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OKIsItJustMe

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Wed Sep 25, 2024, 12:49 PM Sep 2024

Mental health experts sound the alarm on Trump's potential 'cognitive decline' as he's 'lost touch with reality' [View all]

Source: The Independent

Mental health experts sound the alarm on Trump’s potential ‘cognitive decline’ as he’s ‘lost touch with reality’
Exclusive: After President Biden’s cognitive decline was heavily scrutinized, mental health experts tell The Independent they have similar concerns about Trump

Rhian Lubin

Leading mental health experts, including a former White House doctor, have expressed alarm over Donald Trump’s mental faculties, suggesting he’s showing signs of “cognitive decline.”

Several experts told The Independent their concerns about the Republican presidential nominee are similar to those they had about President Joe Biden before he dropped out of the race, warning Trump appears to “have lost touch with reality,” as exhibited by the 78-year-old’s “rambling” speeches and “erratic” debate performance.

They join a growing number of mental health professionals calling for independent and objective cognitive testing as November’s election edges closer.



That was on full display at Monday night’s rally in Pennsylvania, where Trump was mocked for his “word salads.”He said of Kamala Harris: “She had the other interview with the other guy who was a nice guy I think from Philadelphia from Pennsylvania, he was a nice guy, he was asking her all these [inaudible] — the daily take — they don’t take like I do! Anybody wants to go, go what the hell differences they make — they have — and how dishonest was ABC...”



Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mental-health-fears-cognitive-decline-b2615076.html



Perhaps not exactly “breaking news” that he’s gone around the bend…
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Nope, not breaking as It's analysis / opinion cstanleytech Sep 2024 #1
Here's the news OKIsItJustMe Sep 2024 #3
Again though that doesn't alas change it. cstanleytech Sep 2024 #4
Memo to Noah Webster: redefine "breaking", will become important in "information age" jaxexpat Sep 2024 #14
WTAF? President Biden's "cognitive decline"?? Bastards. niyad Sep 2024 #2
Seriously I never hear President Biden say anything remotely like that. Biophilic Sep 2024 #16
Mental health experts have been sounding the alarm about Trump for years. Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #5
Thinking that someone who has been dead for nearly 20 years is coming back to The Late Show is a sign. twodogsbarking Sep 2024 #6
And who had retired almost 13 years before that! niyad Sep 2024 #18
Again? AKwannabe Sep 2024 #7
it would be news barbtries Sep 2024 #8
trump's 78 years old, unravelling publicly, can't string words together in a coherent sentence; mpcamb Sep 2024 #20
What difference does it make to the GOP and MAGAt voters? DJ Synikus Makisimus Sep 2024 #9
Trump's stream of UNconsciousness is getting more and more pronounced. patphil Sep 2024 #10
Recommended. H2O Man Sep 2024 #11
Would you be so kind as to link to it, as I seem to have missed it. niyad Sep 2024 #19
LOL Skittles Sep 2024 #12
I would have said it was long COVID, but there is something else here. 4lbs Sep 2024 #13
We've been hearing this for years. I'm not sure that the people who need to hear it are listening. jalan48 Sep 2024 #15
Obviously they are oblivious. Boomerproud Sep 2024 #21
I work around seniors in my moving job and he sounds like one of those people I move into assisted living or memory care kimbutgar Sep 2024 #17
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