I really think that Trump is suffering from onset dementia. I've been a care-giver for a person

[demosincebirth]

with Alzheimer for a few years. I see very similar symptoms with all of the lies, conspiracies, and made up situations that he imagines.

[SHRED]

1. Hasn't he been like this forever though?

[demosincebirth]

10. Sure, but being a prick and an asshole all your life doesn't immunize you from diseases

[pnwmom]

20. He's been a narcissist forever, but people who have examined old videotapes say he used to be

much more articulate than he is now.

[Siwsan]

2. Totally agree.

All sorts of alarm bells have been going off, triggered by my experience with my mother.

[smirkymonkey]

3. The issue is, what are we - or what is anybody - going to do about it?

Do we just let a mentally incompetent president serve out his term or is someone going to finally decide it's time for the 25th amendment?

[lpbk2713]

4. Those close to him are not doing him any favors.

They might think they have plenty of time to act after his term expires.
If they don't step in now he can do a lot of people a lot of harm.

[shanny]

8. they don't care about "people."

they only care about themselves

[UniteFightBack]

5. Well then it's the whole puke party that has onset dementia too. nt

[demosincebirth]

19. I used to have some sort of respect for a few republicans

At some time, but now I know they are all gutless hypocrites of the worst kind

[elleng]

6. and the cabinet and congress don't care, so we're stuck.

[GoCubsGo]

7. Or, he has untreated syphilis.

And, the spirochetes have consumed large portions of his gray matter.

[Quackers]

16. I remember that House episode. nt

[GoCubsGo]

21. Huh?

I am not referring to any sort of TV show. Trump has bee promiscuous all of his adult life. Most likely he has some sort of venereal disease, and he is showing symptoms of untreated syphilis.

[shanny]

9. OK--I have a question

iirc it requires a majority of the cabinet to vote to remove tRump under the 25th amendment.* So that would take 13 of 24 cabinet officials/secretaries. My question is: do acting secretaries count? and if not, what are we down to?

*I know that's just the first step btw

[Totally Tunsie]

17. The concern here is that "acting" cabinet members

have not gone through the Senate confirmation process, and thus may not qualify to invoke the 25th. tRump is shifty enough to keep his cabinet in such chaos for just this reason. Undoubtedly, any attempt to invoke during the present situation would face a long and hard fought court battle in an attempt to identify eligible cabinet votes. Seems like that could easily be dragged up to the 2020 election without being resolved. Not to mention, the Pencie worm would still have to turn...

Trying to use the 25th would be a nail biter, for sure.

[lindysalsagal]

11. IMHO they're using his mental disabilities as personal cover for their greed.

He's their puppet, their fall guy, their distraction. We're so busy bailing out the lifeboats, we don't know that they're grifting us blind.

[LuvNewcastle]

12. I think he's possessed.

That's how destructive I think he is.

[handmade34]

13. I took care of my father

with dementia and I definitely see the signs

[area51]

14. I was my mom's caregiver,

and I see similarities between her dementia and Trump's behavior.

[Hekate]

15. Many people agree with you. He covers/compensates by using behaviors that worked for him before...

In the past he always was a malignant narcissist with no sense of empathy or compassion, who bellowed and bullied his way through life. Aside from being born wealthy, one of his greatest assets was his ability to talk people into almost anything. He didn't have great intelligence, but he had verbal manipulative skills in addition to thuggish physical behavior.

So now it's slipping away. There are times when he babbles and makes no sense at all. He's still a bellowing narcissistic bully, though. Just don't be fooled into thinking he is not also demented.

The people enabling him and covering for him are doing so because they see some personal advantage for themselves, not because they have any concern for the country.