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Leaker reveals top official's opinion: Trump belongs in a 'nuthouse'

On Tuesday, a leaker from President Donald Trump’s first administration revealed one former top official’s unflattering opinion of the Commander-in-Chief. According to Miles Taylor – who served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Department of Homeland Security – Trump’s second Chief of Staff, John Kelly, asserted that the president belongs in a “nuthouse.”

“Trump’s ex-chief of staff John Kelly said this to me, six years ago,” posted Taylor. “‘I don't know how he’s not in an institution somewhere, whether it’s jail or a nuthouse. He’s a seriously sick guy. I never heard him saying anything that wasn’t a lie.’ Trump has only gotten worse since.”

Kelly – a lifelong Marine who was appointed Commander of U.S. Southern Command by President Barack Obama – was often considered one of the “adults in the room” who kept things from flying completely off the rails during Trump’s first term. He resigned about halfway through amid reports of chaos in the White House and his deteriorating relationship with the president, at the time saying it was “the worst job I’ve ever had.” As one of his advisors told Politico, “While it got rocky at times, he kept the government on the tracks more than people realize or he’ll get credit for achieving or preventing.”

During the 2024 campaign, Kelly offered a stark appraisal of his former boss when asked if Trump qualified as a fascist. “Well, looking at the definition of fascism,” said Kelly, reading from the dictionary, “It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy. So certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America. Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.” According to Kelly, Trump “commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too.’”

The latest revelation about Kelly’s opinion of Trump’s mental fitness comes amid a swell of warnings regarding the president’s possible cognitive decline. One widely cited psychologist recently suggested that Trump’s increasingly frequent on-camera “microsleeps,” mobility and speech issues, and other behavioral “glitches” are due to some form of “significant neurological decline,” such as stroke or dementia. And according to the president’s niece, psychologist Mary Trump, his “psychological crisis” has reached a “breaking point” as he’s “lost grip on reality.” Experts and insiders aren’t alone in this assessment, as polls have shown that more than half the country say Trump lacks the mental and physical health for office, with 48 percent saying he suffers from severe or modest cognitive decline.

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Psychologist reveals 'neurological' cause of Trump’s on-camera 'microsleep'

President Donald Trump is often caught on video dozing during meetings, but one widely cited medical expert argues it's not merely because he’s tired. According to psychologist John Garrison, these “microsleeps” are yet another sign of Trump’s “significant neurological decline.”

Garrison was reacting to footage during an Oval Office meeting with Susan Dell of Dell computers, during which Trump appeared to doze off. “I believe what's happening are microsleeps,” explains Garrison. “And this is a little bit different than just sleeping at his desk. Microsleeps can be very quick. You can go from wakefulness to sleep back to awake and alert very quickly with microsleeps.” In the video, a dozing Trump suddenly opens his eyes with a look of alarm, prompting Garrison to suggest, “There's a little bit of confusion, and he may not even know that he's falling asleep.” Noting that Trump transitions quickly between wakefulness and sleep, Garrison elaborates, “The systems that regulate arousal with wakefulness and sleep can be affected by neurological disorders.” The culprits, warns Garrison, could be “dementia” or “some sort of brain injury.”

He also points to what may be “neurological” issues causing Trump’s difficulty with paying attention. As Garrison notes, as soon as Trump stops focusing on Dell and what is being discussed, “he seems to fall asleep almost immediately. We've seen this meeting after meeting after meeting.” According to Garrison, while there are a variety of reasons attention can fluctuate, based on Trump’s history, yet again, “dementia” or “brain injury” could be the culprit. The president’s “mild coordination issues” and “challenges in social cues,” says Garrison, bolster such a diagnosis. “As soon as anybody starts talking,” explains Garrison, “he's unable to sustain attention. And attention is more than just looking at somebody's face. It's a complex process, and we see for people that have neurological challenges or neurodegenerative diseases that attention becomes very, very difficult.” As the video continues, Trump’s slurred language supports this assessment.

Here Garrison shifts to a video of Trump at a rally with retired baseball player Roger Clements, noting that the president displays a number of issues that have persisted for months but have begun to “progress” and “get worse.” As Garrison points out, “First, you're going to see his right arm spasm at the elbow, which appears to be a myoclonic jerk. These are involuntary and can be neurological in origin. And then you're going to see it spread to his left arm, which has a very different motion. His left hand remains limp while his left arm seems to spasm as well.” From there, Trump appears to have difficulty controlling the motion of his left hand, “and after that,” notes Garrison, “we see a brief spasm from his trunk, which makes sense because these share pathways.”

For months, says Garrison, Trump has displayed these “glitches” and other symptoms, and they appear to be getting “worse.” In Garrison’s estimation, the conclusion is clear: the president’s “neurological challenges” keep stacking up.

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Family member warns 'deteriorating' Trump has 'lost grip on reality'

On Thursday, a family member of President Donald Trump warned that his “psychological crisis” has reached a “breaking point.” This is according to his niece, clinical psychologist Mary Trump, who asserts that his latest threats, “deterioration,” and power to use nuclear weapons pose an increasingly dangerous combination.

As Mary Trump explains, while she’s noted her uncle’s “psychological deterioration” for some time now, “what he did at the United Nations General Assembly in late September was something different, though. It wasn’t just the usual cascade of lies and misstatements we’ve come to expect from him.” Instead, argues Mary Trump, the speech proved that the president’s “grip on reality” has broken down entirely. In it, Trump mused about whether he would annihilate Iran, driving them “into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations.” He went on to tout a string of debunked accomplishments that Mary Trump asserts go beyond mere lies. In her estimation, “There is no hesitation, no moment of doubt, no acknowledgment that perhaps he is conflating something he imagined with something that actually occurred. This is not a man who is deliberately lying. This is a man whose grip on reality has become so tenuous that he genuinely cannot distinguish between what he has accomplished and what he fantasizes about accomplishing.”

One of the most blatant examples, she writes, came with his proclamation that the world should rename AI “super intelligence.” This provided “perhaps the clearest view yet into his delusional thinking,” asserts Mary Trump. “He believes that by declaration, he can change the terminology used by the entire world. He is not joking. He is not being playful or rhetorical. He genuinely believes that his saying this at the United Nations means it will now happen. This is the thinking of someone who has lost the ability to understand how the world actually works, how language functions, how institutions operate.” From there, the president went on to ramble about the “Russia hoax,” the “Ukraine hoax,” climate change, open borders and China in a manner that became increasingly incoherent. According to Mary Trump, “This is not leadership. This is a deeply disturbed individual revealing his complete detachment from reality and from responsibility.” In other words, “he cannot distinguish between fantasy and fact.”

“What makes this so dangerous is that Donald is no longer operating within the confines of what might be called a personality disorder,” explains Mary Trump. “He is no longer simply a narcissist or a sociopath. He is a man whose relationship to objective reality has fundamentally broken down. When he speaks, he is not filtering facts through a self-serving lens. He is speaking from a place in which his fantasies have become, for him, indistinguishable from fact. He has been given the power of a nuclear arsenal, control over America’s military and the ability to set foreign policy for the most powerful nation on Earth. And he is using that power to act out his psychological pathologies on the world stage.”

