At this moment, I expect the worst. I will not be disappointed. You know Trump does not give a teeny tiny shit about what we think. I stopped shopping except for groceries. Lucky for me, I replaced my computer last year. This one should get me to the end of my functional life. I had cataract surgery last December and MEDICARE paid everything it promised to. I don't have to depend on SS to survive but SS allows me to be generous to others, like Substack creators. So much more I could say but I will stop here by declaring MY NAME IS NOT MARK.
Good to see you and glad the cataract surgery went well. You brought up Medicare. That’s about to be shut down and going the way of the dinosaurs if we don’t get active in this fight for our very lives as we’ve known it. I’m learning as I go. With certain disabilities and then changing over to real SS Retirement I’ve learned a few things. One. Who’s in charge of Medicare? Social Security. Who’s in charge of Social Security? Social Security! Next on the food chain is The Treasury. If I have what looks like trouble with my social security I have to call social security. I’m counting on them to be fair, honest civil servants with my best interests in mind. That’s why we pay them, right? I only recently learned that if I’m disabled before I’m 65 years old I should be receiving Medicare and/or a combination of Medicare/medicaid. Social Security giveth and taketh away or plain never giveth! That’s information SS won’t tell you that you’re entitled to Medicare when you’ve been disabled 2 years. YES entitled! Every country with an educated, informed, working population takes care of their residents. The US? It’s hit and miss. Some get it, some don’t. People say yeah but those other Caucasian nations have high taxes. WE have high taxes! What do you think that FICA is for and SSI deductions from your paycheck, on your pay stubs? Do you know how hard it is to get any of that back when you’re retiring? Probably less than half of Americans get ANY of it back! If you’ve worked anything less than 35 years full time there’s a good chance you will not see any of it back. They use some crazy formula nobody understands except them - You have to have worked a certain amount of hours and made a certain amount of money in various “quarters” of your 35 - 40 YEARS of work history. I’ve worked the 35+ years. My employers and I paid my dues. I’ve also been on the disabled list for over 10 years. And one of those I took a job that I would love and I could feel productive, even with a disability. As an Admin. Asst. for the pastor of a Lutheran church. I was gaining more hours towards that Social Security/Medicare payout since they told me I was just under the amount of years needed. Surely another year would make that up. Nope. Still, I was on the type of SS that they say is “need based” for people “with no work history.” 35 plus years of contributing and they put me on the poverty stricken, not enough work history and contributions into this thing? There are 2 kinds of disability payments. The *no work history or very little* and the *Employer based* - it’s a matter of almost double or more for the guy or gal who was steadily working. It took me 10 years to figure this stuff out. I turned 62 and could begin collecting my retirement. Boy have they slapped me in the face for the last 10 years and then have the balls to say they overpaid me? With no evidence and started taking 100 bucks a month from my already meager disability check? Around $8000 dollars if MY money! And have NEVER been able to say when and how I was overpaid. That’s because it didn’t happen. There will never be evidence for them to use to show overpayments - not on mine! I’m not stupid thought to fuck around with a federal or state government program? Commit fraud? Wrong person. It’s not in my character. So I’ve been in shock that my federal program gifted to us from FDR - they found a way to keep Private Industry money coming in (all that FICA etc subtracted from your check) and give you back very little or more frequently, nothing . And how is someone with no money, plus disabled or older or older and disabled going to fight this? And who do you complain to? Social Security. They police themselves. And they are all on the same page be it in California where I was or N. Carolina where I was or Michigan where I am now. I’m hoping beyond hope that the offices in Baltimore Maryland give a rats ass! It’s supposedly where you take these kinds of issues - although SS lied to me for 6.5 years saying I had no choice but had to work with my local SS office. NC and the national 800 number people told me that. I had to figure out on my own, the obscure “communication office” was where I needed to get my story to. They’ve recently put this up on their SSA website. Nobody told me who or where or how to fight this. And in my process I’ve learned that I should have had a hell of a lot more money on the Employer based disability and I was eligible for better medical coverage with Medicare as ANYONE who is disabled more than 2 years, is.
Don’t sit back and be satisfied because you are greatful for what you’ve got. What you’ve got is below poverty level and chances are that you’ve already paid your part and should be getting a hell if a lot more than you’re getting. 🆗 I’ll get off that soap box for a minute. I’m in the middle of this fight right now, as we speak, waiting to hear from Baltimore, and on the 28th of this month I’m about to be homeless, too, with this chunk of money they are withholding that is mine! Not theirs. They are being paid A zLOT of money to be the Stuards of Americans savings accounts! You can bet they have nice disability and retirement accounts that We The People pay for.
