Syntax of senility

[PCIntern]

My God, it’s just so obvious that his ignorance and narcissism has been compounded by progressive dementia which is apparent in his sentence structure and paucity of language and thought. If your parent, neighbor, or friend spoke in this fashion you would be worried in extremis.

As should we all be.

[madaboutharry]

1. But Dr. Jackson says everything is hunky dory!

Dr. Jackson said Trump has "great genes" and that there has never been a president, ever ever, as alert and sharp as President Trump!

[PCIntern]

2. Everyone just lies and lies

To keep this miscreant safe

[Lindsay]

4. To be fair,

they're also lying to protect their own phony-baloney jobs and their money.

[Turbineguy]

3. Trump needs a forum

to show people what an idiot he is.

[Grammy23]

5. And if a thought flies from one side of his brain to the other

he is apt to go off on a tangent. Or what he thinks is a funny riff. Like his comment about Tip Top shape for the White House (the building that has no name??) led him to say, “We call it Tippy Top shape.” Huh? I am sure his staff was as surprised and confused by that as his audience. We call it that?? Which we, tRump??

The words zipped through his brain and he decided to add in the Tippy Top comment. Why? It added nothing to his point and, in fact, was rather odd. Something ain’t right with that guy. And it is apparent every time he opens his anus shaped mouth.

[Botany]

6. Syphilis on the brain

"some people say"

[lpbk2713]

7. But his close family members don't see any need to have him examined.

Not as long as he is rich and powerful. And out of jail.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I think it's more a case of that he's a man

of very limited intellectual ability in the first place. And he doesn't read at all, not even the simplified briefings that are prepared for him every day. The last time he read a book was at best when he was in college, and I rather suspect he didn't read any assigned books back then. He might possibly have read the Cliff Notes, and he may have paid someone to write his papers. But it's more than obvious he has zero curiosity about the world, and has not picked up a book in decades. I bet he used to read magazine or newspaper articles about himself, but that probably stopped some years back.

Every skill has a "use it or lose it" aspect, and this is mostly what we're seeing here.

Also, from what I've read about him in various places, he may be dependent on drugs that cause him to be confused.

[anneboleyn]

11. But he didnt sound like this in the 80s and 90s. I think the decline is obvious, and anyone

who has been around a person suffering from dementia will note the signs of his (possible/alleged) issues: obsession with one topic in a strange, ocd manner, constant repetition of certain words in a manner that doesn’t make sense and inability to elaborate (such as saying “tough thing” or similar five times in a row, which has become standard for him. This isn’t the case in older interviews with him on Oprah etc — not that he was ever super eloquent but the difference is dramatic), inability to form sentences that make sense in a fundamental way, broken syntax, dropped subjects (losing track of who or what he was discussing in a few sentences), strange substitutions of words, tumbles of words that form incoherent “expressions” to mask the person’s struggle to string together coherent thoughts.

In fact watching dementia patients on YouTube is a helpful way to compare some of the (possible) similarities in speech patterns. It seems very apparent to me. He’s likely in an early stage.

[tblue37]

14. There have been a number of occasions that sure do look like sundowning, too. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. I want to argue that the decline is a direct result

of his never reading anything, never engaging his brain at all.

Although I also understand that never reading, never exercising one's intellect is a factor in dementia.

Plus, of course, he's completely delusional about almost everything.

So dementia, drugs, laziness, whatever, it's beyond obvious that he's totally unfit to be President.

[niyad]

9. my last client with dementia spoke far more coherently (at 95) than this. . . .creature.

[LanternWaste]

10. Consistently applying a disgust of Trump's sub-literate expositions

Consistently applying a disgust of Trump's sub-literate expositions to all other informal aspects tends to get one labeled as the 'word police.'

Yeah, he's an idiot... but he's really just one example of a nation of half-wits rationalizing inaccurate spelling as trendy.

[anneboleyn]

12. But his incoherence is very similar to early stage dementia. IMHO this is definitely afflicting his

speech. This on top of everything else of course. The irony is that the Republicans were so hysterical about Hillary’s “health crisis” and they ignored Trump’s refusal to get a real exam and then that appalling “report” from the military doctor.

[tblue37]

13. +1. nt

[Progressive dog]

15. You could be right,

but I believe Trump has always been exceptional in his ignorance.