Trump has been displaying its distinctive behavioral traits for years. However, the other guy could be correct too. Since there’s really no treatment for dementia. It’s easy to guess that the charlatans surrounding Trump are desperately throwing a smorgasbord of unproven treatments at Trump, damn the costs.

His own variant. Named in his honor as he insists.

shoving a "Light Stick" up his ass, or starting an IV infusion and an inhaler with PineSol.........

The results will put an instant smile of the faces of many Americans.

They're known to be respected physicians unless Trump recently wrecked that institution as well.

Can be bought, manipulated, coerced, intimidated and corrupted.

But pedo Trump has the ability to find the most ignorant and compromised people in any arena of expertise.

FTD is becoming more common.

Everyone is trying to ascribe his behavior to some disease or disorder when he’s just a fucking asshole and a troll. All of this shit he does is on purpose, he’s a huckster, a used car salesman, a grifter. It’s all show business. And everyone just keeps falling for it and playing his game, reporting and repeating breathlessly on his latest outrage or idiotic statement while he sits and laughs at the shit he’s stirred up.

Meanwhile, the people who actually make the policy are working every angle to steal every last public sector dollar, cut every benefit and dismantle the government infrastructure while the clown show goes on in the spotlight.

He doesn’t have dementia any more than Biden does. He’s just a fucking piece of shit with a black hole in his soul that can never be filled because his daddy didn’t love him.

Yes, he HAS always been a lying bigoted racist, misogynistic, thuggish narcissist - and all around total piece of sh*t human being. BUT - he is also increasingly showing signs of loosing control of his own functioning - and narrative.

The telling difference (or one of them) - is that Trump use to be able to lie and schmooze convincingly in public. Nowadays - 80% of the people in the same room with him are visibly cringing, and leave the event shaking their heads. (and those are his teammates and fans) He can't pull it off anymore. And THAT is noticeable. And represents a difference from (even the twisted Trump version) of norm.

unbelievably he has passed CHENEY............

He's a malignant narcissist, and always has been. He's going to get worse as time goes on and things no longer go his way, as he loses what few good looks he might have had, as he looks in a mirror and sees that ugly old man instead of the guy he once was. While things go south in the polls and he sees his support shrinking, he will become more and more angry and abusive. It's always been about power over others and money, and that's what it will remain.

I'm no expert at all, but that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it until I'm proven wrong. He may be getting some sort of treatments, but it's most likely related to his physical (not mental) problems. Any guy with the crap lifestyle he's had who is in his late 70s is going to have all sorts of medical issues that need to be treated.

For the 50 or so years he’s been on my radar.
I remember many times when he inserted himself into a current event. Always a malignant asshole.

He's a huge asshole, but he also has dementia that is progressing visibly. This isn't just randos on the internet spreading rumors. Experts are saying this. The mainstream corporate media isn't covering it, but others are. One very outspoken and knowledgeable example is Dr. John Gartner, who tried to warn people about his personality disorders and why they make him dangerous way back in 2017. More recently, he has been speaking out about Trump's advancing dementia and how it is interacting with and exacerbating his existing psychopathology.

Here's a video of a recent appearance on the Daily Beast podcast. First: here's the description from YouTube:

We’re all being dragged into Trump’s psychosis and the prognosis isn’t good.

There are too many complicated explanations online for simpler things.

I have had an extended period in my life where I was really not behaving like myself. It’s finally starting to fade. I never “got help” because it was an anomalous brain state.

I finally understand it today..there may well be explanations i am unaware of (effects of technology on human behavior). But there is a very simple explanation.. I am a pretty leftish person (inside my head anyway) ..which doesn’t mean mechanically spouting a bunch of orthodoxy. But while I seem lame enough and conventional on the surface and it was enough for routine civilian science, my last employer was more a data mining/defense contracting type than a Univ really.

My mentor/the scientists there were decent enough, but the place..it chilled whatever part of the brain (and its significant enough for me as someone who loves fiction and reading) is tied to imagination, escape or novelty in any cool way.
I started mechanically predicting like a person who doesn’t exist…ie a person who looks and sounds like me but volunteers for a job I considered insane.
Among respectable scientists, in my book, only an insane Type A would sign up for that for any competitive edge that gives you..I wouldnt even enjoy it. Or someone I would disapprove of who looked and sounded like me.

They are so sleazy and braindead that they cannot envision a reason except mental issues or folly for why someone would be inimical to them without being a fool.

It’s hard to explain..I am never running for office nor commodifying my own life. That’s the only type of person for whom it’s not a total loss. Otoh wtf..
They cant grasp Sartre’s “No exit”, because they don’t understand human behavior.

I’d rather know most of the board members here…though it’s not a wealthy or fashionable community (I mean that as a compliment..you are all decent humans..who cares if you are wealthy or fashionable)..than those guys. The elites in contemporary society, above a level are not people anyone wants near them. Ghastly people.

Dr Fauci is the rare type of elite person who is elite and sympathetic …he is the type of elite person even I trust..always felt sorry for him seeing a real elite person but mucking around in that world governed by media and politics..no wonder his credentials and hard work were of no use.

“Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred.” To get all biblical (though I got that from P G Wodehouse..not the Bible ;-/).

They kill the imagination as you bleakly envision a world that looks much like this one but with no reprieve even inside your head. Why would anyone sign up for that .

It hit me as I was skimming this book called Progress by Sam Miller MacDonald and thinking of an oped by Hamilton Nolan in Current Affairs and all of say Yasha Levine’s work. That this was fundamentally an attempt to squeeze a response out of a type of brain that is inimical to everything my former employer stood for.

It’s the banality of evil. They weren’t even ill intentioned or casually clueless. They literally cannot see how someone who is different would view a world governed by their politics best case..

A malignant, toxic narcissist who also has dementia.

The dementia is real, and it's progressing. A hateful jerk with dementia becomes an even more hateful jerk as the dementia progresses and erodes judgment and inhibitions. That's what we've all been seeing.

Please see my previous post, above, for additional details and video: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220878564#post50

some which date back to the end of his last term, but have gotten worse and showing some additional "malfunctions."

That said, while I agree that the experimental infusions used for Alzheimer's would have no benefit to patients suffering from FTD, there are a number of experimental treatments for FTD, either in current clinical trials or in consideration by FDA. I only know of a couple (including Latozinemab that works by inhibiting a receptor that causes the natural degradation of progranulin). The issue with FTD is there are different genetic subtypes, so various new treatments have to be targeted to the mechanism for each of these subypes.

Which is a long way of saying that we can't rule out that Trump is receiving some experimental treatment for the cause of his dementia OR some regular infusions for other health conditions. He certainly may well have other chronic disease issues, including but not limited to some forms of treatable cancer. It is always convenient to focus on one health condition, but in truth, the older one is, the more likely they have MULTIPLE issues.

Sh*t. Just like everything he’s ever touched. Irony marches on and if he weren’t propped up as the proprietor of a china shop, it might even be poetic justice.

I agree with you that he has multiple issues, not the least of which he is an asshole.

Causing the problems. It's always a combination of things and those things have a baseline and either increase in severity or improve based on prognosis.

It's interesting to me that so many want to pick one definitive thing and call it a day. When he's a horrible conglomerate of so many truly pathological things.

I'm tired of being told to fear this "frightening...far worse nightmare!" This doddering, blithering blob of blubber.

He's always been a lying criminal glob of filth.

He lives in his cocoon of denial because he's never had to face reality or accept responsibility for anything.

I don't give a shit what he has, I just want him GONE.

This.

That’s all I need to know.

I don’t care what is rotting his pathetic excuse for gray matter, I just want to know how many months/weeks/preferably days he has left so I can plan my celebration accordingly.

and help mother nature out and speed things up. WE won't make it for 3 more years at this point in time. Many people have acknowledged this over the past week.

A point of reference for those who are hoping FTD will mean the demise of Trump within days.

One “expert” disputes another’s long distance diagnosis, and insists his own long distance diagnosis is the only true one.

While it is clear Trump’s functioning is declining, I don’t see how this battle of the duelling experts helps with resisting this regime- anybody who could something directly about it (such as the 25th amendment) doesn’t give a shit.

I didn't like it when Cat Killer Bill Frist diagnosed her from a video. I don't like it now, either. Their opinions will not change the outcome.

You know right before they conjectured. None of us, including the linked author have seen Trump's medical records. It's all guesswork.

Certainly not definitive, but this is someone trained in the field.

Unlike Frist's comments about Schiaivo, these are based on many years' worth of extensive video evidence that hasn't been cleverly edited to promote one particular side.

But this sounds pretty spot on.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frontotemporal-dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354737

Behavioral changes

The most common symptoms of frontotemporal dementia involve extreme changes in behavior and personality. These include:

Increasingly inappropriate social behavior.
Loss of empathy and other interpersonal skills. For example, not being sensitive to another person's feelings.
Lack of judgment.
Loss of inhibition.
Lack of interest, also known as apathy. Apathy can be mistaken for depression.
Compulsive behaviors such as tapping, clapping, or smacking lips over and over.
A decline in personal hygiene.
Changes in eating habits. People with FTD typically overeat or prefer to eat sweets and carbohydrates.
Eating objects.
Compulsively wanting to put things in the mouth.

of these symptoms were present at baseline with krasnov

he has been like this all his life by reading any history on him. There may be some dementia now, who knows, but he has always had a personality disorder and couple that with his intense entitlement and grandiose self importance and belief he has intellect. He is a moron and now a dangerous moron because all the morons that voted for him allowed him to appoint other morons giving him supreme power.

now dissolving from dementia.

Those of us old enough remember what he was like as a young man. He showed all signs of narcissistic behavior even back then. I have always maintained that whatever was wrong with you in your younger days is only exacerbated with age.

You can't lose inhibition if you've never had it. He has no impulse control and never did.

The dementia or whatever it is is added to his longtime issues.

I knew someone with FTD and there was an extreme change in behavior and personality. In Trump's case it's been more of a slow decline into worse and worse behavior, but his baseline was already evil and bizarre.

i don't know what meds he's on, or maybe he's getting treatments for another ailment altogether.

he's going down. will it be soon enough for democracy? that's my burning question.

There are a group of people right there in Washington who could put an end to this grotesquery but simply sit on their hands.

i don't forgive republicans for this. as a nation we are abused, day in and day out, by these motherfuckers.

...is most certainly the Malignant Narcissism that has molded his brain into a disgusting crust of shit. Sprinkle some Picks and Adderall abuse and you have someone who believes they are omnipotent and cruel.

and what they call slumlord disorder, where any slumlord gets permanently high on him/her-self, and thinks they are above everyone else, they know everything, etc. We've all met these kinds of people, and if anything is in common w/ them, it's that we all run away from such needy, winy people as fast as we can run, and avoid further contact w/ them.

It’s basically the demented person trying to stitch together pieces of reality that they see in the present and what little they recall of the past to make a plausible explanation for what they are experiencing. In someone like TSF who lies so much he’s long divorced from reality, the confabulation can get quite bizarre.

He was supposed to give an economic speech. But he just rambles on and on about panties and how he doesn't say anything to beautiful women anymore. Then he brags about stealing a billion dollars from the treasury. Then he yelps and flays his arms.

He goes from yelling then to barely whispering words into the mike. Then he mushes up words and spits out words that don't fit into the sentence for no apparent reason. He uses only sentence fragments and spends just minutes on different topics.

The man sure does have some serious dementia. Not sure what kind it is but it's bad.

Did he always believe his own lies, or is such "belief" a more recent development with the onset of FTD?

I am inclined to believe that truth based on verifiable facts NEVER mattered a whit to him. His lies were to serve his own interest and to make believers out of his receptive target audience foolish enough to vote for him.

Which does not negate the likelihood that he has FTD rather than Alzheimer's. I'm just saying that diagnosis should not be based primarily on his proclivity for lying, though I suppose a trend towards more deranged fantastical lies could be a symptom.

There once was a claim shouted loud,
“Alzheimer’s!” it echoed and bowed.
But the story fell flat—
Trump’s not fading like that,
He’s escalating, fierce and unbowed.

His volume grows stronger, not less,
No gentle cognitive regress.
He’s louder each day,
More untethered in play—
That pattern’s a different distress.

A viral post flew through the air,
With bruises and rumors to spare.
An infusion was blamed,
Confusion proclaimed—
But the facts didn’t quite line up there.

For Alzheimer’s shrinks slowly away,
While this looks like judgment astray.
Impulse control slips,
Reality tips—
That points to another display.

There’s a syndrome the frontal lobes dread,
Where conduct and foresight are shed.
When those regions degrade,
Social brakes start to fade—
And behavior goes wildly misread.

Frontotemporal damage, they say,
Hits empathy first on its way.
Not memory’s core,
But judgment and more—
The filters just crumble and fray.

One symptom that often appears
Is stories told bold without fears.
They’re vivid, sincere,
But untethered from here—
Confabulations, not sneers.

The brain can’t fact-check what it spins,
So falsehood feels true from within.
No trickery planned,
Just a loss of command—
Belief fills the logical sins.

So lies aren’t quite lies in that frame,
No conscious deceit in the game.
A test might be passed,
Because truth feels so fast—
Conviction and fact aren’t the same.

And that is the nightmare described:
Not fading, but boldly imbibed.
A mind full of sound,
With no guardrails around—
Escalation, as prescribed.

Because he has exhibited this obnoxious behavior since the 1970's.

I assumed because he has suffered no consequences for his behavior and has actually been given permission from the Supreme's to do whatever the f*ck he wants including killing somebody that he has just become more emboldened. IMHO, his death might be the only stop to his behavior.

I would be surprised if he wasn't looking into Cryogenics, like I imagine most megalomaniacs would. The ultimate "F" you, to a God he doesn't believe in.

Whatever the neurological cause, it's nothing that can be remedied. The damage to the country will continue. It's okay not to know what exact illness he suffers. What's more important is working to mitigate the impact.

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Parkinson’s Alzheimer’s FTD ALS and other Dementia are all the same thins the brain is dying. It’s a matter of what part of the brain. Also you can have more than one of these diseases at once
-Airplane

To me, there is zero difference between today & 2017. He lied & spun yarns back then. He made ridiculous claims all thru his term. He's made them thru Biden's term.

Worth a try.

Anybody else wondering if it's tertiary syphilis? I mean, with all of the people that he had sex with over the years, I would not be surprised if he caught some kind of VD. Maybe even on Epstein Island?

James Carville said it, and for the first time in a quarter century I agree with him. Neither of us -- Carville or me -- care if it is true or not. So we keep telling people it is true, and hope that it is.

And the heavy makeup to conceal lesion scars.

was never officially diagnosed with this, but it sounds so much like what she experienced. It was frightening to see her go through this. I had never heard of this until 3 or 4 years ago and wondered if that’s what she was experiencing. By then it was too late.

He did not have the intellect, the temperament, the patriotism/concern for the country or its people.
Initially he met the technical constitutional qualifications. The second time around he was an adjudicated insurrectionist. SCOTUS allowed him to be on the ballot but he still did not meet constitutional qualifications. No matter how many electoral college votes he got he should not have been allowed to accede to the office. Congress should have not allowed it.

So now he has three levels of disqualification: is not personally suited or capable, is an insurrectionist, and has an illness interfering with his duties.

HE MUST BE REMOVED!

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

We all have older relatives who are going through the Trump_Decline process.
(Most of us anyway.)

They get cared for by relatives at home, and when that is no longer possible, they go into sheltered care until the inevitable happens.

It's part of the human condition, and getting more noticeable because people live longer. Physically anyway.

BUT . . . none of those dementia sufferers are in the White House, or have access to the power and following that Trump has.

Forget about what is wrong with Trump, focus instead on working out how the effect of his insanity can be minimized.

… ever since he started that weird lean. I never understood why doctors weren’t screaming about it even in his first term. It’s clearly *not* due to his ridiculous fucking lifts, but a brain dysfunction.

Why he doesn't spontaneously combust already.

We know that the man's cheese is quickly sliding off his cracker, moreso everyday. What person with power is going to be brave enough to call him out on it. Until that happens he is an ongoing, growing danger to this planet and all who live on it.

My uncle died from FTD which was caused by Alzheimer's which is a build up of plaques and interferes with brain neuron interaction. (as I understand it, not a doc)

He was only 72, and began to show some serious signs of dementia about 3 years before his death and went progressively down hill faster at the end.

I think the real problem is Trump has always been a mean nasty bastard, and his brain deterioration is making him even meaner and nastier and he has the nuclear codes. He ain't right, but he still has the power of the president and is not stroking out for maybe years.

And no one around him will step up to stop him. And we are along for the ride...

plus other tidbits about the family and dump's history, it could be that he developed most of his symptoms at an early age, or was born with this condition. At the very least, it appears he has never been what most people would call normal.

I guess we should cite media, ineffective justice system, profiteering entertainment system and its many addicted customers, tons of disoriented and naive religious persons, greedy republicans, and foolish "news" viewers for overlooking his many symptoms and dreadful behavior.