A friend wrote, "I don’t really see cognitive decline in Trump." Seriously?
<He's made brazen factual errors, such as saying Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was the leader of Turkey, that Orban had called on Barack Obama to step down as president (when Obama left the presidency in 2017), describing a missile launch through sound effects, and this week, claiming he had won New Hampshire in the 2016 and 2020 general elections when he lost.>
He thinks magnets don't work underwater. https://x.com/Acyn/status/1743463970621862227
He regularly can't remember names and confuses them. He called Matt Gaetz "Rick Gaetz." When endorsing J.D. Vance for the senate, Trump referred to him as “J.D. Mandel,” When challenging Biden to a cognitive test, he forgot the name of his former White House physician and current Texas congressman Ronny Jackson. He confused Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping when he said Kim Jong Un leads 1.4 billion people.
But then besides factual errors, he goes off on strange rants:
He thinks the civil war didn't need to happen; that Lincoln should have negotiated it away. https://x.com/atrupar/status/1743721843758936106
His weird rant about Gettysburg, and Robert E. Lee: https://x.com/atrupar/status/1743721843758936106
|Slurring his words, he claimed he'd rather be electrocuted than eaten by a shark https://x.com/atrupar/status/1743721843758936106
Of Hannibal Lector, he claimed "It is a wonderful man," and he confused the character with the actor who played him. https://x.com/Acyn/status/1789431010209182195
Finally, and most troubling, his speech seems to have changed over time:
https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/
and
https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/
and
This is particularly interesting given this observation from the Lancet:
<The linguistic variables that we identified as most relevant for predicting future onset of AD, prominently agraphia, telegraphic speech and repetitiveness (see Supplementary Table 3), have been consistently identified in the literature as associated with cognitive decline in dementia. Repetitive speech that involves repetitive questioning, repetitive stories/statements, repetitive themes have been reported in patients with dementia [32 ,33]. Studies on agraphia in dementia and in AD participants have shown that patients made more writing errors compared to controls [34]. Declines in structural complexity of utterances have been extensively investigated in people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia [35,36]. Another linguistic element that has been associated with dementia, referential specificity, was identified as having a strong weight in the survival analysis, which is supported by a large number of studies showing that semantic impairments are the earliest linguistic markers of dementia.>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30327-8/fulltext
IMO, if we are worried about Biden, we ought to be even more worried about Trump.
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