Aging, Slurring Trump 'Lives in Fear' of Dad's Dementia

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Aging, Slurring Trump ‘Lives in Fear’ of Dad’s Dementia
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON?
Fred Trump died in 1999, aged 93, with pneumonia and Alzheimer’s.
Leigh Kimmins
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Updated May 5 2025 11:44AM EDT
Published May 5 2025 10:27AM EDT

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However, the 78-year-old’s vitality has visibly waned and he is acutely aware of his mortality, the panelist added. “As I was watching that clip, you know, one of the things that really struck me is, Donald Trump has aged,” he said.

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“He lives in fear of going down the path his father went down, which was dementia, followed by Alzheimer’s, into his 90s. And I think he’s carried that burden forever,” the journalist added.

Fred Trump, a real estate developer, died of both pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease at age 93 in 1999. This was eight years after his first formal diagnosis of dementia.

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“Watching how he answers questions now compared to Trump 1.0, he slurs his words a little, he looks weary, he is slouched. And I don’t know how much authentic enthusiasm he has for the power and the office he holds, other than the fact that it keeps him out of jail and it keeps him center stage,” he added.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-aging-slurring-trump-lives-in-fear-of-dads-dementia/

[dalton99a]

1. The best prevention is to lubricate the stairs

[calimary]

8. Don't forget the hand-rails.

[hlthe2b]

2. Here's the paywall-free archive:

https://archive.ph/oOZWw

[ShazzieB]

31. Thank you!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Trump is showing the same signs of dementia his father started to show at his age before it seriously progressed.

Link to tweet

[CrispyQ]

4. We live in fear, too, that he might survive to his 90s.

Just die you orange POS.

[twodogsbarking]

5. Well that wasn't very nice but I like it.

[xuplate]

14. Brilliant

[Cha]

17. Well there ya Go.. Kinda what

I was thinking.

TY

[DENVERPOPS]

22. MY BIGGEST FEAR

is that he will stay in power, with full blown Dementia, and get even crazier.

He is already due for Amendment 25, it's just that the Republicans are still getting incredible mileage out of his delusions/actions.

[Denvermosaic]

34. Covid should have finish him off but alas.

[Mr. Evil]

6. I can't wait for the day

when Orrex finally gets the good news!

[not fooled]

7. Well, at least he has a caring spouse to help hide his condition

à la Nancy and Ronnie.

Oh, wait...

[Marie Marie]

15. Make that exploitative "spouses" (plural). your know, like:

Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, RFK Jr, Hegseth, Musk and especially "sway along to get along", the HHS Grand Dame herself - Ms Noem - normalizing his bizarre musical rally when he forget what he was there for, They are behind all the evil that he puts his signature on before he goes and cheats at golf . And let's not forget the Drs that lie about his physical and mental well being.

[GoCubsGo]

9. We saw a lot of it during Trump 1.0, as well.

While he is significantly worse now, we were seeing the slurring, slouching, and nonsensical "cofeve" crap, and the inability to even walk down a ramp without help even back then. The imbecile was even bragging about the cognitive exam he had to take. He SHOULD BE living in fear of dementia. His decline has been evident in the period between his terms, too. Whatever he has been snorting isn't helping, either It's just speeding it up. This fucker hasn't even hit 80 yet. I'll be shocked if he makes it to then, let alone 93, like his father.

[mwmisses4289]

29. Exactly. He was showing all the signs before he even started to run for his first term.

But some power behind the scenes needed a puppet, and he was convenient for what was considered all the right reasons. Has he gotten worse since then? Well, it's certainly gotten harder to hide his deterioration. Whoever thought he would be easily controllable is finding out how wrong they were and are.

[Orrex]

10. Well maybe he should just fucking die already.

Better safe than sorry, etc.

[LoisB]

11. I never understood how Joe was "too old" but IT was not. It's not as if IT is 20 years younger.

[maxsolomon]

24. Because MFer is still a blabbermouth. Talk talk talk.

Speech became noticeably more difficult for Biden. Not his decision-making, or the content of his speech, but the articulation of it. He also became visibly frail.

MFer's WTF-he's-crazy act is part of his brand.

[drmeow]

38. You can understand it better

if you remember that the corporate media was hell bent on manipulating the narrative to get eyeballs on their news outlets and sell ads. It had zero to do with reality and everything to do with rich media moguls wanting tax cuts. When you look at it that way, it all makes sense.

[PatrickforB]

12. I'm thinking the dementia ship has already sailed with Trump n/t

[ShazzieB]

35. It has...but it's not up to full speed yet.

The signs are there and getting harder to cover up or explain away, but still too easy to ignore for those who prefer to do so.

[allegorical oracle]

46. He was slurring words during that Meet the Press interview with K. Welker. Have

long suspected he's on medication that is not made public. At times he seems hyper and other times he's dragging himself around, but that may be age.

After observing many presidents, it occurs to me that it's often more about who surrounds the POTUS that counts. This current WH reflects djt's entire life of surrounding himself with devoted, but disreputable, people.

[Conjuay]

13. God NO

15 more years of this psycho?

