This website (and me personally) do not want to see dementia claims normalized against political opponents. With that caveat, the symptoms addressed below require analysis by professionals and we have one.

For the last 3-4 years, high-ranking politicians and analysts have questioned what might happen when Trump faces a real crisis, given his tenuous grasp on sane behavior. The fear has been that increased stress will send Trump right over the edge into total insanity. We have previously published that, in our opinion, the last five days show that Trump can no longer function as president and must be forced to step down. At what point do major papers and other media also start discussing a possible need for resignation?

One American professor of psychiatry isn’t afraid to bring up the issue and say that the Scarborough obsession might well be a sign of dementia.

It’s critical that we have a national discussion analyzing Trump’s latest behaviors and the need for a damned medical exam. Trump still refuses to do the annual physical for which he’s more than past due.

According to Professor John Talmedge MD (Psychiatry), this could be dementia unleashed. Link to all tweets here:

Bizarre, deranged Trump tweets promote baseless conspiracy theory. Normal, sane adults do not behave or think this way. Dementia impairs judgment as well as impulse control & reality testing in senile individuals.

This Trump post is evidence of his mental illness, cognitive decline, failed judgment, & impaired thinking. No normal person behaves or thinks like this, even in private. This is a screenshot.

And in a particularly damning comment that goes straight to decompensating behavior, Talmadge slams the door on talk that this is normal:

“Ask him about his strategy for Afghanistan, or his thoughts about resolving the healthcare crisis, and he will tell a ‘Sir’ story and bullshit about something unrelated to the question. He does it every time. He did not do this in interviews 20 years ago. He wasn’t bright or exceptionally articulate, but he could answer a question in plain English, with at least a high school vocabulary.”

It is time for major news media to start the discussion about whether Trump needs to be removed or step down. It is true that there is an epidemic rocking the country and another horrifically racist police killing of a black man, and these are important issues that fight for time in media coverage. But such troubles require leadership and we’re getting none.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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