Don’t give up. Even from Canada I’ve sent emails and phone calls. I’m very excited for Tuesday night, I’ve even rearranged my schedule for this. Canada is watching 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Stand strong. #Elbows up ❤️🇨🇦
1. Trump needs to be removed immediately from office. What he & is team is doing is unconstitutional, lawless & corrupt.
2. Navarro, Trump’s pro tariff economic advisor is a crackpot. He uses a fictional character, “RON VARA” as HIS “expert economist.”. Ron Vara is an anagram - he doesn’t exist!
3. His Wharton professor said he was the “dumbest student” he ever had. With 6 bankruptcies, 2 failed casinos and 26 failed businesses, I believe him! As a demonstrated bad businessman, WHY would we trust him on this? It is economic & political suicide.
4. We are NOT in a “war.” Yet Trump is falsely saying we are & sending INNOCENT people to the harshest prison in the world without “due process.”. (60 Minutes said 75% committed no crime & 22% committed non violent crimes like trespassing. theft).
5. We are not in an “emergency” yet Trump is saying we are thereby bypassing Congress and placing unlawful tariffs on countries around the world ( except Russia!) with a formula that doesn’t make sense (Chatgpt?).
“Trump’s reversal actually increased tariff rates (see Washington Post). some have called what Trump did this week a retreat or reversal, Trump, in all his madness, actually increased the global tariff rate this week whether he understood that or not
this 27% rate - largely because we have very elevated rates on the our three largest trading partners - Canada, China and Mexico - is higher than the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff rate that helped deepen and lengthen the Great Depression”
Vote YES on Kaines’s tariff bill
6. The bill Republicans want to pass would RAISE the deficit 5 trillion dollars by giving billionaires tax cuts. BILLIONAIRES DON’T NEED MORE MONEY!
Instead, we need to:
•TAX the wealthy & corporations & have them pay their FAIR SHARE and
•UNCAP the amount to put into Social Security.
This would solve the deficit problem (which these tax cuts created) and the Social Security problem. It would strengthen the middle class which is needed for a strong economy.
Vote NO on the budget bill.
7. We should not pass the SAVE Act. It supports voter suppression. Vote NO.
If we don’t do these things, the tailspin we are currently experiencing will continue until we find ourselves in another depression, isolated from the world, with no allies to protect us, vulnerable to an attack, i.e., WWIII.
Trump LIED to us! Tell them to STOP him. IMPEACH Trump, Vance, Johnson & Musk before we no longer have a democracy and/or we are in a DEPRESSION! STOP TRUMP!
Get out and protest. Make a sign and join the April 19th protest. They are happening all over the country
Michael: yu r a true hero an I luv yur energy..but take care of yourself cause we need that voice! New program sounds great...make sure we can get in on it...will b watching an waving a flag on 19th! Be safe! Xo
I just read that 90% (or something close to that) of Republicans still support him. I need to find the poll again because I was astounded. Aren’t farmers mostly Republicans?
To ensure that the United States will always be led by a coherent, functioning President, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment provides for the prompt, orderly, and democratic transfer of executive power in the event the president is incapacitated, physically or mentally. Trump's tariff debacle, where he thrust out his chest, flung economic incoherence at the world, then flip flopped only two days later, was the strongest evidence yet- in a roiling sea of evidence- that he is mentally incapacitated.
Despite inheriting the strongest post-covid economy in the world, Trump keeps insisting that the US economy is broken and in need of saving. He insists global trading partners who sell us more than they buy from us- even countries that are a fraction of our size- are "taking advantage."
Trump's tariff drama was so asinine, he's either self-dealing or insane. Frankly, although they are not mutually exclusive, I'd prefer the former. I only wish that rumors swirling in the media today, suggesting Trump’s tariffs were a hustle, an insider scheme meant to enrich his backers, were true. Trump being a self-dealing crook poses less danger to the world than him making than no sense at all.
Dementia and the Duty to Warn
Leaders of the EU are too intelligent to sneer out loud at Trump's flip flop on tariffs.
Aware of his deranged lust for revenge, they are reluctant to utter the truth about his economic ignorance. But the world is aware, even if Americans aren't, that our president is deranged.
