On Tuesday, a widely cited psychologist took to YouTube to raise the alarm regarding “more highly concerning behavior” from President Donald Trump. According to Dr. John Garrison, Trump’s recent actions suggest “steep neurological decline” and a dangerously “manic-like state.”
Garrison began by playing a clip from a recent Fox News interview, in which Trump declared that the price of oil is “going to go down like a rocket.” According to Garrison, “There were two neurological issues in this very short clip, both of them verbal. One is that he’s having speech planning issues, saying ‘going down like a rocket.’ Obviously, that’s combining phrases. He’s having a hard time organizing his thoughts. And second is an involuntary vocalization.” Here Garrison replays the clip, noting an abrupt sound Trump makes, explaining, “The pathways that deal with language are disrupted. We are seeing serious issues with language with President Trump.” What’s more, Garrison asserts that such vocalizations are “relatively new.”
In the interview, Trump begins talking about the midterm elections, saying, “I’m going to campaign like I did for myself and I’m going to hope that people think that I’m on. And if I’m not on, if they don’t go out and vote, if they go out and vote, we’re going to win easily.” As Garrison notes, “What he’s saying makes absolutely no sense. He cannot organize his thoughts. He gets confused and he believes what he’s saying is coherent. But it truly makes no sense.” According to Garrison, this struggle with verbal planning can be evidence of underlying “neurological issues.”
Here Garrison points to Trump’s pupils, which have remained dilated throughout the interview. “Trump is in a very bright room for this interview,” says Garrison. “You can see the lights actually reflecting off of his eyes, and what should be happening is that his pupils should be constricting rather than dilating because when there’s too much light in a room, your pupils get smaller, not bigger.” According to Garrison, “Dilated pupils like this can be from a wide variety of reasons, but it’s not just something that happens,” and likely culprits include medication for something like incontinence, Parkinson’s disease, or seizures.
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As much as I LOATHE him, he is nothing but a mouthpiece. There are numerous people/entities controlling him and the things that are getting done in the government. I don’t actually believe that he has any power to make anything happen. I think the people who are controlling him are making things happen. First of all he’s not that smart, and second of all he’s obviously in cognitive decline I wouldn’t be surprised if he even knows what day it is. And even after he is gone however that is the powers that are controlling him are going to control the next puppet of the Republican party. So even if he croaks tomorrow and the couch fucker is in there nothing’s going to change.
Fascim is there to stay regardless of what happens. Dumbass retard Americans think that they are going back to “normal” after his passing. The only place they’re going is to the camps.
So even if he croaks tomorrow and the couch fucker is in there nothing’s going to change.
Too many people are oblivious to this obvious assessment. :/ You’re one of very few I see who share that opinion. The think if the orange pedo croaks the world will miraculously be cured. Spoiler: it won’t.
The christian nationalist have been planning this for a really really long time. The have spent billions on propaganda. I’ll never understand how people are so fucking stupid to fall for it. The hate they have created for any type is progress is astounding.
He shouldn’t have even been allowed to run, and Aileen Cannon should be in prison right next to him.
Whatever. Doesn’t matter till he’s dead or gone. Preferably both. Tired of being hope baited into thinking any of this will lead to a measurable outcome.
“It don’t matter. None of this matters.” -Carl Brutananadilewski
Not just him - the ideal is that MAGA will simply collapse without their leader. The issue with that is we’ve already cemented a LOT of power into the executive in just a few years. Trump could drop dead tomorrow and despite having the charisma of an open can of surstromming, I think Vance would be able to hold onto power just through an overwhelming tide of repression. Trump’s caught up with people loving him - Vance, I think, doesn’t care if people hate him.
I think it’s important for the midterm elections. It’s important that folks who care, get out and vote.
Yes, I’m SURE the Democrats will spring into action! Chuck Schumer is gonna put his glasses SO far down his nose once he’s majority leader . . .
Voting matters 100%. Another article saying he’s on the verge of death is what I’m lamenting.
They never needed him compos mentis to execute their plans. Just alive and filling the chair.
Looking at the Mitch McConnell situation, they don’t even necessarily need him to be alive.
I’d be surprised they don’t weekend at Bernies trump for however long they can get away with it.
he’s still your president
you elected him
he’s what represents your country
he’s a stupid child rapist
Another European who thinks having a bigoted view of all Americans somehow makes them better than the bigoted Americans. Idiots.
you think if someone is not american they’re european?
stupid yankees…
anyways, how is pointing out you elected him bigoted?
you did elect him and he is your president
European was the easiest guess without having to learn more about you ( something I have zero interest in based on your negativity) Obviously the point was that you are blaming every American for the actions of a cult. You are not better than me because you have the privilege of not living here. You are definitely not better than the people who voted for him because the way you speak is just fucking like them, ignorant as fuck.
