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2016 Postmortem

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cali

(114,904 posts)
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 06:01 PM Aug 2016

Not that it's an excuse, and not that I'm a shrink, but I still believe Trump has Alzheimer's [View all]

or some form of dementia. That's not to say he doesn't have and hasn't long had other personality disorders- Professor Gardner of a Harvard who teaches developmental psych literally plans to use Trump as a text book case of extreme narcissism in classes he teaches.

That he's disagreeable, boorish etc, isn't exactly a good thing, but that he's dangerously mentally unstable, well, that's the real problem.

Trump's father had Alzheimer's and there is thought to be hereditary component to it. Recent research indicates that memory loss may not be the first indicator and that there are subtle symptoms that can be missed for years.

Maybe every presidential nominee should have to undergo a psych evaluation- and there are some early ways to determine Alzheimer's.

In any case, I think it could not be clearer that he's mentally unstable.

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