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Physician, Professor of Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine; I observe and comment on the American scene, and my views are entirely my own.

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John M. Talmadge, MD
5 years
@SuziReynolds2 My professional opinion is that Donald J. Trump is impaired to the extent that he is not mentally, emotionally, or cognitively fit to meet the demands of the Presidency; and that he is unable to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution as required by his Oath of Office.
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This is only the second time I have ever requested a retweet. If you agree that President Biden should restore the rank and rightful benefits for Col. Vindman, or appoint him with equivalent civilian rank, pass this along.
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Medical Advice: I don’t know how many actually read my tweets, but 2 important points. (1) Today’s numbers on the pandemic are VERY scary, & you should stay home. (2) Except for Dr. Fauci, don’t believe a word coming from the WH. Politics aside, they are feckless, ignorant liars.
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This is not an idle statement: this is a symptom of organic mental illness. This is the President of the United States so impaired that he cannot formulate a simple intelligible sentence during a global crisis. #Presidementia #TrumpDementia
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Aaron Rupar
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"We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical." -- Trump on the coronavirus
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These are psychiatric symptoms, not simply boorish behaviors. Trump is mentally ill, cognitively compromised, brain impaired. He can’t even recognize a softball tossed his way. Dementia runs in families, destroyed Fred Trump. #Presidementia #TrumpNotFitForOffice
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WATCH: President Trump insults @PeterAlexander for asking the president what he would like to say to Americans who are scared right now amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Texan Republican friend went to Trump event last night, reports widespread Repub concern re Trump’s mental decline, brain impairment, loss of control, alienation from staff. “The mob loves the circus, but Caesar is demented and broken.” #Presidementia #TrumpMeltdown #Alzheimers
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Mulvaney briefing has created a firestorm, of course, since the WH has screwed the pooch and can’t sell the puppies. You can’t walk back stupid, much less a dozen shades of bullshit. He will soon be stepping down to spend more time with his family.
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Trump withholds military supplies & personnel to punish NewYork. He will not help Cuomo or the NYC that scorned him for decades. Hillary lives there. Does it require a psychiatrist to figure this out? #Presidementia
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Trump has no policy on any issue because his mental impairment means he cannot think strategically or in abstract terms. He cannot weigh options, assess risk, or foresee consequences. Concepts like fairness, justice, honor, and integrity quite literally do not register. You ...
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#Presidementia 4/4/20 Press Briefing: Trump is twisting off & relitigating impeachment, perfect call, total disgrace, whistleblower, fake news, the whole bullshit & calf splatter gumbo on steroids. Painful to see a cognitively impaired old man perseverate, confabulate, & lie.
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Please stop ignoring Trump's cognitive impairment. Trump is cognitively impaired, disabled, incompetent. He is incapable. He can't process information. He can't engage in dialogue. His memory & judgment are defective. This is dementia. #Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome
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. @jonathanvswan : “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.” @realdonaldtrump : “You can’t do that.” Swan: “Why can’t I do that?”
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#Presidementia (1) Hannity w/Trump tonight. Trump immediately interrupts Sean & launches a monologue, won’t let Sean talk. He talks AT Sean, rehashing grievances. In dementia the old memories & phrases are still accessible; abstract thinking & recent memories are inaccessible.
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To our misfortune, very bright critics are acting as if Trump is a mentally healthy person. Until smart people recognize the brain dysfunction & mental impairment we are stuck in moral/political arguments. The crisis is psychiatric & neurological. Trump is sick. #Presidementia
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“The president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically, or be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices,” Spencer writes
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#Presidementia (1) Quote of the day: "There’s a very contagious virus, it’s incredible, it’s something we have tremendous control over I think very importantly the young people have good health, and groups of people just are not strongly affected, elderly people that are (more->)
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#Presidementia TRUMP SEDATED? Pelosi on the air MSNBC a moment ago saying that Trump “appeared sedated” during SOTU. Bookmark that moment, as that did not arise out of thin air. Folks are acknowledging Trump’s obvious mental impairment & disability. FINALLY.
