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   Trump's Mental Decline Is Accelerating: Psychologist   
      
   Donald Trump's boasts about passing cognitive tests suggest he's being   
   monitored for the progression of dementia, one psychologist says.   
      
   Dr. John Gartner told The Daily Beast Podcast that the 79-year-old   
   president's claim to have "aced" three Montreal Cognitive Assessments could   
   be more than simple routine screenings for the degenerative disease.   
      
   "You know, he kind of gave the game away again, as he often does, "   
   Gartner, a former professor at Johns Hopkins, told co-host Joanna Coles   
   about Trump claiming to have passed a test in front of "large numbers of   
   doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. "   
      
   "You could maybe justify giving someone the MoCA once, just on their age,   
   just as part of a physical. If you're giving it to him three times, that   
   means you're not assessing dementia. That means you're monitoring dementia,   
   " Gartner said.   
      
   The MoCA is a 30-question assessment given over 10 minutes.   
      
   "Because if you keep feeling like, no, he's still got the symptoms, we've   
   got to see how bad he's doing now, we've got to check again, see how bad   
   he's doing now—I think they're giving him cognitive tests and MRIs every   
   six months to monitor the progress of his dementia, and/or strokes, "   
   Gartner added.   
      
   Trump had an MRI in October, just six months after his April physical. The   
   White House has said it was a "preventative" look at his heart and abdomen.   
   Trump bragged this month about passing a cognitive test in front of "large   
   numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. "   
   Trump bragged this month about passing a cognitive test in front of "large   
   numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. " Anna   
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   In July, Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition   
   common in older people where the leg veins have trouble returning blood to   
   the heart. Trump has often been seen with swollen ankles.   
      
   Regarding the president's cognitive health, his rushed speech this week   
   defending his administration in an elevated voice was indicative of his   
   "hypomania, " Gartner went on to say.   
      
   "We have to judge people against their own baseline, and if somebody   
   doubles their rate of speed, that's a mental status change of some kind, "   
   Gartner said. "I've always said that Trump is on the bipolar spectrum. He's   
   not manic, he's hypomanic. 'Hypo' is Greek for 'less than, ' so he's not   
   fully manic. "   
      
   "I think the reason that he was speaking so quickly here... was because   
   he's scared, " Gartner continued, adding that he believed White House Chief   
   of Staff Susie Wiles told him he's "losing the country" on a variety of   
   issues.   
   Wiles and Trump agree that he has an "alcoholic's personality. " Dr.   
   Gartner says Trump is also "hypomanic" and a narcissist.   
   Wiles and Trump agree that he has an "alcoholic's personality. " Dr.   
   Gartner says Trump is also "hypomanic" and a narcissist. The Washington   
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   "They'll never admit it, of course, and so this was his attempt to kind of   
   make a comeback, and so the anxiety stimulated his hypomania, which then   
   made him speak at this hypomanic pace that isn't even typical of him. "   
      
   Wiles, in a Vanity Fair interview published this week, described Trump as   
   having an "alcoholic's personality. " And her boss agreed, telling the New   
   York Post that he does have a "possessive and addictive personality. "   
      
   One of thing the president can't stop doing, it seems, is bragging about   
   cognitive tests. Trump, the oldest person elected president, has been doing   
   it since his first term. In a 2020 interview with Fox News, he claimed that   
   he impressed doctors so much that he earned "extra points" on a 2018 exam,   
   part of which required him to repeat the words "person woman man camera   
   TV" in the correct sequence.   
      
   When reached for comment, the White House criticized Gartner and insisted   
   that Trump's health is "excellent. "   
      
   "The Daily Beast is a left-wing mouthpiece that should be deeply   
   embarrassed to publish this garbage and pass off deranged resistance   
   leftists as 'experts, '" Assistant Press Secretary Liz Huston said in a   
   lengthy statement. "Anyone pathetic enough to defend Biden's mental   
   state—while being labeled as unethical by their peers—has zero credibility.   
   "   
      
   "As the President's physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, has made clear time and   
   again—and as the American people see with their own eyes every single   
   day—President Trump remains in excellent overall health, " she continued.   
   "President Trump's relentless work ethic, unmatched energy, and historic   
   accessibility stand in sharp contrast to what we saw during the past four   
   years when the failing legacy media intentionally covered up Joe Biden's   
   serious mental and physical decline from the American people. Pushing these   
   fake and desperate narratives now about President Trump is why Americans'   
   trust in the media just fell to a new all-time low. "   
      
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