She warns that the world should take seriously the “chilling moment” when “he presented the choice before him regarding Iran not as a policy decision to be made in consultation with his advisors, his military, his intelligence agencies and Congress, but as his personal decision. And he did so in language that suggested he was genuinely considering whether to destroy an entire nation. This is not normal. This is not something we should accept or accommodate or attempt to spin as anything other than what it is: a deeply disturbed individual revealing his complete unfitness to hold the office of the presidency.”

She concludes with a warning: “What we witnessed at the United Nations was not a president speaking to the world. It was a man in psychological crisis, broadcasting his deterioration in real time, while representatives from other nations sat and watched the leader of the free world lose his grip on reality. And we, as a nation, need to understand what this means. We need to understand that with each passing day, the danger Donald poses to this country and to the world grows exponentially more severe. The breaking point is here. We are watching it unfold before our eyes.”

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Family member reveals 'pathological' reason for Trump’s garbled speech

On Monday, a family member of President Donald Trump revealed what prompted a garbled statement he made during a recent rally. According to the president’s niece, psychologist Mary L. Trump, her uncle stammered out some nonsense rather than admit he’d misspoken due to his “pathological” insecurity.

She was referring to something he said during a rally in Oklahoma last Thursday. President Trump was telling a story about the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025, when he said, “And then at 1 o’clock in the morning with no moon, dark as can be, these unbelievable machines led by the most incredible pilots in the world, they unloaded; every single bomb went right down air chutes into this, uh, drug factories, really. That’s what they were doing – they were nuclear and drug. They were doing drugs, but they were doing the nuclear. But these drug factories-slash-nuclear factories were hit so hard.”

As CNN reports, Trump’s claim “bewildered not only average Americans but also experts on Iran’s nuclear program.” James Acton, co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told CNN. “Wow… That one is new to me. To my knowledge, the Fordow facility, whose destruction Trump is describing, was not being used for drug production and neither had I previously heard any allegation (credible or otherwise) that it was.” In CNN’s assessment, “It appears likely that he made a simple mistake, and then – as he has for years – doubled down instead of correcting himself. For a president who has declared himself ‘right about everything,’ even an admission of minor verbal error is usually a bridge too far.”

Mary Trump arrived at a similar conclusion, asserting that because Trump is so “pathologically insecure,” he can “never, ever admit making a mistake, no matter how tiny and insignificant.” According to CNN, Trump likely forgot what he was talking about. “Just before he started talking about Iran,” the outlet explains, “he had been talking about his attempts to thwart illegal drug trafficking in the Caribbean and about the US military operation that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Trump’s initial remark about bombs hitting Iranian ‘uh, drug factories, really’ seemed likely to be a slip triggered by the preceding remarks about illegal drugs and Venezuela. Trump has long refused to acknowledge even insignificant speaking stumbles, instead preferring to act as if he had really meant to say the mistaken thing he said – even something as insignificant as whether a federal agent he praised in a 2018 address is nicknamed ‘CJ’ or ‘DJ.’ Here, instead of just amending the ‘drug factories’ assertion, he ad-libbed three additional lines reiterating the assertion.”

His niece has noted such instances before, asserting after an incident in June that her uncle “is simply a profoundly insecure man who cannot keep his own stories straight.” The president and his loyalists, she argued at the time, “desperately want to be feared. They want to project strength, inevitability, and power. Strip away the propaganda, however, and what remains is something considerably less impressive. There is only absurdity. And absurdity deserves exactly what we continue to give it. Not reverence. Not intimidation. Ridicule.”

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Trump's 'stroke' pathways are now 'crossing the brain': psychologist

On Friday evening, a widely cited psychologist noted a number of “concerning” and “strange” behaviors by President Donald Trump, suggesting that the 80-year-old commander-in-chief is experiencing some form of “neurological decline.” This is according to Dr. John Garrison, who warns that during Trump’s recent appearances on the midterm campaign trail, he exhibited symptoms relating to stroke or some other condition.

Garrison begins by analyzing a video of Trump campaigning at a Texas Peterbilt factory, where he stands by as a speaker introduces him. Suddenly, Trump licks his lips in a provocative manner and runs his hands down the speaker’s shoulders.

“What we just observed ... was both impulsivity as well as a loss of motor control," said Garrison, adding that both "are controlled up here in the front of the brain."

"This is the most complex and most advanced part of our brain, and when people have neurodegenerative diseases, when people have strokes or something similar, it can cause damage up here and it can be difficult to inhibit certain behaviors. Sometimes when people are too excited, we see motor issues spill over into other areas.” And after replaying the clip, Garrison notes, “Right now, he's feeling so excited. He's biting his bottom lip. He feels so enthusiastic about this that he almost can't stop himself.”

In Garrison’s assessment, this could be evidence of “sort of brain injury, a lesion, brain damage.”

From there, as the video continues, Garrison points out a number of spasm “clusters” that have become increasingly frequent. While these issues were once limited to the right side of Trump’s body, now, Garrison notes that you can see the involuntary motions move from right to left, “which means that the dysfunctional pathways are crossing the brain.” Then after the president appears to momentarily lose his balance, he suddenly clenches his hand into a fist before raising it to his face and examining it and rubbing it with the other hand.

“I don't think that was voluntary,” asserts Garrison. “I think his hand closed on its own, and it surprised him because you're going to see right after that happened, he lifted his hand up and actually looks at his hand. I think he's used to some of these other symptoms. I think he's used to the right arm spasm. This one I don't think he's so used to and it caught him off guard.”

From there, Garrison moves on to a clip of an executive order signing in the Oval Office, during which an official is lavishing the president with praise. According to Garrison, Trump – who normally lights up at such talk – appears to be “checking out,” “disoriented,” and on the verge of falling asleep. Suddenly, Trump’s face twists in an expression that Garrison asserts indicates that “he actually can't control the right side of his mouth.”

Garrison closes by analyzing a much-discussed video during which Trump strikes a strange, off-balance stance while speaking with reporters. “If you're looking closely, you can see his right leg does appear stiffer than his left when he's walking,” says Garrison. “The reason for this could be that he's wearing some sort of knee-ankle-foot brace or something similar to that. Some kind of device to help him with unilateral weakness. In other words, weakness on one side of the body.” There could be a variety of reasons for that, explains Garrison. “Sometimes, for example, if someone has a stroke, they need to wear a knee-ankle-foot device in order to help them with coordination with rehabilitation,” he says, noting that it could also involve some other form of “neurological illness or damage.”

Concerns about Trump’s physical and cognitive decline have been raised frequently over the course of his second term, and now Garrison concludes with a warning, asserting, “There seems to be real motor dysfunction with the right side of his body. There seems to be a lot of involuntary behaviors that are happening over and over again… and it does appear to be something distinctly neurological.”

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'He’s unfit': Trump relative reveals signs his 'Alzheimer’s' has set in

On Tuesday, a relative of President Donald Trump revealed signs that his “cognitive decline” is tipping into the Alzheimer’s that runs in his family. This is according to psychologist Mary L. Trump, who warned that as her uncle deteriorates, he’s going to take the country “down with him.”