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(1) #Presidementia #TrumpPressConference 04/21: 6:20 pm The most significant takeaway from each Trump press conference is the same. Trump does not answer questions. He reacts by using three defenses common in dementia & cognitive impairment. #TrumpMeltdown
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Sometimes a picture really is worth more than a thousand words. Thanks to the photographer and original poster, who deserve great credit. This is Ukraine.
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Rash decisions, poor impulse control, illogical explanations, shallow rants, repeated stories from the past -- anything except what's relevant, what makes sense, & what answers a question. Trump is mentally in decline & unable to organize his thoughts.
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#Presidementia Press Briefing: After Trump leaves in a huff, Pence tries to handle question about Trump’s tweets on “game changing” medications. What a blend of bullshit & damage control! Fauci tries to help. He says he isn’t sure what Trump is talking about. Poor Dr. Fauci. Wow.
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Trump in Tupelo tonight brings up Ukraine—wow—rambles about the phone call & sounds frankly off the wall. “The reason I held up money...” Only a demented person would bullshit like this in a televised monologue. Goes off on tangent after tangent. Trump is unstable cognitively.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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...Trump is not normal, Trump is mentally impaired, Trump cannot think normally, and Trump is dangerous. When he is removed from office he literally will not understand what happened. He will have to make up a story, tell lies, and rant about Hillary’s DNC server. #Presidementia
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#Presidementia NH rally: Can’t believe it, but once again Trump gets out the paper from pocket & reads his weird poem about “the snake.” It’s an insulting reference to immigrants he seems obsessed with. This is strange, dementia related behavior — it wasn’t on the prompter.
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#Presidementia Corona Edition: Trump is mentally impaired & does not know what Corona virus is or the threat it poses. Don’t believe ANYTHING coming out of the White House.
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#Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome -- I must state without hesitation that Trump's statements today about the VA, made during his bizarre "North Carolina Phone Rally" on FB, are lies, lies, lies. I am a VA physician. Trump lies while veterans die. He is unfit to serve.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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This post bears retweeting only for the purpose of highlighting a cardinal symptom of Trump's mental illness & cognitive impairment. No normal person thinks or behaves this way. We have normalized insanity as a mode of national leadership & international diplomacy. #Presidementia
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
5 years
These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless!
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Symptomatic dementing illness. #Presidementia in high gear. Cognitive impairment, neurological disease, psychiatric disorder. His brain doesn’t work.
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Jose
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Trump forgets his speech at Davos and asks why Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh don't have "Pulzur Surprises." (He's trying to say Pulitzer Prizes."
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Prevarication (lying) can be a symptom of dementia. The repetition of stuff, again and again, not being able to "get off it," is called perseveration--also a dementia symptom. Confabulation, or making stuff up out of thin air as though it's true, is as well. #Presidementia
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. @realDonaldTrump overstated the degree to which defense spending under his administration has gone toward rebuilding the military. His claim about it is Mostly False.
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We can read aloud without comprehension. For example, many of us could read a text out loud in Spanish, not knowing what the words mean. This is what happens when Trump reads English on teleprompter. . #Presidementia #TrumpWontDebate #Alzheimers #MalignantEnabling
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#TrumpDementia #Presidementia Update: Brain disease, dementia, & cognitive decline destroy the ability to understand information & process ideas. Memory, mood, judgment, & reality testing also are impaired.
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Here's an idea. Trump should take a leaf out of my book, retire and spend as much time as he likes on Twitter. I'm still in my pajamas and it's 4:30 in the afternoon on a weekday. I highly recommend this as a way out of the national crisis. Mr. Trump, retire and enjoy life!
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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#Presidementia - Until now I could understand objections to my insistence that Trump is certifiably insane. Now, seeing and hearing his bizarre comments since WR discharge, no one can defend him as balanced & fit for office. #UnfitToBePresident #UNFIT
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#Presidementia -- The transcript of this press briefing, if the WH even dares to post it, is going to be a study in mental breakdown. The people around Trump have to be shocked & desperate trying to figure out what's going on in front of their eyes. This is alarming.
