After four years of MAGA howling about President Biden's mental acuity, four years in which they totally forgot about the covfefe they were drinking (with two hands) every morning before and after his first trainwreck of a term, comes the unsurprising news from an acclaimed psychologist and former Johns Hopkins professor.
"Trump doesn't care" - that's what some of y'all keep posting.
I think the more appropriate ending to that is "Trump doesn't care because Trump doesn't know who TF he is anymore."
Time to break out the 25th Amemendment - that is if anyone in the Cabinet gives a fuck about the country.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/0...ite-house.html
Donald Trump hit with disturbing cognitive claims: ‘Weekend at Bernie’s White House’
Updated: Jul. 01, 2025, 5:42 a.m.|Published: Jun. 30, 2025, 5:00 a.m.
Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States could turn into “Weekend at Bernie’s White House” an acclaimed psychologist and former Johns Hopkins professor warned.
Dr. John Gartner made the disturbing claims during a recent appearance on “The Dean Obeidallah Show,” revealing that he believes the president is suffering from dementia and will “fall of a cliff” cognitively before the end of his term.
“Here’s the thing, will he become impaired enough that they need to invoke the 25th amendment? Yes,” Gartner said. “Will they invoke the 25th amendment? No.
“We are going to have a Weekend at Bernie’s White House,” he added. “They’re going to be wheeling him around, but don’t think that he can’t get into trouble. He will. It’s going to go from a farce to tragedy or from tragedy to farce, but it is going to get more and more absurd.”
Gartner told Obeidallah he is convinced that Trump has dementia.
“Basically, what we see are the classic signs of dementia, which is gross deterioration from someone’s baseline and function,” he said. “That’s very important because one of the areas that we can most physically see this is in his verbal productions. And,
if you go back and look at film from the 1980s, he actually was extremely articulate. He was still a jerk, but he was able to express himself in polished paragraphs, and now he really has trouble completing a thought and that is a huge deterioration. His vocabulary has deteriorated, but also he has started to show very specific signs of phonemic paraphasia for example where he routinely can’t say an English word so he substitutes a non-word that is easier to pronounce that sounds like it.”
Gartner claimed there are “dozens of examples” of Trump doing this.
“It’s not a big thing, but it is a diagnostic sign, and this is why it is important to have doctors evaluating these things,” he said. “People don’t do that. Yeah, you and I, we have memory problems, we are getting older. We forget things. That’s not the same as starting to use non-English words and to substitute for English words because we have trouble forming the whole word, but he has trouble forming a whole concept.”
Gartner, who has previously made it clear he is no fan of Trump, was then asked about the possibility of having a president with dementia.
“Well, we are starting to see that,” he said. “One thing is we are starting to see people cover for him. Everyone is acting like it’s perfectly normal when he says these completely crazy things. Like, remember when some reporter asked him about Harvard and academic freedom. He went on to say, ‘Well in Harlem, the people really love me. I got a lot of the Black vote, but they don’t like what’s happening at Harvard either, that’s why they are protesting in Harlem.’ I mean he got Harlem, because they sound alike and maybe the reporter who asked him is Black, but he is not just mishearing the word like, ‘Oh, I thought you said Harlem.’ He goes back to the people in Harlem are actually protesting what’s happening at Harvard. It’s like how he does the weave. You know, the weave was a brilliant way he had for explaining his thought disorder.
“It’s not a weave, OK,” Gartner continued. “It’s really an example of what we call tangential thought, where he goes off on loose associations. So, Harvard sounds like Harlem. Harlem now he gets into a whole thing about Black voters. Then he somehow comes back he remembers it did have something to do with Harvard so now he has to circle back to Harvard but now the people in Harlem are protesting what is happening in Harvard. So, he gums it together in this sort of confabulated story to kind of weave his loose associations together and then we all just, you see the reporters looking really confused, and then people just go on and ask another question as if we didn’t just witness an example of thought disorder.”
Obeidallah asked Gartner how he believes the media should cover it.
“By covering it for one thing,” he said. “They’re not covering it at all. I mean look before the election we had an enormous amount of trouble getting them to address Trump’s cognitive decline. They were very focused on Biden’s and that’s a whole other story, and they ignored Trump’s. And now that he is president, and he’s intimidating all of these media outlets, they’re terrified of him. And so they’re much even more afraid to make any reference to his cognitive decline. So, even when it’s in a kind of 3D grotesque way, right in front of our eyes, it’s just everyone’s turning a blind eye to it.
“The thing is that to a doctor or to anyone who has ever had a relative with dementia, this is very familiar because these ideas are sort of adjacent to each other in your associative track so yeah, the Declaration of Independence, that was about the Revolutionary War, OK early American wars, the Civil War was an early American war, but the thing is that it sort of becomes a soup where you become disoriented in time,” Gartner added. “So all these things kind of blend together, you know, Putin is the head of Russia, Russia was our ally in World War II so Putin fought in World War II so why are people so mad at Putin, he fought in World War II? He was our ally. And he kept saying Putin fought as if he was a veteran of World War II. So, in other words, it’s crazy. It’s what we call a confabulation which is when patients with dementia have gaps in their memory, they have loose associations, and they do a weave. They do a weave, but they weave these loose associations into a made-up story that isn’t reality.”
He told Obeidallah he does believe that things have gotten worse for Trump from the time he was campaigning to now, but he claimed the president is able to cover it up better while in the White House.
“When he was campaigning and doing these long rallies, every single day he’s standing on the podium talking for an hour and a half, and he’s just babbling for half the time,” he said. I” mean, there was so much material, and then for a while when he became president it kind of went dark. You weren’t seeing as much thought disorder material. And people kept saying, ‘Oh, I thought you said it was dementia, what’s happening?’ And you are like, ‘Well, they’re hiding him.’
“But now, you see, it’s starting to come out,” he continued. “You don’t think that the Declaration of Independence started the Civil War if you are a compos mentis adult.”
Gartner claimed that he was not just basing his accusation on cognitive tells.
“He was very coordinated, and now he really does have trouble getting up the stairs,” he said. “He does trip and fall. It’s not just a gotcha thing, ‘Oh he tripped on the stars.’ No, his gait is slow. He is falling.”
Gartner also claimed that the way the president swings his right leg is a concern.
“I predicted before the election that he would probably fall off the cliff before the end of his term,” Gartner said. “And at the rate he is deteriorating, you know … we’ll see. But the point is that it’s going to get worse. That’s my prediction. All these signs that we have been talking about are going to get more pronounced and I don’t know, are we going to keep normalizing and normalizing and normalizing it? I keep thinking now there’s no bottom to our normalization that he could just be sort of babbling and everyone would say, ‘Oh, you know, that’s Trump,’ or something.”
TDS - Trump Dementia Symptoms
