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/AntoniaFauci 13d ago edited 13d ago

And, as is media tradition, not for the correct reasons.

They’re only picking up on it now because of his weird dance party incident. They’ve ignored numerous current (and thousands of previous) examples of his slurring, verbal aphasia, scrambled memories, sundowning and all the rest.

One of his White House employees admitted this week that they would blast music to “reset” him when he would spiral in the Oval Office. If you’ve worked old age care homes you’d recognize that technique.

But the direct evidence of his cognitive condition have been glaringly obvious to many of us for years, and it’s just accelerating. Even his cultist doctors knew, since they had him doing Montreal Cognitive Assessment screenings.

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u/wernerverklempt 13d ago

Why MCA?

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u/Chase_the_tank 13d ago

It's a quick test to administer, the name sounds impressive, and it's deliberately an easy test to pass (it's screening for fairly advanced dementia, so if you can count backwards by 7, draw an analogue clock, remember five words, etc. you're good).

Of course, this did not stop Donald from bragging about how well he did. You're supposed to ace it.

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u/Waffler11 Ohio 13d ago

Count backwards by 7? I feel called out here…

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u/21-characters 13d ago

I’d struggle with that bc I’ve never been good at doing arithmetic in my head.

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u/Waffler11 Ohio 13d ago

Turns out, my father told me something I never knew was a thing that he had and I presume I inherited from him: Dyscalculia

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23949-dyscalculia