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Does President Trump have Alzheimer's disease?

 
 
 
lpetrich said:
Does the President Have Dementia? Trump’s Stubbornness Could Be a Sign of ‘Severe Cognitive Decline' | Alternet My OP's first link was to Charles Pierce's article in Esquire magazine about him.
Pierce explained that his father and all of his father’s siblings have succumbed to Alzheimer’s Disease over the last 30 years. The president’s speech patterns and his stubborn clinging to a few simple ideas remind Pierce of the same decline he saw in members of his family.
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About his incoherence,
“To my ears, anyway, this is more than the president’s well-known allergy to the truth. This is a classic coping mechanism employed when language skills are coming apart,” he explained, which is why Trump repetitively uses the same pairing of adjectives and nouns, as in “the failing New York Times” and “Crooked Hillary.”
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In effect, his talent for bullshitting is good for trying to hide evidence of deterioration of linguistic skills.
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But this is the same guy in the 80's who called into a radio station on multiple occasions talking about himself in the third person, about how great of a lover he was. Since the 80s, he has built an empire based on a false image of greatness. That this continues isn't a surprise.
 
dendrast said:
My dad died of concussion-related dementia thirteen years after being diagnosed. (He played pro-football in the early fifties.)

Maybe Mr Trump is just stunned. (Sorry Dad.)
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So he might have punch drunkenness?
Dementia Pugilistica or Boxer's Dementia, at dementia.org
What is CTE | Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy at the Concussion Legacy Foundation

That is very unlikely, because he is not known for inflicting that disease's risk factors on himself. How much boxing has ever done? Football? How many concussions has he ever had?


I've found this on various ways of handling this issue: Diseased, demented, depressed: serious illness in Heads of State | QJM: An International Journal of Medicine | Oxford Academic It didn't mention my favorite way. Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was not in very good health, and when he dropped out of sight, Soviet officialdom explained it as from "a bad cold". What a remarkable "cold" that was!
 
With Trump, you have to disentangle his abnormal personality from any assessment of cognitive dysfunction. I mean, that brain might have some organic malady, but it's all stirred into that toxic sump of self-worship, rutting-season lust, and belligerence. His daddy -- I believe his name was something like Fred JesusChristAlmighty Trump -- died of Alzheimer complications -- but they didn't manifest until his late 80s.
 
ideologyhunter said:
With Trump, you have to disentangle his abnormal personality from any assessment of cognitive dysfunction. I mean, that brain might have some organic malady, but it's all stirred into that toxic sump of self-worship, rutting-season lust, and belligerence. His daddy -- I believe his name was something like Fred JesusChristAlmighty Trump -- died of Alzheimer complications -- but they didn't manifest until his late 80s.
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His name was just Frederick Christ Trump. Here's an article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...a-klan-riot-in-queens/?utm_term=.89ee0cef4edd

Clearly, Trump learned some racism from his father as well as inherited some crazy.

Alzheimer's? Even if his father had Alzheimer's in late 80's it wouldn't mean Trump won't get it until late 80's? So this could be genetic...maybe.
 
dendrast said:
My dad died of concussion-related dementia thirteen years after being diagnosed. (He played pro-football in the early fifties.)

Maybe Mr Trump is just stunned. (Sorry Dad.)
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Stunned at how gullible the American population is? :)
 
I have thought his repetition thing was something he has long purposely done, as a marketing tactic, but there is this from Wolff.

Everybody was painfully aware of the increasing pace of his repetitions. It used to be inside of 30 minutes he'd repeat, word-for-word and expression-for-expression, the same three stories — now it was within 10 minutes. Indeed, many of his tweets were the product of his repetitions — he just couldn't stop saying something.
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At Mar-a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made-up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends.
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blastula said:
I have thought his repetition thing was something he has long purposely done, as a marketing tactic, but there is this from Wolff.

Everybody was painfully aware of the increasing pace of his repetitions. It used to be inside of 30 minutes he'd repeat, word-for-word and expression-for-expression, the same three stories — now it was within 10 minutes. Indeed, many of his tweets were the product of his repetitions — he just couldn't stop saying something.
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At Mar-a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made-up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends.
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Yeah, if all that is true, some form of dementia would make a lot of sense.
 
dendrast said:
My dad died of concussion-related dementia thirteen years after being diagnosed. (He played pro-football in the early fifties.)

Maybe Mr Trump is just stunned. (Sorry Dad.)
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Sorry about your dad... but he can't hear you now... the version of him that will live for as long as you do.. that part of him that is part of you... "he" hears you all the time, and answers.

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blastula said:
I have thought his repetition thing was something he has long purposely done, as a marketing tactic, but there is this from Wolff.

Everybody was painfully aware of the increasing pace of his repetitions. It used to be inside of 30 minutes he'd repeat, word-for-word and expression-for-expression, the same three stories — now it was within 10 minutes. Indeed, many of his tweets were the product of his repetitions — he just couldn't stop saying something.
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At Mar-a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made-up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends.
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I wonder if that is where he gets his expression, "People tell me".. or, "People say it all the time..." I guess he is talking about himself?
 
Malintent said:
Sorry about your dad... but he can't hear you now... the version of him that will live for as long as you do.. that part of him that is part of you... "he" hears you all the time, and answers.

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blastula said:
I have thought his repetition thing was something he has long purposely done, as a marketing tactic, but there is this from Wolff.
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I wonder if that is where he gets his expression, "People tell me".. or, "People say it all the time..." I guess he is talking about himself?
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"That's what people are saying - lots of people. I don't know, but that's what they are saying."

And my other favorite:

"If you look at how they __________"

He seems to think that "look at" is an action that will fix any problem, whether it's a critical decision or someone saying bad things about poor Donny.
 
bilby said:
dendrast said:
My dad died of concussion-related dementia thirteen years after being diagnosed. (He played pro-football in the early fifties.)

Maybe Mr Trump is just stunned. (Sorry Dad.)
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Maybe he's pining for the fjords.

Lovely plumage, the Norwegian Orange.
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Just tired and shagged out after a prolonged squawk.
 
Tracking Discourse Complexity Preceding Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis: A Case Study Comparing the Press Conferences of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush - IOS Press
Changes in some lexical features of language have been associated with the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease. Here we describe a method to extract key features from discourse transcripts, which we evaluated on non-scripted news conferences from President Ronald Reagan, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1994, and President George Herbert Walker Bush, who has no known diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Key word counts previously associated with cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease were extracted and regression analyses were conducted. President Reagan showed a significant reduction in the number of unique words over time and a significant increase in conversational fillers and non-specific nouns over time. There was no significant trend in these features for President Bush.
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“Stable Genius” – Let’s Go to the Data – Factbl.og
By any metric to measure vocabulary, using more than a half dozen tests with different methodologies, Donald Trump has the most basic, most simplistically constructed, least diverse vocabulary of any President in the last 90 years. This is by a statistically significant margin in each case.
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Donald Trump In 'Excellent Health,' Doctor Says After Checkup | HuffPost
However, "The White House said Trump would not undergo a psychiatric exam."

Washington's growing obsession: The 25th Amendment - POLITICO
"Lawmakers concerned about Trump's mental health invited a Yale psychiatry professor to brief them in December." -- Dr. Bandy X. Lee.

In an interview, she pointed to Trump “going back to conspiracy theories, denying things he has admitted before, his being drawn to violent videos.” Lee also warned, “We feel that the rush of tweeting is an indication of his falling apart under stress. Trump is going to get worse and will become uncontainable with the pressures of the presidency.”

Lee, editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” which includes testimonials from 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assessing the president’s level of “dangerousness,” said that she was surprised by the interest in her findings during her two days in Washington. “One senator said that it was the meeting he most looked forward to in 11 years,” Lee recalled. “Their level of concern about the president’s dangerousness was surprisingly high.”
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