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edhopper

(37,370 posts)
Wed May 21, 2025, 08:56 PM May 2025

Does Trump have Neurosyphilis?

He certainly shows signs of it, and his history would indicate the strong possibility.

I think a lot more time should be spent discussing this in the press.

The questions need to be asked and asked again.

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Does Trump have Neurosyphilis? (Original Post) edhopper May 2025 OP
Or maybe he's just a mean, stupid, senile psychopath. Ocelot II May 2025 #1
Seems he is getting meaner and more stupid Walleye May 2025 #7
He really is PatSeg May 2025 #20
Could be both? edhopper May 2025 #10
We are in trouble. cachukis May 2025 #2
Lawrence O says he's "breathtakingly stupid". Pretty much covers it. Deuxcents May 2025 #3
This Is My Take RobinA May 2025 #43
Oooh! Cover-up!! Walleye May 2025 #4
Cover-up - of, by and for the press. dchill May 2025 #35
I have heard from many people he does displacedvermoter May 2025 #5
Affluenza with a side of dementia chowmama May 2025 #6
When will he eat the one McDonald's too many that clogs his arteries? LW1977 May 2025 #29
Syphilis is pretty much a disease of pre penicillin womanofthehills May 2025 #8
Of course he may have chosen to stick a light up his ass rather than take a proven treatment like penicillin 😬 MLAA May 2025 #24
Also, he got Covid and who knows how he treated himself... ananda May 2025 #32
Covid probably had a hard time finding is brain MLAA May 2025 #36
LOL ananda May 2025 #45
Over 200,000 cases Nigrum Cattus May 2025 #25
Some of the symptoms are: vapor2 May 2025 #9
You don't need to have syphilis to be a psychopathic narcissist womanofthehills May 2025 #11
It's impossible to know with any certainty Meowmee May 2025 #12
Not to mention a run of the mill asshole. Which he infects his cult with. Ping Tung May 2025 #13
It wouldn't surprise me. GoCubsGo May 2025 #14
Aren't there.... NCgayguy May 2025 #15
....not anymore......nt Hope22 May 2025 #16
What do you have against neurosyphilis?🤪 rubbersole May 2025 #17
I've thought this for years relayerbob May 2025 #18
Not likely. Gimpyknee May 2025 #19
I just asked a genius friend who malaise May 2025 #21
K&R spanone May 2025 #22
Protectionist Iamscrewed May 2025 #23
You do realize that . . . Aussie105 May 2025 #26
I haven't heard him deny it. Midnight Writer May 2025 #27
His father mgardener May 2025 #28
His idol Hitler had syphilis so they have a lot in common. Let's hope that he'll end up the same way soon. Dave Bowman May 2025 #30
How to know Nasruddin May 2025 #31
He's just a garden-variety bully who isn't afraid to squish the "little people". BurnDoubt May 2025 #33
And he's a (small "d") dick. BurnDoubt May 2025 #34
No, unlikely in the extreme Warpy May 2025 #37
Thanks for being rational and well informed Hekate May 2025 #41
You didn't read the first response I noped out of Warpy May 2025 #42
You and I (#40) are on the same page Hekate May 2025 #44
If he does, is there any chance..... lastlib May 2025 #38
"Dating" was his personal Vietnam. LudwigPastorius May 2025 #39
What I am trying to figure out is why on Earth people have this fascination with an easily cured STD Hekate May 2025 #40
Does he? Maybe. But his mental illness manifested way before he hit puberty Attilatheblond May 2025 #46

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
20. He really is
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:56 PM
May 2025

I've noticed that the meaner and dumber he gets, his skin gets a darker shade of orange. Kind of like Pinocchio's nose growing the more he lies - Trump gets more orange, not to mention uglier too.

cachukis

(3,938 posts)
2. We are in trouble.
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:02 PM
May 2025

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

RobinA

(10,478 posts)
43. This Is My Take
Thu May 22, 2025, 12:33 PM
May 2025

There's no excuse for anybody in this day and age to have tertiary syphilis.

displacedvermoter

(4,503 posts)
5. I have heard from many people he does
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:10 PM
May 2025

So I continue to believe it and tell other people that I believe it.

chowmama

(1,096 posts)
6. Affluenza with a side of dementia
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:11 PM
May 2025

and the kind of physical health that comes with an exclusive diet of McDonalds and soda, bolstered with the Adderall and whatever other uppers he's on, exacerbated by his lifelong belief that exercise is bad for you. He may also have Long Covid.

The syphilis wouldn't surprise me, but that would just be the cherry on the sundae.

womanofthehills

(10,988 posts)
8. Syphilis is pretty much a disease of pre penicillin
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:15 PM
May 2025

He doesn’t need to have a disease to be a jerk.

MLAA

(19,745 posts)
24. Of course he may have chosen to stick a light up his ass rather than take a proven treatment like penicillin 😬
Wed May 21, 2025, 10:02 PM
May 2025

ananda

(35,152 posts)
32. Also, he got Covid and who knows how he treated himself...
Wed May 21, 2025, 10:56 PM
May 2025

maybe he took Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, etc.

Anyhow, Covid could have affected his brain.

vapor2

(4,513 posts)
9. Some of the symptoms are:
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:17 PM
May 2025

dizziness, altered mental status, cognitive dysfunction, sensory loss, stroke, seizures etc

womanofthehills

(10,988 posts)
11. You don't need to have syphilis to be a psychopathic narcissist
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:23 PM
May 2025

Why Republicans think that’s neat is beyond me.

