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As a demented newspaperman, I know first hand that trump suffers from rampant dementia

Trump’s rampant dementia. His rants, twisted words, obscene insults, mauled language and inability to compose a simple declarative sentence leads experts to say he is suffering dementia.



By DOUG THOMPSON
March 3, 2024


I write these observations as a career journalist who is still working for newspapers for 66 years and ha traveled the world and covered wars, conflicts, tragedies and more as a photojournalist who now shoots images and videos of the traditional old time music action in the Blue Ridge Mountains and school athletes.

I am also a man with indications of approaching early onset dementia and that, I think, gives me some extra insight into a deranged former president who is seeking office again under the influence of heavy dementia.

I’ve watched Donald John Trump closly since his surprie election as president in 2015. His grasp on reality is, at best, based on greed and massive ego. The Washington Post reported that during four years a president, he told more than 38,000 to reporters, other government officials, members of Congrss and the public in general.

A court in New York found him guilty of outright business and personal fraud form lying to the Internal Revenue Service, banks that gave him loans he didn’t qualify for and, of courtsr, the cluless voters who put him in office. He owes more than $450 million in fines, penalties and interest of the finding and the total is growing by $875,000 a day alone. He says he cannot pay tha t amount and no financial institution will provide him funds for a repeal bond because he has stiffed many of them.

While his president, the courts shut down his fraudulent Trump University” because of its lies and for defrauding thousands of members, many of htem sneiors, of their saved retirement and investment income.

Another court shud down his fake “charity” because audits found he was using it as a slush fund for himself but only a few funds went to any actual charities.

He brags aobut starting “successful businesses” but most are closed, bankrupt and liquidated with many unpaid debt, including the Trump Shuttle, Trump Steaks and other glitzy shams that never became what most claimed to be.

Now, he is facing state and federal indictments, with 91 felony charges for concealing and witholding classified documents, lying about returning several, business campaign and business fraud involving “hush money” paid to a porn star who says she indulged him sexually, but also said he was a lousy lay, and inciting sedition and treason.

He turned Washington’s historic Post Office into an overhyped, overpriced and under performing hotel that he later sold to Hilton International after bilking millions from the General Services Administration while accepting payments from foreign governments in direct violation of federal law.

As a disgraced former president under multiple criminal indictments, Trump is using campaign funds form small donors to pay as many of his legal bills as he can as he goes further and further into debt Several attorneys for his efforts are now former ones who are using him for millions in unpaid bills.

Now he spends most of his time uttering nonsensical diatribes composed of sentences he can’t finish because he forgets what he says. He misidentifies people, both supporters and opponents, mauls the English language and contorts words — all sings of dementia.

President Joe Biden, who is over 80, has slowed that some since winning the White House /Trump lies outright when he says Biden’s mental acuityi is dementia but experts say the President suffers some problems from “old age” but is not incapacitated.

Says Dr. John Gartner, a prominent psychologist and contributor to the bestselling book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President:”


–Dr. John Gartner

Writes CHAUNCEY DEVEGA, senior writer at Salon.com:


Yes, Donald John Trump is demented and insane. The experts agree and anyone with an IQ above that of an average plant should be able to see it whenever he opens his mouth, which is all the time.

Do we have enough un-demented voters to shut him down? We will know in November.

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During a rally yesterday, Trump made numerous verbal slip-ups. In one instance, Trump said "Venezwheregullah." instead of Venezuela. Trump seems to be able to get the stem of the word, but he's unable to complete word. Last week, Trump said his wife's name is Mercedes and that Nimrata Haley is Nancy Pelosi. Then Trump went on to say: 'Zion Zioning Doodong Dadang'

Trump's father Fred died from Alzheimer's a hereditary disease.

Yes but at age ninety-four!
Whatever guardrails were in place to limit the damage Fred Trump could wreak don't exist anymore for Donnie.
"He's chosen by God Hisself ya know!"

Yep, he's on his way out but is not going gracefully. If his fans really wanted to help they would find him a nice home for the elderly which specializes in mental problems. He also has an incredible capacity to lie. The thing is, I believe, that he actually believes what he says even though, often, he might say two different things about one single thing. Actually pretty interesting. I would have said humorous but that would not have been nice or kind.

The part about all of this is that we have a congress in which almost half of support Trump. This scares the hell out of me. Does this also mean that we have half a congress determined to do the bidding of somebody crazed by just about everybody who understand what is going on. The scary part is that this also might mean that almost half the Congress just might be personally dealing with mental problems themselves.

I wonder what would happen if a Democrat, running against a Republican party member and Trump supporter, explained that he felt sorry for the Republican but he was running to save American from a genuine crazy person because he/she was supporting somebody who belonged in a safe place for elders that are mentally not quite right.

Incidentally, Biden has been dealing with a speech problem. Trump, however, has a different kind of problem which, I also think, should be told to one and all as much as possible so he can get some help.

I haven't arrived at the conclusion he is suffering from onset of dementia, although, everything Doug mentioned and, all the psychiatrists wrote, suggests the possibility. What is indisputable is he does suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. After all, if one listens to him, he is the greatest human to ever have lived and will ever live. Aside from that, he had the innate ability, overlooked by elected Republicans, who have for years apologized for, implicitly condoned, and defended, the Base's widespread bigotry, to find a voice which emboldened that bigotry and aligned himself with them. This is but one facet of what is now known as "white rural rage". Trump has become "their" voice; he is their savoir in a world pitted against their bigotry and ignorance. These people do not care what kind of criminal Trump is; he is their criminal ... their voice ... their savior.

The bottom line is I don't care if they support him. My overly optimistic hope is more people than his Base will recognize who and what he is and have the good sense to vote against him. At the moment I don't see a clear cut majority in the key states to prevent him from winning, and, of course, there is the very real possibility, his loyalists may have already occupied enough state infrastructure to make the election moot.

I can see the one time, before Trump shuts down all media not loyal to him, headline, "Trump the mad occupant of the White House".

Should that happen .... my nom de guerre will be rapace.

Yes ol' Joe has a known stuttering issue. He has had it his entire life. Trump has phonemic paraphasia. Here are good examples:

9-year-old Harry Abramson got to meet President Joe Biden after writing him a letter asking how to overcome stuttering. Joe meet with Harry this week in Milwaukee.

Let’s be VERY clear what this thug is doing - he’s inciting stochastic terrorism against the United States by issuing marching orders to his MAGAt terrorists.

True. But Fred Trump didn't eat Big Macs and Kentucky Fried Chicken every day either.

I have been watching the news and much of it is about Trump and his inability to come up with the bucks. Something dawned on me. Apparently the government, cannot, or will not take any property that is mortgaged, etc.

I suspect that everything the man has is mortgaged to the hilt.

Just saying...........