Dr. John Gartner: The world is watching “a fundamental breakdown in Trump’s ability to use language”

by zsreport

31 comments
  1. His use of language has gone from being an atrocity to being an incoherent gaggle of rambling nonsense.

    Btw – his > $83M payment to Jean E Carroll is due in two days

  2. > In his speech in North Carolina, Trump said “migrant cime” leaving out the “r”; and was unable to say “Venezuela” which came out sounding like “Venezwheregull.” These are examples of what we call phonemic paraphasia which is associated with underlying brain damage.

    Anyone remember when he insisted that he hadn‘t suffered a series of mini strokes, when nobody was speculating that he had suffered mini strokes?

  3. I’m Trumper-ba-de-ba-da-bah < this years surprise dance hit from Eiffel 65

  4. But this does mean, that he is still smarter than the average GOP voter, or?

  5. And through all of this, the crowds will continue to swell and cheer him on until they too, emulate their degenerative man-god-king in their own hypocrisies and hate. And as he slurs and spirals into unintelligible babble – that half of America will flush with him – and drag the rest of us down them.

  6. I normally wouldnt make fun of someone in such mental decline, but all I can say is that the debates will be fun.

  7. This will get worse without a doubt. Nine months is a REALLY long time once dementia gets going.

  8. GOP voters have already demonstrated how they consider candidates with degenerative brain diseases:
    [Parsing Ronald Reagan’s Words for Early Signs of Alzheimer’s](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/health/parsing-ronald-reagans-words-for-early-signs-of-alzheimers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)

    The article was written in 2015, and covers how science has improved in detecting early signs of dementia. It ends with this nugget:

    “If the day comes when such tests to detect the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases become widely established, a question will arise about their use to screen candidates for the White House and other public offices.”

  9. What? You guys don’t like it when Russia and Saudi Arabia a-reah-bee-doo. Ahh?

  10. He speaks languages we never heard before in this country 😇

  11. People need to listen to Trump speak now. He’s a wackadoodle. “If you think about it, you have men, you have women, and you have religion. If you look at it, you have more than the men, you have more than the women. You have such power.” – Donald J Trump at SC rally.

  12. What I’m gathering and it’s taken me a while to put this together, and I’m pissed I was too dense to see it.

    The republicans had to have seen this coming in while he was in office I’d say they even saw it in 2016 in private and decided for his next run they’d project age issues on his opponent as cover because it worked so well against Hillary. But after he had covid the decline was quicker, obvious, and substantial than they expected.

  13. I’ve been thinking about this for a few days given the repeated lapses in his speech in just the past week.

    His sudden collapse into babbling on Tuesday is nothing short of alarming. (Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gYc-4i-4QY4 )

    If that happened to a member of my family, I would take them to an urgent care clinic fast. By contrast, his “supporters” do not seem to care.

  14. He eats garbage food. He never exercises. He barely sleeps. If I had to guess I’d say he’s probably impotent. And he’s in a rage quite literally all of the time. It’s amazing he hasn’t had an aneurysm already.

  15. I just had a scary thought…

    Project 2025 is that right wing plan to have the US totally taken over by right wing nuts and turn it into an authoritarian theocracy.

    I bet they’d LOVE a senile Trump in office. Get all their lackeys installed everywhere, and then THEY are in charge. Just let trump babble off in the corner, hire a handful of people to distract him and tell him how great he’s doing, and let him have a rally here and there to keep his base distracted too.

    While they are awful, evil people, they are competent at least, and they could do a LOT of damage given that power and their ever increasing belief in the ends being justified by ANY means.

  16. Scariest thing that millions chose this person to represent them…

  17. Trump is a vehicle used by the far right, racists, gun nuts, Xtians and billionaires to implement / rubber stamp policy created by far more capable, dangerous and articulate individuals, organisations and corporations.

    They are probably perfectly happy that he is losing his speech and intellect. Much easier to manipulate and far less likely to offend in that state.

  18. It’s a primary progressive aphasia which is seen with Frontotemporal dementia. At some point instead of talking about this behind close doors, the medical community needs to speak with one voice and tell the nation. We know what’s happening but all us, including me, don’t want to risk our careers and lives formally announcing this but Trump has Frontotemporal dementia. Just look up the symptoms and Google each symptom with his name. It only get worse, especially his decision making as the orbital frontal areas of his brain further degenerates.

  19. His language/cognitive decline has been talked about for years. As long as he can riff some kind of racist bs, no matter how garbled, he’s still loved by MAGA.

  20. You know it’s getting really bad if much of his material has to be from previous recordings or prerecorded and heavily edited so he can be understood at all.

  21. There should be a max age limit for all seats of power and authority, president, congress, Supreme Court ALL OF THEM

  22. Imagine a country electing a horrible man with late stage dementia as their president … and then thinking about repeating that mistake again 40 years later.

  23. I want him to have a major stroke on live camera that leaves him aphasic, physically twisted, in a wheelchair, and still have to go to prison because he can’t pay his judgements. I want him to pass alone and unmourned and broke.

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