UPDATE/CORRECTION:

In this piece, we state that Donald Trump has dementia. However, for the record, we want to make it clear that Trump has never received a diagnosis of dementia. The Alzheimer’s Society states on its website, “A diagnosis of dementia can only be made after a thorough assessment by a specialist health professional. This involves the specialist taking a thorough medical history, carrying out detailed tests, and most often arranging a brain scan. It’s not possible to reliably diagnose a person just by watching them on TV.”

Therefore, we want to make it clear that Donald Trump does NOT have an official diagnosis of dementia, and we are basing our opinion on how he acts. We also base our conclusions on the opinions of experts in the field, who have published their concerns over Trump’s cognition.

1. Cornell expert says Trump’s frequent phonemic paraphasia ‘are signs of early dementia’

2 – Trump’s rambling speeches raise questions about mental decline

3 – Donald Trump Dementia Evidence ‘Overwhelming,’ Says Top Psychiatrist

Additionally, Trump’s nephew, Fred Trump III, said he saw signs in his uncle of Alzheimer’s, the same disease that afflicted Trump’s father Fred Trump, and sister Maryanne Trump, “Trump Nephew Warns of Dementia Signs in Family—Including Trump Himself”

Now, in all fairness, we also believe current president Joe Biden has issues with his cognition. But since we are Democrats, and fear what Trumpism has done, and will do to our country, we believe it is important to focus on Trump’s cognition.

However, we do want to make it clear that Trump has not received an official diagnosis of dementia or Alzheimer’s. And in our opinion, if a diagnosis of dementia or Alzheimer’s was announced, it would most likely happen years after Trump left the presidency. President Ronald Reagan showed signs of issues with his cognition, and yet he didn’t announce his diagnosis until November 5, 1994, 5 years after he left the presidency.

Political Flare is an opinion site. Our opinion is that Trump is showing signs that his cognition is failing. However, we want to make clear this is based on our opinion. No official diagnosis has been given. More so, only physicians who have examined Trump can make that diagnosis.

Editor – Nicole James

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Donald Trump was up into the wee hours of Sunday morning posting on Truth Social, and he once again appears to be off his rocker. I don’t know of any other 78-year-old men who wrap up their Saturday night with a foray back into wild conspiracy theories.

I do have a 97-year-old neighbor named Ruth who’s up at 4 AM watching Fox News every day, but then, she goes to bed at six.

Beginning at 10:35 PM (my time, so 1:35 his time), Trump posted 11 different “Truths” in the span of 3 minutes. I pray that when I’m Trump’s age, I’ll even be able to finish peeing in that short a time.

Four of those posts, of course, were about immigrants. He seems to have struck a vein once more in this campaign like he did back in 2016. But instead of building a wall, Trump is now promising mass deportations and the “liberation” of American cities from the clutches of evil foreigners.

Trump has, at this point, convinced his racist voting cult that all Haitians eat cats, all Black people are Haitians, and they’re taking over the country.

And don’t forget the Mexicans!

Four of the posts seemed to be about policy, even if only tangentially. His populist message about reducing taxes on overtime pay seems to be landing well with the people who forgot he drastically changed the rules on who’s eligible for overtime pay to begin with.

Trump had a few more that were jabs at Kamala Harris and the debate, of course. He chided one of her answers about inflation from the debate, and poked fun at ABC’s fact checkers. He even got a post in about Hunter Biden!

Maybe my favorite from the middle of the night was the article he posted from Newsmax, angrily answering why he seemed so angry after viewers and pundits pointed out how angry he was at the debate. The headline, “Trump in Nevada: Of Course I Was Angry At Debate”.

Of course.

Alarmingly, however, Trump seems to have gotten only about 6 hours of sleep, if he wasn’t busy doing something else. Less, in fact. The first time stamp on today’s tirade puts his nap at a short 5 hours and 54 minutes, if he didn’t even brush his teeth before he hit the sack and rolled over to immediately pick up his phone when he opened his eyes.

In this case, I’ll give the man the benefit of the doubt. As in, I have no doubt he occasionally skips the toothbrush and then runs to the can in the morning with his phone in his hand.

And is today’s confession to his social media psychology department any less crazy? Not on your life. The first post of the day was a literal cry for help. Seriously, he screams HELP! at the end.

The United States Postal Service has admitted that it is a poorly run mess that is experiencing mail loss and delays at a level never seen before. With this being the FACT, how can we possibly be expected to allow or trust the U.S. Postal Service to run the 2024 Presidential Election? It is not possible for them to do so. HELP!

It goes without saying that not a single word of that post is true, but it’s nice to see he’s being generous enough with his repetitive phrases that we don’t have to go to one of his rallies to hear him say “at a level never seen before.”

Man, the unprecedented stuff he’s been present for is happening at levels never seen before!

Then his posts veer back to illegals, then a simple MAGA post — just the phrase he’s used so much that everyone’s forgotten he stole it from Reagan.

Wait, back to illegal immigrants after that, and a seeming contradiction in terms: “The Democrats are DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY! REVERSE DEPORTATION IMMEDIATELY!”

Does he want to stop deporting people? Does he want to reverse deport people? Like, IMPORT them?

Then Trump re-posts a repost from one of his cultists of a screencap of the notoriously smart Candace Owens. What does Ms. Owens have to say to “@Trump_Rebel” that the former president thought was so important?

Why, she’s ranting again about the myth that illegal immigrants are on welfare.

First, Candace, that’s a ridiculous name. I guarantee there’s not a single person in America, legally or illegally, whose last name is “Hopped-The-Border.” That doesn’t even SOUND Spanish.

And number two, it is equally unlikely that you’ll find someone completely undocumented in America getting anything but emergency aid, which nobody has to wait five years for. They’re certainly not collecting welfare.

Again, none of it’s true, but Candace convinced the Trump-fan tweeter, who in turn convinced Trump.

And then to cap off his morning spree (we’re now at 9 Truths this morning, but at least he spaced them out over an hour this time, at a paltry one every 7 minutes), Trump complained about Kamala some more:

“Kamala’s new motto is, “A NEW WAY FORWARD.” They’ve run the place for almost four years. She is worse than Biden!”

He’s still trying to convince everyone simultaneously that Biden was horrible, but also she was actually running the show, so everything wrong in America is Kamala’s fault.

Oh dear, something REALLY BAD is happening because how else do you explain this, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”

Sorry for all the sarcasm in this. It’s just depressing to wake up and see that a guy who has a chance of winning the presidency again is a pathetic, raging loon.