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Trump so symptomatic of dementia that he tweets more than 100 times in one day as coronavirus death toll nears 80,000 #Presidementia .
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Strange that Birx says Trump seeks “to have dialogue.” As shown over the past year, Trump is cognitively impaired & incapable of dialogue. He reacts but can’t interact, converse, or speak with. He can only talk AT people because of brain dysfunction. #Presidementia #TrumpMeltdown
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#Presidementia Notes on press gaggle: After the 30-40 min driveway ramble today I saw written accounts. The press fails to note the disorganized, tangential quality of repeated grievances—returning to same complaint as many as 5-6 times, e.g. “It was a perfect call!” CNN ignores.
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“He descended into lunacy...He spent a lot of time during a pandemic simply talking about himself.” —Nicolle Wallace commenting immediately after Trump’s briefing today. @MSNBC #Presidementia #TrumpDementia #TrumpNotFitForOffice
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No democratic candidate has specifically raised the issue of Trump’s cognitive impairment, lack of psychological fitness, and obvious mental instability. Big mistake to mention only in passing. #TrumpDementia #Presidementia #TrumpWontDebate #TrumpDementiaSyndrome
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This is what happens as senility sets in and brain fog clouds memory, reason, logic, abstract thinking, problem solving, & impulse control. Trump is visibly mentally ill & getting worse. #Presidementia
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Covfefe Shecky Jones,King Of Shade👑 aka BROLENE🔞
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How old were you that time when Trump beat Obama in that election that never happened?
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#Presidementia (1) Sunday 04/05 Press Briefing: Trump is having a terrible time here. As David Gergen said, they need to have him there for 5 minutes and get him off the stage. He rambles, perseverates, cuts off both journalists & his own experts. Never answers a question.
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Trump is cognitively impaired, mentally ill, psychologically unstable, objectively unfit for office. #Presidementia — the brain fog & crippling incapacity to think straight — will worsen. 'Beginning Of The Fall': More Treason Transcripts Will ruin DJT
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Word is that Trump is heading to Mt Rushmore for a rally, no masks required, no social distancing. This is not an executive plan, it’s a symptom of serious mental illness & cognitive impairment. #Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome #TDS #Corona #COVID19
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#Presidementia — This tweet reeks of psychopathology & serious mental illness. Trump is a clear and present danger to the American people.
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#Presidementia Sunday 2: Only an impaired person speaks this way, deluding himself that he is believable. Demented patients do this frequently. Trump can’t think beyond concrete, simple-minded tropes & grievances. Getting worse & the worst is yet to come.
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NEW: President Trump threatens to expose information about Lt. Col. Vindman. Watch.
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#TrumpWontDebate #Presidementia #Alzheimers destroyed Fred Trump, & dementia runs in families. Yes, it’s narcissism, but the brain malfunction is even more dangerous.
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George Conway
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In @realDonaldTrump ’s case, there’s a term for this “hate”—narcissistic rage. He hates an entire city and state, and wishes their people harm, merely because he’s being called to account for his conduct, something a pathological narcissist can’t tolerate. #IMPOTUS
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I am younger than Bernie, Joe, Trump, Bloomberg, and both Clintons. I can remember the Truman years. My great grandmother, who died when I was in grammar school, was the widow of a Clvil War veteran. We are OLD people. Hire someone younger for President. Please.
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I was told today by an attorney expert on SCOTUS that Trump may lose 9-0 on all 3 cases he has pending. Maybe 7-2, 8-1, but “Roberts has a legacy as well as his integrity to protect.” Whoa, Nelly... #Presidementia #TrumpWontDebate
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#PresidementiaTrump2021 - Putin saw Trump as unbalanced, unfit, a clownish & incompetent mental defective. He was right.
