Shrink: Trump's 'Dementia' Makes Him Easy to Manipulate

Monday, March 11, 2024

"Not enough people are sounding the alarm that, based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented," [psychologist John] Gartner said. "In fact, we are seeing the opposite among too many in the news media, the political leaders and among the public. There is also this focus on Biden's gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing," Gartner added.

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Any reasonably sophisticated intelligence can manipulate Donald. His mental illness is an opening into his very soul by those who would exploit it. Putin has his number. Putin has MAGA's number. Both are dancing monkeys for evil people.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2024-03-11 01:58 PM | Reply

This ---- of having "professionals" diagnose someone they've never met or interacted with needs to stop. It's going to backfire big time, and it's really offensive to those who've had or have loved ones who struggled with mental illness.

#2 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-11 09:06 PM | Reply

#2 Wait until tomorrow at the Hur hearing where we'll get to hear lots of nonprofessionals in the House diagnosing Biden's mental state.

#3 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-03-11 09:12 PM | Reply

It needs to stop, no matter who's doing it, regardless whether it's against Trump or Reagan.

#4 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-11 09:35 PM | Reply

It is actually against our code of ethics. Put in place after liberal psychiatrists pontificated that Goldwater was mentally unfit.
We are not to state our professional opinion with out doing a full evaluation and permission of the subject. Unfortunately, the APA is a paper tiger and has no real means of enforcement.

#5 | Posted by mattm at 2024-03-11 09:44 PM | Reply

His being broke makes him easy to manipulate.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-11 10:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

But you loved you some remote Teri Schiavo ----, didn't you, you ------- hypocrite.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-11 10:07 PM | Reply

- His being broke makes him easy to manipulate.

Yep. His hush money bond was paid by the Chubb group, run by one of Vlad's pals.

Dementia Don is an even bigger pushover now than ever.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-11 10:22 PM | Reply

Yep. His hush money bond was paid by the Chubb group, run by one of Vlad's pals.
Dementia Don is an even bigger pushover now than ever.

#8 | POSTED BY CORKY

Which has an odd condition.

If ------- loses the appeal and ------- doesn't pay the penalty within 60 days Chubb has to pay Ms. Carroll and pursue the money from -------.

That sounds like a surefire gift to -------, as he ain't gonna pay -----.

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-11 10:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

or have loved ones who struggled with mental illness.

#2 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

------- hasn't struggled with his mental illness a single day of his life. The rest of us have struggled with his mental illness regularly.

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-11 10:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"paid by the Chubb group, run by one of Vlad's pals."

Chubb is definitely doing this on behalf of someone.

No friggin way they would just do this.

#11 | Posted by eberly at 2024-03-11 10:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Trump just came out in support of Budweiser saying they aren't "woke." What changed?
"The offer of a "Second Chance" from the frontrunner for the Republican nomination came as a major fundraiser for Trump's campaign is set to be hosted by one of the beer company's top lobbyists next month."

Trump just came out in support of TikTok. Yes, he opposed it while President. What changed?
"His sudden reversal on restricting TikTok (came) after mending ties with a top GOP donor (Jeff Yass) and TikTok investor" Yass' firm has a 20 billion dollar stake in ByteDance, parent company of TikTok.

Everything is for sale.
Everything.

#12 | Posted by YAV at 2024-03-11 10:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Dumb, demented, deluded, and easily duped. Yassah, that's our Donnie.

#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-03-12 05:13 AM | Reply

EBERLY

"Chubb is definitely doing this on behalf of someone."

I'm surprised that the lawyers for the prosecution haven't figured out Chubb's connection to Vladimir Putin yet. Or maybe they have and don't care.

Chubb inked the deal so they're on the hook. But yes, you are correct. The hypothesis is that they are doing it for "somebody else." Whether that's on paper or just a handshake deal, nobody knows. The whole bond thing is a secret.

The tab is only a hundred million dollars in the E. Jean Carroll case. It will be interesting to see if Chubb and their "somebody else" will extend that largess to a half billion dollars for Trump's fraud case appeal. The deadline is March 25 ~~ two weeks from now.

#14 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-03-12 07:54 AM | Reply

Before a bond is issued like this...meaning any kind of a surety bond......the principal (Trump) has to sign an indemnity agreement.

I'm wondering if anyone else signed one.........Underwriters don't want to lose a dollar on these bonds. There is no way Chubb agreed to this based on it being between them and Trump and nobody else involved.

no chance.....

#15 | Posted by eberly at 2024-03-12 10:34 AM | Reply

Vlad guaranteed the loan, via his buddy, who is the father of the Chubb guy who gave the loan with the 'unusual' condition of payment.

drudge.com

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-12 01:27 PM | Reply

www.psychiatry.org

FTA: APA's formal response came in 1973 with the adoption of Section 7.3 in the Principles of Medical Ethics with Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry, which became known as the Goldwater Rule.

The rule applies to public figures and states: "[I]t is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement" (see sidebar).

The episode and the subsequent adoption of Section 7.3 appear to have dampened the enthusiasm of most APA members for a repeat performance, leaving psychiatric diagnosis to the media.

Another generation, appears the enthusiasm to lay off has waned.

#17 | Posted by mattm at 2024-03-12 01:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Demented------------ grins while holding an autographed picture of murdered woman.

twitter.com

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-03-12 05:09 PM | Reply

"Another generation, appears the enthusiasm to lay off has waned"

What good is psychology to society if it can't warn us about sick people in real time? Judging insanity in leaders is a matter of life and death. No one wants to say the things about Trump that they have no trouble observing in their schizophrenic/meth addled neighbors.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2024-03-12 05:23 PM | Reply

I posted the APA's ethics guidelines, for Psychiatrists, not psychologists.
We are to advocate for our patients, not to tell you what should be obvious to you.

Don't confuse the APA (American Psychiatry Association) with the APA (American Psychological Association) :)

#20 | Posted by mattm at 2024-03-13 01:46 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Don't confuse the APA (American Psychiatry Association) with the APA (American Psychological Association) :)

#20 | POSTED BY MATTM

OK. But Trump matches the diagnostic criteria as a sociopath for both professions.

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2024-03-13 07:39 AM | Reply

Everything is for sale.
Everything.

Posted by YAV at 2024-03-11 10:48 PM | Repl

Dementia Don is for sale. Always has been. Always will be.

That makes him perfect to handle our nations top secrets according to the magat*rds

#22 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-03-13 12:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Parties have been demonizing each other with every POTUS in office. But now we have two very similar candidates who have committed very similar crimes and have very similar health issues, yet both sides use it as ammunition against the other and ignore it on their side. At what point do people use their brain cells for more than just how to learn to be herded?

#23 | Posted by humtake at 2024-03-13 02:15 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#17

And the "Goldwater Rule" is and was an incredibly stupid idea.

Professionals should be allowed to comment on the sanity of politicians. Not as a responsibility to their patients, as a responsibility to the country.

Goldwater was incredibly dangerous. Sure, when I met him, he was long out of power, a nice old man seeing his granddaughter in a play. But that was in the 1990s, not the 1960s. I'm very glad he was never president. I mean, if he had been I might not be alive I suppose, but that's true for a lot of us.

Today, Diaper Donnie is more dangerous for the world than Goldwater was. Goldwater would have put us in a nuclear war. The cheeto-faced, tiny-fingered, ferret-wearing sh*tgibbon would turn the world's only superpower into a fascist dictatorship.

#24 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-03-13 02:43 PM | Reply