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This Is What Proves Trump’s Dementia: Psychologist
Dr. John Gartner tells The Daily Beast Podcast that signs of deterioration in Trump’s functioning are readily apparent.
Catherine Bouris
The Daily Beast Podcast
Updated Sep. 21 2025 8:06PM EDT /
Published Sep. 21 2025 12:17PM EDT
At least one psychologist is convinced that President Donald Trump has dementia.
Dr. John Gartner told The Daily Beast Podcast’s Joanna Coles that he has observed a “major deterioration” in Trump’s language skills, motor skills, and impulse control. The former Johns Hopkins professor and co-host of the podcast Shrinking Trump explained how he arrived at a diagnosis of dementia for the president, telling The Daily Beast that doing so involves assessing someone’s against their own baseline.
“We have to see a major deterioration in functioning in language and thinking and psychomotor performance and impulse control and a whole variety of areas... what a lot of people don’t realize is that Donald Trump used to be a very articulate person.”
“He used to speak with a high level of vocabulary in very polished paragraphs. Now what we see is not only has his vocabulary gone down, but... there are times when he’s really unable to complete a thought. Sometimes he’s unable to complete a word,” Gartner continued.
Gartner also cited Trump’s tendency to go on tangents in the middle of his own sentences, using a tangent about Hannibal Lecter as an example.
“He was lying and saying that they’re sending all these immigrants from insane asylums, right? And then he goes, ‘Silence of the Lambs. Anyone seen Silence of the Lambs?’ Well, Silence of the Lambs is a movie about insane asylums. Okay, so now we’ve moved from immigrants to has anyone seen this movie?“
“And then he goes, ‘The late great Hannibal Lecter. Nobody likes to talk about him anymore.‘ Well, first of all, he’s not dead, he’s a fictional character, so he can’t be the late Hannibal Lecter,” Gartner explained.
Gartner went on to tell The Daily Beast Podcast that he believes Trump to be a malignant narcissist, which, when combined with the deterioration in his functioning, is a “worst case scenario”.
“So that’s what we started out [with] as a baseline, but now what we have is this chronic organic deterioration from his own baseline. So we have in a sense the worst of both worlds because his judgment was always bad, he was always impulsive, he was always a liar, but now he really is losing his ability to think clearly, to plan, to understand things and to inhibit his speech and his behavior,” Gartner said.
In addition to a deterioration in his language skills and impulse control, Gartner, and other medial professionals, have observed a decline in his psychomotor performance.
“One of the dementia experts that I’ve consulted with is convinced he has frontotemporal dementia because of this symptom alone, which is it’s called a wide-based gait. If you look at his right leg, sometimes he just swings it like a dead weight in a semicircle... the expert that I consulted with said this is what we call pathognomonic. You don’t see this in anyone unless they have frontotemporal dementia,” Gartner explained.
Gartner also referenced the president’s diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency and reports of his ‘droopy face‘ at a memorial event on September 11, which made waves after footage of the event was posted online.
“That’s not something that comes with age. It really is suggestive of some kind of potential mini stroke. So all of these things could be related,” he added.
“The circulatory problems could be related to the deterioration in his brain. They could even be causal. Or he could just have both dementia and some chronic medical problems. We don’t know. This is really an area where we’re really not sure. But he’s clearly deteriorating mentally and physically.”
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@Suzianne said"He used to speak with a high level of vocabulary in very polished paragraphs. "
https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-what-demonstrates-donald-trumps-dementia-psychologist/
This Is What Proves Trump’s Dementia: Psychologist
Dr. John Gartner tells The Daily Beast Podcast that signs of deterioration in Trump’s functioning are readily apparent.
Catherine Bouris
The Daily Beast Podcast
Updated Sep. 21 2025 8:06PM EDT /
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@chessgirlzzz saidnext presidential elections (if they happen) are in 2028 and Trump can't run (as per the constution)
Good luck trying to get anyone to listen.
After 4 years of denial about Biden, you won't be able to use the dementia bs on Trump.
Focus on 2032 and move to center.
@Ponderable saidThe next cycle is utterly predictable: Vance will run, Trump will dictate the narrative from Mar-A-Lago via proxy, just as he did during Biden's presidency (via Johnson). That's assuming Trump is alive. He may succumb to apoplexy before his second term completes; he's not a well man.
next presidential elections (if they happen) are in 2028 and Trump can't run (as per the constution)
@chessgirlzzz saidBiden is not Hitler. Trump is Hitler. A demented Hitler.
Good luck trying to get anyone to listen.
After 4 years of denial about Biden, you won't be able to use the dementia bs on Trump.
Focus on 2032 and move to center.
@Ponderable saidHe couldn't run in 2024 either, per the 14th Amendment.
next presidential elections (if they happen) are in 2028 and Trump can't run (as per the constution)
So much for the Constitution.
@chessgirlzzz saidTrump is and was a major fail, even before his first term.
Good luck trying to get anyone to listen.
After 4 years of denial about Biden, you won't be able to use the dementia bs on Trump.
Focus on 2032 and move to center.
What makes you think he's "the man for the job"?
You people have been hypnotized. The word is similar to "hype" for a reason.
@Sleepyguy saidI'll take sleepy over paranoid any day.
@Suzianne
I'll take Trump's mental state over Biden's any day.
Who you think you're kidding?
Who do you think you are kidding?
Trump's been a threat to humanity ever since he came down that escalator.
@boonon saidIf you think that's an insult, what do you think actually being as bad as Hitler is?
Casually throwing around the name Hitler is an insult to all victims of the holocaust. To all survivors and all of the brave men who fought and died to free them. You are vile.
You support this man. That is easily the bigger insult.
You want the SS in this country. We want to stop that from happening.
You can't seriously think that's worse.
@boonon saidThe surviving victims don't want it happening again, either.
Casually throwing around the name Hitler is an insult to all victims of the holocaust. To all survivors and all of the brave men who fought and died to free them. You are vile.
Have some balls.
@Ponderable saidYa we pretty much know it's a Republican in 2028.
next presidential elections (if they happen) are in 2028 and Trump can't run (as per the constution)
That's why I said focus on 2032.
I'm being nice with the 2032.