Is Trump Insane?
As Donald Trump’s tariff plan slams the stock market, investors are beginning to wonder if the president doesn’t have some broader economic agenda—but rather if he’s just mentally ill.
The New Republic.
They're just asking this now? Some of us have been stating that Trump is probably demented for a long time.
This is a serious, not a rhetorical, question.Some psychologist have looked at his behavior and said no, others, have said a definite yes. For instance, an April 1, 2025 interview of Dr. John Gartner states the following, and accuses the press of "sanewashing" Trump:
He is losing his capacity for coherent speech. We’ve collected dozens and dozens of Trump’s phonemic paraphrasias, in which you use sounds in place of an actual word (a hallmark of brain damage and dementia). What happens is that someone is trying to say a word and then they get the first part out but they have to end it or create one because they can’t remember the rest. Trump will say something like ‘mishiz’ for missiles, or “Chrishus” for Christmas, because he can’t complete the word. Then we see also a lot of semantic paraphrasias, in which he uses a word incorrectly, as in “the oranges of the situation” because it rhymes with “the origins of the situation.” This is not within normal limits; his basic ability to use language is breaking down.
So there is that verbal deterioration. And then there is the physical deterioration. He used to be quite graceful, and now he uses a wide-based gait typical of frontotemporal dementia, sometimes he swings his right leg in a semi-circle. He also has trouble getting up the ramp; he has trouble doing physical things.
The other way we see deterioration is in his behavior. Actually, this is where people say, ‘Well, how can you tell? He’s a bad person; he breaks every rule of law and decency, what is new?’ But he is much more impulsive and erratic now. He blurts things out; he makes impulsive decisions that he has to then reverse, like his many reversals on tariffs.
‘The Press Has Sanewashed Trump’s Dementia and Mental Illness’: Dr. John Gartner by Diana Hembree
I think there's a lot to this, and have for some time. I don't think he's a well man. The amazing thing is that there are an army of people backing him up. Gartner notes some are doing so for their own purposes:
Now people may think that because Donald Trump is demented that he won’t be very effective in his agenda. But the problem is he has the whole Project 2025 team behind him, led by Russell Voight. And he’s got Elon Musk, who is a mental health study in and of himself. Musk is on the spectrum; like Trump, he is hypomanic, and like Trump, he is clearly also a sociopath. He feels no remorse in inflicting pain on people; in fact, he feels a sense of glee and mastery in doing it. He was joking about using a chainsaw (to cut federal jobs), holding one up and laughing about it. He’s taking away the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. He’s a monster, just as Trump is a monster, and Trump attracts monsters. Now we have a real Trump problem, because we now have a whole government that is populated by people who have some version of his personality disorder.
‘The Press Has Sanewashed Trump’s Dementia and Mental Illness’: Dr. John Gartner by Diana Hembree.
Okay, that's pretty extreme, but that doesn't mean that he's incorrect on Trump. . . and Musk.
Some related threads on this one:
We should worry.
When you ran out of healthy arms, you ran out of really healthy, you had great arms, but they ran out, it’s called sports, it’s called baseball in particular, and pitchers I guess you could say in really particular.
Donald Trump
What the f***?
Or this, about the Great Lakes, this past week:
I assume the lakes are all interconnected.
Or this, earlier this month, on groceries.
An old-fashioned term that we use – groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it.
The most common symptoms of frontotemporal dementia involve extreme changes in behavior and personality. These include:
- Increasingly inappropriate social behavior.
- Loss of empathy and other interpersonal skills. For example, not being sensitive to another person's feelings.
- Lack of judgment.
- Loss of inhibition.
- Lack of interest, also known as apathy. Apathy can be mistaken for depression.
- Compulsive behaviors such as tapping, clapping, or smacking lips over and over.
- A decline in personal hygiene.
- Changes in eating habits. People with FTD typically overeat or prefer to eat sweets and carbohydrates.
- Eating objects.
- Compulsively wanting to put things in the mouth.
Speech and language symptoms
Some subtypes of frontotemporal dementia lead to changes in language ability or loss of speech. Subtypes include primary progressive aphasia, semantic dementia and progressive agrammatic aphasia, also known as progressive nonfluent aphasia.
These conditions can cause:
- Increasing trouble using and understanding written and spoken language. People with FTD may not be able to find the right word to use in speech.
- Trouble naming things. People with FTD may replace a specific word with a more general word, such as using "it" for pen.
- No longer knowing word meanings.
- Having hesitant speech that may sound telegraphic by using simple, two-word sentences.
- Making mistakes in sentence building.
Movement conditions
Rare subtypes of frontotemporal dementia cause movements similar to those seen in Parkinson's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Movement symptoms may include:
- Tremor.
- Rigidity.
- Muscle spasms or twitches.
- Poor coordination.
- Trouble swallowing.
- Muscle weakness.
