Doctors are warning of Trump’s dementia—it’s time corporate media report on this!

There is a Duty To Warn!

When more than 500 licensed mental health professions—including best-selling authors and well-respected psychologists—sign a petition warning that Donald Trump has clear signs of dementia, you would think corporate media would cover the story. But of course that would conflict with the corporate media’s non-stop narrative that President Biden is the one with cognitive issues.

But thankfully that has not deterred Dr. John Gartner--the founder of “Duty to Warn” and a prominent psychologist who was a contributor to the New York Times bestselling book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President"—from raising alarm bells.  In fact, Dr. Gartner reached out to me a few weeks ago via Twitter (now X) to share his work. It was jaw-dropping. 

Consequently, I interviewed Dr. Gartner on my SiriusXM radio show last week to discuss why hundreds of mental health professionals are so deeply alarmed by what they are seeing with Trump. It was so compelling I wanted to share both what he warned and the video of the interview (below) so you can watch it for yourself—as well as hopefully share it with friends.

For starters, Dr. Gartner began raising red flags about Trump’s mental health back in 2017. As the Doctor explained in our interview, at that time, he was warning America that based on his expertise, Trump suffered from “malignant narcissism,” adding, “which was actually designed to explain Hitler.” Gartner believed that Trump manifested all four components of that condition:  Narcissism, paranoia, “constant feeling of being persecuted—which “justifies his harming other people,” and “anti-social lying.”

However, after Trump lost in 2020, Gartner—along with the other mental health professionals who joined him informing the public about Trump—"all took off our uniforms and went home.” He has since been focused on his work and writing a book on psilocybin therapy.

But with Trump back in the spotlight, Gartner saw deeply alarming new symptoms prompting him to jump back into action. To put it bluntly, Gartner stated that with today’s Trump: “We see clear signs of dementia.” 

The Doctor explained that since Trump left office, there has been an obvious acceleration in his cognitive deterioration. For example, “now he can't get through a rally without committing one of these” tell-tale signs of dementia, such as saying the incorrect word or “combining or mixing up people and generations.”

We’ve seen this, as the Doctor noted, with Trump repeatedly confusing who he ran against in the past, such as Trump stating, “With Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn’t be won.” (Obviously, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016.) And during the primary, Trump kept repeating that his opponent Nikki Haley was in charge of Capitol security on Jan 6. (Haley never had any connection Capitol security.)

Gartner explained that this wasn’t Trump simply saying the wrong name in both cases. Rather, Trump “literally was confusing the people,” adding, “he was literally merging them into one person” as in the case of Obama and Biden.

Gartner then offered a recent and very glaring “example of demented speech” by Trump. This came just a few weeks ago when Trump spoke of the famed Civil War battle at Gettysburg—that took place between July 1-3,1863, and killed an estimated 51,000 people.  Gartner read the actual words Trump told the audience about that brutal fight: “Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was," adding, "It was so much, and so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways—it represented such a big portion of the success of this country."

Trump then jumped to talking about Confederate General Robert E. Lee and how he was now “out of favor” and told his troops to never fight uphill, only downhill with Trump claiming Lee said, “Never fight uphill, me boys!” (Historians deny Lee ever said such a thing.)  

Trump continued, “Gettysburg, wow—I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch." 

Gartner explained that Trump’s Gettysburg speech is an example of what “people do with dementia when they draw a blank.”  He continued, “One. They use a lot of superlative words as filler words. Oh, ‘great, marvelous, wonderful’ because they don't know what's going on.” He added, “The other thing they do is they make up stories because nature abhors a vacuum.”

As to Trump’s line about “looking and watching,” Gartner explained, “he's actually describing is what he's doing right now, because that's all he can do: He's just looking, and he's watching.”

The Doctor added that while Biden shows traditional signs of aging, such as forgetting names, in contrast, “Trump is making the kind of memory errors we only see in dementia.”

But it’s not just Gartner raising alarm bells. Others who have signed the “Duty To Warn” petition are doing the same, such as psychologist Michael Tansey, Ph.D. who wrote about Trump, “Recent shocking video displayed what appears to be signs of a serious advancing dementia which have worsened in recent months. That will inflame his underlying psychological vulnerability to rogue rage, extreme recklessness, and impulsive and violent action.”

And Dr. Michael Bader, a psychologist, explained, “This is not just ‘rambling.’ Trump evidences a type of cognitive impairment seen in dementia.” He highlighted Trump’s symptoms that led to this conclusion: “word salad (incoherence), ‘loose associations’ (a lack of connection between ideas), impairments of memory, and language problems (mis-pronouncing words or making up words that don't exist).”

Alarmingly, as Gartner warns, Trump will only get worse—especially given the stress of the campaign and his criminal woes. “Now we're noticing deterioration almost every day,” marked by Trump becoming more erratic, impulsive and with increasingly incomprehensible speech, Gartner noted. He added, “I honestly believe that if Trump were to get reelected that he would become completely incapacitated in office.”

At this point Gartner—and the other mental health professionals—simply want corporate media to cover this issue so that voters can have all the facts before November. However, up until now Gartner notes that “the media keeps helping Trump by editing out those parts out that show his cognitive decline from TV coverage.”  Once again, it is up to us to get the word out because corporate media doesn’t want to damage their cash cow Trump. Like Dr. Gartner, we, too, have a duty to warn about Trump’s dementia.

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