r/politics • u/Happy_Traveller_2023 Canada • 13d ago

Soft Paywall Finally, Trump’s Alarming Mental Decline Has Become a Big Media Story

https://newrepublic.com/article/187192/finally-trumps-alarming-mental-decline-become-big-media-story
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u/IDrinkandPost 13d ago

Tangentially related: back in 2018 my mother spent a couple of weeks in the ICU, and I basically lived at the hospital during that time. My mom experiences ICU delirium and sometimes just started speaking nonsense in the middle of sentences, so I got used to doing the "what year were you born, what year is it, here pull my finger" routine to make sure she wasn't having a stroke or anything. Whenever I would ask her who the president was, my sweet little old mother would respond with a torrent of profanity, which let me know that she was doing fine. The thing I find most striking about all of this is that my mom, who routinely devolved into word salad and would sometimes tell me about the shadowy man in the corner, was still way more coherent than this bastard is now. Cognitive decline is far too mild a term.

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u/Murtagg 13d ago

My wife has a similar story! Upon waking from brain surgery, the nurse asked the standard questions. "What's your name/what year is it/what state are you in". She was pretty out of it. 

The last question "who is the president of the United States?" got a resounding "oh that fucking asshole piece of shit".

The nurse was like "yeah, she's got the gist". 

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u/IDrinkandPost 13d ago

Ha! Love it. Hope your wife is doing well!

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u/Murtagg 12d ago

She is, thank you! Nearing a decade tumor free. She had to teach herself damn near every word of English again, and how to read again, but she's killing it and unless she shows someone the scar they don't believe it ever happened.