[Quanta]

16. A little Ivermectin will clear it right up!

Or better yet, he should ingest some bleach!

[ananda]

18. He's had it for years, and now it's fullblown.

Geez

[3Hotdogs]

19. Person, Woman, Man, Camera .... I can't remember what the last one was. That proves my point.

YOU try to remember 5 words and see how many you can remember.

He got all 5 correct. AND he is able to distinguish between an elephant and a camel.

These criteria are what proves he is a stable genius.

[ShazzieB]

36. TV was the last one.

It's etched into my brain, unfortunately.

[robbob]

43. Actually, the point is he couldn't remember them;

He had just gotten back from his exam and wanted to talk about how he aced it, but when he got to that part of the story he just looked around the room and came up with “man woman etc. etc.”. It’s been pointed out here before; that particular test doesn’t use such related words. He forgot the test he took, after only a couple hours, and made up his own version.

I’d love to know how he actually did on that test…🤔

[allegorical oracle]

47. Gawd yes. I always flub that test. It's like my mind dismisses the list to its ROM

sector because it's irrelevant. Believe Donny does well on that test because he has a limited vocabulary and habitually parrots back the latest words he's heard. His speech constantly repeats the same phrases.

[Warpy]

20. Aging does a lot of things to us, some starting early in their 50s

but affecting most of us by our late 70s. One of the main things is slowed nerve conduction which can give the apparanace of things ;like decreased mobility and senility even when those conditions don't yet exist. Our gait slows and becomes shuffling, our speech slows and might become indistinct, and it takes us a bit longer to get a thought from brain to mouth. Bodies wear out, but the people inside them are mostly still there.

I've noticed the slowing of That Fat Grifter's speech along with the slurring. I've noticed that he's waddling around more slowly. Neither of these things is an indicator of dementia.

What is an indicator of encyclopedic ignorance, delusion, free floating rage, outright stupidity, and yes, signs of dementia is the content of his speech. Yes, I know it's painful to listen to, but that's where you'll find dementia.

[IronLionZion]

21. That ship has sailed. He's long past the point of no return on that one.

[Karasu]

23. Oh, he's been there for a while now, despite how hard this circus is bending over to cover it up.

There is no reason not to invoke the 25th other than the fact that his party is nothing but sycophantic fascists who will refuse to do it as long as he's breathing.

[ToxMarz]

25. He can't dance worth shit

but that's probably a life long affliction.

[Blues Heron]

26. he is already there

Get the butterfly net already, what is the hold up. Fucker is flying the plane right at the ground. Pukes need to pull up QUICK!!!!!

[Ziggysmom]

27. All that Diet Coke! More than one per day increases risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke, I've heard

[bhikkhu]

28. Having read transcripts of a few of his rally speeches, I think that ship has sailed

It's almost painful to try to follow the gaps and lapses in his mental functions.

[Dan]

30. A daily diet of a pint of WD-40 should with his health, keeps the mind lubricated.

[Nululu]

32. His kids will pick him clean

He knows his kids are like him and can't wait to strip him of his assets, just like he did with his dad.

[Dan]

33. But thinking about it - all of us should be so lucky as this 6'3", 220 lb male with a full head of hair

Combined with the ability to remember 4 or 5 words.

[malaise]

37. Not one of his brothers made it to 80

That is all

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. George Conway does not think that trump will finish even one year of his term

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To the Newark Star-Ledger: No, I meant 1/20/26, the end of the first year of his term. It’s hard to see how he could make it to 2028, and his term ends in 2029 anyway.

[City Lights]

40. I try to tune him out whenever his mug is on TV,

but I did see a clip from his interview with Kristen Welker and his voice sounded very raspy, which is something I never noticed in the past. Maybe he's rotting from the inside out.

[calimary]

41. Reminds me of the last days of Reagan.

Once his second term was done, I couldn't help noticing how glaringly his decline proceeded. Reagan had often spoken in glowing terms about how he saw his "post-Presidency", and how he couldn't wait to hit what he called "the mashed potato circuit" - which was a reference to banquet-related - and highly lucrative - speaking engagements. It was easy to tell how much he was looking forward to it.

But after he left the White House, Reagan kinda disappeared. Later on, in his second term, everybody around him, ESPECIALLY including Nancy, fiercely protected him. After he left office they almost never let him out in public, limiting (or outright canceling) his bookings during which his behavior would likely blab the truth of his declining mental acuity. Since I intensely didn't like Reagan, the fact that he had almost NO further public exposure was a MOST welcome turn of events for me. But it also made me wonder if he wasn't even farther gone, mentally, than many of us had suspected.

[misanthrope]

42. One particularly disgusting trait more prominent recently

His frequent and loud inhalations through his mouth that make it sound like he's sucking a load of saliva back in.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

44. trump's decline is sad

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[samplegirl]

45. He thinks Bernie Sanders is to old

and a wack job??? Trumps just 4 yrs younger and he better look in the mirror!

Bernie Sanders is much much more younger in fitness and mental acuity.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

48. Dementia Don

[LetMyPeopleVote]

49. Here are some pictures from today's meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister

trump looks bad

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