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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There’s still room for him to decline?
Yes.
He should not be in that chair, and every day that republicans enable and
warshipworship 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.
Remember, whenever you hit rock bottom, you can always find a trap door somewhere.
He shouldn’t have even been allowed to run, and Aileen Cannon should be in prison right next to him.
Breaking news of his sharp decline have been 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 been on the verge of collapse every refresh of the algorithm.
More like 10 years
It’s happening now bro!
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.
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.
He has not progressed. He has always been insane and a pedophilic rapist. People laughed at the time, but his own quote of saying, “I am a very stable genius” is something only a very unhinged person could even think of saying.
Every trait people are worried about now is what everyone that was labeled as having “Trump Derangement Syndrome” have been warning about and calling out for a DECADE
Pedophile? Yes. Rapist? Absolutely. But you can’t tell me the giant diaper baby hasn’t “progressed.” Watching him campaign for his first term is like watching a different person with the same script. The content was still heinous, but it was delivered with more competence and coherence. Now, he stumbles, mumbles, goes off track even more. He’s progressed, he’s not well, and should never have been seen as competent for this second term. He is a puppet. A loud puppet, putting on a show, while strings are being pulled in the background.
No. He has never been coherent and has always communicated at a fourth grade level. All he could do was insult people and shamelessly lie. He also never had any coherent points on policy or any answers beyond general, one word adjectives, “strong”, “bad”, “rigged”, etc. We all found it funny because it was so outside the norm that we didn’t take it seriously.
This is deliberate and, as ANOTHER Nazi point, exactly the Public relations path that Hitler had.
Isn’t there some kind of protocol for when the guy in charge is malfunctioning?
Yep! But it is 100% based on the honor system and people in power making choices that benefit the people instead of their own wallets. So we have one but it effectively no longer exists
Not in a dictatorship, no.
At this point, a dead Mitch McConnell is more effective at governing than Trump.
Yeah, I think so too. Vance, Vought, Miller, Heritage Foundation et al. are propping up a president with dementia because it’s to their advantage with regards to implementing their radical-conservative agenda.
They aren’t conserving anything. It’s just fascism.
It’s just fascism,
They don’t conserve anything,
And the whole cult cheered!
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?
Been hearing about this “steep decline” for years at this point.
When are we going to see some results?
A steep decline can appear gradual when ypu have access to the best doctors and medicine.
Or maybe he’s a moron and a ¢unt, just like he’s always been.
you can say cunt. He’s a cunt.
He’s a fucking cunt…Can I say fucking cunt?
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No, I cannot. The instance auto moderates.
I do hope he’s miserable through all of this.
Just fucking die already.
Funny how we’re going to switch from his people praising him and everything he says and does as proofs of his genius to claiming that this hero suffered from a mental disease “near the end”, and we shouldn’t criticize him for that, that would be unfair, cruel, immoral. The line from genius to mentally-ill will continuously move to include everything they want to keep and exclude everything that’s too unpopular. Timeline won’t matter at all.
Hi. Former psych ward orderly here. Mental illness and disability in general don’t care what your ethics are, they’re equal opportunity life-ruiners.
So don’t feel bad about calling an evil person evil if they’re disabled. Don’t make excuses for them if they’re actively trying everything in their power to destroy the world. Don’t try to chalk up their bad decisions to their disability.
There are millions of people who have the same disease(s), and most of them aren’t supporting war crimes, let alone committing them. Wheelchair or not, fistful of pills or not, their actions determine their nature. And Trump’s nature is unrepentant, naked evil.
This is giving me “The Man In The High Castle” vibes. It’s a show about an alternate dimension where Hitler won WW2. The show starts with everyone figuring out Hitler is ill and going to die soon. There will be a power struggle when it finally happens.
Whatever. Doesn’t matter till he’s dead or gone. Preferably both. Tired of being hope baited into thinking any of this will lead to a measurable outcome.
“It don’t matter. None of this matters.” -Carl Brutananadilewski
Not just him - the ideal is that MAGA will simply collapse without their leader. The issue with that is we’ve already cemented a LOT of power into the executive in just a few years. Trump could drop dead tomorrow and despite having the charisma of an open can of surstromming, I think Vance would be able to hold onto power just through an overwhelming tide of repression. Trump’s caught up with people loving him - Vance, I think, doesn’t care if people hate him.
I think it’s important for the midterm elections. It’s important that folks who care, get out and vote.
Voting matters 100%. Another article saying he’s on the verge of death is what I’m lamenting.
