It has been well-documented that Mary Trump is not a fan of her uncle, Donald Trump, and likewise the president has made clear what he thinks of his niece.
Mary Trump has made a habit of speaking out against the president, but in a recent interview she was not talking about policy, but what she believes is Donald Trump’s cognitive decline.
She got into it during an appearance on “The Dean Obeidallah Show,” when he asked her if she has seen a change in the president’s cognitive abilities across the past year.
“Oh yeah,” Mary Trump said. “I mean, you can just see it too. He looks terrible. I don’t mean that as an attack, it’s just an observation. He looks exhausted. He looks puffy. He looks disheveled a lot, and I’m not a neurologist or a neuro psychologist so I can’t speak to the specific characteristics that may or may not much up with a diagnosis of dementia or Alzheimer’s.
“However, Donald Trump’s father had a very severe case of Alzheimer’s and it was, I think the symptoms started becoming obvious when he was in his late 70s,” she continued. “Guess how old Donald is now? He’s 79-years-old, and you know it didn’t take long before my grandfather as typically happens during the course of the illness, it starts slow and then it ramps up pretty quickly. So, after 5-to-10 years there was a very steep decline, and he stopped remembering people who he had known forever. That kind of thing, and with Donald I see, again this has been unfolding for a while, an increasing lack of impulse control.”
She was not through.
“He does not seem much of the time to be oriented to people and places and time and place, rather,” she said. “And that is not what we want in somebody who has our nuclear arsenal at his disposal as well as the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans.
“And this is not news, but it’s worse,” Trump continued. “Like, he doesn’t … he knows absolutely nothing and he’s not … he’s worse now at covering that up. Like, it’s so obvious now that he doesn’t know anything, and the fact — this has to do with impulse control — he’s sadly the president of the United States of America. You do not say things like, ‘They don’t know what the (expletive) they’re talking about.’ Like, you just don’t. You have to be aware of what is appropriate and inappropriate, and he’s not in any way shape or form. So, again, I can’t say anything about the diagnosis because that is not my field, however as just human beings who are observant and especially in the context of what my grandfather went through, yeah Donald Trump looks like my grandfather sometimes.”