If elected, Donald Trump should be immediately removed as president because of “overwhelming” evidence he is suffering from dementia – according to a renowned psychiatrist.
Duty To Warn, a group of mental health experts, recently quoted Dr. Lance Dodes, a retired Harvard Medical School professor and supervising analyst emeritus of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, presenting dark omens about the GOP leader’s state of mental health.
“If he were to become president, he would have to be immediately removed from office via the 25th Amendment as dangerously unable to fulfill the responsibilities of office,” Dodes added, citing the 1967 norm that allows for a president to be removed due to unfitness.
Dode, a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, made particular reference to Trump’s misunderstanding of Barack Obama with Joe Biden in a statement released on Friday. “Unlike normal aging, which is characterized by forgetting names or words, Trump repeatedly shows something very different: confusion about reality,” he said.
Dode is not the only expert to question Trump’s mental abilities. Psychologist John Gartner, a former professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, sponsored a petition claiming Trump, 77, is “showing unmistakable signs strongly suggesting dementia”, while justifying Biden’s forgetfulness as a “natural” aspect of aging.
According to Gartner, the former president allegedly displayed “progressive deterioration in memory, thinking, ability to use language, behavior, and both gross and fine motor skills,” he wrote at the beginning of March.
Suzanne Lachmann, a New York psychologist, also came to a similar conclusion. Trump, she claimed, would “seemingly forget how the sentence began and invent something in the middle,” leading to “an incomprehensible word salad”—a behavior that is “frequently observed in patients who have dementia.”
Trump’s niece, Mary, previously stated that her uncle was exhibiting symptoms of “untreated psychiatric disorders.” However, the former president and front-runner for the Republican nomination frequently boasted about “acing” multiple cognitive tests, all the while claiming that his 81-year-old Democratic opponent Joe Biden is unsuited to serve as president for another term.
Mr. Trump is no stranger to dementia, having spent years observing his father’s developing Alzheimer and cognitive impairment — a formative era that some acquaintances say has left him with a persistent fear that he may one day inherit the affliction while accusing others of mental incapacity. Doctors believe that there is a higher chance of acquiring a gene linked to the illness from a parent.
