1/24 Chip Franklin, Tom Arnold, Brian Karem, and Dr. John Gartner discussed Trump's cognitive decline here (after the minute 31). Only on this thread can you read an excerpted transcript of their discussion.

https://twitter.com/RAMediaNetwork/status/1783148880743543093

Franklin: What are the telltale signs of dementia that you see in Trump’s demeanor and his language?
Gartner: to diagnose dementia, we need to see cognitive decline. If you compare speeches that Trump made in the 1980s, he actually had a very rich vocabulary and spoke in polished paragraphs. Now, as you've pointed out, he can barely finish a sentence.

1/7 Trump's Gettysburg address explained:
"The battle of Gettysburg. What an unbelievable. It was so much and so interesting. And so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways. It represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg. Wow. 2/7 I go to Gettysburg Pennsylvania to look and to watch. And a… The statement of Robert E. Lee, whose no longer in favor. Did you ever notice that? No longer in favor. “Never fight uphill me boys. Never fight uphill.” They were fighting uphill and he said, 'Wow. That was a mistake.” He lost his great general."

1/5 Trump's dementia is on daily display. If re-elected the official language of the U.S. would become gibberish.

rawstory.com/trump-letitia-…

https://x.com/GQP_WTF/status/1778255479296172440

1/ George Takei's Substack: "Trump’s Brain Is Not Okay:
An expert’s view of Trump’s mental slide into dementia"
A Q&A with Dr. John Gartner
open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpi… Q: Why are you sounding the alarm about Trump, but not about Biden?
A: I call it the “double lie.” Pathologizing Biden’s normal aging is the first lie. Normalizing Trump’s dementia is the second. The sorts of small lapses we’ve seen in Biden are part and parcel of normal aging.

1/ "Trump's Brain is not ok: An Experts View on Trump's Slide into Dementia" from George Takai's Substack: The Big Picture. Q&A with Dr. John Gartner.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner… Q: You have been sounding the alarm about Trump’s declining mental state for some time now. Can you give us a sense of the history of that effort

1/40 "Does Trump have dementia?"
Allison Gill interviews Dr. John Gartner on her podcast, The Daily Beans
An edited transcript of their conversation can only be found in this thread.
the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/episodes/boebe… Gill: Donald Trump is unfit for office. That’s widely known. But this issue of his cognitive health is flying under the radar. Talk to me a little bit about why this isn't being addressed and what the Goldwater rule is.

1/ "Trump's, Bizarre, Vindictive Incoherence Has to be Heard in Full, to be Believed"--The Guardian
"Stories about his speeches often make his ideas appear more cogent than they are."

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a… 2/ "Watching a Trump speech in full better shows what it’s like inside his head: a smorgasbord of falsehoods, personal and professional vendettas, frequent comparisons to other famous people, a couple of handfuls of simple policy ideas, and a lot of non sequiturs that veer into barely intelligible stories."

1/ 7 "Top Psychologist say Trump likely to fall off mental cliff"
After our conversation on his podcast, Bill Press wrote this op-ed in The Hill:
thehill.com/opinion/456879… 2/7 I asked Gartner whether he perceived any difference between the cognitive ability of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Absolutely, he replied. “It’s like comparing apples and rotten oranges.”
You can listen here:
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1/6 "Trump's brain getting worse quickly" Cornell University psychologist Harry Segal says on the David Pakman Show. He may be "sundowning."
2/6 Dr. Segal: “A lot of these slippages we're seeing are during his rallies are at night. This is a something that's been observed in many, people suffering from early stages of dementia. It’s called ‘sundowning.’ So if you have an elderly relative in a nursing home, it's always better to go visit them in the afternoon, not in the evening."

1/7) "'Demented Trump incapable of doing the job." Former Johns Hopkins psychologist says Trump would almost certainly become incapacitated in office, if elected.
mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/d… 2/ "Trump is very manic. He's got all this energy and charisma," Gartner told the Mirror. "But actually, he's more like the Wizard of Oz. He appears strong, but pay no attention to that demented man behind the curtain. Once you pull that curtain away and people see him for who he really is, not strong but so cognitively weak, I would say he's no longer just unfit for the job — he's now incapable of doing the job."

1/17) The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin interviews Dr. John Gartner on “the medical profession’s duty to warn us about Trump’s decline into dementia” on her podcast. Only in this thread can you read an edited transcript of their interview
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dut… 2) Rubin: "Welcome to the show, John. I have become fascinated by your work. For the listeners who are not familiar, tell us a little."
Gartner: "I wasn’t political until Trump. He was a meteor heading towards earth, and Like Dr. Mindy in 'Don’t Look Up,' I saw it early on, only because of my nerdy area of academic expertise, which happens to be personality disorders. Malignant narcissism was a little know historically obscure diagnosis introduced by Eric Fromm to explain the psychology of Hitler. Far worse than mere narcissism, it includes paranoia, anti-social personality, and sadism. Fromm called it the “concatenation of evil.” I felt an urgent ethical obligation to warn the public.
I retired from politics when Trump was appeared defeated. Getting re-involved was literally the last thing I wanted. I’m in the middle of writing a book—the Cosmic Consciousness Cure-- about psilocybin therapy, a treatment about to receive FDA approval which I believe is going to revolutionize our field and help millions of people.