Because Trump's administration has refused to release his medical records, other mental health professionals have come forward with their own assess- ments. The emerging consensus is that Trump, showing cognitive decline, is presenting signs of advanced dementia.
Psychotherapist Dr. John Gartner, former Johns Hopkins University Medical School faculty, is so alarmed about Trump's cognitive impairment that he circulated a petition addressing it among thousands of psychiatrists, psychol- ogists and other credentialed mental health professionals.
Gartner wrote last year that Trump shows "progressive deterioration in memory, thinking, ability to use language, behavior, and both gross and fine motor skills," adding that he felt an ethical "obligation to warn the public, and urge the media to cover this national emergency."
Trump struggles to "even finish a sentence," Gartner explained in an interview with MindSite News, elaborating that, “When we're diagnosing dementia, what we need to see is a deterioration of someone's own baseline of functioning. What we see that a lot of people don't appreciate is that when Donald Trump was younger in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. His thoughts were logical and related: now they're tangential. He goes off on these ramblings where he is confabulating things – weird things in which he'll talk about Venezuelans
and mental hospitals, and then he’ll talk about sharks and batteries or the late, great Hannibal Lector and Silence of the Lambs.”
Dr. Gartner notes how Trump is “losing his capacity for coherent speech,” identifying “dozens and dozens of Trump’s phonemic paraphasias, in which you use sounds in place of an actual word (a hallmark of brain damage and dementia).” Trump will say something like ‘mishiz’ for missiles, or ‘Chrishus’ for Christmas, because he can’t complete the word. Then we see also a lot of semantic paraphasias, in which he uses a word incorrectly, as in ‘the oranges of the situation’ because it rhymes with ‘the origins of the situation.’”
Mental health professionals, mainstream media, sound the alarm
Main stream media, including the New York Times, have also questioned Trump’s mental state. In October 2024, the NYT reported that Trump now uses more “negative words than positive words compared with 2016, which can be another indicator of cognitive change.” And he curses far more often than he did when he first ran, “a trend that could reflect what experts call disinhibition,” another sign of dementia. They cited a study by health care news outlet, Stat, that reports similar findings.
Newsweek’s article, “Donald Trump Dementia Evidence ‘Overwhelming,” cites New York psychologist Suzanne Lachmann. Lackmann describes how Trump “seemingly forgets how sentence began and invents something in the middle” resulting in “an incomprehensible word salad”—a behavior she argues is observed “frequently in patients who have dementia.”
The Dementia Society notes that “forgetting names and dates is normal for people who are aging. But “confusing people and generations” is a sign of advanced dementia. During the campaign, Trump confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi on eight separate occasions, and said he was running against Obama. He said his father was born in Germany, when it was his grandfather who was born in Germany.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
With the assistance of other psychiatrists and credentialled mental health professionals, Dr. Bandy Lee wrote, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President near the conclusion of Trump’s first presidency. In the book, psychiatric experts came forward due to what they saw as their professional moral and civic “duty to warn” America about Trump’s dementia.This duty, they argued, supersedes their competing professional duty of neutrality.
Since then, more than 3000 credentialed mental health professionals have added their signatures to a petition concluding that the president has probable dementia.
They write, “Donald Trump is showing unmistakable signs strongly suggesting dementia, based on his public behavior and informant reports that show progressive deterioration in memory, thinking, ability to use language, behavior, and both gross and fine motor skills…. his vocabulary is impoverished, he often has difficulty finishing a thought, sentence or even a word. Typical of dementia patients he perseverates and overuses superlatives and filler words…”
Congress needs to act before Trump gets red-button happy
Trump, who caused global destruction with his mindless tariff wars, now has the sole authority to launch nuclear weapons as the Commander in Chief.
Evidence of his cognitive decline is everywhere. Mental health professionals have sounded the alarm, and met their professional duty to warn the world about Trump's dementia.
Congress now has a duty to listen to the professionals. Republicans, on the whole, have a duty to act.
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment allows the Vice President and either the Cabinet, or a body approved "by law" formed by Congress, to jointly agree that “the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." Democrats need to proceed under this clause, and frightened republicans need to join in before Trump commits another, potentially world annihilating blunder.
You are not alone in the fearless department. It may be strange sometimes, talking into a silent screen but always know that you are not alone.
You are absolutely right about connecting with different people, talking to them like they matter even if they didn't vote the way you did. Find common ground, compare notes on being lied to by both Trump and Biden.
