Psychologist says Trump's latest rally 'consistent with a diagnosis of dementia'
Psychologist says Trump's latest rally 'consistent with a diagnosis of dementia'
Donald J. Trump has regularly accused his political opponent, President Joe Biden, of being cognitively impaired to the point of being unfit for the office of the White House. But that might be pure projection, if you take into account what one psychologist said on Saturday.Trump over the weekend sp...
Republicans would elect a bowl of soup to the presidency if they had to, because then they can rubber stamp a hundred orders a day dismantling government agencies, destroying welfare programs, neutering regulations, and oppressing people of color, women, LGBTQ+, and non-Christians. Trump is the most useful, most idiot useful idiot the world has ever seen.
Republicans would elect a bowl of soup to the presidency if they had to
I guess you forgot Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's while President.
But it's okay, he forgot too.
But it’s okay, he forgot too.
Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.
But it's okay, he forgot too.
Savage 💕
I'm no expert but It seems to me Trump is getting worse fast now.
the patron saint of the right spent most of his presidency with a head full of mush, they don’t care. It’s the same reason the age stuff resonates with Biden only, the right wants useful idiots who will sign off on their fever dreams. A non-functional brain is a virtue to them.
I'm sure all the stress caused by the court cases doesn't help. Usually the presidency is the most stressful thing to people, but that's only true if they took the job seriously. Trump did not. Something that effects him is likely far more stressful for the narcissist.
Watching an elderly parent/grandparent go through the down slope of dementia isn't fun.
But a Human Vegetable President is sort of the party dream. Just do a full Weekend at Bernie's with a sitting President and you can get away with whatever you like, then deflect the blame onto a corpse.
Just do a full Weekend at Bernie's
I don't think he can hold it together until November. Just look at how much he's declined this year alone and we're only 3 months in.
It seems like that’s becoming a very real possibility. At this point I’m just waiting for him to go on national tv next week and demand that Obama debate him while dropping the n word.
Trump thinks he’s running against Obama and thinks Nikki Haley was the speaker of the house during 1/6. He is deeply unwell and belongs in a long term care facility.
I agree, I think it will soon be impossible for him to keep up even a semblance of appearences. It looks like it's about to collapse completely any time now.
But wait! He was able to name a rhinoceros and do differential calculus! Person woman man camera tv!
He brags about ‘acing’ that test, but here’s the actual test:
The most difficult maths problem is to subtract by 7s.
The answers to the 5 words memory question would never be ‘person woman man camera tv’, because they’re always carefully chosen to not be related in any way, because that would defeat the purpose, since related words are easier to remember. They’d be things like ‘daisy chair monkey water picture’. Even from his very first retelling, he didn’t remember the words, he was just naming things he saw in the room at the time, and he was bragging about passing a test that if you fail, you may be deemed unable to care for yourself.
We know this is the test, because he talks about the rhino part, then says it gets hard from there (eta: in his own words, 3 years ago), and now says almost nobody can pass the rest. And he says the doctors told him he’s one of the only people they’ve seen pass it.
This is himself recounting the story last month, January 2024. (e: Sorry for the Twitter link; I couldn’t find a better one.)
And his cult cheers this shit. It’s utterly bonkers.
e: Link, and another link. And one more.
e2: I couldn’t help but add this. I am so sorry. If it must be in my head, now it’s in yours too.
The answers to the 5 words memory question would never be ‘person woman man camera tv’, because they’re always carefully chosen to not be related in any way, because that would defeat the purpose, since related words are easier to remember. They’d be things like ‘daisy chair monkey water picture’.
Haha mnemonic device go brrrr
"Cat-dog, pig-unicorn, snake-moose"
Ok, that's enough wizardry for you. Next you'll be making some sort of centaur-minotaur!
Doesn’t matter. He could be comatose and they’d still vote for him.
God-Emperor and all that
It's not about who they're voting for.
It's who they've voting against.
And I can legitimately both sides that one. Two party systems are a fucking cancer. It's not democracy. It's Douglas Adams' lizards.
To summarize the summary of the summary: People are a problem.
Yeah, honestly all the smearing on Trump will not work if the opposition does not offer anything substantive.
You may need to go see what of substance the 'opposition' (usually not the term for the controlling administration so much as its leading competition) has offered. There's a list, but publicizing that list is where this democratic administration truly has sucked.
Not committing an insurrection is pretty good policy IMO.
As opposed to Biden supporters right? LOL....
As opposed to Biden supporters
I love how you "both sides" this one.
Also, yes: as opposed to [democrats]. The approach to power on both parties is different - if we compare just those two - in that the primary attribute shown by the Republicans is loyalty, as in "conservatives fall in line"; whereas the primary attribute by Democrats is skepticism, as "Democrats fall in love".
Each party has used this to their advantage, but any party can shake up the democrats with their angst simply by offering a candidate that seems better than the absolute shitheel the conservatives offer now. Democrats will jump ship if the candidate evaluates well at the start or middle of the term.
Bidens supporters are critical of him, trumps supporters masturbate in the corner staring at a picture of him and Putin shirtless. We’re not the same.
