Trump’s rally rerun exposes 'dementia' media won’t name: Dean Obeidallah

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during an event at The Villages Charter School at The Villages, Florida, U.S., May 1, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

Radio host Dean Obeidallah says the press keeps showing Americans evidence of Donald Trump’s decline but refuses to say the word.

On his Substack, Obeidallah was responding to a CNN piece that Mediaite reported on. In the segment, Jake Tapper showed clips of the 80-year-old president recounting the same story twice at one rally.

“Yet they won’t call it what it is: DEMENTIA!!!” wrote Obeidallah. “We have a commander-in-chief who has dementia. He is the greatest threat to the world given our military power!”

The footage in question was from a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, on Oct. 20. About a minute into his speech, Trump went off on a story about the Willie Horton ad and the 1988 presidential race, saying Michael Dukakis “let out one murderer” who went on to kill and assault three women.

On Monday’s The Lead, Tapper said that the president got the facts wrong before noting that he went on to tell the same story just 30 minutes later, describing the moment as “bizarre.”

Tapper conceded that campaigning is hard work for an 80-year-old man and asked his guests Dylan Freedman and Peter Baker of The New York Times how often he repeats himself. Freedman said they used AI-assisted analysis to go over Trump’s speeches since 2015.

“President Trump is going into these rambling, digressive passages about two and a half times more often than he used to,” he said, continuing:

“We found that he’s using swear words almost three times as much as he was then,” he added, referring to 2016. “We’re not doctors, but some medical experts point to that as a sign of age-related disinhibition.”

The Times found that over the last decade Trump’s speeches have become longer, more profane and less coherent. His rally speeches now average 85 minutes, twice as long as in 2016.

The White House has repeatedly denied concerns about the president’s decline. Spokesman Davis Ingle praised the president’s energy and sharpness, and White House physician Dr. Sean Barbabella has cited Trump’s perfect score on a cognitive screening test.

Obeidallah believes Trump’s dementia symptoms are obvious and, in his view, the networks are broadcasting the moments without having the courage to name them.

Several doctors, psychiatrists and mental health professionals have expressed concern about Trump’s behavior, particularly his mental health.

With countless videos of the president over the years, medical experts have been able to analyze his decline, albeit without the opportunity to diagnose him themselves.

Earlier this year, a group of senior US physicians and mental health experts signed a statement declaring President Donald Trump mentally unfit for office, adding that his ability to launch nuclear weapons makes him a danger to the globe.

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