Trump’s 'immense cognitive decline' is 'grave risk' to all: psychologist​

A prestigious psychologist says that President Donald Trump is exhibiting a “massive increase” in “clinical signs of dementia,” exacerbating the president’s “malignant narcissism,” according to The Daily Beast.

Former Johns Hopkins professor and psychologist Dr. John Gartner says that the 79 year old president's "nonsensical speeches, repeated confusion, and frequent lapses in memory" are proof of his “immense cognitive decline.”

Gartner points to the president's speech to top military brass at Quantico as an example of hisdecline.

In that speech, Gartner, who co-hosts a popular podcast on Trump's decline called "Shrinking Trump," points out how “disordered” Trump's thinking is, noting his similarity to dementia patients who “pick up on one concrete physical detail” and then “free-associate” away from the original topic.

Trump’s speech at "one point veered abruptly from discussing Marine morale to Biden’s autopen,” before finally landing on a wandering tangent about “gorgeous paper," he notes.

Gartner says Trump's deterioration is propping up his “grandiosity” and “paranoia” and warned that, with the nuclear football in Trump’s possession, “it really would be impossible to overstate the grave risk that all of us are at right now.”

He also says that “because of his cognitive decline, [Trump] is focusing on things like the [White House] ballroom and the paper that he writes things on.”

“We’re seeing a stone skipping along the water. He’s going from one association to another, but it doesn’t make any linear sense,” Gartner says, adding that the president suffers from “phonemic paraphasia,” where words are left incomplete and finished with a nonsense ending.

Just last week, notes The Daily Beast, "Trump claimed that he had halted a 'nuclear' war between Iran and Pakistan, repeatedly mixing up Iran and India without noticing the mistake."

“It’s one thing to get a name wrong, maybe even to reverse it,” Gartner says. “But he’s actually confusing the countries themselves."

In response to Trump saying he solved an "imaginary conflict between Cambodia and Armenia — two nations 4,000 miles apart, just days after bragging he’d stopped a showdown between Azerbaijan and Albania, apparently meaning Armenia," Gartner says it's time to sound the alarm.

“People don’t make those kinds of phonemic paraphasias if they’re tired or if they’re aging,” he says. “It’s something very specific that is linked to dementia and organic, cognitive decline.”

When Trump forgot House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-NY) name just a day after meeting with him last month to discuss averting a government shutdown, Gartner says that's "clearly demented memory loss."

When Trump was telling reporters about his talks with the Senate minority leader, he said, “Chuck Schumer, who was here yesterday, along with... uhh, the, a very nice gentleman who I didn’t really know. You know who I’m talking about.”

Gartner's take on this: "This is like when you go to visit your mother in the nursing home and you bring your sister and she goes, ‘Who’s that nice lady that you brought with you?’... I mean, it’s that level of non-recognition that we’re talking about."

Gartner also says Trump "displays 'malignant narcissism,' a rare and severe personality disorder marked by paranoia and sadism that has been used to describe dictators such as Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Saddam Hussein."

“The idea that he really just wants to s—— on everyone who disagrees with him, that’s literally how he feels because of the personality disorder,” Gartner says.

Gartner says Trump, the oldest sitting president in American history, is only going to get worse.

“This is really someone who could wake up and — in a state of complete confusion and erratic irritation — do something catastrophic,” he says.