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While I do really hate this guy, and I also assume he isn't mentally fit to manage a Wendy's, never mind being president...we shouldn't be listening to doctors willing to diagnose psychiatric conditions or mental health based on how someone is acting on TV. No doctor can get enough data to make an accurate diagnosis that way.
Yeah, Any doctor thats willing to go on TV and diagnose someone they've never personally met, is a doctor that should be ignored and avoided.
cause no reputable doctor will go on TV and do that shit.
Plenty of reputable doctors will go on TV to discuss illnesses and shit, but they wont diagnose someone like this.
I mean, what shine the article, it's the hatred. thats as far as possible from any clinical stance.
He has enough money to pay right? All the lies are bought
Also consistent with him being a gaping, prolapsed, syphilitic asshole.
Dementia Don!
#Dementia Don!
##Dementia Don!
For four years libs were screaming about ageism and immediately go back to it when Trump comes around again. Both these guys should be disqualified if the US was in any way a meaningful democracy and not a terminal empire with a useless gerontocracy and corrupt oligarchy.
This article and every one like it have been on repeat since 2016, I dunno how people still have the attention span for "today's Trump insanity" after 8 years. It should be obvious to anyone this has no effect on politics and only makes news orgs money.
Seriously. "Latest rally consistent with dementia," great, so were all of the others.
anyone over retirement age should be barred from running, and that should not be controversial.
If you got on a plane and the pilot was 80 you'd be a bit worried, and we let these fucks run the most powerful nation ever to exist.
Trump after the rally, "Was I too demented? Did I come off as too demented? I don't want them to think I'm too demented."
"No sir, you were just as demented as ever."
Trump saying Hannibal Lecter is coming across the southern border is batshit crazy
wtf do you have a link? It wasn't in the article
I hear "[Hannibal Lector] was a nice fellow but that's what's coming into our country right now."
Deranged treasonous lunatic 2024!
I'm not defending Trump, but don't statements like these run counter to the Goldwater Rule?
The wiki article you linked has a section on Trump and how it does not break the rule. So I would say, based on the evidence you presented, no it doesn’t.
Lol, they have an entire section on Trump. That's how crazy the guy is.
That section does not describe how it does not break the Goldwater Rule. I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion based on what it reads in the section.
It lists specific instances where the rule and commentary on Trump intersect, as well as citing commentators that disagree with the APA about how the Goldwater Rule is applied with Trump.
We can call Trump nutty all day, but good doctors won't make a diagnosis without seeing the patient. All this does is serve to make the doctor look bad, even if we all suspect his brain looks like Swiss cheese.
He didn't diagnose him, he said his behavior is consistent with a diagnosis of dementia. Stating your informed opinion =/= diagnosing. His rapid decline is obviously some sort of degenerative cognitive illness (aka dementia). Anyone with relevant training/experience can see it at this point
Yeah but you could probably find a psychologist to say that about most people.
I mean I hate trump and I hope he does have dementia but one psychologist's opinion isn't particularly reassuring. Trump has always rambled a lot. If he were forgetting where he is while on camera or whatever that would be a big deal, but we're not there yet obviously.
A ton of psychology is done through telehealth now. If you are spewing madness on TV, radio, and social media all damn day it's a pretty decent sample set for analysis.
It's ok we already went down this road the first time around with yet another doctor that said essentially the same thing except it wasn't dementia it was narcissistic personality disorder.
As you probably know from history, we elected him anyway. This doctors statement will quickly be ignored as well after some hand wringing about how wrong it is for them to have said anything and we'll elect him again because propaganda is a hell of a drug...
But that might be pure projection, if you take into account what one psychologist said on Saturday.
Yeah, so one random guy claims something? Bullshit article.
I hate trump beyond and can't wait for him to die already, the world will be hetter for it, but that doesn't change that these fluff articles are nonsense.
His puppeteers are salivating though.
It’s an important factor though - the end of Reagan’s presidency included lots of speculation about who was making decisions as he deteriorated. Whether you like the guy’s policies or not, you should “get what you paid for” rather than policy be decided by an unelected advisor or family member
If Congress hadn't been purchased by the same people who would be making decisions for a demented president, they could invoke the amendment to replace him with the VP.
we are not that lucky
"Lustig" means funny in german lol
He really is a lustig old gal who simultaneously doth protest too much
Whaaaale!
okay thanks doctor
Media be like..."Biden is showing his age, people are afraid he's too hold...quick, let's switch the focus on Trump's mental stability..."
yeah it's an attempt to muddy the waters
the fundamental problem for neither biden or trump isn't actually dementia. the problem is the slow speaking and slurred speech from Biden.
trump says things quickly and confidently. he talks nonsense, but it's the tone and emotion behind it that people get. he also is willing to say crazy things that work as one-liners
- we gotta take back our country from crooked joe biden
- i got more votes than any president in the history of our nation
- millions and millions and billions and billions
- i will be dictator for a day
- fake news media
- etc..
what happens? he ends up on the news, everybody sees his face and talks about him and he's on everyone's mind. it's a tried and true strategy for him
biden unfortunately just doesn't have the mental acuity to compete. i personally think biden is still lucid, it's just that he's slow and doesn't speak with the same confidence that trump does. this, along with other factors, is gonna kill him in november. i think we're slowly inching towards another 4 years of Trump