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#Presidementia Quote of the Day 1: Trump was asked about his empathy for people who are scared, & how he talks with his family about the pandemic, specifically his youngest son, given that people are scared. His entire response to that ONE question is quoted here:
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During SOTU speech it will be interesting to see whether Trump hits a pause, after reciting something outrageous in the text, and smirks as he says, “So true, so true.” Its a signature #Presidementia tell. (We’ll see what happens.)
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#Presidementia (2) ...not well or not well in certain respects are uh really a very dangerous group we have to watch them we have to protect them very much we have to really watch over them and protect them, they are very vulnerable." -Trump 03/15 in WH briefing on #CoronaVirus
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#Presidementia - (1) Trump at CPAC 2021 - As predicted, an impaired and cognitively incompetent Trump stumbled through a litany of bullshit & calf splatter reminiscent of his canned rallies. His sing-song recitation included his greatest misses, peppered with nastiness and lies.
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The meaning of this is clear. Trump does not have a vision or a plan, because he can think only in concrete, elementary, childlike, one dimensional terms. He does not process an abstract idea like American forces stabilizing a multilateral conflict with geopolitical implications.
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#Presidementia (SUMMARY 1) Press Briefing Sat 04/18: Trump is tired @ end of day when he appears. He is fatigued, easily confused, & irritable every day. He was off balance all day in today's briefing. He rambled old bullshit. Press must start reporting his obvious impairment.
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#Presidementia Friday PM: In elderly dementia, childlike behavior is quite common, including tantrums, protests, outbursts, and infantile anger. Here we have the designated leader of the free world yelling at his mommy. This is brain decline, psychiatric illness, a broken brain.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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You can’t Impeach someone who hasn’t done anything wrong!
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I notice that his blood pressure last year was said to be as normal as a high school athlete, which I find difficult to believe in a 73 yo obese male. Also mentioned was heart disease. Dementia and ASVD go together.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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Trump at Walter Reed today. Not sure what this is all about, but here's the CNN link.
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...can see this in every interview or press encounter. He never states an abstract thought or idea. Instead he falls back on simple adjectives: disgraceful, horrible, low-intelligence, perfect, innocent, nasty, stupid, fake, etc. He’s driven by negative emotion, often paranoid..
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@EdwardNorton As a poker player, I love the metaphor. I stand by my opinion that Trump is demented, cognitively impaired, but that does not negate your observations. He commits so many enforced errors that he’s like a drunk guy playing every hand badly. That’s brain impairment. #Presidementia
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Trump at Nevada airport bragging that "we've rounded the curve," that we have miraculous "therapeutics," that basically the pandemic is almost over. Lawyers refer to this as "criminal negligence." Almost no masks at his very crowded no-distancing rally. #Presidementia #UNFIT
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#Presidementia and #MalignantEnabling will destroy our country the way #Alzheimers destroyed the life of Fred Trump. PS: Dementia can run in families. Trump is cognitively impaired & mentally ill.
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Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️
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Listen to @gtconway3d , GOP Senators. This is only going to get worse.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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Please — no need to respond to this, but permit me to say thanks to the many good folks who have offered encouragement, wisdom, great humor, & patient appreciation since I started regular posting last year. I still read every comment. Thank you! Cheers - T👍🏼
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When reading a verbatim transcript these rambling sessions clearly appear disorganized, non-responsive, even strange. The same phrases and grievances show up repeatedly. Often what Trump says is not related to what was asked. He lapses into old tapes, makes no sense.
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#Presidementia Q&A just now: Asked directly why he Trump has not isolated or tested despite exposure — Fauci says if exposed you should isolate, test — Trump garbles his answer & looks simply stupid. Given his impairment he can’t handle a question like this. #TrumpNotFitForOffice
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By definition, people suffering dementia make lots of mental errors. This is a symptom, not a simple mistake. Irritability, irrational acts, perseveration of grievance, poor impulse control, narrow vocabulary, inability to process complex information, & more. #Presidementia
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Brian J. Karem
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POTUS tells us what Pelosi did ripping up his speech was criminal ⁦ @realDonaldTrump
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#Presidementia Wednesday 04/15 Press Briefing: (12) Trump was combative, defensive, tangential, evasive, perseverative, & loud. He can’t understand and can’t process questions. He can’t formulate strategy or make rational judgments, because he is mentally impaired. #TrumpDementia
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Trump’s prevarication (bald faced lie) today about being #1 on Facebook is old. He has lied about this so often I am not posting a link. Lying, like just making shit up (confabulation), is a symptom of dementia. Alzheimer’s destroyed Fred, his father. #Presidementia #TrumpVirus
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This Trumpian brain failure is hard for normal people to understand because for normal people, abstract thought is natural, baked in, largely unnoticed. Normal people see the consequences, assess risk, make rational decisions most of the time. What is true today is that...
