If you saw Tuesday’s debate between disgraced former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, you may have noticed that the ex-president often repeated himself while responding to questions from the moderators or comments made by Harris.
While it might not seem odd that Trump kept saying the same thing multiple times, such behavior is indicative of a mind that is starting to decline in serious and disturbing ways, according to Dr. Richard A. Friedman of Weill Cornell Medical College in an article he wrote for The Atlantic.
For example, consider this response from Trump when asked if he had any regrets about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“I have said ‘blood bash—bath.’ It was a different term, and it was a term that related to energy, because they have destroyed our energy business. That was where bloodbath was. Also, on Charlottesville, that story has been, as you would say, debunked. Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Jesse — all of these people, they covered it. If they go an extra sentence, they will see it was perfect.”
Be sure to notice how Trump repeated the word “bloodbath” and then meandered over to three Fox News hosts, none of whom were mentioned in the question. That suggests Trump cannot manage to keep ahold of the verbal thread he began with, Friedman explains, and if he saw such behavior in a patient, it would indeed concern him.
“If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness.”
Should such a person be hired as commander-in-chief of the U.S. military? Once again, Friedman says there is no way Trump should ever be allowed near the Oval Office again.
“A condition such as vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease would not be out of the ordinary for a 78-year-old … For those who do have such diseases or conditions, several treatments and services exist to help them and their loved ones cope with their decline. But that does not mean any of them would be qualified to serve as commander in chief.”
Donald Trump is utterly unfit for any elected office, let alone being trusted with the American nuclear arsenal. The man can barely put two thoughts together without forgetting what he was saying. And even when he does manage to put together a sentence, all he’s really doing is repeating himself over and over again like a parrot.
Trump needs to see a doctor immediately. And he also needs to drop out of the race. He won’t, of course, which is further proof that we need to use our votes to make sure he’s put out to pasture as soon as possible.
