Last Updated on 13/09/2024 by Arun jain
A clinical Psychiatrist A prominent medical school says if a patient presented with the former president’s inconsistency Donald Trump It was shown in its broadest form Discussion Performance Earlier this week he will refer him for a “rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation”.
Richard Friedman, professor of clinical psychiatry and director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, wrote in Atlantic On Thursday, he saw Trump in discussion with the vice president Kamala Harris “With particular attention to candidates’ vocabulary, verbal and logical coherence and ability to adapt to new topics – all signs of a healthy brain.”
The brains of the Republican nominee could not win a vote of confidence from the professor.
“Donald Trump’s articulation of those trends was troubling,” he wrote. “He exhibited some striking, if familiar, patterns that are commonly seen in people with cognitive decline.”
As a prime example, Friedman cited Trump’s response — if he could call it that — in response to a question from moderator David Muir about whether he regretted his behavior during the January 6 riots in 2021.
“I said ‘blood bath.’ It was a different word, and it was an energy-related word, because they destroyed our energy business,” Trump said, making virtually no sense. “There was a pool of blood right there. Also, on Charlottesville, that story, As you say, debunked. Laura Ingraham, Sean HannityJesse – All these guys, they covered it. If they go an extra sentence, they will see that it was perfect. It was printed in almost every newspaper.”
Friedman noted that, while it’s common for politicians to avoid questions, Trump’s response went “beyond plagiarism” and essentially amounted to a completely irrelevant rant, an IRL old man yells at a cloud meme.
He also flagged Trump’s “inevitable” iterations, such as bringing up gas pipelines multiple times, in which they didn’t belong and, in one case, leading moderators cutting him off to get down to business.
“If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tactile thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now routinely exhibits, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out cognitive illness,” Friedman wrote. “Conditions like vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease are not uncommon for a 78-year-old. Only a careful medical examination can establish whether someone actually has a diagnosable illness — just observing Trump or anyone else from afar is not enough.
Friedman is not alone in his concerns. MSNBC host Chris Hayes said Last week there was “not nearly as much talk about Trump’s declining mental acuity.” President BidenSo did Trump biographer Timothy O’Brien The Guardian He thinks Trump knows he’s slipping mentally. “What we’re seeing now is the reflection of someone who is very troubled and very desperate,” O’Brien said. told Newspaper
In an attempt to recast his inconsistency as a strength, Trump also defiantly called his alleged ramblings “weaving“Earlier this month.
“I’m going to talk about nine different things that they all come back brilliantly together,” he said at a rally in Pennsylvania. “And it’s like — and my friends who are, like, English professors, say: ‘That’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.'” At least one psychiatry professor disagrees.
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