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#Dartmouth to #Wellesley : Trump is a cognitively impaired, emotionally unstable old man with little capacity to assess risk, grasp reality, and reason through complex tasks. These are symptoms of dementing illness, which runs in families and destroyed his father. #Presidementia
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The president is a corrupt human tornado.
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On the networks today Trump is described as "rattled" or "insulting," but talking heads tiptoe around obvious mental illness, cognitive impairment, inability to process information, marked moodswings. #Presidementia #TrumpBatShitCrazy @TheBeatWithAri @hardball @NicolleDWallace
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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During my days in the Army Reserve Medical Corps, it was my understanding that we had enough medical and surgical supplies to handle a world war. My question: Doesn't the military have millions of masks and other equipment that could be mobilized to resolve shortages?
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I saw Pence make this statement on the morning shows today, and I nearly fell out of my chair. He frankly lied about "testing" being done as people enter the country.
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Ted Lieu
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Dear @VP Pence: SCREENING AT AIRPORTS IS NOT TESTING. As of last week, S Korea tested over 35,000 people for #coronavirus . US tested a few hundred because the Administration botched the initial tests & had overly restrictive criteria. STOP MISLEADING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
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@Acosta @LynnetteEndean “I served with Tony Fauci. I knew Tony Fauci. Tony Fauci was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Tony Fauci."
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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#Presidementia Today - Bizarre transcript of Trump’s 46 minute delusional, paranoid, repetitious, falsehood heavy ramble. This man is out of touch with reality. Every sentence is a psychiatric symptom.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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As a retired government employee myself, I heartily agree. Thanks to #Presidementia & #TrumpDementia & #MalignantEnabling , a good man has been robbed of his pension. Whatever your politics, you can't say this is right.
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Trinity
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“I believe I was fired because I opened a case against the POTUS.”—Andrew McCabe, Former FBI Dep Director Trump fired him just 1 day before he would’ve been able to collect his full pension. Justice would be to restore McCabe’s pension & back pay him.
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#Presidementia Quote of the Day 9 -- final: All of the above response was to a simple question about whether Trump had empathy for people who are scared, and how he talks with his youngest son.
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A friend writes: Schools are closed and Bob & Sue are home schooling the 9 and 7 year olds now. I asked him how it’s going. He said, “Well, during the first day we had to suspend two students for fighting, and fired one teacher for drinking on the job.” #COVID ー19 #COVID19
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@JoeNBC @Doug_Monroe27 #Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome #TDS #MAGA2020 #TrumpMeltdown #CoronaVirusUpdate The press @NBCNews @CNN @ABC @FoxNews must stop normalizing Trump insanity. He's mentally ill, cognitively impaired. Alzheimer's ruined his father, runs in families. No one thinks he is normal.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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You give him more credit than I do for thinking. As David Frum said tonight on "The Beat": "Trump lives in the moment, and he's nuts. He doesn't plan, he doesn't think." Trump is clinically mentally ill, cognitively impaired & incapable of rational judgment. #Presidementia
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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#Presidementia Wednesday 1: People with dementia often continue to tell stories that are simply fantasized & untrue, as Trump does in this repeated example. He does not process complex ideas or remember reality clearly. This is brain impairment.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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#Presidementia Dilemma: R Senators probably hope they can reason w/Trump to tone down if they acquit. They don’t realize his incapacity, impairment, inability to reason. Any attempt at negotiation or strategy will fail miserably. He is mentally unstable & incompetent to govern.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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Dementia for dollars. Individuals with dementia have notoriously poor insight, judgment, & cognitive fitness. They are easily manipulated. #Presidementia #TrumpDementia #MalignantEnabling
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..and often insulting, vulgar, vitriolic. If he does in shallow tone say something positive about someone, his childish adjectives are great, terrific, great, or really great. If he tries to discuss a plan or project (space program, the wall) he is non-specific: “We have great...
