Doctors are concerned: Trump is fabricating facts and confusing events from his own life
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Trump’s strange and untrue statements during his speeches raise concerns about his mental abilities.
This was reported in The Guardian.
Trump’s public appearances, during which he falsely claimed that his uncle knew the Unabomber (an American terrorist who sent bombs by mail – ed.), and spontaneously talked about windmills, raised questions about his mental abilities.
“The president has consistently strayed from the topic, including during a cabinet meeting this month when he spent 15 minutes talking about decorations, and appears to misremember simple facts about his government and his life,” the publication noted.
Last week, during a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Trump abruptly switched from discussing immigration to windmills: “The other thing I’m saying to Europe is: We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They are killing us. They are killing the beauty of our landscapes.”
He talks continuously and without any incentive for two minutes about windmills, baselessly claiming that they cause whales to “strand” and that wind energy “kills birds.”
The abrupt changes in the conversation are an example of how Trump “deviates from the topic without thinking – he just switches topics without self-regulation, without a coherent narrative,” said Harry Segal, a senior lecturer in the psychology department at Cornell University.
Another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is his tendency to confabulate.
“It’s when he takes an idea or something that has already happened and adds things to it that haven’t happened,” Segal noted.
An example is Trump’s claim that his uncle, the late Professor John Trump, taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, at MIT.
This cannot be true, because Trump’s uncle died in 1985, and Kaczynski was only publicly named the Unabomber in 1996. Moreover, Kaczynski did not study at MIT.
Earlier it became known that US President Donald Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency .
As reported, former White House physician Ronnie Jackson gave a bleak prognosis: former US President Joe Biden likely has 12 to 18 months to live due to an advanced form of prostate cancer.
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