'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.”