“People need to be alerted to just how detached from reality most of what he has to say now is,” Mary Trump asserted, “because he’s getting increasingly dangerous as our country gets increasingly weaker, basically across the board.” In her estimation, “Donald has never been fit to be president of the United States temperamentally, psychologically, emotionally and in terms of his unfathomable incompetence and lack of credentials. He is the least qualified person by a trillion light-years to have failed upwards to this office. I think it goes without saying that he’s unfit. But when you are somebody who is in obvious cognitive decline…Alzheimer’s runs in my family,” she notes. “My grandfather had Alzheimer’s. I know what it looks like, and I think we all recognize what cognitive decline looks like.”

“His physical health,” she asserts, “has been deteriorating for a long time. We don’t know specifically why, because the White House continues to lie about that. But he’s also an 80-year-old who’s much older than he would otherwise be because he’s so deeply unhealthy. He doesn’t sleep except during the meetings. He has a terrible diet. He drinks a lot of Diet Cokes. He doesn’t exercise. So you have that going on. Plus, of course, he has very longstanding, untreated, undiagnosed psychiatric disorders that worsen over time. So it’s like this perfect storm of deterioration and, in some cases, decompensation.” She argues that her uncle has “some sense that he is losing it,” which is making him “more desperate” and impulsive.

That the president on some level recognizes and fears his decline is evidenced, says Mary Trump, by his apparent fear of psychiatric hospitals. She points to an “incoherent and garbled” story he recently told in which he claimed he grew up “in the shadow” of Creedmoor Hospital in New York, but according to Mary Trump, it’s “nowhere near” where her uncle lived. “He’s going off about how forbidding its building is and the bars on the windows,” says Mary Trump, “and it’s maybe two towns east.” In her assessment, however, “He’s revealing to us in his increasingly nonsensical, incoherent, delusional ramblings what concerns him, what unconsciously he’s fearing. And clearly, getting thrown into Creedmoor is at the top of the list.”

“That, and also his fear of irrelevance,” she adds, “which is why he’s naming everything after himself, his need for increasing amounts of attention, which is why we have MMA cage matches on his birthday and whatever that car race was in D.C.” She concludes on a grim note, warning, “If he thinks he’s going down, he’s more than happy to take all of us down with him.”

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New signs Trump struggles with 'dementia' or stroke unmasked by expert

On Thursday, a widely cited psychologist suggested that new videos of President Donald Trump reveal symptoms of dementia, stroke, or another serious condition. According to Dr. John Garrison, not only does Trump display signs of “neurological illness,” but his symptoms are getting worse.

Garrison begins by reviewing a clip of Trump meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as the latter disembarks from his flight. Suddenly a plane does a loud flyover, eliciting a noticeable wince from Trump. “It is obvious that he's uncomfortable,” says Garrison, “But the question that's being overlooked by most people is, why is he uncomfortable?” According to Garrison, neurodegenerative disease manifests itself with clear behavior changes over time, and this is an example, as Trump typically enjoys and applauds such occurrences, and has even spoken previously about how much he loves noise. But as Garrison notes, “What we've seen over the past few months is he is getting extremely sensitive to sound. And we see this with dementia. We see this after strokes sometimes.”

To emphasize his point, Garrison plays a previous recording of Trump enthusiastically watching a flyover, saying, “I have seen President Trump react to so many situations like this, and I have never seen him react like that. So, to me, this is very clear evidence that something is going on.” What’s also telling, he asserts, is Xi’s reaction. “He essentially has no reaction,” while Trump winces painfully. “I don't think that he has the neurological ability to tolerate it anymore,” says Garrison. “We see this with dementia all the time. People with Alzheimer's type dementia, for example. They get very agitated by loud sounds.”

From there Garrison moves on to footage from the arrival ceremony, noting that on a 65-degree day, Trump is the only one dressed for extremely cold weather, wearing a heavy coat and gloves. “Just someone being cold or sensitive to cold obviously does not necessarily indicate some sort of neurological illness,” admits Garrison. “But given everything else we've talked about, everything else we're looking at, I think it's at least worth pointing out that temperature regulation, perception of temperature, the ability to perceive hot and cold appropriately can be affected when someone has dementia, when someone has had a stroke, depending on where there's been injury in the brain. So, while his apparent sensitivity to cold is not, in isolation, going to say that he has some sort of neurological illness, given everything else we're looking at, it's at least worth pointing out.”

From there, Garrison notes that Trump appears to “struggle with motor coordination,” explaining that “he’s looking down to make sure he's walking straight” and fails to course correct when he bumps into Melania. “He appears to be attempting to walk straight, but he just can't,” says Garrison. “I think that there's a lot of motor coordination issues right now.” Moving on to the next recording, Garrison spots more health red flags while Trump speaks with the press. “His breathing is heavy,” says Garrison. “He seems like he's struggling to make eye contact. It's just very peculiar. As you can hear, he's almost having a hard time catching his breath.”

This is far from the first time someone has suggested that the president may have a neurological condition. According to his niece, psychologist Mary Trump, “Alzheimer’s runs in my family. I sometimes see similarities between Donald and my grandfather, Fred Trump, who developed Alzheimer’s sometime in his late seventies or early eighties, which is to say when he was around Donald’s age.” She made this claim in early September, telling a story about how she once saw her declining grandfather have a moment of panic in which he didn’t seem to know what was going on. “I’m beginning to see that look in Donald’s eyes sometimes,” she concluded.

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Family member reveals 'pathological' reason Trump became 'brat and bully'

On Thursday, a family member of President Donald Trump related an anecdote from his youth that she said explains how he grew up to be a “brat and bully.” This is according to his niece, psychologist Mary L. Trump, who while speaking with political columnist David Rothkopf explained the generational trauma that has contributed to the president becoming a “sociopath."

“The problem for all of us right now is that when Donald was very young, my grandmother, his primary caregiver, was essentially absent,” explained Mary Trump. “She was very ill, which left it to my grandfather, who was a sociopath, to care for his five children. At that time, Donald was ignored and left alone. We’re all reaping the damage that was done and never undone. Over time, he became a brat and a bully, and nobody ever reined him in.”

“It’s pathological at this point,” she continued, noting that she’s also troubled by aides and Republicans who have enabled his “temper tantrums.” According to Mary Trump, “There was a time when one could make sense of it from the perspective that these are petty people who need to cling to power or maintain proximity to it. But now that Donald seems more of a liability, their behavior hasn’t changed, suggesting two camps exist: those who are cowardly and afraid and can’t muster a critical mass to stand up against him, and true believers who have drunk the Kool-Aid.”

This prompted Rothkopf to wonder, “We hear the term enabler a lot, but ‘enabler' is too passive. If someone is an enabler of a known sociopath, it’s worse, right?”

“Oh, they’re co-conspirators,” asserted Mary Trump. “They are equally responsible for all of this. You mentioned a known sociopath; he’s doing the damage a sociopath could do. The crimes he has openly committed and acknowledged are known to us. We know how many times he has been in the Epstein Files. We know that he pardons frauds and covers up for pedophiles. As you said, that doesn’t touch the damage he’s inflicting through his crazy policies.”

This isn’t the first time she has suggested that her grandfather contributed to her uncle’s questionable mental health, and has pointed out the similar paths of their decline. “Alzheimer’s runs in my family,” she said in early September. “I sometimes see similarities between Donald and my grandfather, Fred Trump, who developed Alzheimer’s sometime in his late seventies or early eighties, which is to say when he was around Donald’s age.” She added, “What they have in common is that they do not always seem oriented to time and place. The first time I saw this with my grandfather, we were at an event in Brooklyn at which he and my grandmother were being honored … My grandfather was standing next to my uncle Rob when he grabbed Rob’s arm and suddenly looked like a deer in the headlights. I had never seen my grandfather look like that before. He looked terrified, as if he had no idea where he was or who he was with. I’m beginning to see that look in Donald’s eyes sometimes.”

