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imanamerican63

(13,795 posts)
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 06:44 AM Oct 2020

Clearly Trump is certifiably sick!

In many ways! He can’t keep his mind on one thing for a short period of time. Listening to his phone interview with his boy toy Hannity, he couldn’t stay focused and jumped all around. Even Hannity tried to ask questions and Trump ignored those questions. Maybe Trump did that on purpose, but Trump seems confused and lacking the cognitive of the facts. My grandmother who passed away from Alzheimer’s, had these same issues. I am not a doctor & have bases of his condition, but he is declining and at a rapid pace. If I can see it, why can’t those who around him see it?

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Clearly Trump is certifiably sick! (Original Post) imanamerican63 Oct 2020 OP
They see it. They can't or won't do anything. That's livetohike Oct 2020 #1
,,,, Defiantly A Mad Hatter!! ....... mitch96 Oct 2020 #2
the people around Reagan knew he had Alzheimers and agingdem Oct 2020 #3
Has anything really changed since Trump contracted the coronavirus? PJMcK Oct 2020 #4
How can anyone tell? Lokee11 Oct 2020 #10
Are you talking about the Adderall or the dexamethasone? AllyCat Oct 2020 #15
Yes?!?! Blue_playwright Oct 2020 #19
The difference is that others finally see it. LisaM Oct 2020 #14
As long as they're holding the seats of power, they don't care. KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2020 #5
Yes, their Tax Cuts! McKim Oct 2020 #20
"His attention span is a negative number." -- Mike 03 Oct 2020 #6
+10 nt reACTIONary Oct 2020 #17
Agree! ananda Oct 2020 #7
Severe illness or other health event can accelerate Alzheimers. ehrnst Oct 2020 #8
Trump saying he's a perfect physical specimen no_hypocrisy Oct 2020 #9
I am so very sorry! May the neighbor inherit all of the debts as well. GreenPartyVoter Oct 2020 #16
No, he has always acted like this! nt USALiberal Oct 2020 #11
No kidding. cwydro Oct 2020 #12
Denial is part of the process, for the patient and those around him bucolic_frolic Oct 2020 #13
It just doesn't matter to his base Chainfire Oct 2020 #18
And through this horror, he'll starting calling out his closest allies The White Militants Cozmo Oct 2020 #21
you got that right . . . he doesn't understand that words have consequences . . . OneBlueSky Oct 2020 #24
I would bet he's still on corticosteroid injections Chakaconcarne Oct 2020 #22
We all see it... We all see it... Blue Owl Oct 2020 #23

agingdem

(7,849 posts)
3. the people around Reagan knew he had Alzheimers and
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 07:01 AM
Oct 2020

concealed it ...the people around Trump are making no attempt to hide his descent into madness...and it's playing out in real time...

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
4. Has anything really changed since Trump contracted the coronavirus?
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 07:26 AM
Oct 2020

Trump has always been a liar.

Trump has never answered direct questions.

Trump has never had an attention span longer than 30 seconds.

In short, he's just the same insane bullshitter he's always been. Granted, it's not too difficult to see that he's mentally in decline. Still, his overall behavior hasn't changed.

When he loses, his behavior will be epic.

Lokee11

(235 posts)
10. How can anyone tell?
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:18 AM
Oct 2020

Many keep pointing to the drugs - the drugs may be keeping him from death - but the ignorant dumb-ass-ed-ness, that's all him and has been from day 1, so not sure that's the drugs

FDT!

LisaM

(27,811 posts)
14. The difference is that others finally see it.
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:32 AM
Oct 2020

I think he's always been this way, too. But now people are becoming more generally aware.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,491 posts)
5. As long as they're holding the seats of power, they don't care.
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 07:27 AM
Oct 2020

The same applies to the Senate and Trump's Cabinet who are sill busy behind the curtain grinding away to destroy our government.

They also don't seem to care that our government is increasingly dysfunctional for every day this situation continues.

"They" here also includes the hidden rich and powerful in industry, banking and finance that control the strings of these right-wing populist elected puppets.

And that's an insane load of shit to write even before my first cup of coffee!........

McKim

(2,412 posts)
20. Yes, their Tax Cuts!
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 09:11 AM
Oct 2020

Yes, as long as the top 5% get their tax cuts, that's all that matters to them. Now its slash and burn for the rest of us! Hard times coming. Time to give to the food banks.

ananda

(28,860 posts)
7. Agree!
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 07:59 AM
Oct 2020

He's hoarse and coughing, and his lungs are
now in the fluid stage, you can hear the
gurgling.

With CV that almost always ends in death.

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
8. Severe illness or other health event can accelerate Alzheimers.
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:12 AM
Oct 2020

Like the assasination attempt on Reagan did.

no_hypocrisy

(46,104 posts)
9. Trump saying he's a perfect physical specimen
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:18 AM
Oct 2020

reminds me of my father's last year. My father made friends with a neighbor across the street. He was about two years older than me. The neighbor often ate breakfast with Dad. They watched Morning Joe together and did political trash talk.

But what I remember is how the neighbor would constantly remark about how together Dad was for his age. Physically, cognitively, etc. and how remarkable that was. But it was just the opposite to reality. My father let six months of bills go unpaid despite my offer to draft checks for him to sign. Dad shouldn't have been driving as he got into regular fender-benders. For conversation, all Dad could do was repeat many times the last zinger he heard on FOX News.

I'd want to scream every time the neighbor would say how on top of things my father was.

Postscript: Dad died. His Will disinherited me and my siblings. He left the neighbor $35,000.

Cozmo

(1,402 posts)
21. And through this horror, he'll starting calling out his closest allies The White Militants
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 09:20 AM
Oct 2020

God help us all.

OneBlueSky

(18,536 posts)
24. you got that right . . . he doesn't understand that words have consequences . . .
Sat Oct 10, 2020, 01:13 AM
Oct 2020

in his case, they could well be disastrous consequences . . . God help us, indeed . . .

Chakaconcarne

(2,453 posts)
22. I would bet he's still on corticosteroid injections
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 09:32 AM
Oct 2020

and also.... When elderly people get sick like this, infections and what not, it takes a huge toll on the body and mental status.... akin to getting a Mike Tyson style punch to the head and there is little recovery from this. If we haven't been in 25 amendment territory before, we certainly should be now.

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