Originally posted by: MaxFlavor
"A psychiatrist and clinical psychologist claims Donald Trump has signs of "accelerating" frontotemporal dementia and is one of the "sickest" patients he has seen in four decades of practice."
Let that sink in, FOUR DECADES OF PRACTICE!!!!
""In 40 years of clinical practice and almost 30 years of teaching psychiatric residents, I've never encountered a patient as sick as Donald Trump," Gartner claimed, adding that he believes the president has shown signs of frontotemporal dementia since around 2019."
The Vice President MUST IMMEDIATELY enact the 25th Amendment and have Trump DECLARED INCOMPETENT!
Donald Trump is 'sickest patient' and has 'accelerating' dementia, John Hopkins expert claims | Irish Star
Well, I first discounted this as the ravings of a lunatic physician needing to justify his existence.
Then David informed us that Gartner, the MD, admits never having examined Trump in person, an absolute requirement when rendering an opinion as a qualified professional.
HOWEVER...if taken in that sense?? Anybody can Google "frontotemporal dementia" for clinical features of that diagnosis. And compare Healthy Narcissism, a personality trait (sense of self-confidence, self-worth) with NPD, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a formal diagnosable disorder, when the traits become pervasive, inflexible: Grandiosity; Need for Admiration; Lack of Empathy; Vulnerability (highly sensitive to criticism or perceived failures).
Dr. Gartner may be on to something, though most respected clinicians would never post something that like publicly.
"We can all agree that a crazy president is a great danger to the country, and it is hard to read those [Truth Social ] posts without thinking we have one, isn't it? There is a certain constitutional amendment that was intended, in a fashion, to deal with situations like this, but we have arrived at the ironic circumstance that those who would be responsible for invoking it are too terrified by his craziness to do so. Our biggest problem isn't a president who is nuts, but that we apparently can't do anything about a president who is nuts."
Freelance columnist Bradley R. Gitz, Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois.
Professor Gitz challenges "any registered voters out there" to read the "nearly 50 (!!) messages" that Trump posted on his Truth Social site beginning in the evening of Saturday, May 30 and continuing into early hours of the next morning.
Disclosure: I've never looked into Truth Social.
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