9) "Trump is evidencing disorders in language typical of dementia. āPhonemic aphasia is using a non-word in place of a word, that often has a stem of the real word. For example when he said āmishuzzā instead of missiles āChrishusā instead Christmas. He can't finish the word, so we he finishes with an easy sound. There are super cuts on Twitter and on the comedy shows with dozens of examples of this. I asked several experts, does anybody without brain damage ever do this? They all told me no. He's also showing another kind of aphasia called a semantic aphasia, using real words, but with the wrong meaning, like saying the āoranges of the investigation.ā And then finally, he's showing a breakdown to the point where he's not using words at all just sounds: āDing, ding, whoosh boomā His speech has become tangential. He starts to link unrelated thought fragments in a way that doesn't make any sense. Itās literally incomprehensible. No one could tell you what he meant. The press will call this āramblingā but thatās a misleading euphemism. Someone might ramble if they smoked too much pot. This is far more dire, far more disordered, and far more clinically significant. This is what I mean about the press normalizing Trumps gross signs of dementia."
10) Rubin: "One of the other things I've noticed is that when Trump gets into one of these verbal cul-de -sacs, his body language changes, his demeanor changes. What is that about?" Gartner: "I'm so glad you mentioned that. Youāre right. His whole demeanor changes at those moments. His face goes blank. He sometimes just stops talking and stares at the ceiling or over his shoulder. You can tell his brain has just shut down. And then it sort of reboots and he starts talking again. But a lot of times when he reboots, he can't really orient himself. For example, He was saying, āWe're gonna protect God-lovingā¦.ā He stopped, went blank, stared at the ceiling. And then continued: āā¦Context and content.ā What does that mean?"
11) Rubin: "And this is not a reversible condition, is it? You don't get better, you don't recover." Gartner: "Unfortunately, no. You also don't stay the same, you deteriorate. And I think that's something people really have to understand. As bad as you think Donald Trump is, you're seeing the best Donald Trump you're ever going to see, because itās all downhill from here." Rubin: "Wow. It is interesting that people who work with him just three years ago will say, he's not the same Donald Trump he was in 2000. That's a relatively short period of time." Gartner: "That's right." Rubin: "They've seen a dramatic decline in a short period of time." Gartner: "That's such an excellent point! His rate of decline is rapidly accelerating."
12) "Rubin: Wow. So it's very interesting. I've written about this some, as you've noted. You don't see this on The New York Times. You don't see this, you know, in the news section of my paper. You don't see this on CNN. What do reporters or your colleagues who talk to reporters tell you about the reticence to cover this and even to?" Gartner: "Well, maybe as someone who's in the field, you can help me understand because it's the great mystery that I've been contemplating for some time now. I don't want to be cynical, but I do notice that right-wing billionaires are buying up all the media. And I think that some of this is that the writers are afraid to upset their corporate taskmasters. Unlike me, theyāre not self-employed. They need their jobs."
13) "As you know, I started a petition for licensed medical and mental health professionals warning about the signs of dementia we see in Trump. I had scores of colleagues beg off signing, citing credible fear of professional or personal retaliation. I don't know how many doctors you've known, but most of the doctors I know are pretty risk averse, especially when it comes to their reputations. They don't go around making irresponsible public statements. Everyone who signed this petition signed with their name on the record in public view, at considerable professional and personal risk. The petition signers are medical whistleblowers, and I think, heroes." Rubin. "Yes. You have several hundred very well-established mental health professionals who are identifying in some detail what they have observed about Trumpās signs of dementia. Could provide a link to have their verbatim comments because it's very compelling. Its individuals. It's not a cookie cutter thing, everyone saying the same thing and just signing their name. They're talking about what they're seeing, what their specific background is, how that comports. Tell us a little bit about the types of people who have signed."
14) Gartner: "I'm so glad you mentioned the petition signers comments, because the collective voices of the signers are so much more compelling than just their signatures. The pinned tweet at Duty to Warn is the only place you can read a complete collection of all those quotes. I add to it every day. Itās gotten. 1.7 million views. x.com/duty2warn/statā¦ A psychiatrist who specializes in frontotemporal dementia, Elizabeth Zoffman, wrote a page and a half. It looks like a medical report. I have people writing things like: I've been a gerontologist for 30 years. I'm a neuropsychiatrist at an academic medical center. I evaluate patients like this every day. And they write āI believe that he has dementia becauseā¦ā And they list the diagnostic criteria and their clinical observationsāthe things I've been talking about. Before the petition, they had no vehicle for sharing their knowledge and warning the public. Iām not here today just as a sole practitioner. I'm representing the now 500 medical professionals who have signed this petition." Rubin: "If you're a medical professional out there and would like to sign on, how do they do that?" Gartner: "Hereās the link to the petition on Change.org.: chng.it/bsvqccGgPz
15) Rubin: "I assume that you check these people out. You just don't count Donald Duck." Gartner: "I end up eliminating two thirds of the signatures. It's pretty consistent that about 1 out of 3 of the signatures are valid. Online it says we have 1,800 signatures today, but we really have a little over 500 valid ones, however it grows daily. So if you're ever wondering how many valid signature we have, check the number online and divide by three, and you wonāt be far off."
16) "Two other areas where we see deterioration in Trump are are behavior and motor performance. As someone develops dementia their behavior becomes more impulsive. They show poorer judgment, more paranoid thinking, more confusion, Heās so unable to stop himself from having outbursts in court, that the judges have almost given up on trying to restrain him because he truly doesnāt seem capable of controlling himself. We know when someone with a personality disorder gets dementia, their personality disorder gets 10 times worse. In the area of motor performance, specialists like Dr. Elisabeth Zoffmann see telltale signs that a normal person wouldnāt notice or know how to interpret. For example, Trump has something called a āwide-based gait,ā where he kind of swings his right leg around like it's a dead weight, in an almost semicircle motion. Now that I say it, you'll probably start to notice it. Itās a specific type of degeneration in motor performance we see in dementia. salon.com/2024/03/25/forā¦ Also, Trump has difficulties with fine motor coordination. We've noticed the difficulty he has drinking a glass of water or a bottle of water, difficulty walking down a ramp. The other things are kind of a weird posture he has where he kind of leans forward." Rubin: "Right, at the waist."
17) Rubin: "I think news people, anybody who follows him, any citizen understands that it's not just that he has peculiar views or that he, you know, has this enormous ego, but the way he expresses himself, the way he carries himself, there is something very weird and very different. It's as if the film is on the wrong speed or the focus is out." Gartner: "Itās like the āemperorās new clothes.ā Itās not just you, everyone can see his brainās not right. My 86 year-old aunt keeps leaving messages on my voice mail: āWhatās going on? If an old lady like me, living in rural Connecticut, can see he heās demented why isnāt in on CNN or MSNBC?ā Itās like the āemperorās new clothes,ā except weirder. When I say he's naked, people ask: āhow do you know he's naked? Have you examined his naked body with your own hands?ā Or, they chastise you: āItās very unethical to say he's naked (even if he is).ā Rubin: "At least letās acknowledge there is something weird going on and that in and of itself deserves interest." Gartner: "It deserves attention. We're not even asking the question. Does Trump have dementia?" Rubin: "He was an evil bond villain before, but he was a lucid evil bond villain. Now he's not lucid. He's still evil, but his brain isn't working."
@duty2warn Serious question: Will Trump use āmental healthā as an excuse to try to stay out of jail?
@denise_yak @duty2warn I think his ego and self grandeur will prevent him from believing he has mental issues, however he may be judged incompetent against his will. Unfortunately.