Donald Trump faces impeachment over ‘mental decline’ – ‘He’s deteriorating’ | World | News
President Donald Trump has become increasingly “paranoid” about his “mental decline”, according to an expert who says he could even be impeached as a result.
Dr. John Gartner sat down with host Joanna Coles to discuss an article published in the Wall Street Journal during the Daily Beast podcast. According to the article, the 79-year-old president admitted he was wearing compression socks to treat his swollen ankles and expressed frustration in the phone interview that the public was discussing his health “for the 25th time,” before announcing that his health was “perfect,” the Daily Beast reported.
“We’re talking about it for the 25th time because people keep saying it’s 25th Amendment time,” Gartner told the Daily Beast, referring to the constitutional provision that outlines the process for presidential succession and the transfer of power in cases of death, resignation, removal, or incapacity.
The psychologist also told the paper he is “sure” the president is “paranoid” about a “threat to power” that may be caused by his declining physical and cognitive health. “No story enrages Donald Trump more than the stories about his physical and cognitive health. And there’s a reason for that,” the psychologist told Coles, noting that Trump “knows that he’s covering something up,” but as a “malignant narcissist,” he has to keep projecting strength.
“As he’s starting to deteriorate, one of the signs of dementia is people becoming more paranoid. The paranoia is becoming more grotesque, more primitive,” Gartner said of the president, emphasising that the “paranoia” may include feeling like people are “threatening” him, he was also quoted as saying.
Gartner also suggested that the type of dementia he believes Trump shows signs of having is “frontotemporal dementia,” which causes the frontal lobes to deteriorate, a key symptom is that it “disinhibits people to basically act out badly,” he said.
Recently, one of Donald Trump’s closest political allies has also given a rare insight into the US President’s health and diet. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr discussed the US leader’s eating habits on The Katie Miller Podcast.
Mr Kennedy said: “The interesting thing about the president is that he eats really bad food, which is McDonald’s, and, you know, candy and Diet Coke. He drinks Diet Coke at all times. He has the constitution of a deity. I don’t know how he’s alive, but he is.”
Trump has always maintained he is in perfect health, and says he has “aced” multiple cognitive tests.