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
12. It's impossible to know with any certainty
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:24 PM
May 2025

Last edited Thu May 22, 2025, 12:05 AM - Edit history (1)

And it is irrelevant to the fact that he has been a psychopath from a very young age. Rfk jr. looks like he could have it though as does orange psycho 😹. But again rfk jr was already a psychopath for many years.

GoCubsGo

(34,915 posts)
14. It wouldn't surprise me.
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:32 PM
May 2025

I have been saying that for years, although I was mostly joking. The problem is that he also spent a lifetime of eating garbage, not exercising, and (allegedly) abusing substances. That all could easily lead to one or a series of strokes and/or dementia, which tend to have the same symptoms. He also has a family history of Alzheimer's disease. That's not to say that can't have all of those issues at once...

 

Gimpyknee

(1,025 posts)
19. Not likely.
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:54 PM
May 2025

Didn’t you read the White House physician’s report that said Trump was in “excellent” health and “robust” neurological condition?

Then again, Biden’s White House physician didn’t diagnose Biden’s prostate cancer.

malaise

(296,118 posts)
21. I just asked a genius friend who
Wed May 21, 2025, 09:57 PM
May 2025

is visiting. He thinks syphilitic dementia is more likely. He thinks the other one would have killed him already.

He’s a medical doctor. - add

Iamscrewed

(486 posts)
23. Protectionist
Wed May 21, 2025, 10:00 PM
May 2025

Remember when bonepures said his biggest challenge during the Vietnam conflict was dodging s.t.d's?

Aussie105

(7,926 posts)
26. You do realize that . . .
Wed May 21, 2025, 10:07 PM
May 2025

this sort of discussion about 'what is wrong with Trump' is just mind games to avoid the real question, which essentially is . . . what to do about this insane and destructive person?

Me?

I'm just waiting for the QAnon crowd, the cabal of Dem cannibals operating from that pizza shop basement, the Deep State, the Obama/Biden operatives controlling everything from that bunker deep under the White House, to start implementing their foolproof and devious counterattack.

Anyone have any news from any of those?

Dave Bowman

(7,165 posts)
30. His idol Hitler had syphilis so they have a lot in common. Let's hope that he'll end up the same way soon.
Wed May 21, 2025, 10:51 PM
May 2025

Nasruddin

(1,258 posts)
31. How to know
Wed May 21, 2025, 10:53 PM
May 2025

Until whatever dementia process is in play affects the brainstem, we are not going to know.
He is so stupid, and so delusional, conditions that he has long prior to running for president,
that we are unable to tell.

BurnDoubt

(1,726 posts)
33. He's just a garden-variety bully who isn't afraid to squish the "little people".
Wed May 21, 2025, 11:00 PM
May 2025

AND WE LET HIM!!!!!!

Warpy

(114,616 posts)
37. No, unlikely in the extreme
Wed May 21, 2025, 11:22 PM
May 2025

If he'd missed the chancre because it wasn't in a place he paid attention to, he'd definitely have noticed the disfiguring full body rash.

In addition, NY is a state that insisted on the Wasserman test for a marriage license, an excellent precaution for any major port of entry.

If his erratic mental state were linked to tertiary syphilis, we'd likely see large full thickness skin lesions beginning to invade the underlying bone. So nuh-uh.

What we're looking at is the worst of the worst personality disorders most likely with early dementia on top of it.



Warpy

(114,616 posts)
42. You didn't read the first response I noped out of
Wed May 21, 2025, 11:59 PM
May 2025

because I'm sick to death of seeing this question posed over and over again.

Yes, a lot of people are angry enough to want to see King Bumhole in the process of losing his marbles due to an untreated but very treatable, loathsome sexually trans,itted disease, but it's kist not so and it's high time people start looking stuff up for themselves.

He's always been a wrecking ball of a human being and he's getting to the part of dementia where he is incapable of controlling his outbursts. It is not going to get better. His staff can't control this. This should be bad enough for anyone without throwing a nasty disease that goes away with penicillin into the mix.

lastlib

(28,277 posts)
38. If he does, is there any chance.....
Wed May 21, 2025, 11:23 PM
May 2025

...they could operate and save the neurosyphilis?

Asking for a friend.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
40. What I am trying to figure out is why on Earth people have this fascination with an easily cured STD
Wed May 21, 2025, 11:33 PM
May 2025

Why? Is it because otherwise intelligent people think they can get a snicker out of a dirty joke? But why the persistence at a place like DU?

His behavior and psychology have been thoroughly explored and described by experts in the field, including his niece (a clinical psychologist) who had the misfortune of growing up around him. His father’s history of Alzheimer’s is well-known. People who worked for him in decades past have described his aberrant attitudes and behavior going back to the beginning. The Dark Trifecta.

He is nasty as hell. Abusive. Sociopathic. Drug addicted. Sadistic. Violent.

Why attribute all this to an untreated case of a curable disease?

Just asking.

Attilatheblond

(8,880 posts)
46. Does he? Maybe. But his mental illness manifested way before he hit puberty
Thu May 22, 2025, 01:35 PM
May 2025

And he's ALWAYS been stupid. His stubbornness and upbringing just guaranteed it would manifest in the worst possible ways.

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