathetic.

[aunti-christ-ine]

But . . . The baby was a stable genius! 😲

[gay-jewish-bucky]

funny how the "replace biden" people go on and on about a mythical alternative candidate that could TOTALLY beat trump, but they never name anyone, almost like there is no one else

[davidaugust]

In an appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Donald Trump said Kamala only ‘became a black person’ recently, whereas he has always been a fascist autocrat with failing cognitive abilities.

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[contemplatingoutlander]

NY Times: How Trump's Speeches Raise Questions about Age

Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age

With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years.

The New York Times finally posted a lead article about Trump's possible cognitive decline. Although it took them long enough, I'm glad they finally did so. This is a gift🎁link so anyone can read the entire article. Here are some excerpts:

Former President Donald J. Trump vividly recounted how the audience at his climactic debate with Vice President Kamala Harris was on his side. Except that there was no audience. The debate was held in an empty hall. No one “went crazy,” as Mr. Trump put it, because no one was there. Anyone can misremember, of course. But the debate had been just a week earlier and a fairly memorable moment. And it was hardly the only time Mr. Trump has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent or disconnected from reality lately. In fact, it happens so often these days that it no longer even generates much attention. He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about his own “beautiful” body. He relishes “a great day in Louisiana” after spending the day in Georgia. He expresses fear that North Korea is “trying to kill me” when he presumably means Iran. As late as last month, Mr. Trump was still speaking as if he were running against President Biden, five weeks after his withdrawal from the race.

It's bad enough to have a lying, bigoted, impulsive, unfocused, self-centered, bully in the Oval Office. Now imagine one who is in cognitive decline. Goodness knows what off-the-wall and/or dangerous thing such a president could order others to do! And if he is surrounded by sycophants, they might just carry out his orders.

If Biden was too old to be President, so is Trump. It's way past time for the American people to recognize that.

[tomorrowusa]

Donald Trump keeps going out of his way to prove his mental and intellectual unfitness for the nation's highest office.

Dancing Donald Trump Is Clearly in a Steep Decline

Imagine the volcanic eruption of the MAGA world and its media vassals if Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, or Barack Obama had publicly tuned out of reality in public for 38 minutes.

Republicans trying to save their skins are pretending not to notice Trump's obvious decline.

And it's not just Trump zoning out on music in Pennsylvania.

Somebody acting like this would not be welcome in your house – never mind the White House.

Another public appearance confirms that Trump is an unstable mess

There are just 20 days until Election Day. Ask the apolitical and undecided people you know whether you want somebody like this with his finger on the nuclear button.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Edward Helmore at The Guardian:

With 78-year-old Donald Trump now certain to face a Democratic candidate younger than he is, the Republican could have the tables turned on him over the questions of age and mental agility that he often sidestepped while Joe Biden was his opponent. The age gap between Trump and any of his likely Democrat opponents – Kamala Harris, 59; Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, 52; Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro, 51 – could make him the sole focus of voters’ desire for a generational handover of power. And with Biden’s often stumbling public appearances – and especially his disastrous debate – now a thing of the past, there is likely to be a fresh focus on Trump’s mental acuity and his frequently rambling, confused campaign speeches.

Last month, for example, Trump got the name of his own doctor wrong. Previously he has made high-profile campaign trail gaffes, in which he seemed to think Barack Obama was still president and mistook his arch Republican rival Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi. Nearly 60% of US voters said last month that Biden should “definitely” or “probably” be replaced, while Trump’s favorability rating had risen to 40% since his hush-money conviction and the attempt on his life eight days ago. Harris’s favorability sits at around 39%. Biden’s departure from the ticket upends several aspects of Republican’s calculations, including that Trump the felon will now possibly have to debate Harris the former prosecutor in September – if she receives the nomination. The vice-president proved her debating skills in 2019 when she delivered a highly personal attack on Biden on the issue of race that he later described as “hurtful” and chilled relations between the Biden-Harris camps before she was named vice-president.

Remember when GOP Presidential candidate Nikki Haley said this quote? "The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins this election."

With Joe Biden ending his re-election bid and passing the torch to the younger Kamala Harris, the age and cognitive decline question disadvantage will fall on Donald Trump’s lap.

See Also:

Daily Kos: Now there's only one old guy in this election: Donald Trump