1/4 “His deterioration is accelerating" said psychologists John Gartner and Harry Segal on their new podcast "Shrinking Trump.”
“We are going to be documenting his cognitive deterioration, every week.”
rawstory.com/trump-dementia… 2/ “I always say to people: Look at Donald Trump right now, because that's the best Donald Trump you're ever going to see because dementia is a deteriorating illness and his rate of deterioration is accelerating," said Gartner.

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1/9 Join Dr. John Gartner and co-host Dr. Harry Segal for the first episode of “Shrinking Trump,” a weekly show dedicated to analyzing Trump from a psychological point of view. We discuss Trump’s recent signs of dementia from his Gettysburg Address to his falling asleep in court. Watch:

or listen on Spotify:

Or Apple:
youtube.com/live/IPo1Z54sy…
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shrin…
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shr… 2/ We interviewed Dr. Vince Greenwood who conducted an empirical study comparing Trump and Biden on signs of dementia and aging. I have said “it’s a tale of two brains: Biden’s brain is aging and Trump’s brain is dementing.” Dr. Greenwood put both those hypotheses to the test. We report on his data here

1/6 “Donny isn’t falling asleep out of boredom, or because he’s a sociopath — no, it’s because his brain is deterioraing at an ever-increasing rate.”—Jeff Tiedrich

jefftiedrich.com/p/snoring-cour…
“Donald Trump was already a burst trash bag of personality defects. add “losing control over his basic bodily functions — sleep, wake, excretion” to the mix and holy shit, these are exactly the qualities you want in a Day One Dictator.”

Trump has slept involuntarily 5 out of 7 days, “tilting his head dramatically and making trout-like movements with his mouth.” It’s not drugs, deprivation of drugs, or sleep deprivation. Those are common, but this is unheard of
It’s dementia. Reports that he is farting and allegedly incontinent just confirm that he is losing control of basic biological functions.

1/12 "Doctors are warning of Trump’s dementia—it’s time corporate media report on this!" by Dean Obeidallah
"When 500 mental health professionals sign a petition warning Trump has clear signs of dementia, you would think corporate media would cover the story."
deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/doctors-are-… "But of course that would conflict with the corporate media’s non-stop narrative that President Biden is the one with cognitive issues."

1/10 "He seems to be losing control of basic biological functions right in front of our eyes."
Trump has "dozed off at the defense table, nodding off every few minutes as his lawyers tried to rouse him."
"He can't control it," Dr. John Gartner said.
mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/d… "To uncontrollably fall asleep during the day is something that's very common among patients with dementia," Gartner added

1/11 Trump's trial in Manhattan is providing more evidence of his dementia:
Chauncey Devega interviews Dr. John Gartner in today’s Salon
“Can you remember a criminal defendant repeatedly unable to stay awake at his own trial? I can’t."
salon.com/2024/04/29/the… 2/ "Dementia patients frequently pass out during the day. And come to think of it, this may be the first criminal trial I’ve been aware of where the defendant appears, in my opinion, to have dementia.”

1/5 Dr. Elias Doonesbury is a fictional “veteran psychologist” warning the world about Trump’s dementia.
Garry Trudeau thought you needed to hear from him today. Quotes from Dr. Doonesbury in this thread.
ENJOY 2/ “Someone has to speak for the many mental health professionals reluctant to say what all of them believe: Trump has dementia.”

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:
bit.ly/3jCewLV

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: