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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Maybe he was talking about a SpaceX rocket?
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)
I lost someone close to me to frontotemporal dementia (FTD). He was relatively young at onset: early 50s. He started forgetting tasks at work and getting lost driving on routes he’d frequently taken before. From the time of diagnosis until his death was about seven years. It was a horrendous experience seeing him decline like that. He rapidly lost his ability to speak. Shame the progression hasn’t gone that way with Trump. It seems Pig Boy is having the other common form of FTD, where the first thing to go besides memory is inhibitory functions.
but he probably won’t be coherent enough for a third term, even by MAGA standards of coherency.
The Republicans will do what everyone does when the President is incapable of preforming the duties of political office.
The Staffers will run the Country or maybe the VP will run the Country.
Only the good die young.
That’s because anger/resentment is a great motivator to live.
I’ve been saying 102. You’re even more pessimistic
He’s obese, so by today’s standards, he’s incredibly unlikely to make it to 100.
Then again, as he’s clearly done a deal with the devil, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the rare exception.
In fairness, he has been in decline since before the presidential run and we have seen him get worse in front of our eyes.
Same shit, different day.
I feel myself die,
When verbal diarrhea,
Spews out of his mouth
Is this “article” just a summary oft this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coKF2z1WjLkI do hope he’s miserable through all of this.
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.
They’d probably crucify him again.
Breaking news of his sharp decline have brrn 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 beenon the verge of collapse every refresh of the algorithm.
It’s happening now bro!
Yeah but has he been SLAMMED by a milquetoast center left politician yet? Has he been BLASTED by a journalist asking a softball question? Once we start seeing those headlines, things will change for sure!
I skip anything where the description or title uses words like SLAMMED, DESTROYS, SHREDS, SCORCHES EARTH (just saw one of these) because they never really do.
Well, he does turn on his allies about every 24 hours, but for reasons I will never understand some other sucker fills the role immediately.
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
The regret and embarassment won’t last long past orange’s dying. Watch them jump onto the next puppet, the problem isn’t just the current figurehead, it’s always been who’s behind him actually driving the machine, and the 77M idiots who supported him and who are your neighbors, because they bought into what orange represents and they will defend the next one by comparison (won’t be hard to find a more mentally competent dude than 47…)
10-20 months is optimistic. 10-20 weeks is more likely.
I live in one of the reddest counties in one of the reddest states in the south. When I say it’s red, I mean registered GOP outnumbers all of the rest of the registered voters here almost 2:1.
You still see them on trucks occasionally, but I’ve not seen a Trump flag or sign on a house in over 6 months. One house on the route to take my kid to work has taken their Trump flag down after having it up since 2015 and replaced it with an American flag.
Which is kind of interesting since the mid terms are coming up. I wonder what the results will be. 4 weeks to go.
More like 10 years
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.
It’s contagious, his supporters suffer from it also .
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.
He can’t decline. That would imply he had something before. He didn’t.
And? Are you going to do anything?
The psychologist?
What the fuck can they do?
They could use their professional expertise to issue a statement bringing Trump’s precipitous psychological decline to wider public attention.
Oh…
They could?
On Tuesday, a widely cited psychologist took to YouTube to raise the alarm regarding “more highly concerning behavior” from President Donald Trump.
Next you’re gonna say someone should write an article about it, then post to a link aggregator…
Then people should discuss in the comments.
I agree, I just think people should read the article first buddy
If we can’t beat reddit for user count, we should at least be able to beat their low bar for parsing obvious sarcasm.
I love an optimist, but honestly I’ve gotten burnt a lot here not including the “/s”.
Like, that was pretty thick, but there’s always a chance it gets missed.
Hahahaha! Oh! Good one.
There’s still room for him to decline?
Yes.
He should not be in that chair, and every day that republicans enable and warship 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
Incorrect. Spoken like someone who wasn’t around to see Los Angeles in May of '92.
The French invented a solution to the problem of rich decadent assholes in 1789.
The people decide when this ends.
What did the Los Angeles riots accomplish again?
80%+ of executions by guillotines were commoners. Is this the solution you are talking about?
Looks like someone is romanticizing violence.
There’s plenty of scholarship on the topic. There are a number of judiciary-side changes that arose out of the LA Riots.
And no, violence isn’t romantic. I was in Seattle in '99 for the WTO affair. Violence is simply an unfortunate necessity when power accumulates into the wrong hands.
Billionaires are perpetrating extinction-level ecological crimes against humanity. They won’t voluntarily stop. So, it is incumbent on the rest of us to remember that politics is comprised of three boxes - soap, ballot, and cartridge. When the first two fail to curb tyranny, we must resort to the third box because self-defense is a basic right of all living beings.
Remember, whenever you hit rock bottom, you can always find a trap door somewhere.
They are still propping up mcconnell.
I assume whatever is going on with mcconnell is a test run for the big day.
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.
While I’ve always shared that sentiment to some degree, I’ve always known it was doomed to fail without a change in party. It’s become all too obvious that the people that rejected voting all along, were right all along, I hate to say it.
And I say it as someone the encourages people to vote and always votes, against the worse candidates.
But let’s not lie to ourselves, unless we get better candidates the non voting people are not entirely wrong. It means nothing in the medium let alone long term, we end in the same place with the controlled opposition in power every other cycle.
I hear you, but the ‘better candidates’ phase was the last year culminating in the recent primaries and there was approximately zero chatter on Lemmy about that. There was 100% more chatter about a certain mayor of a large city where most of us don’t live.
This is either ignorance of the local politics or standard-issue laziness, and it usually manifests as ‘all politicians are terrible; i refuse to vote’, which we should know by now is support for the fascists currently in power. In fact that’s how we got here to start.
So no, I disagree that the non voting people weren’t entirely wrong - they were entirely wrong, and expecting their favored candidate to magically show up on the ballot without any pre-primary support doesn’t change that totals in Congress make a huge difference as so many items fall along party-line votes.
If they choose to abandon democracy entirely- ok. Then they abandon the notion that change can or should happen. Because that’s how change happens at a national, societal level, right?
Can we get rid of all the boomers from all governments in the world already? I wanna see a world where we’re fucking “represented” by our regular ass peers?
