On Tuesday, a widely cited psychologist took to YouTube to raise the alarm regarding “more highly concerning behavior” from President Donald Trump. According to Dr. John Garrison, Trump’s recent actions suggest “steep neurological decline” and a dangerously “manic-like state.”
Garrison began by playing a clip from a recent Fox News interview, in which Trump declared that the price of oil is “going to go down like a rocket.” According to Garrison, “There were two neurological issues in this very short clip, both of them verbal. One is that he’s having speech planning issues, saying ‘going down like a rocket.’ Obviously, that’s combining phrases. He’s having a hard time organizing his thoughts. And second is an involuntary vocalization.” Here Garrison replays the clip, noting an abrupt sound Trump makes, explaining, “The pathways that deal with language are disrupted. We are seeing serious issues with language with President Trump.” What’s more, Garrison asserts that such vocalizations are “relatively new.”
In the interview, Trump begins talking about the midterm elections, saying, “I’m going to campaign like I did for myself and I’m going to hope that people think that I’m on. And if I’m not on, if they don’t go out and vote, if they go out and vote, we’re going to win easily.” As Garrison notes, “What he’s saying makes absolutely no sense. He cannot organize his thoughts. He gets confused and he believes what he’s saying is coherent. But it truly makes no sense.” According to Garrison, this struggle with verbal planning can be evidence of underlying “neurological issues.”
Here Garrison points to Trump’s pupils, which have remained dilated throughout the interview. “Trump is in a very bright room for this interview,” says Garrison. “You can see the lights actually reflecting off of his eyes, and what should be happening is that his pupils should be constricting rather than dilating because when there’s too much light in a room, your pupils get smaller, not bigger.” According to Garrison, “Dilated pupils like this can be from a wide variety of reasons, but it’s not just something that happens,” and likely culprits include medication for something like incontinence, Parkinson’s disease, or seizures.
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Same shit, different day.
Person with ears and eyes finds Trump is a narcissist with dementia, ~33% of the population don’t give a fuck.
Jesus could roll out of the clouds and disavow this pedo / rapist, and they’d call him a false prophet.
Breaking news of his sharp decline have been filling the YouTube airwaves every week for the last 2 years, maga has been fracturing every other day, his allies have turned on him every 24 hours and his administration has been on the verge of collapse every refresh of the algorithm.
It’s happening now bro!
I will say though it does seem like his supporters are falling fast. The most ardent supporters of his I know have suddenly been saying very negative things about him
There’s also a dude who had a huge trump sign in his yard for years, like a big wooden one he clearly made himself. He took it down.
Another guy had a huge FJB and a bunch of pro trump signs outside like real crazy anti vax kinda shit, a lot of them. All gone.
Not saying they’re all done but they’re clearly showing signs of regret and embarrassment. Hammer the shame now while we can and maybe they’ll keep themselves shut the fuck up for the next 10-20 years
He fell asleep in the hair chair which is why his hair is darker.
I do hope he’s miserable through all of this.
Who does this psychologist even think he is? Not like congress or the senate will listen to the experts or anything.
/s for the cognitively impaired.
Isn’t there some kind of protocol for when the guy in charge is malfunctioning?
Well yes, but the thing about Republicans is that they don’t have to follow any rules. He could pull a Mitch McConnell and nothing would be happening.
The vice president has to invoke the 25th amendment and then needs a majority of the cabinet. The president can fight it and then it takes a supermajority in both houses to not get kicked out.
So not going to happen. There was speculation for a bit if the reason for a Trump/Vance ticket (to everyone but Trump) was that the campaign and superpacs were betting on a 25th and Vance taking over.
Yep! But it is 100% based on the honor system and people in power making choices that benefit the people instead of their own wallets. So we have one but it effectively no longer exists
Agreed. We’re ruled by evil people and their shitty cult.
Been reading articles like this since 2015, pretty sure Trump is going to live to be 115 years old the way it’s going
It started in 2015; the articles and commentators pointed out the famous longitudinal study of nuns that found that loss of vocabulary was one of the early indicators of dementia, and that his vocabulary had noticeably shrunk (“big” and “beautiful” taking over for many other adjectives). It was during his first term that somebody pegged it as frontotemporal dementia specifically.
