dementia
Rapid mental deterioration
"Trump held a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, where he addressed about 7,000 people... his meandering and self-indulgent speeches have had attendees leaving early, some of them bewildered. Trump slurred a number of words, referring to Elon Musk as “Leon,” for example, and forgetting the name of North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, who was on his short list for a vice presidential pick." - Heather Cox Richardson
Psychologists have sounded the alarm about Donald Trump's apparently worsening mental state. Dr. Harry Segal, a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer at Cornell University, and Dr. John Gartner, a former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, have launched a podcast called Shrinking Trump to publicly analyze what they view as Trump's 'rapid mental deterioration.' They document his cognitive deterioration- MSN
See if you can spot these 8 tell tale signs of early dementia in a transcript of Trump's speech. Please excuse any errors in this AI-generated transcript.
Pathological lying
“Objectively, Donald Trump has a documented history of lying that is so marked as to be considered 'pathological.' Politicians often say untrue things, but the frequency of Trump’s lying is so extreme as to meet criteria for sociopathic behavior, since he tells falsehoods across all life domains, from his personal relationships to business dealings and finally to politics. - Harry Segal is a senior lecturer in the Psychology Department at Cornell University and in the Psychiatry Department at Weill Cornell Medicine. His research focus includes the study of personality disorders, future life anticipation and young adult development. - Cornell University
Phonemic paraphasia
Trump has made several significant verbal stumbles, which prompted Segal to deem the linguistic errors as potentially concerning signs of 'phonemic paraphasia,' i.e., the swapping of similar-sounding words in a manner that can preface dementia. - MSN
Confusion about reality
Dr. Lance Dodes, supervising analyst emeritus of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and retired Harvard Medical School professor, recently said: "Unlike normal aging, which is characterised by forgetting names or words, Trump repeatedly shows something very different: confusion about reality." - Daily Mirror
Incomprehensible word salad
Suzanne Lachmann, a New York psychologist has also noted Trump would "seemingly forget how the sentence began and invent something in the middle" which would result in "an incomprehensible word salad". This behaviour is seen "frequently in patients who have dementia". - Daily Mirror
Tangentiality
An analysis by STAT - a media organization focusing on health - found that Trump’s common pattern of speech called tangentiality – jumping from topic to topic with few if any connections in between – is just one of a number of incoherent speaking habits that appears to have worsened in the last few years. - Yahoo
Confused order of words, repetition and extended digressions
But when experts viewed clips from 2024 and compared them to clips from 2017, they noted that Trump’s speech included more short sentences, a confused order of words, repetition and extended digressions. The causes could vary, some worse than others, including mood changes, trying to win over a certain group of people, natural aging or it could be the start of a cognitive condition such as Alzheimer’s disease, the experts said. - Yahoo
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