\u201cWe have to see a major deterioration in functioning in language and thinking and psychomotor performance and impulse control and a whole variety of areas… what a lot of people don\u2019t realize is that Donald Trump used to be a very articulate person.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe used to speak with a high level of vocabulary in very polished paragraphs. Now what we see is not only has his vocabulary gone down, but… there are times when he\u2019s really unable to complete a thought. Sometimes he\u2019s unable to complete a word,\u201d Gartner continued.<\/p>\n
Gartner also cited Trump\u2019s tendency to go on tangents in the middle of his own sentences, using a tangent about Hannibal Lecter<\/a> as an example.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was lying and saying that they\u2019re sending all these immigrants from insane asylums, right? And then he goes, \u2018Silence of the Lambs. Anyone seen Silence of the Lambs?\u2019 Well, Silence of the Lambs is a movie about insane asylums. Okay, so now we\u2019ve moved from immigrants to has anyone seen this movie?\u201c<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then he goes, \u2018The late great Hannibal Lecter. Nobody likes to talk about him anymore.\u2018 Well, first of all, he\u2019s not dead, he\u2019s a fictional character, so he can\u2019t be the late Hannibal Lecter,\u201d Gartner explained.<\/p>\n Gartner went on to tell The Daily Beast Podcast that he believes Trump to be a malignant narcissist, which, when combined with the deterioration in his functioning, is a \u201cworst case scenario\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cSo that\u2019s what we started out [with] as a baseline, but now what we have is this chronic organic deterioration from his own baseline. So we have in a sense the worst of both worlds because his judgment was always bad, he was always impulsive, he was always a liar, but now he really is losing his ability to think clearly, to plan, to understand things and to inhibit his speech and his behavior,\u201d Gartner said.<\/p>\n In addition to a deterioration in his language skills and impulse control, Gartner, and other medial professionals, have observed a decline in his psychomotor performance.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the dementia experts that I\u2019ve consulted with is convinced he has frontotemporal dementia because of this symptom alone, which is it\u2019s called a wide-based gait. If you look at his right leg, sometimes he just swings it like a dead weight in a semicircle… the expert that I consulted with said this is what we call patho-pneumonic. You don\u2019t see this in anyone unless they have frontotemporal dementia,\u201d Gartner explained.<\/p>\n Gartner also referenced the president\u2019s diagnosis<\/a> of chronic venous insufficiency and reports<\/a> of his \u2018droopy face\u2018 at a memorial event on September 11, which made waves after footage of the event was posted online.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s not something that comes with age. It really is suggestive of some kind of potential mini stroke. So all of these things could be related,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cThe circulatory problems could be related to the deterioration in his brain. They could even be causal. Or he could just have both dementia and some chronic medical problems. We don\u2019t know. This is really an area where we\u2019re really not sure. But he\u2019s clearly deteriorating mentally and physically.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one psychologist is convinced that President Donald Trump has dementia. Dr. John Gartner told The Daily…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[77,210,50,25222,37204,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-244948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-j-trump","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-the-daily-beast-podcast","12":"tag-trumpland","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115244791824411920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ARLINGTON,](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4FR2A3UKTRB37GDB3B5ANN2ZIY.jpg\")
Speculation over Trump\u2019s health ramped up after he was seen with visible drooping on the right side of his face at a 9\/11 memorial event. Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images <\/p>\n