https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CWWpWXtaiic
Dr. John Gartner joins the Beast's Joanna Coles to assess the unraveling of Donald Trump’s mind. The clinical psychologist and former Johns Hopkins professor, who warned early about Trump’s “malignant narcissism,” now says the president shows clear signs of cognitive decline, comparing his confusion and grandiosity to dictators in their final stages. Coles presses Gartner on whether Trump’s dementia makes him more dangerous or simply more delusional, and what that means for the remainder of Trump's second term and beyond. Is America being led by a man losing touch with reality, or is Trump still cunning enough to conceal his growing symptoms?
Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzz_xOjwsH8
"If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness."
At a recent cabinet meeting called to discuss the flooding tragedy in Texas, the war in Ukraine and Gaza, the bombing of Iran, and global tariffs, Trump went on a 13-minute monologue about how he had decorated the cabinet meeting room…
"What we see are the classic signs of dementia, which is gross deterioration from someone's baseline and function," John Gartner, a psychologist and author who spent 28 years as an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said in June…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/donald-trump-mental-fitness
Democrats have called the investigations a distraction from issues with the current administration. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, the former president Bill Clinton said he believed Biden was mentally sound. "The only concern I thought he had to deal with was: 'Could anybody do that job until they were 86?'" Clinton said. "We'd had several long talks. I had never seen him and walked away thinking 'He can't do this any more.'"…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/trump-inquiry-biden