This is full blown dementia
By now everyone expects Donald Trump to confuse Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi, to talk incoherently about sharks and batteries, and to reference Hannibal Lecter as if he were a real person. It’s baked in. His supporters pretend it’s all some kind of in-joke, the media minimizes it as mere rambling, and the rest of us are told we’re overstating things if we try to point out that Trump’s symptoms and behavior are fully consistent with full blown dementia. After all, we’re not medical professionals, right?
But you don’t need to be a medical professional to recognize this level of advanced dementia when you see it. And it’s getting worse. Yesterday Trump gave a speech in Detroit, to a Detroit-based group that had the word “Detroit” in its name and signage, and got so confused about the whole thing that he ended up attacking Detroit. Of course whenever this happens we have to hear all the contrarian hot takes about how this is some kind of secret strategy on Trump’s part and that he’s doing it all on purpose. Come on, get real.
While Trump was attacking Detroit during his speech yesterday, he also said this: “Cylinders, no wings, no nothing, and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace with a circle. Boom. It reminded me of the Biden circles that we used to have. He’d have eight circles and he couldn’t fill them up. But then I heard that he beat us with the popular vote. I don’t know. I don’t know. Couldn’t fill up the eight circles. They were so beautiful to look at.”
We’re supposed to pretend that this is just an eccentric guy rambling? That he’s just a little off topic? COME ON. You don’t have to be a medical professional to identify Trump’s words, behavior, and confusion as being full blown dementia. It’s just so painfully obvious. Anyone who’s gone through this with a family member knows exactly what’s going on here. And it only gets worse.
Yet the media is still hesitating to fully call this what it is. The media would rather downplay it: oh, it’s just Trump being Trump again. No it’s not. It’s Trump, with all the things that have always been wrong with him psychologically, but now with a severe case of dementia on top of it. It’s time for the media to start calling Trump’s dementia what it is. Until then, the media is failing to do its job.
