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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Steep Mental Decline Should Be a Top Campaign Issue
Trumps Steep Mental Decline Should Be a Top Campaign Issue
Monday, April 22, 2024 at 7:00:07a EDT
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These behavioral clues include: marked progressive deterioration in 4 areas: memory, ability to use language, behavior, and gross and fine motor skills.
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Dr. Gartner quotes an analysis by science writer Sharon Begley all the way back in 2017 about how Trumps vocabulary has shriveled to an estimated 4th grade level, with a few words like big, beautiful and strong getting a workout but more complex words nowhere in sight. And the decline has clearly accelerated since then.
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It's also the many words that Trump is garbling or making up. The Daily Show did a supercut of many of the non-words coming out of his mouth, from space capsicule to the Yoonayded Nations. The technical terms Dr. Gartner uses for this symptom of dementia are phonemic aphasia for making up new words and semantic aphasia for substituting a real word where it doesnt fit, like the oranges of the investigation.
Indeed, calling Trumps extended rants rambling, as the press so politely likes to do, hardly tells the full story. He is increasingly making statements that are literally incomprehensible, like: Theyre weaponizing law enforcement for high-level interference against Joe Bidens top and only political appointment. A guy named me. A guy named me.
There are also signs of decline in his motor skills, from how he walks and stands to needing two hands to hold a glass of water. But surely most obvious and most concerning is his growing inability to control his behavior, a problem that all of the judges on his criminal and civil cases are now having to deal with. Imagine having someone in the White House who literally cannot control himself.
And the biggest problem is that all of this will only get worse, as Dr. Gartner explains:
People need to understand dementia is a progressive illness, which means the Trump you see today is the best Trump youre ever going to see. Its all downhill from here. Trumps rate of decline is accelerating, and if hes typical, at some point, he will fall off a cognitive cliff and become completely disabled.
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Trump's Steep Mental Decline Should Be a Top Campaign Issue (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 23
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no_hypocrisy
(46,202 posts)1. And that's why you won't see Trump debate Biden.
The contrast will be remarkable.
riversedge
(70,311 posts)2. Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that it was Trump was demanding that Biden debate him???
EYESORE 9001
(25,988 posts)4. Never happen
Id bet a days wages on it.
EYESORE 9001
(25,988 posts)3. Covfefe
May have been progressing for awhile.
PJMcK
(22,052 posts)5. Soon he'll drop to the level of the MAGA faithful
What will they do when he becomes dumber than they?
Doodley
(9,136 posts)6. To counteract false perceptions that Biden is too old and senile, it would be a good idea to go after Trump's decline.