Keep in mind the difference between “he’s dying” and “he’s lost it.” With this form of dementia, a person’s life expectancy after (early) diagnosis can be many years. Six or seven years from the first clear symptoms to the stage we see now is not atypical. I’m not a doctor, but my educated guess is that he won’t croak for several years yet, especially with an elite medical team providing treatment, but he probably won’t be coherent enough for a third term, even by MAGA standards of coherency.
I mean, the ghost of McConnell is still holding office and we’ve basically just moved past that as a country. I think they could run Trump’s leaky corpse and it would be a close election (even if it was a fair and real election)
In fairness, he has been in decline since before the presidential run and we have seen him get worse in front of our eyes.
Only the good die young.
I’ve been saying 102. You’re even more pessimistic
It’s contagious, his supporters suffer from it also .
There’s still room for him to decline?
until he is either dead or in a vegetative state there will be room for decline
Being dead or in a vegetative state both seem to be viable states for holding office in America.
And he wont lose a single vote
To be fair, that’s not true at all. Only 30% of the primary electorate are his base, evangelicals mostly, other religious nutjobs, business dickheads, and so forth.
It’s a lack of a seeming alternative that is the problem. But no, don’t listen to me, I’m sure Jeffries and Schumer will right the ship of state! /s
I mean, I don’t disagree Jeffries and ol’ Chuck are screwing up bigly, but when election day comes - debate has ended y’know? It’s trump or not.
Last election I was really disappointed with some people who couldn’t face the thought of voting against trump. People who presumably were immediately and lastingly oppresse by his brand of incompetent fascism.
They are still propping up mcconnell.
I assume whatever is going on with mcconnell is a test run for the big day.
Yes.
He should not be in that chair, and every day that republicans enable and
warshipworship him is both abuse and gross misconduct.warship
If somebody wants to warship him, I’m not getting in the way. Those things are dangerous.
And we see how they played it with Mitch McConnell, so I’m guessing they’ll pull the same shit with Trump. Even the dems did this with Feinstein. So it’s really par for the course in this broken system. Will be interesting to see how cool they can play the game and pretend not to be worried this guy has his fingers on the nukes.
It’s par for the course for as long as the people choose to allow it to continue.
It’s par for the course for as long as the wealthy people choose to allow it to continue
FTFY
He shouldn’t have even been allowed to run, and Aileen Cannon should be in prison right next to him.
He has not progressed. He has always been insane and a pedophilic rapist. People laughed at the time, but his own quote of saying, “I am a very stable genius” is something only a very unhinged person could even think of saying.
Every trait people are worried about now is what everyone that was labeled as having “Trump Derangement Syndrome” have been warning about and calling out for a DECADE
Pedophile? Yes. Rapist? Absolutely. But you can’t tell me the giant diaper baby hasn’t “progressed.” Watching him campaign for his first term is like watching a different person with the same script. The content was still heinous, but it was delivered with more competence and coherence. Now, he stumbles, mumbles, goes off track even more. He’s progressed, he’s not well, and should never have been seen as competent for this second term. He is a puppet. A loud puppet, putting on a show, while strings are being pulled in the background.
And this is him on the most expensive, the newest, the best, and the most experimental medicine the world has to offer to slow the decline.
And that really is a sign of our current knowledge of how to treat issues in the brain. Humans are very good at surgery and some well known and well used medications, but are very bad at the brain.
No. He has never been coherent and has always communicated at a fourth grade level. All he could do was insult people and shamelessly lie. He also never had any coherent points on policy or any answers beyond general, one word adjectives, “strong”, “bad”, “rigged”, etc. We all found it funny because it was so outside the norm that we didn’t take it seriously.
This is deliberate and, as ANOTHER Nazi point, exactly the Public relations path that Hitler had.
Somebody called him a “veritable genius,” but he didn’t know that word, so he heard “very stable,” and had to tell everybody.
Same with Excursion for Incursion, Bigly for Big League, etc. He’s profoundly ignorant, and virtuosically incompetent.
Or maybe he’s a moron and a ¢unt, just like he’s always been.
Can it decline into a fatal aneurysm or heart attack? Please, Santa?
Christmas is too long. Can we ask, eh, the Equinox… Elf?
We’ve let death cultists chose policy for us for decades, so how is a death cultist with his own cult a significant departure from our standards?
Any true death cultist will tell you: all the other death cults are fucking lunatics.
