02.11.2024 – Translated from German via Google and OFP
Donald Trump is 78 and wants to become US President again. Recently he has repeatedly attracted attention with strange campaign appearances. There is speculation in the USA: Is Trump suffering from cognitive decline?
He confused US President Joe Biden several times with Barack Obama, he called Viktor Orbán the Prime Minister of Turkey, praised the penis size of a deceased golf legend, and played music for almost 40 minutes at a campaign rally to which he swayed back and forth.
Donald Trump has repeatedly made headlines with bizarre appearances during the election campaign. The former president wants to move into the White House for a second time in the presidential election on November 5th. If he succeeds, he will be older than any other US head of state at that time when he takes office.
Doctors comment on Trump’s condition
There are increasing numbers of people who see signs of mental deterioration in the Republican candidate. So far, this has been a point of criticism mainly for the incumbent Joe Biden, who withdrew as the Democratic candidate at the end of July after a dismal performance in the first TV debate against Trump. Trump had previously gleefully fueled doubts about Biden’s mental fitness.
In the meantime, however, Biden has, as we know, withdrawn. And now Trump is the older of the Democratic replacement candidate Kamala Harris (60).
“I see signs of cognitive decline in Trump,” said Barack Obama’s former personal physician Jeffrey Kuhlman to “Spiegel”. According to the TV station PBS, the doctor Ben Michaelis claims to have recognized “signs of dementia.” And the psychologist John Gartner even diagnosed dementia “with absolute certainty” on the video portal YouTube.
Bioethicist and internist Willam Andereck would not go that far. “I am not in a position to make a specific diagnosis of Trump’s cognitive decline without a personal examination,” the doctor said. This is required by the Goldwater Rule. “I have to base my analysis on his public statements and behavior. But it is clear that something is wrong.” With Trump, the “gradient of cognitive decline is very high,” Andereck wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle.
By age 80, one in six Americans suffers from dementia
By the age of 80, one in six Americans is affected by the disease, while the rest suffer from normal age-related cognitive impairments. Doctors have observed a dramatic decline in Trump’s speech fluency, a reduced vocabulary, and the excessive use of superlatives and filler words.
While he had ridiculed Biden’s mental state until his withdrawal, Trump is now appearing against Kamala Harris and suddenly seems like an old man himself. This was also evident in the only TV debate between the two in September. Trump, who admittedly still appears more energetic than many of his peers, repeated his same old campaign slogans and stood out with his digressive or incoherent statements.
According to polls, Harris clearly won the duel. “You would be worried if Grandpa suddenly started behaving like that,” former US President Obama recently mocked.
Trump boasts about cognitive test
Trump is doing little to calm the skeptics. His team refuses to publish the current health report and refers to previous studies. Trump himself recently said that he had “taken cognitive tests twice and I passed them with flying colors. That is, a perfect score.” One of the tests was done six years ago. In the five-minute test, he had to recognize animals or count backwards, among other things. A detailed cognitive examination can take hours.
Americans are increasingly skeptical about Trump’s condition. Between February and October, the number of respondents who think he is too old for the presidency rose from 35 to 44 percent. “This is a person who is running for the most powerful office in the world. And I think we should think very carefully about who we put in that office,” says physician Michaelis.
https://web.de/magazine/politik/wahlen/us-wahl/alt-diskussion-geisteszustand-donald-trump-40291960
“Doctors have observed a dramatic decline in Trump’s speech fluency, a reduced vocabulary, and the excessive use of superlatives and filler words.”
Frank – OFP – has been saying all along that Trump sounds like an ill-educated juvenile and not like a man of his age with the accumulated vocabulary you’d expect at his stage of life. Taking his age into account, he still sounds worse than anyone else I know. It’s terrible to listen to him or to read his quotes. But, it seems that his voters don’t care, or they lack the education to see his mindless blathering … and blatant lies.
“This is a person who is running for the most powerful office in the world. And I think we should think very carefully about who we put in that office,”
His age and deteriorating mental capacity are only two important aspects that should disqualify him for this high office. His extreme love of dictators, war criminals, and fascists should also be alarm signals. The crimes he committed in the past, his gutter-like opinion about women, and his downright treasonous behavior, too.
His father suffered from dementia, so it’s in the genes. But even more worrying is his extreme hatred of anyone who takes a principled position on putler. John McCain was a good example, but that stuff about Liz Cheney was borderline psychotic.
Contrast that with the fact that he actively seeks friendships with putler-rimmers like VanZkov, Orban, Farage, Karlsonov and comrades Brainworm, Muskovy and Gabbardova.
Even VanZkov calling him a nazi did not deter him from hiring him! I guess that slur doesn’t worry him as it has more than a hint of truth in it.
He told his Generals that “Hitler wasn’t all bad.”
No wonder that no less than three retired US Generals have gone on record to say he’s a facist.
I can’t really say it often enough, about how baffled and deeply disgusted I am that so many Americans are willing to have this poor example of a human being as their president. He would be bad enough as a city councilman, but as POTUS a complete disaster. If anything, he should be in a nursing home, better yet, in a prison medical ward.
He shows clear signs of psychosis.
In the elderly this is often a portent of dementia.
That’s very likely. But, I wish he would just drop dead.
I agree with Scradgel and OFP. My curiosity is peaked when I see virtually nothing in the media about his aging and seemingly early stage dementia (personally I think it’s primary syphilis transmitted by Trump continually kissing Putin ass). Yet the media, in the past, has grabbed others and roasted them on a pit for physical and or mental acuity. Not sure why the media hasn’t picked up on this or if it does it’s a 15 second mention.
You got a good point there, Sir Cap, with the syphilis thing. Seeing his sexual perversions, this would be no surprise at all. He’s probably contracted every sexually transmitted disease and other nasties there are.