Experts Say Trump Is Showing Signs Of Dementia And Obvious Cognitive Decline

Multiple mental health experts have come forward in recent interviews with STAT News to offer their take on Donald Trump’s mental health, and it isn’t good. Several of them suggested that his speaking style and patterns are indicative of Alzheimer's Disease, while others made it clear that he is suffering from a very serious form of cognitive decline. The media needs to focus more on these stories – just like they did after President Biden’s bad debate. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses these new reports.

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Mental health professionals are back out there sounding the alarm bells once again about Donald Trump's very obvious, very clear cognitive decline. In fact, during recent interviews with Stat News, multiple mental health professionals suggested that Donald Trump might actually be suffering from Alzheimer's disease. And it's not for the reasons you think these mental health professionals, and I'll read you what they said in just a minute, but they're not talking about, oh, Trump confuses people's names all the time, like confusing Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi or Biden for Obama. They say that that's, that's nothing. The real issue are the words that he does use, or the words he has to make up his linguistic abilities, his fumbles, his right. Let me read you this. This first one is from, uh, Ben McCall, a clinical psychologist who has done cognitive assessments for New York Supreme Court. He's the one who played down the issue of like, yeah, confusing the names that that does nothing for me.

But he did say there's reasonable evidence suggestive of forms of dementia. The reduction in complexity of sentences and vocabulary does lead you to a certain picture of cognitive diminishment. He also flagged Trump using words in the incorrect order and even inventing words as possible signs of cognitive issues, which can come from aging or certain conditions like Alzheimer's. Now, this is something I have pointed out as well. Donald Trump is using very small words and he's using very small words over and over and over and over and over. When Donald Trump says a sentence, he doesn't just say it and then he continues on. He will say the sentence and then he will say the sentence. He will say the sentence, and it's the sentence that he said. He will do like four or five times in a row, the same words, sometimes in the exact same order.

Sometimes he'll flip up the order, but that's not normal. These professionals are telling us, they're like, listen, I'm trained to recognize signs of cognitive decline, and that's one of 'em. Andrew Butson, neurology professor at Boston University, he said The habit of jumping around in conversation might reflect poor sleep, A DHD, or possibly be a sign of approaching Alzheimer's. There are absolutely changes that are occurring without any doubt, he said, and he was talking about Trump's tendency to veer off script. Uh, and it's likely to do with the frontal lobe, the region of the brain, most often affected by aging. And yeah, we have seen that in Trump's speeches too, right? He'll start on one point, then he starts talking about the toilets flushing. He starts talking about the water flow. Then he is talking about sharks, and then he is talking about electric vehicles, and they got so much electricity, they'll kill you. I'd rather be with the shark

And the, the windmills. They're killing the birds and they're killing the whales and all this. Have you ever seen a whale, the late great Hannibal Lecter, he saw whale one time. Yeah. That's not just Trump being weird. Those are symptoms. The experts are telling us. James Pennebaker, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, said, uh, that since 2020, Trump has also increasingly spoken about the past. He also remarked, pardon me, on Trump's speeches score in linguistic metric of analytical thinking, saying the former president who tends to use simple words and sentences is much lower than most presidential candidates. While those seeking the White House are generally in the 60 to 70 range in the, uh, linguistic metric, uh, Trump speeches range from 10 to 24. I can't tell you how staggering this is.