blastula
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Yeah, he's a very stable ubermensch.
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Does President Trump have Alzheimer's disease?
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Yeah, he's a very stable ubermensch.
Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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*crickets*
Irrelevant. Yes, His Flatulence can tell the doc what he can and can't say about His Flatulence's health, but HIPAA doesn't let you command the doctor to lie, only to remain silent.
??? Muscle weighs more than fat. This was pointed because an earlier poster referenced that Schwarzenegger weighs more than Trump, in an apparent attempt to discredit Trump's medical examination. Trump is not healthier than Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger is heavier because of his muscles. You're at fourth degree Trump Derangement Syndrome, dude.
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Does that sound so implausible to you?
Any doctor willing to work for Trump is probably just as dumb as Trump.
Whoops! I hope I didn't offend anyone by calling him dumb. Of course I meant to say that he has "alternative intelligence."
Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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You're at fifth degree Trump Apologist Syndrome. So, one never knows what kind of nonsense you will blurt out.
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Ambiguous headline FTW:
J842P
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Why the square quotes around "cognitive test"? The test is designed to detect cognitive deficits due to decline associated with aging and dementia.
Also,
"and put simply couldn't tell us if Trump was in beginning stages of mental decline."
Well, it is in fact designed to detect mental decline. I don't understand the need to deny he checks out as far as the Alzheimer's speculation is concerned. For now.
Really, I think the most obvious explanation is that the guy is clearly out of his depth in the office of the president, he's almost certainly involved in sketchy shit with regards to money laundering, and the prospect of it all coming out is starting to take a toll. Even if that wasn't true, the burden of the office itself is taking a toll. I guess I'm biased, but he clearly cannot cope. Given his mercurial and narcissistic tendencies, well, he's behaving just about like what I would expect.
His entire career can be characterized as not doing really well in really sketchy businesses, like real-estate heavily involving hotels and casinos. After that, he moved to a bunch of mostly failed ventures that merely used his name and were built on exaggeration and bombastic branding, even delving into the downright absurd, e.g. Trump Steak, Trump University. You have to give him credit for something, his reality-tv persona, but the guy has clearly been about bluster and bullshit his entire life, and isn't at all that smart.
braces_for_impact
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You're right that it is a real cognitive test designed to check for some types of mental deficits. Nevertheless, it wouldn't likely alert anyone to anything being amiss if Trump were in the beginning of say, frontal lobe dementia as some have been discussing.
The scare quotes are in regard to the way Trump is now using the test to once again prove his "stable genius" recently. I agree I didn't make this clear.
Finally, I agree with your comments about him simply being hopelessly out of his depth. I actually see no real reason to suspect actual medical deficits in brain function, only a narcissistic asshole with below average intelligence welding Dunning-Kreuger like its going out of style.