Dementia,
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Most mental health professionals who are saying this are not neurologists, let alone neurologists who specialize in dementia. Many mental health professionals are absolutely, positively convinced Trump has dementia. I seem like a lone voice among them saying we need more evidence. I am not an expert, but because I live in a continuing care retirement…
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Trump’s post on Truth Social (shown above, click to enlarge) was the subject of an article in RawStory. One of the commenters to the article “‘What is going on here???’ Trump melts down over Harris endorsements weeks after election” questioned in one way or another whether Trump had dementia.” wrote “Does anyone in America believe that we should…
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In Trump ‘s “Meet the Press” interview with Kristen Welker, not only did Trump demontrate a callous disregard for the feelings of those he promised to deport (see my blog about toxic masculinty from yesterday) he uttered three words that were so unrelated to what he was talking about that at the least I would…
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AI Image from Perchance I rarely think of something to write about that is unique in the sense that it s totally a new idea or perspective which nobody else has expressed. Such it was when I thought about the well know strawberries episode in “The Caine Mutiny” when Captain Queeg, played by Humphrey Bogart, in the…
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You can watch the video of him saying this here. I read about this in Trump’s lie-industrial complex by Lucian Truscott, IV in Salon today. Excerpt: He tells this lie at every one of his rallies, accusing President Biden and Vice President Harris of “letting in criminals from “insane asylums which are mental institutions on steroids”…
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Image of fat Trump made by Perchance Photo AI Trump is doing it again. He’s revealing his delusional obsession with Elvis. This goes way back. Trump doesn’t “merely” reveal an obsession with Elvis in his delusional rants. Added to how he goes off on tangents, spouts word salad, and confuses places like he did the other day…
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The article, above, Trump’s Repetitive Speech Is a Bad Sign has been summarized in RawStory with the title Psychiatrist flags ‘alarming’ debate tic — and urges Trump to seek a neurologist, the EconoTimes with the title Psychiatrist Urges Donald Trump to Seek Neurological Exam After ‘Alarming’ Debate Behavior Raises Cognitive Concerns, and elsewhere. They save me from the task…
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You can call it mental illness, insanity, or cognitive impairment, but what this debate showed is that if Trump was anybody else his family would be seeking professional help for him.
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AI image Peter Baker’s OpEd in The NY Times, As Debate Looms, Trump Is Now the One Facing Questions About Age and Capacity (subscription) addresses the what he calls “the rambling sometimes incoherent statements” Trump makes. What struck me in his column was the following (my italics): Stephanie Grisham, who served as Mr. Trump’s White House…
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James McWhorter is a Columbia University linguist who explores how race and language shape our politics and culture. He just had this column published in The NY Times: He begins his column this way: Donald Trump’s word-salad oratory has always been a distinctive feature of his public life, leaving some observers to grasp for a novel way to…