On Tuesday, a widely cited psychologist took to YouTube to raise the alarm regarding “more highly concerning behavior” from President Donald Trump. According to Dr. John Garrison, Trump’s recent actions suggest “steep neurological decline” and a dangerously “manic-like state.”
Garrison began by playing a clip from a recent Fox News interview, in which Trump declared that the price of oil is “going to go down like a rocket.” According to Garrison, “There were two neurological issues in this very short clip, both of them verbal. One is that he's having speech planning issues, saying ‘going down like a rocket.’ Obviously, that's combining phrases. He's having a hard time organizing his thoughts. And second is an involuntary vocalization.” Here Garrison replays the clip, noting an abrupt sound Trump makes, explaining, “The pathways that deal with language are disrupted. We are seeing serious issues with language with President Trump.” What’s more, Garrison asserts that such vocalizations are “relatively new.”
In the interview, Trump begins talking about the midterm elections, saying, “I'm going to campaign like I did for myself and I'm going to hope that people think that I'm on. And if I'm not on, if they don't go out and vote, if they go out and vote, we're going to win easily.” As Garrison notes, “What he's saying makes absolutely no sense. He cannot organize his thoughts. He gets confused and he believes what he's saying is coherent. But it truly makes no sense.” According to Garrison, this struggle with verbal planning can be evidence of underlying “neurological issues.”
Here Garrison points to Trump’s pupils, which have remained dilated throughout the interview. “Trump is in a very bright room for this interview,” says Garrison. “You can see the lights actually reflecting off of his eyes, and what should be happening is that his pupils should be constricting rather than dilating because when there's too much light in a room, your pupils get smaller, not bigger.” According to Garrison, “Dilated pupils like this can be from a wide variety of reasons, but it's not just something that happens,” and likely culprits include medication for something like incontinence, Parkinson’s disease, or seizures.
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Been reading articles like this since 2015, pretty sure Trump is going to live to be 115 years old the way it's going
It started in 2015; the articles and commentators pointed out the famous longitudinal study of nuns that found that loss of vocabulary was one of the early indicators of dementia, and that his vocabulary had noticeably shrunk ("big" and "beautiful" taking over for many other adjectives). It was during his first term that somebody pegged it as frontotemporal dementia specifically.
Keep in mind the difference between "he's dying" and "he's lost it." With this form of dementia, a person's life expectancy after (early) diagnosis can be many years. Six or seven years from the first clear symptoms to the stage we see now is not atypical. I'm not a doctor, but my educated guess is that he won't croak for several years yet, especially with an elite medical team providing treatment, but he probably won't be coherent enough for a third term, even by MAGA standards of coherency.
I lost someone close to me to frontotemporal dementia (FTD). He was relatively young at onset: early 50s. He started forgetting tasks at work and getting lost driving on routes he'd frequently taken before. From the time of diagnosis until his death was about seven years. It was a horrendous experience seeing him decline like that. He rapidly lost his ability to speak. Shame the progression hasn't gone that way with Trump. It seems Pig Boy is having the other common form of FTD, where the first thing to go besides memory is inhibitory functions.
I mean, the ghost of McConnell is still holding office and we've basically just moved past that as a country. I think they could run Trump's leaky corpse and it would be a close election (even if it was a fair and real election)
In fairness, he has been in decline since before the presidential run and we have seen him get worse in front of our eyes.
Only the good die young.
That’s because anger/resentment is a great motivator to live.
I've been saying 102. You're even more pessimistic