I spent twelve hours in Pennsylvania as a poll watcher. Harris button on my lapel but offered anyone water and donuts. Hundreds of people, countless brief conversations that connected different people. One woman didn't look well, and I asked if she needed to sit down. No, she was just exhausted, her husband had just died, insurance nightmare, and as I commiserated with her, her eyes started welling up. She thanked me for listening to her, that good friends who voted democrat stopped being compassionate toward her, had dropped her. She thanked me, I thanked her for sharing with me. She still voted for trump but I know that our conversation broke down some of the silo that separates us.
Creating a disaster on purpose to create a fantasy of economic destruction is madness, his brain is lost in this fantasy of destruction, government allowing this for whatever reason??
Videos on why Trump is an actual Asset for Russia since 1987 when he was compromised by Russia. in the 90s after six or seven bankruptcies no bank would give him loans or credit however, Russia came to the rescue and forwarded him money through Shell companies who paid cash over and above the normal price for his condos in his building buildings. So he essentially for years laundered money for Russia and the crime syndicate in Russia. Google and you will find those reports. Below are some videos on that subject.:
So educate yourself, it’s obvious that Russia plays a big role in American politics and with their asset Trump in the White House they are jumping for joy. For this alone, Trump should be impeached plus being a 34 count felon should exclude him from the White House as well.. We have to pull out all the stops copy paste and send this around.
Email it to all the Republican senators as well as the Democrat and the House of Representatives and Republicans.
At this moment, I expect the worst. I will not be disappointed. You know Trump does not give a teeny tiny shit about what we think. I stopped shopping except for groceries. Lucky for me, I replaced my computer last year. This one should get me to the end of my functional life. I had cataract surgery last December and MEDICARE paid everything it promised to. I don't have to depend on SS to survive but SS allows me to be generous to others, like Substack creators. So much more I could say but I will stop here by declaring MY NAME IS NOT MARK.
Good to see you and glad the cataract surgery went well. You brought up Medicare. That’s about to be shut down and going the way of the dinosaurs if we don’t get active in this fight for our very lives as we’ve known it. I’m learning as I go. With certain disabilities and then changing over to real SS Retirement I’ve learned a few things. One. Who’s in charge of Medicare? Social Security. Who’s in charge of Social Security? Social Security! Next on the food chain is The Treasury. If I have what looks like trouble with my social security I have to call social security. I’m counting on them to be fair, honest civil servants with my best interests in mind. That’s why we pay them, right? I only recently learned that if I’m disabled before I’m 65 years old I should be receiving Medicare and/or a combination of Medicare/medicaid. Social Security giveth and taketh away or plain never giveth! That’s information SS won’t tell you that you’re entitled to Medicare when you’ve been disabled 2 years. YES entitled! Every country with an educated, informed, working population takes care of their residents. The US? It’s hit and miss. Some get it, some don’t. People say yeah but those other Caucasian nations have high taxes. WE have high taxes! What do you think that FICA is for and SSI deductions from your paycheck, on your pay stubs? Do you know how hard it is to get any of that back when you’re retiring? Probably less than half of Americans get ANY of it back! If you’ve worked anything less than 35 years full time there’s a good chance you will not see any of it back. They use some crazy formula nobody understands except them - You have to have worked a certain amount of hours and made a certain amount of money in various “quarters” of your 35 - 40 YEARS of work history. I’ve worked the 35+ years. My employers and I paid my dues. I’ve also been on the disabled list for over 10 years. And one of those I took a job that I would love and I could feel productive, even with a disability. As an Admin. Asst. for the pastor of a Lutheran church. I was gaining more hours towards that Social Security/Medicare payout since they told me I was just under the amount of years needed. Surely another year would make that up. Nope. Still, I was on the type of SS that they say is “need based” for people “with no work history.” 35 plus years of contributing and they put me on the poverty stricken, not enough work history and contributions into this thing? There are 2 kinds of disability payments. The *no work history or very little* and the *Employer based* - it’s a matter of almost double or more for the guy or gal who was steadily working. It took me 10 years to figure this stuff out. I turned 62 and could begin collecting my retirement. Boy have they slapped me in the face for the last 10 years and then have the balls to say they overpaid me? With no evidence and started taking 100 bucks a month from my already meager disability check? Around $8000 dollars if MY money! And have NEVER been able to say when and how I was overpaid. That’s because it didn’t happen. There will never be evidence for them to use to show overpayments - not on mine! I’m not stupid thought to fuck around with a federal or state government program? Commit fraud? Wrong person. It’s not in my character. So I’ve been in shock that my federal program gifted to us from FDR - they found a way to keep Private Industry money coming in (all that FICA etc subtracted from your check) and give you back very little or more frequently, nothing . And how is someone with no money, plus disabled or older or older and disabled going to fight this? And who do you complain to? Social Security. They police themselves. And they are all on the same page be it in California where I was or N. Carolina where I was or Michigan where I am now. I’m hoping beyond hope that the offices in Baltimore Maryland give a rats ass! It’s supposedly where you take these kinds of issues - although SS lied to me for 6.5 years saying I had no choice but had to work with my local SS office. NC and the national 800 number people told me that. I had to figure out on my own, the obscure “communication office” was where I needed to get my story to. They’ve recently put this up on their SSA website. Nobody told me who or where or how to fight this. And in my process I’ve learned that I should have had a hell of a lot more money on the Employer based disability and I was eligible for better medical coverage with Medicare as ANYONE who is disabled more than 2 years, is.