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Trump's 9/11 speech full of 'neurological' red flags: psychologist

On Wednesday, a widely cited psychologist sounded the alarm about “concerning” neurological symptoms President Donald Trump displayed during his 9/11 memorial speech a day earlier. According to Dr. John Garrison, the president’s “struggle with language production” and involuntary physical “glitches” could be signs of a serious medical condition.

Garrison notes that he’s seen ongoing evidence of Trump’s “steep neurological decline,” such as “slurring words, loss of motor control, and a possible seizure.” On Tuesday during his 9/11 speech, the president’s behavior suggested “continued problems with language production.” And as Garrison points out, the speech took place at 10:35 in the morning, when Trump “should be at his absolute freshest.”

To start off, Garrison plays a clip from Trump’s speech in which he speaks in a noticeably halting manner, as if he’s losing his breath every third word or can’t quite get out the sentence. According to Garrison, “For anybody who's seen President Trump speak before, this is highly unusual, this type of halting speech. What we are seeing is a clear struggle with language production.”

As Garrison elaborates, “He seemed to get confused, and then he really struggled to speak. There could be a wide variety of neurological reasons that someone can go through that. We've talked about the fact that he may have had a stroke at some point. We've talked about the possibility of some type of dementia. Parkinson's is also something that can cause these types of issues. But what we are clearly observing is something neurological. Changes like this are extremely significant. If this was just anybody giving a speech who was uncomfortable in front of people and wasn't used to giving speeches, of course, if they have halting speech, that can be a very normal way to give speeches. But it's not normal for President Trump. This is different.”

Garrison then moves on to Trump’s body language, saying, “I want you to look at his motor activity, specifically look at his arm and his torso.” And indeed, as the president stands listening to another speaker, his elbow makes a number of obvious twitches. “What we're noticing is a progression in his involuntary motor activity,” explains Garrison. “There are a number of possible explanations, including myoclonic activity, and there's even focal seizure activity that can cause behavior just like that.”

Over the course of Trump’s second term, there has been growing alarm at his mental and physical decline. Polls show that nearly 60 percent of Americans say he lacks the “mental sharpness” to serve as president, and doctors have regularly pointed to his behavior as evidence of some severe medical condition. These suspicions have not been alleviated by Trump’s unusually frequent hospital visits.

“Trump is continuing to struggle with speech production, and while there are a variety of potential neurological explanations, given all of the other symptoms and problems he's having, all of the possibilities are quite concerning,” says Garrison. “Over the past few months I've heard President Trump struggle in many different ways over many different speeches, but this struggle with language production he's having right here – this type of hesitancy is highly unusual for him… It seems that he's not only struggling with language production, but there seems to be real confusion at times as well.”

Garrison’s conclusion is not optimistic, warning that Trump’s “behavior, his problems, all of these challenges continue to progress. They are continuing to get worse. We continue to observe changes, and that's what's concerning. When you see him struggle to produce a very simple sentence, that is extremely concerning.”

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Trump’s latest 'manic' binge evidence of 'neurological decline': psychologist

On Tuesday, a widely cited psychologist took to YouTube to raise the alarm regarding “more highly concerning behavior” from President Donald Trump. According to Dr. John Garrison, Trump’s recent actions suggest “steep neurological decline” and a dangerously “manic-like state.”

Garrison began by playing a clip from a recent Fox News interview, in which Trump declared that the price of oil is “going to go down like a rocket.” According to Garrison, “There were two neurological issues in this very short clip, both of them verbal. One is that he's having speech planning issues, saying ‘going down like a rocket.’ Obviously, that's combining phrases. He's having a hard time organizing his thoughts. And second is an involuntary vocalization.” Here Garrison replays the clip, noting an abrupt sound Trump makes, explaining, “The pathways that deal with language are disrupted. We are seeing serious issues with language with President Trump.” What’s more, Garrison asserts that such vocalizations are “relatively new.”

In the interview, Trump begins talking about the midterm elections, saying, “I'm going to campaign like I did for myself and I'm going to hope that people think that I'm on. And if I'm not on, if they don't go out and vote, if they go out and vote, we're going to win easily.” As Garrison notes, “What he's saying makes absolutely no sense. He cannot organize his thoughts. He gets confused and he believes what he's saying is coherent. But it truly makes no sense.” According to Garrison, this struggle with verbal planning can be evidence of underlying “neurological issues.”

Here Garrison points to Trump’s pupils, which have remained dilated throughout the interview. “Trump is in a very bright room for this interview,” says Garrison. “You can see the lights actually reflecting off of his eyes, and what should be happening is that his pupils should be constricting rather than dilating because when there's too much light in a room, your pupils get smaller, not bigger.” According to Garrison, “Dilated pupils like this can be from a wide variety of reasons, but it's not just something that happens,” and likely culprits include medication for something like incontinence, Parkinson’s disease, or seizures.

The White House claims that Trump has no such issues, so Garrison says that if we can take them at their word, there must be some other cause. “One would be stimulants,” he asserts. “They can certainly make your eyes dilate. Another would be if there's some sort of neurological impairment. There are certain types of brain injuries that can disrupt pathways that control pupil dilation. While there may be a number of reasons why his eyes may be dilated like this, they're all going to have to do with the functioning of the brain, whether it's medication or something else.”

Finally, Garrison turns to questions of “grandiosity and poor judgment,” noting Trump’s “absurd” social media posting binge over the weekend. “Right now, his grandiosity is fixated on expansion,” says Garrison, pointing to Trump’s “completely insane” posts about renaming Lake Ontario. “Even if he was doing it just to agitate people, it does show a distinct lack of judgment. It shows his inability to think through the consequences of what he is doing…His behavior on Truth Social has truly gotten strange.”

According to Garrison, Trump’s posting spree was an explosion of “outright mania” indicative of “perseveration,” in which a person repeats something uncontrollably. “The obsession with and the perseveration on everything being his or being America's is only growing by the day,” says Garrison, noting that Trump posted about renaming New Mexico to “New America” seven times within an hour. "Talk about grandiosity, mania, neurological issues,” says Garrison. “This is what it looks like. The grandiosity combined with the perseveration means that he cannot get off of this idea, the idea of expansion. He just cannot neurologically get past this, so it repeats over and over and over again.”

“He is truly hyperfixated on these ideas,” Garrison warns. “And because you lose insight when you have neurological issues, he'll be the last person to know. If you tell him he's doing it too much, if you tell him that this is excessive, it will not compute with him because for him it's not excessive. It's exactly what he wants to do because to him, this feels normal.”

“We're now getting involuntary vocalizations,” concludes Garrison. “We're getting more confusion. He continues to struggle with his verbal skills. And as you can see from his Truth Social posts, he is having some type of episode. We are talking about grandiosity and obsessiveness and perseveration that is off the charts.”

