Does Trump have Dementia?

Dementia symptoms vary depending on the cause, but common signs and symptoms include:

Cognitive changes

-Memory loss, which is usually noticed by a spouse or someone else
-Difficulty communicating or finding words
-Difficulty with visual and spatial abilities, such as getting lost while driving
-Difficulty reasoning or problem-solving
-Difficulty handling complex tasks
-Difficulty with planning and organizing
-Difficulty with coordination and motor functions
-Confusion and disorientation

Psychological changes

-Personality changes
-Depression
-Anxiety
-Inappropriate behavior
-Paranoia
-Agitation
-Hallucinations

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20352013

Ben Reilly wrote:Don't know about dementia, but he doesn't seem like the president of the United States. I've always seen the PUSA as someone who's constantly in high-level meetings that are always meaningful to some group of people.

Trump spends so much time attacking his foes on Twitter, he comes across as an angry shut-in with unlimited free time.

eddie wrote:Quill, if he has dementia you’d know about it. Dementia is very obvious.

eddie wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:Don't know about dementia, but he doesn't seem like the president of the United States. I've always seen the PUSA as someone who's constantly in high-level meetings that are always meaningful to some group of people.

Trump spends so much time attacking his foes on Twitter, he comes across as an angry shut-in with unlimited free time.

When you say “PUSA” I see the word “PUS”...

Maddog wrote:So use POTUS. I've never even seen PUSA before.  

*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Well folks, another day and another psychologist warning us that Donald Trump is suffering from some form of mental degeneration. We have psychologist John Gardner who is a former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He’s now just a psychologist, but Dr. Gardner tells us in a new op-ed from USA Today, and I encourage everybody to read it, follow the link in the description of the video here, but nonetheless, he tells us that the red flags for Donald Trump’s mental stability are waving wildly, is what he says. You don’t even have to be a doctor to recognize what’s happening with the president. Now, this hot bed is not just an attack saying, oh, Donald Trump’s nuts. He’s crazy. No, this is actually a more nuanced look into what’s happening with the president using his own behavior as examples. Here’s one thing he points out that you know recently when he said Tim Apple instead of a Tim Cook, when he confused Paradise, California and call it pleasure California, things like that. Those are gaps for the most part, but there’s other gaps that the president commits that are actually symptoms. Case in point recently when he said that his father was from Germany, he said it multiple times and that single interview, that’s not a gaff. That is a symptom.

When he kept trying to say the word origins and said oranges and it kind of kind of stopped himself and he said the oranges, the orange is of it, that that was one of the biggest indicators because you could tell when you watch that clip, and this is what Gardner talks about here, you could tell he knew it was wrong, but for the life of him, his brain couldn’t get that correct word. That’s why he kind of paused and then then tried to say it again but failed to do so. That’s not an attack on the president that that is what happened there and that’s what’s so different about this piece by Gardner is that it’s not looking to make fun of him or insult him or tell us he’s an idiot. It’s looking at it from a purely diagnostic point of view.

Those are symptoms, symptoms of dementia, symptoms of Alzheimer’s, but they are symptoms and that is actually what psychologists use to determine how far along someone is. Now we do know when Donald Trump underwent his uh, health assessment from Dr Ronnie Jackson, uh, according to, to garner here, they gave him the Montreal cognitive assessment and Donald Trump passed. Do you know what that test involves? He has to identify a camel, a clock, and recite three numbers backwards. That’s it. If you pass that, you do not have full blown dementia. So Trump, at the time, this was 2008, did not have full blown dementia because he knew what a camel was and he knew what a clock look like, what’s been over a year.

And that’s exactly what Gardner tells us. Let me read some of this here. Dementia, international dementia care international says a person may start to mix up relationships and generations in the second stage of dementia. That is specifically talking about Trump repeatedly claiming that his father came from Germany in Alzheimer’s as language skills deteriorate, we see two types of telltale speech disorders or pair of phases. The first one is for Namic parasthesia, and that’s where words like big league become bigly. They run together and he also points out Donald Trump’s recent, the CPAC speech for the president kept doing that with words, just running them together and making a single new word. There’s art gaffes their symptoms, but the oranges thing, oranges versus origins, that was kind of the, the limit, right? At that point, they could tell something was wrong, but more importantly at that point, and go back and watch the video and you’ll see Trump could tell something was wrong. He didn’t know the word, but he knew that he didn’t say the correct one. That is a sign that, yeah, he still has enough brain to understand that his brain’s not working properly. The question is, does the rest of the American public so have enough brain to understand that his isn’t working properly? Okay.

Lurker wrote:TRUMP GIVES DEMENTIA A BAD NAME..

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Lurker wrote:TRUMP GIVES DEMENTIA A BAD NAME..

If you had faced the horrible experience of having to deal with this devastating disease in your own family, perhaps you would think twice before turning it into one of your  "Republican rants."

Lurker wrote:

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Lurker wrote:TRUMP GIVES DEMENTIA A BAD NAME..

If you had faced the horrible experience of having to deal with this devastating disease in your own family, perhaps you would think twice before turning it into one of your  "Republican rants."

I have had that experience and I was in no way making light of dementia.

Lurker wrote:he's still an asshole

eddie wrote:

Lurker wrote:he's still an asshole

But if he has dementia, can he be responsible for his words and actions?

nicko wrote:He just gave the ok to get rid of a Terrorist  who has been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and British Soldiers and Civilians, can't be all bad. But I suppose some here won't agree !

nicko wrote:He just gave the ok to get rid of a Terrorist  who has been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and British Soldiers and Civilians, can't be all bad. But I suppose some here won't agree !

Original Quill wrote:

eddie wrote:

Lurker wrote:he's still an asshole

But if he has dementia, can he be responsible for his words and actions?

That's the big question.  Those who support him, don't want his exploits to be washed away by dementia.  Those who want to see him in an orange jump suit, don't want his crimes to be washed away by an insanity defense.

nicko wrote: Lurker They don't have any Nuclear Bombs, Yet ! And if they did and launched them it's good bye Iran !

Ben Reilly wrote:Don't know about dementia, but he doesn't seem like the president of the United States. I've always seen the PUSA as someone who's constantly in high-level meetings that are always meaningful to some group of people.

Trump spends so much time attacking his foes on Twitter, he comes across as an angry shut-in with unlimited free time.

eddie wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

eddie wrote:

Lurker wrote:he's still an asshole

But if he has dementia, can he be responsible for his words and actions?

That's the big question.  Those who support him, don't want his exploits to be washed away by dementia.  Those who want to see him in an orange jump suit, don't want his crimes to be washed away by an insanity defense.

Well, if he truly has dementia then it won’t be a “defence” will it? It’ll be a reason.

eddie wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

That's the big question.  Those who support him, don't want his exploits to be washed away by dementia.  Those who want to see him in an orange jump suit, don't want his crimes to be washed away by an insanity defense.

Well, if he truly has dementia then it won’t be a “defence” will it? It’ll be a reason.

Ben Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:

Well, if he truly has dementia then it won’t be a “defence” will it? It’ll be a reason.

I think what Quill is driving at, perhaps, is -- how disturbing is it that, if Trump has dementia, some 30 million-plus Americans are so drawn to the products of this demented mind?

nicko wrote:It should read "does Lurker have OCD"  ?   The answer is a resounding YES !