Been reading articles like this since 2015, pretty sure Trump is going to live to be 115 years old the way it’s going
I’ve been saying 102. You’re even more pessimistic
He’s obese, so by today’s standards, he’s incredibly unlikely to make it to 100.
Then again, as he’s clearly done a deal with the devil, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the rare exception.
Person with ears and eyes finds Trump is a narcissist with dementia, ~33% of the population don’t give a fuck.
Jesus could roll out of the clouds and disavow this pedo / rapist, and they’d call him a false prophet.
They’d probably crucify him again.
Isn’t there some kind of protocol for when the guy in charge is malfunctioning?
Well yes, but the thing about Republicans is that they don’t have to follow any rules. He could pull a Mitch McConnell and nothing would be happening.
Funny how we’re going to switch from his people praising him and everything he says and does as proofs of his genius to claiming that this hero suffered from a mental disease “near the end”, and we shouldn’t criticize him for that, that would be unfair, cruel, immoral. The line from genius to mentally-ill will continuously move to include everything they want to keep and exclude everything that’s too unpopular. Timeline won’t matter at all.
Breaking news of his sharp decline have been filling the YouTube airwaves every week for the last 2 years, maga has been fracturing every other day, his allies have turned on him every 24 hours and his administration has been on the verge of collapse every refresh of the algorithm.
Yeah but has he been SLAMMED by a milquetoast center left politician yet? Has he been BLASTED by a journalist asking a softball question? Once we start seeing those headlines, things will change for sure!
I skip anything where the description or title uses words like SLAMMED, DESTROYS, SHREDS, SCORCHES EARTH (just saw one of these) because they never really do.
And? Are you going to do anything?
The psychologist?
What the fuck can they do?
They could use their professional expertise to issue a statement bringing Trump’s precipitous psychological decline to wider public attention.
Just keep reminding myself that people voted for this guy, then for Biden and then for this guy again, there is really no escape
I’m sorry who voted like that?
American people on average, but they are not the only ones in the world with this problem
Do you live in the USA? Nobody voted for both Trump and Biden. Maybe thats not what you meant?
I didn’t mean the same people, I meant on average
Oh ok I see. Well Biden was really the only option if you didn’t want Trump. Voting for a 3rd party was throwing your vote away and basically giving it to Trump.
There’s still room for him to decline?
They are still propping up mcconnell.
until he is either dead or in a vegetative state there will be room for decline
And he wont lose a single vote
To be fair, that’s not true at all. Only 30% of the primary electorate are his base, evangelicals mostly, other religious nutjobs, business dickheads, and so forth.
It’s a lack of a seeming alternative that is the problem. But no, don’t listen to me, I’m sure Jeffries and Schumer will right the ship of state! /s
I mean, I don’t disagree Jeffries and ol’ Chuck are screwing up bigly, but when election day comes - debate has ended y’know? It’s trump or not.
Last election I was really disappointed with some people who couldn’t face the thought of voting against trump. People who presumably were immediately and lastingly oppresse by his brand of incompetent fascism.
While I’ve always shared that sentiment to some degree, I’ve always known it was doomed to fail without a change in party. It’s become all too obvious that the people that rejected voting all along, were right all along, I hate to say it.
And I say it as someone the encourages people to vote and always votes, against the worse candidates.
But let’s not lie to ourselves, unless we get better candidates the non voting people are not entirely wrong. It means nothing in the medium let alone long term, we end in the same place with the controlled opposition in power every other cycle.
I hear you, but the ‘better candidates’ phase was the last year culminating in the recent primaries and there was approximately zero chatter on Lemmy about that. There was 100% more chatter about a certain mayor of a large city where most of us don’t live.
This is either ignorance of the local politics or standard-issue laziness, and it usually manifests as ‘all politicians are terrible; i refuse to vote’, which we should know by now is support for the fascists currently in power. In fact that’s how we got here to start.
So no, I disagree that the non voting people weren’t entirely wrong - they were entirely wrong, and expecting their favored candidate to magically show up on the ballot without any pre-primary support doesn’t change that totals in Congress make a huge difference as so many items fall along party-line votes.
If they choose to abandon democracy entirely- ok. Then they abandon the notion that change can or should happen. Because that’s how change happens at a national, societal level, right?
I wouldn’t be surprised if your maga party didn’t pass a law that a corpse can be president
I’m pretty sure we’ve had a corpse senator in McConnell for a couple of months now.
The Onion had a good joke about that a decade ago believe it or not.
There is no end to the things they would do to keep him in power. Nothing they do surprises me anymore. They are easy to predict. Just go with every first thought you have about anything no matter how horrible.
At this point, a dead Mitch McConnell is more effective at governing than Trump.
Yeah, I think so too. Vance, Vought, Miller, Heritage Foundation et al. are propping up a president with dementia because it’s to their advantage with regards to implementing their radical-conservative agenda.
They aren’t conserving anything. It’s just fascism.
