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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    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.

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    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.

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    Who does this psychologist even think he is? Not like congress or the senate will listen to the experts or anything.

    /s for the cognitively impaired.

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      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

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    He shouldn’t have even been allowed to run, and Aileen Cannon should be in prison right next to him.

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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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    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?

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      A steep decline can appear gradual when ypu have access to the best doctors and medicine.