Bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity

"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

 

Questions surrounding Trump's mental acuity are a real 2024 story

Who can make sense of this talk? 

The words below were taken verbatim from a campaign speech former President Donald Trump delivered in Potterville, Michigan, Thursday when he was attempting, at least initially, to criticize Kamala Harris' record in San Francisco, presumably referring to her tenure as district attorney there: 

"She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it's — and I own a big building there — it's no — I shouldn't talk about this but that's OK I don't give a damn because this is what I'm doing. I should say it's the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can't do that. I don't care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, 'What do you think you lost?' I said, 'Probably two, three billion. That's OK, I don't care.' They say, 'You think you'd do it again?' And that's the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don't know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, 'Do that study again, because I think there's nobody close to Trump.' I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?"

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-age-harris-ramble-rcna168979