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'Delusional': Family member reveals signs of Trump’s Alzheimer’s 'decline'

As President Donald Trump becomes “increasingly belligerent,” one of his family members warns that he’s following a pattern of decline similar to that of his father, Fred Trump, who developed Alzheimer’s when he was around his son’s current age. This is according to the president’s niece, psychologist Mary Trump, who sounded the alarm on Monday night about her uncle’s growing “unfitness for office.”

“Donald continues to demonstrate the fact that he is psychologically, emotionally, cognitively, and physically in decline,” writes Mary Trump. “This has been increasingly evident over the last couple of months. We’ve seen off the chart press conferences and cabinet meetings at the White House, his deeply unhinged remarks during rallies and other public events, and his middle of the night social media rants.” She asserts that his growing focus on personal grievances and his “weird obsessions” indicate that “he is increasingly self aggrandizing and detached from reality, which is to say delusional. He often does not seem oriented to time and place.”

For example, she points to a rant Trump recently delivered in which he said he “grew up” in Creedmoor psychiatric hospital and asserted he could have been a professional baseball player. According to the president, “I’d say, why does the building have those bars? It wasn’t normal. You’re used to looking at a window. With this one, you’ll look at all these steel, vicious steel, tiny windows, bars all over the place. Nobody was getting out. It’s called a mental institution. That was an insane asylum.”

“Donald, of course, misspoke,” said Mary Trump. “He did not grow up in Creedmoor, although some might argue that he probably should have.” But she did take interest in his deep-rooted fixation with the hospital, saying, “Let’s try to analyze this a little bit. Donald is riddled with anxieties. He has fears that are so deep and unacknowledged that they can never be assuaged. As we know, he talks often about insane asylums, particularly in the context of immigration, because he seems to exist in a hellscape in which malign powers are flinging open wide the doors of their asylums and pointing the criminally insane toward our southern border. One of his rationales for justifying the egregious assaults by ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents on immigrants, undocumented workers, and American citizens is that President Biden welcomed such people in.”

But that doesn’t explain, writes Mary Trump, the persistent “terror” the memory of the hospital seems to inspire in her uncle. “This rant has me thinking about the fact that Alzheimer’s runs in my family,” she writes. “I sometimes see similarities between Donald and my grandfather, Fred Trump, who developed Alzheimer’s sometime in his late seventies or early eighties, which is to say when he was around Donald’s age.” According to Mary Trump, “What they have in common is that they do not always seem… oriented to time and place. The first time I saw this with my grandfather, we were at an event in Brooklyn at which he and my grandmother were being honored … My grandfather was standing next to my uncle Rob when he grabbed Rob’s arm and suddenly looked like a deer in the headlights. I had never seen my grandfather look like that before. He looked terrified, as if he had no idea where he was or who he was with. I’m beginning to see that look in Donald’s eyes sometimes.”

While she notices these alarming similarities, Mary Trump also argues that there is a key difference between Fred and Donald Trump: “I watched my grandfather lose his orientation to time and place. I watched him fail to recognize people he had known for decades. I watched his impulse control erode. But by that point in his life, he was no longer in a position to make decisions that could affect millions of people. Donald is. He is increasingly belligerent, increasingly cruel, increasingly prone to lashing out, and increasingly desperate to regain control whenever he feels threatened. At the same time, he is occupying the most powerful office in the world.” She concludes with a warning that her uncle has become “completely unhinged, often in very public places. I think part of this is because the more threatened he feels, the more he feels that the walls are closing in on him, or the more he feels that he can no longer control the narrative, the more he has to try to regain some control. Of course, this is just making him more dangerous.”

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Trump’s latest 'glitches' suggest 'dementia' and 'decline': psychologist

During a string of recent events, President Donald Trump displayed “highly concerning behavior” in which he was “slurring his words,” “having word-finding issues,” and struggling with other problems “that appear to suggest that he is in significant decline.” This is according to the widely cited psychologist Dr. John Garrison, who warns “it appears that this has been getting dramatically worse over the past year.”

Garrison begins by looking at a recent rally in South Carolina, in which Trump opens with a slurred “nnn-ank you.” According to Garrison, “He's having a hard time enunciating, and that is concerning neurologically because it could be post-stroke behavior. It could be suggesting some degree of dementia, Alzheimer's type dementia, Lewy body dementia. There's all sorts of concerning behaviors that we're seeing that are in line with a variety of neurological concerns.”

“I do want to acknowledge that people do trip over their words,” Garrison admits. “But he does this constantly. We are hearing a distinct change in how he communicates.”

As Trump continues talking, his elbow makes a sudden sharp movement. Garrison zooms in on this, saying, “You may already be noticing there's his arm twitching again. We're going to see a lot more of that today, but he does this constantly when he's at the podium. His right elbow is just constantly twitching.”

Later in the rally, Trump turns to one of his favorite targets, Hillary Clinton. As he attempts to rail against his old nemesis, Garrison notes, “There were a number of issues. One is that he was struggling to remember Clinton's name. His teleprompter probably says Hillary, but you're going to see him close his eyes when he tries to remember the name Clinton. He is struggling there and then he can't say it directly afterwards because I don't think he can remember it right then. We're seeing these kinds of neurological glitches over and over.”

Next, Garrison shows clips from the Freedom 250 Grand Prix event in Washington D.C., saying, “He was having significant problems with spasms, with involuntary spasms[.] The amount of control he's losing is getting more substantial.” In one segment, as Trump nervously prepares for an interview, Garrison asserts that “he looks uncomfortable. You can see on his face that he looks uncomfortable. He's breathing through his teeth in a very unusual way… he looks more uncomfortable here than he normally does.” As Garrison explains, “You're seeing more discomfort from situations like this because I think he gets overwhelmed, which is not something we used to see. And this is what we see when people have neurological deficits. They get overwhelmed more easily. Loud noises can be more distracting. They have a much harder time focusing. So, situations like this that didn't used to be distressing can become very distressing.”

Finally, Garrison shares footage from Trump’s latest Rose Garden event. First, the former notes that the latter “does not use his right hand as much as he used to. There are times where I think that there seems to be some distinct weakness in his right hand.” He says this is frequently accompanied by right arm spasms. Then as another speaker takes the podium, Trump’s right arm makes a very noticeable, seemingly involuntary twitch.

“You could very clearly see it again right there,” says Garrison, “And the reason this happens when he's standing by listening to people is, I believe, because he dislikes having to sit and listen to people. And when he's agitated, he's more likely to have these types of spasms. Sometimes when people are more intensely emotional, then we are going to see more loss of control like this.”

As the speaker continues, so do Trump’s tics. “You're seeing spasms all over the place,” says Garrison. “It doesn't matter where he is. They are constant and they are noticeable. We're also seeing problems with verbal fluency. We're seeing him get confused. We're seeing him slur his words. There are so many challenges we're seeing over and over and over again.”

According to Garrison, “If you're not paying close attention, it's very easy not to notice this, but there is clearly something going on. I've suggested it seems like there was some kind of medical event about a year ago and there's been a decline since then. It may also be that we're dealing with a progressive neurodegenerative disease.”

What’s more, Garrison notes that Trump is making fewer public appearances, which leads him to conclude, “We might start to see a trend. He might start speaking publicly less. We might start seeing less of him because these issues are going to become so difficult to control.”