1/14) It would be the "Weekend at Bernie's" White House. Sooner than you think, Trump will fall off a "cognitive cliff" and become disabled. The crooks and traitors in his cabinet would then wheel him around in public, while manipulating him in private.
salon.com/2024/03/26/has… Dr. John Gartner: "Our Trump dementia-watch weekly round-up is becoming a regular ritual for one simple reason: Trump can’t go a full week without displaying gross signs of what appears to be dementia. This week he said “Joe Biden beat Barack Hussein Obama. Ever heard of him?” Donald Trump is disoriented. He doesn’t know who the president is, who he’s running against in the primary, or whether E. Jean Carrol is his wife. (I’m not trying to be funny, but it reminds me of the Oliver Sacks book, “The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.”)."

1/14) 10 diagnostic criteria Trump meets for dementia according to forensic psychiatrist Elisabeth Zoffmann.
Read them here in this thread from Chauncey Devega's latest article on the Trump-dementia beat from Salon
salon.com/2024/03/25/for… Dr Zoffman said: "My observations are garnered from viewing the phenomenon of Mr. Trump for the past decade. Also, observations from viewing old videotape interviews and coverage of Mr. Trump as a younger man form part of my impression that Mr. Trump might benefit from a thorough evaluation by a neuropsychiatrist with expertise in neurodegenerative disorders.  My observations are as follows:

"Trump's Brain V. Biden's Brain" from The Markin Report:
"We need to have a conversation about Trump’s brain. He very likely has some form of dementia as his father had as he got older.markinreport.com/2024/03/20/tru… "We are seeing undeniable evidence of deterioration in Trump’s recent rallies: he suddenly babbles incoherently as he looks off into space, confuses Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi and thinks that he won the election against Barack Obama. Not just once, mind you, but over and over.

1/6 Newsweek: “There is ‘overwhelming’ evidence that Donald Trump is suffering from dementia, a leading psychiatrist has claimed, amid speculation about the state of the former president's mental health.
newsweek.com/donald-trump-d… "Unlike normal aging, which is characterized by forgetting names or words, Trump repeatedly shows something very different: confusion about reality," according to Dr. Lance Dodes, retired Harvard Medical School professor.”

1/10 "Health professionals defend Biden’s fitness, warn of Trump’s decline"
baltimoresun.com/2024/03/19/tru… “The media never tire of asking, ‘Is [President Joe] Biden too old?’” Gartner says. “Polls showed twice as many people were worried about Biden’s cognitive health as Trump’s, when Biden’s memory lapses are within the normal limits for his age [81]. We all get more forgetful as we age. To say that makes us incompetent or ‘too old’ is ageism. I would argue that I’ve garnered wisdom and judgment from life experience that more than compensates for my memory blips. And I think the same could be said of Biden. … That’s why I say Biden’s brain is aging, but Trump’s brain is dementing.”

1/20 Over 400 licensed medical and mental health professionals have agreed Trump shows clear signs of "probable dementia." But even more persuasive than their signatures on our petition are what they had to say. Only in this long Tweet can you read their words verbatim.
Please hear their voices! (RT) "I am a neuropsychiatrist and movement disorders neurologist at an academic medical center. There is more than enough reason to suspect Dementia including: worsening thought process, loser connections between thoughts, tangentiality, paraphasias, irritability, paranoia, persecutory ideation, impulsivity and so on; which are clearly different than videos of him from 10 years ago. Without personally examining him, I cannot clarify further, but he appears to at least have a cautious gait. The most plausible disorder would be a mixture of frontal lobe dysfunction (sort of like frontotemporal Dementia or CTE) from a vascular Dementia."
-- Ankur Butala, M.D.

Over 300 licensed professionals sign the petition diagnosing Trump with "probable dementia"
"They see the signs of Trump’s cognitive decline through the eyes of years of training and experience"
salon.com/2024/03/14/exp… Excerpts from the interview with Dr. Gartner about the petition he started: "Medical and mental health professionals were seeing what I was seeing: flagrant and increasingly frequent signs of dementia, signs that really can't be that easily confused with anything else, and signs that aren't subtle. We're seeing them week after week, and they are getting worse and worse. And no one is saying anything! I had to find a vehicle to give other medical and mental health professionals a chance to express their professional opinions and have a voice,"

1/13 More doctors are speaking out about Trump's probable dementia in today's newest article from Chauncey Devega at Salon:
salon.com/2024/03/07/dr-… Dr. John Gartner said: "This is becoming a weekly ritual: A round-up of the latest behaviors evidencing Trump’s apparent dementia. For the eighth time, Trump announced that he was running against Obama. No one believed it when he said he was joking the first seven times, and he keeps saying it, showing just how deeply disoriented he is and how advanced his apparent dementia has become.

1/9 As medical and mental health professionals, the clinical evidence presented below has convinced us, with a high level of confidence, that Trump has "probable dementia."
If you have the right letters after your name please sign

Please read this whole threadchng.it/t9gs8TFXw7 "We, the undersigned licensed medical and mental health professionals (INCLUDE YOUR ADVANCED DEGREE IN YOUR LAST NAME WITH NO PUNCTUATION), have a high level of confidence that Donald Trump is showing unmistakable signs of moderate to advanced dementia based on his public behavior and informant reports that show progressive deterioration in memory, thinking, ability to use language, and both gross and fine motor skills."

"Mainstream journalists refuse to cover Trump’s mental and emotional defects with anything remotely approaching the fervor they show about exploring the effects of President Biden’s age."--Jennifer Rubin, WaPo
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… "Not every outlet persists in ignoring Trump’s alarming rants and verbal pratfalls. Outlets taking Trump’s obviously loopy state of mind seriously deserve recognition. Salon interviewed John Gartner, a psychologist and former professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School who contributed to the 2017 book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.”
Gartner was analytic, specific and frank. He pointed to “‘phonemic paraphasias’ — the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar.” He spelled out his observations: