Doctors are warning
of Trump’s dementia—it’s time corporate media report on this!
There
is a Duty To Warn!
APR 30, 2024
When more than 500
licensed mental health professions—including best-selling authors and
well-respected psychologists—sign a petition warning
that Donald Trump has clear signs of dementia, you would think corporate media
would cover the story. But of course that would conflict with the corporate
media’s non-stop narrative that
President Biden is the one with cognitive issues.
But thankfully that has
not deterred Dr. John Gartner--the founder of “Duty to
Warn” and a prominent
psychologist who was a contributor to the New York Times bestselling book
"The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health
Experts Assess a President"—from raising alarm bells. In fact, Dr.
Gartner reached out to me a few weeks ago via Twitter (now X) to share his
work. It was jaw-dropping.
Consequently, I
interviewed Dr. Gartner on my SiriusXM radio show last week to discuss why
hundreds of mental health professionals are so deeply alarmed by what they are
seeing with Trump. It was so compelling I wanted to share both what he warned
and the video of the interview (below) so you can watch it for yourself—as well
as hopefully share it with friends.
For starters, Dr.
Gartner began raising red flags about Trump’s mental health back in 2017. As the
Doctor explained in our interview, at that time, he was warning America that
based on his expertise, Trump suffered from “malignant narcissism,” adding,
“which was actually designed to explain Hitler.” Gartner believed that Trump
manifested all four components of that condition: Narcissism, paranoia,
“constant feeling of being persecuted—which “justifies his harming other
people,” and “anti-social lying.”
However, after Trump
lost in 2020, Gartner—along with the other mental health professionals who
joined him informing the public about Trump—"all took off our uniforms and
went home.” He has since been focused on his work and writing a book on psilocybin
therapy.
But with Trump back in
the spotlight, Gartner saw deeply alarming new symptoms prompting him to jump
back into action. To put it bluntly, Gartner stated that with today’s Trump:
“We see clear signs of dementia.”
The Doctor explained
that since Trump left office, there has been an obvious acceleration in his
cognitive deterioration. For example, “now he can't get through a rally without
committing one of these” tell-tale signs of dementia, such as saying the incorrect
word or “combining or mixing up people and generations.”
We’ve seen this, as the
Doctor noted, with Trump repeatedly confusing who he ran against in the past,
such as Trump stating,
“With Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn’t be won.”
(Obviously, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016.) And during the primary,
Trump kept repeating that his opponent Nikki Haley was in charge of Capitol
security on Jan 6. (Haley never had any connection Capitol security.)
Gartner explained that
this wasn’t Trump simply saying the wrong name in both cases. Rather, Trump
“literally was confusing the people,” adding, “he was literally merging them
into one person” as in the case of Obama and Biden.
Gartner then offered a
recent and very glaring “example of demented speech” by Trump. This came just a
few weeks ago when Trump spoke of the famed Civil War battle at Gettysburg—that
took place between July 1-3,1863, and killed an estimated 51,000 people.
Gartner read the actual words Trump
told the audience about that brutal fight: “Gettysburg, what an unbelievable
battle that was," adding, "It was so much, and so interesting,
and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways—it
represented such a big portion of the success of this country."
Trump then jumped to
talking about Confederate General Robert E. Lee and how he was now “out of
favor” and told his troops to never fight uphill, only downhill with Trump
claiming Lee said, “Never fight uphill, me boys!” (Historians deny
Lee ever said such a thing.)
Trump continued,
“Gettysburg, wow—I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to
watch."
Gartner explained that
Trump’s Gettysburg speech is an example of what “people do with dementia when
they draw a blank.” He continued, “One. They use a lot of superlative
words as filler words. Oh, ‘great, marvelous, wonderful’ because they don't know
what's going on.” He added, “The other thing they do is they make up stories
because nature abhors a vacuum.”
As to Trump’s line about
“looking and watching,” Gartner explained, “he's actually describing is what
he's doing right now, because that's all he can do: He's just looking, and he's
watching.”
The Doctor added that
while Biden shows traditional signs of aging, such as forgetting names, in
contrast, “Trump is making the kind of memory errors we only see in dementia.”
But it’s not just
Gartner raising alarm bells. Others who have signed the “Duty To Warn” petition
are doing the same, such as psychologist Michael Tansey, Ph.D. who wrote about
Trump, “Recent shocking video displayed what appears to be signs of a
serious advancing dementia which have worsened in recent months. That
will inflame his underlying psychological vulnerability to rogue rage, extreme
recklessness, and impulsive and violent action.”
And Dr. Michael Bader, a psychologist, explained, “This is not just
‘rambling.’ Trump evidences a type of cognitive impairment seen in dementia.” He
highlighted Trump’s symptoms that led to this conclusion: “word salad
(incoherence), ‘loose associations’ (a lack of connection between ideas),
impairments of memory, and language problems (mis-pronouncing words or making
up words that don't exist).”
Alarmingly, as Gartner
warns, Trump will only get worse—especially given the stress of the campaign
and his criminal woes. “Now we're noticing deterioration almost every day,”
marked by Trump becoming more erratic, impulsive and with increasingly incomprehensible
speech, Gartner noted. He added, “I honestly believe that if Trump were
to get reelected that he would become completely incapacitated in office.”
At this point
Gartner—and the other mental health professionals—simply want corporate media
to cover this issue so that voters can have all the facts before November.
However, up until now Gartner notes that “the media keeps helping Trump by
editing out those parts out that show his cognitive decline from TV coverage.”
Once again, it is up to us to get the word out because corporate media
doesn’t want to damage their cash cow Trump. Like Dr. Gartner, we, too, have a
duty to warn about Trump’s dementia.