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Reporter flags bruising, swelling, and secrecy surrounding Trump’s fitness

On Thursday, the New York Times Journalist Maggie Haberman – co-author of a bombshell book that exposed the Trump administration’s dirty secrets – delivered a less-than-optimistic assessment of President Donald Trump’s physical and mental state. After detailing a series of issues with Trump’s fitness, she argued that his allies are “not transparent about his health.”

Haberman was speaking with former CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, who asked a blunt question: “Maggie, do you think that he’s all there?”

After noting that she’s not a doctor, Haberman asserted “there’s no question” that Trump has unexplained “physical problems.” As she elaborated, “The bruising on the hands has been going on for two years, maybe a little under. The answer that we’ve always gotten when we ask about it is that it’s from handshaking…That’s always been a little hard to understand. He takes a very large aspirin regimen. Aspirin can be used as a blood thinner, but he is taking a dose that, according to what I have read from experts, is quite large. There is the swelling of the ankles. There’s the eye closure, which is either sleeping or transcendental meditation or God knows what.” She went on to describe times he’s fallen asleep in court, noting, “other times he was just closing his eyes and seemed to be just sort of putting himself somewhere else.”

Here Haberman took issue with the White House’s approach to Trump’s fitness, saying, “He’s 80 and they are not transparent about his health. He had been taking more frequent trips to Walter Reed and they have released less and less information. He said that he was seen by 22 specialists. I don’t even know who that could be. But these are all valid questions for a president.”

There has been significant discussion of Trump’s fitness for office over the past year due to a combination of his frequent, secretive hospital visits, the swelling and bruising Haberman noted, and the growing number of “red flags” regarding his behavior. Psychologists have suggested a possible “neurodegenerative disorder,” and even a family member has raised the possibility of some “undiagnosed condition.”

For his part, Trump has claimed that he is in excellent health because he has “very good genetics,” and has repeatedly bragged about having “aced” a series of cognitive tests he took that are used for diagnosing dementia. Americans, however, do not agree with Trump’s claims, with 59 percent saying he lacks the mental sharpness to lead, and 55 percent saying he lacks the physical fitness necessary.

Haberman says that while she’s in no position to offer a clinical diagnosis, “There’s a legitimate conversation out there about whether 80-year-olds are wise to keep electing.”

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Trump's 'obvious neurological decay' poses historic danger: diplomat

On Monday, amid news that President Donald Trump is destroying longstanding U.S. alliances, coddling adversaries and considering the use of nuclear weapons, a prominent American diplomat called for bipartisan recognition of the historic danger presented by the Commander in Chief’s "unchecked narcissism" and “absolute cognitive failure.” This is according to attorney Andrew Weinstein, former delegate to the United Nations, who took to social media to raise the alarm.

“We are past the point of political disagreement,” posted Weinstein. “We are witnessing a catastrophic collision between unchecked narcissism and obvious neurological decay. It is the most dangerous intersection in American history: a man with the absolute power of the Presidency and the absolute cognitive failure of a person no longer tethered to reality.” He continued, “Turns out U.S. military readiness becomes strangely flexible when the priority is not upsetting a dictator who runs forced labor camps, starves his own people as punishment, and executes citizens for watching foreign media.”

Weinstein wasn’t the only diplomat to express such sentiments. Former Foreign Service Officer and ambassador Luis Moreno posted, “Please, folks, please, please, take note. Trump is siding with North Korea’s murderous regime over our long standing ally, democratic South Korea. Earth shattering, destructive foreign policy. And frankly, an unprecedented betrayal.”

Trump’s Sunday announcement that the U.S. would reduce its participation in joint military exercises with South Korea has shocked commentators who note not only that the country has been a staunch ally for decades, but that Trump — who describes North Korea as “unthreatening and respectful” — seems to be more interested in developing his “very good” relationship with Kim Jong-Un.

“North Korea’s dictator sends more troops to kill Ukrainians, and shockingly, our president gives him a new gift and gets nothing in return. Trump is so bad at foreign policy,” declared former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul. “Trump has very weak public support for most of his imprudent, self-damaging foreign policies. Few Americans support his disastrous failure of a war against Iran, berating/abandoning our allies in Europe and Asia, annexing Greenland or the Strait of Hormuz, imposing tariffs irrationally and emotionally, and embracing dictators. He wasn’t elected to do any of these things. He is just ad libbing, driven entirely by his own personal impulses. And tragically, those around him are too timid to try to constrain his worst ideas.”

Republicans have been characteristically hesitant to criticize Trump. One of the few conservative lawmakers who did voice concern about the news regarding the Korean peninsula was Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), who declared, “South Korea has been a solid military ally for over 70 years that possesses exquisite military capabilities. Reducing joint exercises with South Korea does nothing more than free up thousands of North Korea's troops to support Putin's systematic kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder of innocent Ukrainian citizens.”

“No kidding,” responded Moreno. “So what are you going to do about it?”

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Trump family member says everyone knows he’s a 'loser'

On Monday, following attempts by President Donald Trump to reframe the story surrounding the recently reported decoy Air Force One debacle in his favor, one of his family members wasn’t having it. According to his niece, psychologist Mary L. Trump, not only was the president not the brave hero of the story, but he’s a “loser” – and “everybody” knows it.

Last week, it was revealed that following a recent visit to Turkey, Trump had secretly switched planes before departing, being shuttled from Air Force One to a military plane via a food service container due to “low confidence” intelligence that warned of a possible missile attack against the president by Iran. This raised accusations that Trump had fled while leaving unaware journalists and staffers in danger, a characterization he attempted to deflect by asserting, “I think actually the plane that I flew on was at greater risk because that would be the plane that they would be more likely to go for.”

“How credible is this?” wondered Mary Trump in response to her uncle’s claim. “Donald snuck off of Air Force One, got into a catering truck, secretly got onto another plane, all so he could be put at greater risk.”

“Yeah,” she continued in a mocking tone. “I think I was at greater risk because I know that sneaking off like a coward without telling anybody, and being in the back of a food service cart to run away, makes me look like the weak, pathetic loser everybody knows I am, and I cannot let that narrative stand.”

She was far from the only commentator to take issue with Trump’s attempt to wriggle out of the hot seat. According to Barack Obama’s former speechwriter Jon Favreau, for example, the president’s claim was "the dumbest thing possible." Speaking on the podcast Pod Save America, Favreau declared, "Yeah, they'd be more likely to go for the plane you were on. Of course. Which is why they tried to put you on another plane that they didn't know about... I don't know why I say that in such a shocked way, but like that is it's just like new levels of Trump being a dips——."

“It is very, very funny that he hid in a catering cart,” noted co-host Dan Pfeiffer.

For her part, Mary Trump is a frequent critic of her uncle president. Recently, she took to social media to declare that he’s terrible at what he loves most: golf. A week before that, she shared a clip of Trump admitting he was in the dark about news regarding China, claiming it was further evidence that he “doesn’t know what’s going on.” That came on the heels of her assertion that the president is afflicted with an “undiagnosed condition” resulting in cognitive decline.

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Nobel winner issues dark warning about Trump's mental state

Over the past week, President Donald Trump’s actions regarding the U.S. Navy revealed that the Commander in Chief is “seriously mentally ill.” This is according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who on Monday explained why Trump’s confused military priorities suggest that he’s “sundowning.”

