Over the years, we've covered the issue of the unhinged Malignant Fascist's mental state, when we wrote about mental health professionals declaring a "duty to warn" about his extreme narcissism, sociopathy, and mental disorder (here, here, and here for example). With age and adversity (trials, the 2020 election loss, investigations), his mental state hasn't improved. Chris Truax, writing in The Hill, says signs of the MF's dementia are evident:
"President Trump has always been willing to mislead people when it was to his advantage. Even his supporters recognize this. Hence the famous admonition to 'take Trump seriously, not literally.'
But what Trump is doing now is something different. Confabulation is sometimes called 'honest lying,' because the person doing it genuinely believes what he’s saying, even if it is obviously and patently false. A person confabulates when they are telling completely invented stories that don’t provide them any particular tangible benefit. In other words, it’s not like lying to try and get out of a speeding ticket.
Confabulation isn’t misremembering a date or forgetting something. The mistakes of memory we are all subject to become confabulation when people remember false information in vivid detail — detail so vivid and complete that people who don’t know otherwise often believe what they are hearing is true.
In older people, confabulation is one of the clearest early signs of dementia. The day you witness someone confabulate is often the day you are forced to admit to yourself that a beloved parent needs help, and that all the little slips and oddities you’ve been seeing can no longer be rationalized away.
For Trump, the day we could no longer pretend everything is fine came on July 15, when he told a lengthy story about his uncle, John Trump, who he claimed taught at MIT and held three degrees in “nuclear, chemical, and math.” His uncle, according to Trump, once told him how he had taught Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and how very smart Kaczynski was. [snip]
If you aren’t comfortable with labeling this as dementia, that’s fine. But there is no question that the president — the man tasked with making critical life and death decisions for both the country and the world — is struggling with mathematical concepts, has vivid “memories” that are not rooted in reality and has an increasingly foggy grasp of past events that did happen. That’s not a medical diagnosis. These are facts we can see for ourselves and we all know, even those of us who voted for Trump three times, that this can’t be allowed to continue." (our emphasis)
He's instilled fear in his slavish Vice President, Cabinet and Congressional MAGAts so they will never invoke the 25th Amendment, even in the event of a complete, public mental breakdown. He makes sure the doctors that examine him are "loyal" and don't dare sharing adverse information on his mental health. The non-MAGA public will see more evidence of his dementia in the coming weeks and months, as scandals, political setbacks and the effects of aging impact his deteriorating mind. As for MAGAts, it's all good, nothing to see here.