- Inappropriate laughing or crying.
- Falls or trouble walking.
What were you thinking?
That's what those who voted against Trump have been wondering about those who voted for him. New stats on this, however, suggest that many rank and file Trump voters now are at the point that they understand why those who voted against Trump wonder that. They're wondering a bit themselves.
In spite of the embarrassing spectacle of Trump apologist struggling to keep up with his meandering and dangerous policies from day to day, most Trump voters didn't vote for anything like what we're seeing. They simply discounted the warnings.
Is White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stupid?
There's a fair number of people who are asking this question.
She is a college graduate, but she comes across as a somebody who obtained her position for her looks. It's embarrassing.
As a co religious of mine, she's embarrassing. Married to somebody 32 years her senior (that's odd) and who lies without hesitation, which is sinful, she also comes across as simply dumb.
Catholics, who fit into a group that a lot of "Evangelical Christians" of the type Trump supports that, while being the first Christians, aren't regarded by the latter as Christians, are, I'm convinced, really going to come out with the short end of the stick the longer the Trump Administration lasts and the association of a certain brand of Christianity, which they aren't part of, with Trump, is going to hurt Christianity in the US overall.
No Female Four Stars
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There are 27 four star officers in the U.S. military, including two in the Space Farce.*
Not one of them is a woman.
It hasn't been really noticed, but with dismissals in the Trump administration, they're all gone.
I doubt this is an accident.
Now, this is where I'm probably legitimately a target for the charge of hypocrisy, as I don't feel that women should serve in combat.** I don't object to them being in the service, however.
Now, a person could, an d rightfully, point out, that if women can't serve in combat, it'd be difficult for them to obtain a combat command, and that would be true. . . except history has demonstrated the opposite.
Dwight Eisenhower never had a combat command. Neither did George Marshall. And the Coast Guard arguably has no combat commands, although a person could argue that. The Space Farce very clearly has no combat commands and there's no earthly reason whatsoever that the various occupations occupied by their junior birdmen couldn't be occupied by either sex equally well.
Indeed, the dirty little secret of the US military is that at some point after World War One, and before World War Two, most occupations in the military are in fact non combat roles.
And speaking of the Space Farce. . .
Getting fired for being sane.
U.S. Space Force Col. Susan Meyers, 821st Space Base Group, noted her support for Denmark after J. D. Vance visited her base and got canned immediately thereafter. She noted that her base in Greenland proudly flew the US and Danish flags.
For Release
Published April 10, 2025
By Space Operations Command Public Affairs
Pituffik Space Base, Greenland -- Colonel Susannah Meyers, commander of Pituffik Space Base was removed from command by Colonel Kenneth Klock, commander of Space Base Delta 1, on April 10, 2025 for loss of confidence in her ability to lead.
Commanders are expected to adhere to the highest standards of conduct, especially as it relates to remaining nonpartisan in the performance of their duties.
Colonel Shawn Lee has assumed command.
Col. Meyers may be the first serving officer to publicly criticize the Trump administrations per World War One colonialist views. She surely knew she'd be relieved and fell on her sword. Good for her.
J. D. Vance seems to have something against Europeans. He may really be a hillbilly. Whatever it is, in spite of being very well educated, he just doesn't seem to like them, which may be proof that you can take the hillbilly out of Appalachia, but you can't take the Appalachia out of the hillbilly, even if he is from Ohio.
I just can't see how this is a good thing.
Degenfelder Cheers Dismantling of U.S. Dept. Of Education At White House Signing Ceremony
Wyoming Superintendent of Education Megan Degenfelder was in attendance. Governor Gordon begged off, saying he had other things to do.
Maybe he did, or maybe he just didn't want to be associated with this populist bad idea.
Trump, in signing the executive order, stated; "“We want education to come back to them — to come back to the states — and they’re going to do a phenomenal job". Yeah, well clearly they aren't all doing a phenomenal job now, and they're already in charge of education. Frankly, tha'ts a pretty uneducated statement, but then its not like Donny or his family have every had to depend on public education.
The Wyoming Education Association, which is made up of teachers, was less thrilled.
“The Wyoming Education Association stands in strong opposition to the dismantling of the Department of Education (DOE),”
Wyoming's Secretary of Education stated:
“It’s just a truly momentous and historic day for education in America, and it’s a win for American students,” said Degenfelder. “We’re taking out the middle man in education, putting education back where it belongs — in the classroom and not in D.C. offices.”
Degenfelder ran in the last election against Sergio Maldonado. I voted for Maldonado who is a Native Wyomingite and Native American. He's also a professional teacher, which Degenfelder is not, who is a graduate of BYU and Arizona State University. While he's no spring chicken, he's a doctoral candidate at the University of Wyoming. He had served during the Bush Administration as a member of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education.
He's also a Democrat.
Footnotes:
*What the crap?
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