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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Trump yells that Dems “are using #COVID to steal a rigged election—it’s the only possible way wa can lose!” Trump is seriously demented, paranoid, deranged, devoid of judgment, no impulse control. Cognitive impairment sends him over the edge. #Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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@MAllaneous Not letting it go, a psychiatric symptom called "perseveration" is one of the several signs of dementia evident in his speech, thought (or lack of thought), behavior, & presentation of self. No normal person, even a guy down at the diner, would speak or act the way he does.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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#TrumpBrainDroppings “The top people in the Pentagon don’t like me because they want to do nothing but fight wars,” Trump said . This is not just stupid talk, it’s symptomatic of senile dementia. Trump is impaired, brain damaged. #Presidementia #TrumpVirus #TrumpStronglyUnfit
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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#Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome — Hannity tries to set Trump up to trash Biden’s mental acuity, & Trump rambles like a chimp with his ass on fire. Actually quite funny. Sean can’t win for losing—“You look at what’s happening...” embarrassing Fox & Republicans alike.
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Friends, it doesn’t matter at all if a losing candidate refuses to concede, or refuses to attend an inauguration. We make allowance for the mentally ill, the deranged, the dangerous, and those who are demented or otherwise significantly impaired. We’ve got this.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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1/4 #Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome #TDS Monday WH Q&A: Trump's mental decline was dramatic & obvious today as he revealed that he's taking hydroxychloroquine. He rambled about it & told a "Sir" story or two. Strange. He was wrong, incorrect, potentially dangerous.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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...great people doing incredible things. You know about that. You’ll see this will be the best, the very best with great stuff no one could do until now, because when I won I said we would have only the best.”
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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#Presidementia Speculation Edition: My guess is that Mattis & Kelly will lie in the weeds until early October, keeping their powder dry until they see the whites of Trump’s bloodshot eyes. The two of them could change American history. #TrumpKnew #TrumpLiedPeopleDied #COVID19
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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#Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome RNC Monday Night (14): Don Jr. has bloodshot eyes, rapid speech, looks & sounds agitated, breathy. This is how the execs were in “The Wolf of Wall Street” when high & strung out. His voice is shaky, loud, strange. Definitely not inspiring.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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#Presidementia #coronavirus #COVID Trump is now so personally impaired that he is exposing himself to infection constantly. Many staffers & FBI agents have tested positive. Trump lives in a pandemic Petri dish. He’s also old, fat, & high-risk.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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Joe Biden has character. Donald Trump does not. This crisis makes it obvious. #TrumpNotFitForOffice #TrumpDementiaSyndrome #Presidementia
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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Pence this morning is waffling & bullshitting as he tries to explain why Trump demands that children be put at risk for political reasons. Tragic lack of leadership. #MalignantEnabling by a spineless weasel. #COVID19 #Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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Lyrics to the Neil Young song:
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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@ddale8 Trump tests positively toward the cognitively impaired, the demented, the mentally ill, the seriously disturbed. This type of garbled thought and speech is common in dementia. #Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome #MAGA2020 #TrumpWontDebate
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wins the Darwin Award for the dumbest statement made today by a politician, and that includes Trump. The video clip is included in this article on the web. File this under Texas Dangerous Moron Hall of Fame.
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John M. Talmadge, MD
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#Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome - Tuesday 8/11 (1): Watching Trump today I was impressed that he not only looked exhausted, he looked like a mentally dull elderly man reading monotone from a phone book. He is clearly unwell, unfit, impaired.
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