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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] daannii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

At this point, I would say almost all of the brain has been affected. Different types of dementia typically start in a few specific regions but then they spread.

Eventually everything breaks down.

I bet if we saw mri scans of his brain it would show 20-30% reduced gray matter (from healthy average 50 year old) with most significant alterations in the frontal cortex and temporal lobes. Atrophy in the hippocampus and other limbic organs.

It would take post-mortem review of the brain to fully access the damage. Probably some loss of mass in the cerebellum (controls balance and posture). Significant changes in the brain stem that controls arousal and sleep states.

Here is what I think is going to happen.

After Trump's gone. Suddenly the Republicans will admit he has dementia.

And we will all be expected to feel bad for poor ol trump.
He had dementia after all. A terrible medical condition. So sad.

Only a monster would make fun of someone with dementia. Only a monster would criticize a mans decisions that were made while he had a terrible brain disorder.

They will still make it out that no one knew. And that technically (and this is technically true) a certain diagnosis of any dementia can only be made post mortem. Even Alzheimer's. Because an biopsy examination is required.

But we can "highly suspect" specific dementias while the person is alive.

To clarify I'm not "making fun" of him for having dementia. I'm pointing out he has dementia and the consistent evidence.

He's not even in charge. He's a puppet. What things he is actually doing is destroying the white house. Building ball rooms. He isn't in charge of much else. Not even the tariffs. Someone else is telling him to do that. Think about it. You think he's looking up trade deficit numbers? You think he even knows the names or locations of half the countries he put tariffs on?

He doesn't even know where he is or what is going on in the world.

Although dementia (any of them) is a terrible horrible thing for a human to have. And it's not something I would wish on others.

Sometimes, I do ask myself:. If someone did deserve it ..... ?

Unfortunately though. we get the fallout.

But I do want to be clear. He is a puppet right now.

Any shit going down right is the men around him. Miller. Mikey. Hegseth, The project 2025 guy. The antichrist guy. Anyone else with access to him.

He can be swayed by anyone who flatters him, and asks for his autograph on important papers.

These handlers let him have his little distractions like decorating his ballroom.

But they are running everything else. Trump is at a point he is incapable of following any kind of questions or thoughts.

He's much worse than people realize. I worked in Alzheimer's research. You wouldn't believe how many times family members would bring dear old gramps in , saying "he seems to be struggling a little bit with remembering things" and we would do testing and dear old gramps couldn't figure out how to fold a piece of paper and put it in an envelope (that's a real part of cognitive tests). It was very sad to see and I always felt so much empathy for those people and their families coming to terms with how much decline had happened.

My point is. On the surface it may only look like he's slightly impaired but I'm telling you it's severe. The word salad is enough evidence for that. The wandering around also comes when the condition is moderate to severe.

I don't feel empathy regarding Trump. Only sadness that so many are suffering because of power hungry losers. Who are also not even that smart. Using Trump like a "weekend at Bernie's" to fuck us and live out their power fantasies.