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Trump’s Steep Mental Decline Should Be a Top Campaign Issue
Monday, April 22, 2024 at 7:00:07a EDT
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These behavioral clues include: “marked progressive deterioration in 4 areas: memory, ability to use language, behavior, and gross and fine motor skills.”

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Dr. Gartner quotes an analysis by science writer Sharon Begley all the way back in 2017 about how Trump’s vocabulary has shriveled to an estimated 4th grade level, with a few words like “big”, “beautiful” and “strong” getting a workout but more complex words nowhere in sight. And the decline has clearly accelerated since then.

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It's also the many words that Trump is garbling or making up. The Daily Show did a supercut of many of the non-words coming out of his mouth, from “space capsicule” to “the Yoonayded Nations”. The technical terms Dr. Gartner uses for this symptom of dementia are “phonemic aphasia” for making up new words and “semantic aphasia” for substituting a real word where it doesn’t fit, like “the oranges of the investigation.”

Indeed, calling Trump’s extended rants “rambling”, as the press so politely likes to do, hardly tells the full story. He is increasingly making statements that are literally incomprehensible, like: “They’re weaponizing law enforcement for high-level interference against Joe Biden’s top and only political appointment. A guy named me. A guy named me.”

There are also signs of decline in his motor skills, from how he walks and stands to needing two hands to hold a glass of water. But surely most obvious and most concerning is his growing inability to control his behavior, a problem that all of the judges on his criminal and civil cases are now having to deal with. Imagine having someone in the White House who literally cannot control himself.

And the biggest problem is that all of this will only get worse, as Dr. Gartner explains:



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