As Krugman notes, reports have emerged about “the horrific conditions on board the USS Lincoln, the aircraft carrier that’s been stationed for a very long time without, it appears, adequate resupply and with toilets flooding. Apparently just horrific conditions, which turn out to be not unique to that ship: Other ships are having problems. There’s the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship, which apparently has run out of feminine hygiene products, among other things.” Trump was dismissive when asked about the situation, prompting families of suffering sailors to say he should be “ashamed" of his mismanagement.

Rather than order conditions be improved, however, as Krugman notes, Trump’s only intervention has been anything but helpful. He’s ordered, for example, “that the Navy construct a whole new class of ships, Trump-class battleships, which are useless and would be sitting ducks.” Then, he demanded that the Navy “replace modern catapults with steam catapults, which he thinks are cooler,” and that they “relocate the command tower on aircraft carriers because he wants them to look more like the way they looked during World War II.”

“The idea that the president is imposing his personal aesthetic preferences to undo design decisions that were made by military professionals is…incredible,” says Krugman. “I think these military failings should be put in the same context as the frantic and disastrous destruction and redesign of Washington, D.C. The demolition of the East Wing. The disastrous attempt to refurbish the Reflecting Pool to reflect Trump’s aesthetics. Even the gold leaf and gold lettering that is polluting the White House. All of this is really part of the same picture. So what is going on here?”

Krugman’s assessment is grim. In his estimation, “Obviously we have a seriously mentally ill, mentally deficient guy with his finger on the button. The president of the United States is clearly dissociating. I’ve been calling it 'sundowning' because I personally saw sundowning during my father’s awful last year. Trump is not in full possession of his faculties, and he is obsessing about things that are really just kind of remnant ego trips. I haven’t read the Haberman book yet, but reportedly he spends a large fraction of his time and probably a larger fraction of his mental energy on his redecoration projects, which aside from all being carried out disastrously, are also in incredibly bad taste. But this is where he is. He’s actually more interested in his giant, tacky, gilded ballroom than he is in the fate of the nation.”

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Psychologist flags Trump’s 'neurological twitch' not due to 'advanced age'

During an appearance on Monday, President Donald Trump displayed a series of red flags that suggest he may be struggling with “something neurological,” and it’s becoming more noticeable all the time. This is according to clinical and forensic psychologist John Paul Garrison, who later explained why he thinks Trump’s “involuntary” actions can’t be chalked up to old age alone.

The incident in question was an executive order signing in the Oval Office, during which Garrison says that the president appeared “to be exhibiting a wide variety of worsening neurological symptoms,” such as slurring words, getting confused, and falling asleep. As the event started, notes Garrison, Trump began addressing Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., and he noticeably “misses words. He thinks he's saying things correctly, and he doesn't even realize how badly he's messing up what he's trying to say.”

After that, as Kennedy speaks, Trump begins dozing off before snapping back to attention. According to Garrison, “There's some awareness that he is drifting. And he doesn't have the good judgment to realize that everybody's watching him right now. He really is having a hard time thinking through these situations.” Then the president falls fully asleep, before waking with “some confusion,” “nodding his head trying to go along with what's being said.”

“This is not normal behavior even if somebody is 80,” asserts Garrison. “I get that that's an advanced age, but that doesn't explain when you're sitting in front of lights around a lot of other people how you would fall asleep. What does explain it is either neurological problems, poststroke behavior or some sort of neurological impairment that is causing this. For example, if somebody has a stroke and it affects their hypothalamus or their thalamus or a number of other regions of the brain, it can cause excessive sleepiness. So it's very possible that there is damage in part of the brain that contributes to this behavior. His age truly does not explain this behavior.”

As the event progresses, Trump “just keeps falling asleep over and over again,” says Garrison. “This has been happening for months now, but this is a great example of a time where it's happening very clearly right in the middle of an important meeting… If you count every single time that President Trump drifts off over the course of this entire 40-minute Oval Office meeting, it's dozens of times.” What’s more, notes Garrison, “He's having a very hard time orienting when he wakes up again.”

Here Garrison points out a “neurological twitch” the president sometimes displays. According to Garrison, “He starts becoming incoherent,” and then his elbow twitches outward suddenly. “When he's standing, he's doing it constantly. They're really large motions, but it does seem to be there's an involuntary twitch, which once again, all signs point to something neurological and something serious neurological going on.”

"I really suggest that anybody that truly believes that this is entirely because of his age reconsider that position," Garrison concludes. "Because that absolutely does not adequately explain what we're seeing."

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Trump 'doesn't know what’s going on' and is incapable of figuring it out: niece

President Donald Trump’s confused response to questioning last week was a sign that he “doesn’t know what’s going on” in the face of grave threats from U.S. adversaries. This is according to his niece, psychologist Mary L. Trump, who responded on Monday to her uncle’s surprise at reports that China is sending weapons to Iran.

Trump was speaking with reporters in the Oval Office last week when he was asked about a new report that Iran was expected to receive its first shipment of hundreds of Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defense missile launchers. "Well, that would be surprising,” responded Trump. “I mean, things like that happen, but that would be surprising. He [Chinese President Xi Jinping] told me very ⁠strongly he wouldn't partake, but he knows I'd be quite disappointed.”

“What’s he telling us there?” asked Mary Trump. “He doesn’t know what’s going on.” If this is the case, she says, President Xi lied to Trump, and the latter bought it or is simply oblivious altogether. Another possibility, according to Mary Trump: her uncle knew that he was being lied to, and is now pretending otherwise.

But there’s another key thing to consider: “Iran is about to get more weaponry with which to attack U.S. troops and our allies,” notes Mary Trump. President Trump, however, doesn’t seem to care, shrugging it off as a disappointment.

As Newsweek explains, “A Chinese company is set to supply Iran with hundreds of portable anti-air missile systems as the Islamic Republic seeks to rebuild air defenses devastated by United States and Israeli strikes, according to Reuters. The report comes just days after U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated that Chinese leader Xi Jinping had assured him Chinese firms would not arm Tehran.”

While Trump has been adamant that China, including Chinese companies, would not supply weapons to Iran, “Chinese-made systems such as the C-802 anti-ship cruise missile, and Iranian derivatives based on its design, have been used by Iran and supplied to its proxy, the Yemen-based Houthis, who in recent days have fired rockets at Saudi oil tankers as part of a blockade they declared in the Red Sea over the kingdom's military strikes in Yemen. In February, shortly before the U.S. and Israel launched their offensive, Reuters reported Iran was nearing a deal to acquire China's CM-302 supersonic anti-ship missile.”

According to Mary Trump, the president is incapable of handling the situation, concluding, “All Donald thinks he needs to do to get his way is act very disappointed.”

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Family member reveals Trump’s 'undiagnosed condition'

In recent months, there has been no shortage of alarms raised over President Donald Trump’s physical and mental health, with polls showing the majority of Americans doubt his “stamina and sharpness” to lead. On Friday, one of his family members discussed his “undiagnosed condition,” and delved into the thing he “fears most.”

This is according to Trump’s niece, psychologist Mary L. Trump, in conversation with political operative Sidney Blumenthal, the latter of whom wondered of the president "has always been crazy. We know he’s mad, but is the deterioration accelerating, and how fast?”

