Donald Trump’s psychomotor performance is getting ‘worse and worse’ as the president exhibits a ‘telltale’ sign of frontotemporal dementia, according to two clinical psychologists
A pair of psychologists have claimed that Donald Trump has been displaying a “dead ringer telltale sign” of an uncommon brain disease as they say the symptom is getting “worse and worse”.
Clinical psychologists Dr John Gartner and Dr Harry Segal have sounded the alarm over the president’s psychomotor performance as they claim the 79-year-old is exhibiting clear signs of dementia.
Speaking on the latest episode of their Shrinking Trump show, Dr Gartner explained: “Some of the more evidence that we’ve been talking about recently has been his psychomotor performance, that we’re seeing a deterioration in his motor performance, which also goes with dementia because with dementia there’s a deterioration of all faculties, all functions.” It comes as Trump ‘desperately’ tries to hide the back of his hand as fears for the ‘thinned-out’ president’s health soar.
He continued: “The language and the verbal dysfunction is what we notice first and also what we notice in terms of his public behavior, but now his motor performance is starting to get worse and worse.”
Dr Gartner revealed it’s not just any type of dementia he believes Trump could be suffering from, as he claimed the president has recently been displaying a “telltale sign” of frontotemporal dementia. Frontotemporal dementia is an uncommon type of dementia that causes problems with behaviour and language.
It affects the front and sides of the brain, and like other types of dementia, it tends to develop slowly and get gradually worse over several years.
“One of the things that one of the neuropsychologists that we were working with last year pointed out that is almost a dead ringer telltale sign of frontotemporal dementia is something they call a wide-based gait, where you have a sort of one of your limbs, one of your legs, you kind of swing it in a semicircle,” Dr Gartner explained.
The psychologists then pointed to Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin earlier this month. They played two clips of Trump appearing to struggle to walk in a straight line as he made his way down a red carpet to greet the Russian leader.
“He’s weaving all along the carpet,” Dr Gartner notes. He continued: “His right foot is swinging and it’s pushing him to the left. So, as it’s swinging, he’s veering left and then he overcorrects and moves to the other side of the carpet and then it happens again.”
“I mean, if they pulled you over for a DUI and you walked that line, you know, you would fail,” Gartner said after playing a sped-up clip of Trump walking on the red carpet. Dr Segal revealed he’d noticed it too.
“It’s very odd, isn’t it? Because it doesn’t look like someone who’s drunk, but he’s drifting back and forth as if again as if he can’t control one of his legs,” Dr Segal noted.
The psychologists played a second clip, this time it hadn’t been sped up, to show more clearly what Trump was doing with his feet. “One step at a time, right?,” Dr Gartner notes.
“You can see it his sort of the leg swings and it moves him sort of one step to the side. And it was step after step after step and then he overcorrects,” he added. Despite mounting concerns, the president has bragged about his cognitive health.
Following his annual physical in April, Trump boasted that he “got the highest mark,” on his cognitive test, although both Dr Segal and Dr Gartner have previously noted that this should be easy to do. “President Trump exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health and is fully fit to execute the duties of the Commander-in-Chief and Head of State,” White House physician Dr Barbabella concluded.
“Overall, I felt I was in very good shape,” Trump said of the results. “A good heart, a good soul, a very good soul.”
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