Don’t sit back and be satisfied because you are greatful for what you’ve got. What you’ve got is below poverty level and chances are that you’ve already paid your part and should be getting a hell if a lot more than you’re getting. 🆗 I’ll get off that soap box for a minute. I’m in the middle of this fight right now, as we speak, waiting to hear from Baltimore, and on the 28th of this month I’m about to be homeless, too, with this chunk of money they are withholding that is mine! Not theirs. They are being paid A zLOT of money to be the Stuards of Americans savings accounts! You can bet they have nice disability and retirement accounts that We The People pay for.
Don’t give up. Even from Canada I’ve sent emails and phone calls. I’m very excited for Tuesday night, I’ve even rearranged my schedule for this. Canada is watching 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Stand strong. #Elbows up ❤️🇨🇦
WE CANNOT GIVE UP! FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY! Put your energy into fighting for our democracy and our economy!
At least CALL Senate and House leaders:
https://www.senate.gov/senators/leadership.htm
https://www.house.gov/leadership
1. Trump needs to be removed immediately from office. What he & is team is doing is unconstitutional, lawless & corrupt.
2. Navarro, Trump’s pro tariff economic advisor is a crackpot. He uses a fictional character, “RON VARA” as HIS “expert economist.”. Ron Vara is an anagram - he doesn’t exist!
3. His Wharton professor said he was the “dumbest student” he ever had. With 6 bankruptcies, 2 failed casinos and 26 failed businesses, I believe him! As a demonstrated bad businessman, WHY would we trust him on this? It is economic & political suicide.
4. We are NOT in a “war.” Yet Trump is falsely saying we are & sending INNOCENT people to the harshest prison in the world without “due process.”. (60 Minutes said 75% committed no crime & 22% committed non violent crimes like trespassing. theft).
5. We are not in an “emergency” yet Trump is saying we are thereby bypassing Congress and placing unlawful tariffs on countries around the world ( except Russia!) with a formula that doesn’t make sense (Chatgpt?).
“Trump’s reversal actually increased tariff rates (see Washington Post). some have called what Trump did this week a retreat or reversal, Trump, in all his madness, actually increased the global tariff rate this week whether he understood that or not
this 27% rate - largely because we have very elevated rates on the our three largest trading partners - Canada, China and Mexico - is higher than the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff rate that helped deepen and lengthen the Great Depression”
Vote YES on Kaines’s tariff bill
6. The bill Republicans want to pass would RAISE the deficit 5 trillion dollars by giving billionaires tax cuts. BILLIONAIRES DON’T NEED MORE MONEY!
Instead, we need to:
•TAX the wealthy & corporations & have them pay their FAIR SHARE and
•UNCAP the amount to put into Social Security.
This would solve the deficit problem (which these tax cuts created) and the Social Security problem. It would strengthen the middle class which is needed for a strong economy.
Vote NO on the budget bill.
7. We should not pass the SAVE Act. It supports voter suppression. Vote NO.
If we don’t do these things, the tailspin we are currently experiencing will continue until we find ourselves in another depression, isolated from the world, with no allies to protect us, vulnerable to an attack, i.e., WWIII.
Trump LIED to us! Tell them to STOP him. IMPEACH Trump, Vance, Johnson & Musk before we no longer have a democracy and/or we are in a DEPRESSION! STOP TRUMP!
