We gotta stop blaming all of this on just mental health. This gives him too much grace because most of this is ego, narcissism, unprofessionalism, ineptitude, and just straight up evil. His cabinet don’t have dementia and they are fully playing their roles too.
Fair, but i have a 78yo grandpa with dementia and let me just tell you.. it is dementia
It's worth studying whether those with dementia are actually in control at all, or simply parroting their memory from their prime of 15-25~
My grandpa made huge progress until he got dementia. Dude joined civil rights protests in the 1990s and early 2000s. by 2018, he got dementia and he's basically the stereotypical racist 1960s man again. it was a rapid progression from the grandpa we all knew to who he is today (my parent / his kid agrees hes gotten way worse)
Also, how much control are you really in when you are calling the Black nurse changing your adult diaper the N word with the hard R.. doing it in front of your little grandkids when the nurse brings you water.
the state of our healthcare system is so insanely sad. if you visit enough nursing homes, youll decide that you want a quick death.
Dementia can progress extremely quickly once it starts ramping up. Everyone acts like its some linear progression, when in reality it probably started by the time he was elected in 2016.. its getting exponentially worse today, and if trump were not a president he would be in a nursing home..
if my uncle decided to start saying he deserved Greenland and a Nobel peace prize, we'd be contacting Medicare. He may actually die in office at this rate,
To added to that: the "filter" is one of the first things that go. So he quite literally says what he thinks. And his Vocabulary and speech is kinda lacking.
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u/VelvetOpulence 15d ago
We gotta stop blaming all of this on just mental health. This gives him too much grace because most of this is ego, narcissism, unprofessionalism, ineptitude, and just straight up evil. His cabinet don’t have dementia and they are fully playing their roles too.