“I think that’s a really good and important point to underscore,” said Mary Trump. “This isn’t a different guy. This isn’t somebody who’s suddenly becoming a worse person or a more unhinged person. You see some of Donald’s former allies trying to distance themselves from him by saying, ‘He’s not the guy I knew.’ Yes, he is. He’s been exactly the same person for decades. What we’re seeing now is the perfect storm of cognitive, psychological, and physical decline simply revealing who he is in a way that’s making it more obvious for people who either haven’t been paying attention or, for their own reasons, wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt and pretend he was something he wasn’t. So yes, the decline is worsening, and that’s simply what happens.”

Here she raised the issue of “his psychiatric disorders,” asserting that “these are longstanding, untreated, undiagnosed conditions,” and explaining, “When you don’t treat an illness, it worsens over time. The psychological deterioration is also being accelerated by the combination of cognitive and physical decline. He’s 80 years old, and he’s not healthy. Alzheimer’s runs in my family. My grandfather had Alzheimer’s, and his symptoms began worsening in his early eighties. He was also physically healthier than Donald is.”

Blumenthal noted that, “Donald loves strongmen, and he loves to be seen as a strongman himself. He loves to cozy up to Vladimir Putin and stand beside Xi Jinping. He talked endlessly about the love letters he received from Kim Jong Un. Now, however, he’s encountered actual strongmen who are defeating him. This must be a tremendous shock to him.” This prompted Mary Trump to emphasize her president uncle’s frailty, explaining how it contributes to his greatest fear.

“I don’t know that he can grapple with it on a conscious level, which is exactly why he’s becoming increasingly desperate,” she explained. “He’s trying to do several things simultaneously: change the subject, change the narrative, and somehow manufacture a win. What I find fascinating is that, because of the ways in which he admires and makes himself subservient to so-called strongmen, he reveals just how weak he actually is. It reminds me of one of the fundamental truths about Donald that people need to understand.”

“The thing he fears most is humiliation,” she continued. “And right now, he’s being humiliated on a daily basis by the consequences of the very things he chose to do, from the ridiculous, like the reflecting pool, to something as catastrophic as the war with Iran. Deep down, he is now, just as he has always been, a terrified little boy. Everything he does is driven by fear and by a desperate need to avoid humiliation.”

This, says Mary Trump, has made the president an easy target for manipulation. As she explained, those in his orbit “understand his narcissism and his profound insecurities. He’ll approve almost anything as long as he’s getting what he wants in return. Right now, what he wants most is adulation, compliments, power, and money. Mostly money, but the rest matters to him too.”

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White House leaks expose 'sleepwalking' Trump’s 'physical and cognitive decline'

White House aides are desperate to keep President Donald Trump focused on issues that actually matter to American voters, but warn he has become “extremely distracted.” According to leaks from within the White House, Trump’s inability to stay on task suggests the alarming degree of his “physical and cognitive decline," with the Daily Beast reporting that these are not casual rumors: “These aides are speaking out because they fear Trump is almost literally sleepwalking into a midterm disaster.”

This information comes via Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House strategic communications director during Trump’s first term. Speaking with CNN on Wednesday, she revealed that “the president continues to seem extremely distracted. White House advisers — I talk to many of them — they simply want him to focus on the economy, yet he will not do that.”

“For some reason, he wants to talk about virtually everything but the economy and lowering the cost of living,” she continued. And because of his inattention to the economy, she predicted, “the midterms don’t look great for Republicans,” adding, “I think it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that the House is going to flip.”

As the Daily Beast notes, “A CNN poll, released the same day, shows Trump’s approval ratings have plummeted to an astonishing 34 percent. That’s the lowest number, the network notes, since the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021, at the end of his first term. A litany of scandals, controversies, and blunders have driven that number steadily down over the past 18 months. None more so than his handling of the economy, with a staggering two-thirds of respondents saying the president’s policies have ‘worsened economic conditions in the country.’”

While polls have consistently shown not only that the economy and cost of living are Americans’ foremost concerns, but that they are the very reason voters took a second chance on Trump in the first place, he has repeatedly claimed that affordability is a Democratic “hoax” created to make him look bad.

“It was a word, you know, made up by the Democrats: affordability,” Trump declared at a rally earlier this month. “They said, affordability. I said, I've been here one day. Don't worry, I'll take care of it. And we're taking care of it.”

It’s not the first time he’s made such an assertion. “It’s a con job. I think affordability is the greatest con job,” he said in December. Then later the same month, he ranted, "They use the word 'affordability,' and that's their only word. They say, 'Affordability,' and everyone says, 'Oh, that must mean Trump has high prices.' No, our prices are coming down tremendously. They have a new word. They always have a hoax. The new word is 'affordability.'"

But the numbers don’t agree. According to tracking by NBC News, grocery prices have marched up steadily or remained stubbornly high over the course of his second term. Gas prices have exploded since Trump launched war with Iran, hitting an increase of over 30 percent as of late July. Because of these and other factors, consumer sentiment has plunged to an all-time low.

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'Senility has a MAGA voice': Trump sparks Alzheimer’s speculation with new bizarre claim

Since Monday, a clip of President Donald Trump making a bizarre claim has circulated the internet, renewing speculation that the aging commander-in-chief is afflicted with cognitive decline.

Trump was speaking at a General Motors plant in Milford, Michigan, praising American automakers, when he lapsed into an anecdote about his father, Fred Trump, who died in 1999, that left onlookers scratching their heads. “I had a wonderful father, right, and he was a hard worker who was in the real estate business ... He didn’t want planes,” said Trump. “They didn’t have planes in those days, I don’t think.”

It suddenly seemed to dawn on him that he was off-topic, prompting him to reference his famously rambling manner of address, saying, “Just to mention, you know, it’s called the weave, right? I go from one — we always get back to the right subject.”

Commentators were quick to point out the confused statement.

“Trump claims that airplanes didn’t exist when his father was alive,” posted political commentator Ed Krassenstein.

Fred Trump was born in 1905 and died in 1999, and as critics pointed out, the Wright Brothers famously made the first powered flight two years before he was born. According to the Daily Star, “Aviation didn’t just exist during Fred Trump’s life, it dominated it, spanning World War II air warfare, the rise of commercial jet travel and even Concorde. Others piled on with more detail, noting the first commercial flight was a 17-mile hop from Tampa to St Petersburg in 1914 — when Fred Trump was nine.”

“Facts are stubborn things,” noted one commenter. Others, however, suggested that this could be evidence of Trump’s mental decline.

“Senility has a MAGA voice,” posted one. “He clearly inherited his father’s Alzheimer’s gene,” suggested another. And wondered yet another, “Do narcissists lie because they believe that people just take what they say as the truth without checking?”

This is far from the first time speculation has been raised about Trump’s mental health. The confusion apparent in the 80-year-old president’s recent speeches has had some suggest he may be “sundowning,” with even his ostensible allies warning that dementia has him “off the rails.” According to one source inside the White House, “Donald is deteriorating before our very eyes. His physical and mental health is in decline. Those around him don’t know what to do about it. It can only get worse. He’s 80 – and it’s showing.”

As a neuroscientist explained last week, there has been “growing interest in Trump showing progressing signs of dementia, notably FTD,” as well as “Malignant Narcissism.” And while the president hasn’t been officially diagnosed, the neuroscientist says there is a clear “psychological pattern” suggesting Trump has some form of “neurodegenerative disorder.”

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