My Thoughts on the Roundtable with the Euro Leaders

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36. Among other problems.

Trump is old and mentally feeble. It happens to most of us who are fortunate to live to his age. He is already beyond the US male life expectancy and has done very little in his life to exercise his brain or any other muscle.

I do think hearing is one of his issues. I am a professional sound engineer, and I have always tried to protect my hearing as much as possible. I can still discern very quiet sounds at frequencies 25 hz to about 13,000 hz -- much better than average for my age. But in noisy environments I have great difficulty discriminating conversations. And this is why many people have hearing aids. Trump's ego probably prevents him from getting hearing aids.

But his bigger problem, obviously , is dementia. He really can only hold the simplest of thoughts, and his short-term memory is near non-existent. As a person who spends a lot of time in memory care environments caring for my parents, I see this age-related dementia every day. Trump is nearly 80, but he has a level of dementia that would be much more typical of a person age 90-95. He should be in a locked memory care unit for his own safety, not to mention the safety of the rest of the world.

FWIW (and I have no medical qualifications in this area) I doubt he has Alzheimer's Disease -- just very pronounced age-related vascular dementia. He shouldn't drive a vehicle or do anything else that requires cognitive stability.