Get out and protest. Make a sign and join the April 19th protest. They are happening all over the country
Michael: yu r a true hero an I luv yur energy..but take care of yourself cause we need that voice! New program sounds great...make sure we can get in on it...will b watching an waving a flag on 19th! Be safe! Xo
Michael, I so much appreciate all you have done and continue to do. You inspire me!!!!
The whole homage to Trump thing boggles my mind.
I just read that 90% (or something close to that) of Republicans still support him. I need to find the poll again because I was astounded. Aren’t farmers mostly Republicans?
Yes, they are. The "Farm Belt" cannot escape its ultra-conservative biases, even when the person for whom they have voted blatantly screws them.
“Trump, dementia and the duty to warn”
By Sabrina Haake
Apr 12, 2025
To ensure that the United States will always be led by a coherent, functioning President, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment provides for the prompt, orderly, and democratic transfer of executive power in the event the president is incapacitated, physically or mentally. Trump's tariff debacle, where he thrust out his chest, flung economic incoherence at the world, then flip flopped only two days later, was the strongest evidence yet- in a roiling sea of evidence- that he is mentally incapacitated.
Despite inheriting the strongest post-covid economy in the world, Trump keeps insisting that the US economy is broken and in need of saving. He insists global trading partners who sell us more than they buy from us- even countries that are a fraction of our size- are "taking advantage."
Trump's tariff drama was so asinine, he's either self-dealing or insane. Frankly, although they are not mutually exclusive, I'd prefer the former. I only wish that rumors swirling in the media today, suggesting Trump’s tariffs were a hustle, an insider scheme meant to enrich his backers, were true. Trump being a self-dealing crook poses less danger to the world than him making than no sense at all.
Dementia and the Duty to Warn
Leaders of the EU are too intelligent to sneer out loud at Trump's flip flop on tariffs.
Aware of his deranged lust for revenge, they are reluctant to utter the truth about his economic ignorance. But the world is aware, even if Americans aren't, that our president is deranged.
Because Trump's administration has refused to release his medical records, other mental health professionals have come forward with their own assess- ments. The emerging consensus is that Trump, showing cognitive decline, is presenting signs of advanced dementia.
Psychotherapist Dr. John Gartner, former Johns Hopkins University Medical School faculty, is so alarmed about Trump's cognitive impairment that he circulated a petition addressing it among thousands of psychiatrists, psychol- ogists and other credentialed mental health professionals.
Gartner wrote last year that Trump shows "progressive deterioration in memory, thinking, ability to use language, behavior, and both gross and fine motor skills," adding that he felt an ethical "obligation to warn the public, and urge the media to cover this national emergency."
Trump struggles to "even finish a sentence," Gartner explained in an interview with MindSite News, elaborating that, “When we're diagnosing dementia, what we need to see is a deterioration of someone's own baseline of functioning. What we see that a lot of people don't appreciate is that when Donald Trump was younger in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. His thoughts were logical and related: now they're tangential. He goes off on these ramblings where he is confabulating things – weird things in which he'll talk about Venezuelans
and mental hospitals, and then he’ll talk about sharks and batteries or the late, great Hannibal Lector and Silence of the Lambs.”
Dr. Gartner notes how Trump is “losing his capacity for coherent speech,” identifying “dozens and dozens of Trump’s phonemic paraphasias, in which you use sounds in place of an actual word (a hallmark of brain damage and dementia).” Trump will say something like ‘mishiz’ for missiles, or ‘Chrishus’ for Christmas, because he can’t complete the word. Then we see also a lot of semantic paraphasias, in which he uses a word incorrectly, as in ‘the oranges of the situation’ because it rhymes with ‘the origins of the situation.’”
Mental health professionals, mainstream media, sound the alarm
Main stream media, including the New York Times, have also questioned Trump’s mental state. In October 2024, the NYT reported that Trump now uses more “negative words than positive words compared with 2016, which can be another indicator of cognitive change.” And he curses far more often than he did when he first ran, “a trend that could reflect what experts call disinhibition,” another sign of dementia. They cited a study by health care news outlet, Stat, that reports similar findings.
Newsweek’s article, “Donald Trump Dementia Evidence ‘Overwhelming,” cites New York psychologist Suzanne Lachmann. Lackmann describes how Trump “seemingly forgets how sentence began and invents something in the middle” resulting in “an incomprehensible word salad”—a behavior she argues is observed “frequently in patients who have dementia.”
The Dementia Society notes that “forgetting names and dates is normal for people who are aging. But “confusing people and generations” is a sign of advanced dementia. During the campaign, Trump confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi on eight separate occasions, and said he was running against Obama. He said his father was born in Germany, when it was his grandfather who was born in Germany.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
With the assistance of other psychiatrists and credentialled mental health professionals, Dr. Bandy Lee wrote, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President near the conclusion of Trump’s first presidency. In the book, psychiatric experts came forward due to what they saw as their professional moral and civic “duty to warn” America about Trump’s dementia.This duty, they argued, supersedes their competing professional duty of neutrality.
Since then, more than 3000 credentialed mental health professionals have added their signatures to a petition concluding that the president has probable dementia.
They write, “Donald Trump is showing unmistakable signs strongly suggesting dementia, based on his public behavior and informant reports that show progressive deterioration in memory, thinking, ability to use language, behavior, and both gross and fine motor skills…. his vocabulary is impoverished, he often has difficulty finishing a thought, sentence or even a word. Typical of dementia patients he perseverates and overuses superlatives and filler words…”
Congress needs to act before Trump gets red-button happy
Trump, who caused global destruction with his mindless tariff wars, now has the sole authority to launch nuclear weapons as the Commander in Chief.
Evidence of his cognitive decline is everywhere. Mental health professionals have sounded the alarm, and met their professional duty to warn the world about Trump's dementia.
Congress now has a duty to listen to the professionals. Republicans, on the whole, have a duty to act.
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment allows the Vice President and either the Cabinet, or a body approved "by law" formed by Congress, to jointly agree that “the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." Democrats need to proceed under this clause, and frightened republicans need to join in before Trump commits another, potentially world annihilating blunder.
You are not alone in the fearless department. It may be strange sometimes, talking into a silent screen but always know that you are not alone.
You are absolutely right about connecting with different people, talking to them like they matter even if they didn't vote the way you did. Find common ground, compare notes on being lied to by both Trump and Biden.
I spent twelve hours in Pennsylvania as a poll watcher. Harris button on my lapel but offered anyone water and donuts. Hundreds of people, countless brief conversations that connected different people. One woman didn't look well, and I asked if she needed to sit down. No, she was just exhausted, her husband had just died, insurance nightmare, and as I commiserated with her, her eyes started welling up. She thanked me for listening to her, that good friends who voted democrat stopped being compassionate toward her, had dropped her. She thanked me, I thanked her for sharing with me. She still voted for trump but I know that our conversation broke down some of the silo that separates us.
Compassion. Fearless compassion.
I’m beginning to believe that we will never recover from this Trump disaster. Each day it digs us deeper and deeper into this black hole.
Creating a disaster on purpose to create a fantasy of economic destruction is madness, his brain is lost in this fantasy of destruction, government allowing this for whatever reason??
Money. Check out THIS story: https://theintercept.com/2025/04/10/congress-ban-stocks-insider-trading-tariffs-trump/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
Trump - A Russian Asset?
Videos on why Trump is an actual Asset for Russia since 1987 when he was compromised by Russia. in the 90s after six or seven bankruptcies no bank would give him loans or credit however, Russia came to the rescue and forwarded him money through Shell companies who paid cash over and above the normal price for his condos in his building buildings. So he essentially for years laundered money for Russia and the crime syndicate in Russia. Google and you will find those reports. Below are some videos on that subject.:
https://youtu.be/W2DxiDNRhzc
https://youtu.be/1p-tuKqPnSI
https://youtu.be/QnXe-SSxYKo
https://youtu.be/W2DxiDNRhzc
https://youtu.be/k35P4dDoLFw
So educate yourself, it’s obvious that Russia plays a big role in American politics and with their asset Trump in the White House they are jumping for joy. For this alone, Trump should be impeached plus being a 34 count felon should exclude him from the White House as well.. We have to pull out all the stops copy paste and send this around.
Email it to all the Republican senators as well as the Democrat and the House of Representatives and Republicans.
https://youtu.be/hnTBzgjme20
I never have been a believer of him!
Inspirational !
How can I watch the livestream of your "No Fear Tour" on Tuesday?
Carolyn,
He said it will be on Jim Acosta's Substack, and maybe his (Michael's) Substack. He said he would let people know tomorrow (Monday).
Thank you, @Lauren Tyson.
Thank you, Lauren.
How could we get rid of " him "? He owns the Supreme Court...
What's the legal way to chip his power?