The real end stage is when he stops eating.

well, maybe just one more cheeseburger....

To be fair, both close family members I’ve lost to dementia have lived for years past that point. Under normal circumstances I would guess the VP would invoke the 25th and the president would “step down”, but I absolutely don’t think that would happen with Trump.

Is that real, as in normal dementia progression? My MIL spent 10 years saying nothing but, “Where’s my purse?” But that was advanced alcoholic dementia. It probably varies by individual and circumstances, but I’m no expert.

Frontotemporal dementia can cause it. It’s the one Bruce Willis has, and it surfaced by his losing the ability to speak. So it’s defintiely a thing that can happen if he really does have dementia. Not that anyone in his orbit would admit it

Also, with the loss of speech also often comes the loss of the ability to swallow (eat). It's downhill pretty fast from there, and into hospice. But I'm sure that *somehow* more Executive Orders will be signed. Wanna place any bets on whether Jake Tapper will write about THAT?

He really should, because it really is a problem when those around a leader cover up the leader's frailties....frankly, no matter who the leader is.

No wonder they’ve been assessed with the autopen- testing the waters, like everything with these twisted people.

Obsessed. Dratted autocorrect.

To be fair that purse was always getting mislaid

She kept her flask in it. I think in her mind she just wanted a drink and it was the last thought she held onto. Remnant of a generation who emulated the drinking (and smoking) they saw in films and the celebrities of their time.

As greedy as he is, that actually sounds like something he'd repeat. Forever.

They forget everything. How to eat, swallow, eventually breathe. Not a good way to go.

My mother was able to have very limited speech the last 3 months of her dementia. She lost the ability to speak and swallow the final 2 weeks of her life.

Thank you for sharing. I'm sorry for your loss. It's rough. My own father struggled to find words in his final months, but he was 98 years old, so it wasn't dementia, not diagnosed anyway. We generally felt he was just finally wearing out.

I’m so sorry. That must have been painful to watch.

Frontotemporal dementia, I would posit. My sister just died of it and loss of speech is a pretty good indicator of the rate of decline.

Had an elder family member who suffered dementia late. While she did get more and more quiet, really what she did was just meander in her speaking, talk about nonsense, not answer questions that were asked of her. Actually, now that I think about it isn’t that what Trump is doing now?

Oh he’s always done that.

In my experience it is. My grandfather stopped speaking and he was gone shortly thereafter. And alcoholic wet brain progress fast. Especially if the alcoholic keeps drinking. My husband had symptoms of it about 10 years ago. He went into rehab and stayed sober for almost seven years, went back out

And now he has almost 3 years. After 30+ years together, he had never accumulated any amount of sobriety for the first 20 years. Even being in a coma from alcohol didn't scare him straight. He told me that they showed a video at rehab that scared the shit out of him. That video was on Wet Brain.

My father was unable to speak near the end. I've been seeing so many parallels over the years what I recognized in my dad and what I see in Trump.

Earlier this year Musk was speaking at a cabinet meeting and every one was looking at him except Trump. Trump was looking down at his lap or the table. He was completely disengaged from what was happening around him. My dad acted the same way when he was close to the end of his life.

The difference between them, speaking or not, your dad was a wonderful person compared to this guy. I'm sorry for your loss.

My MIL was non-verbal for her last 3 years. Part of that was the drugs turning her into a zombie because she had reached the agitated and feisty stage.

Same. My Dad didn't speak much near the end. Like he couldn't understand how to. 😕

Can’t come soon enough if that’s the case.

My mom was completely uncommunicative. Couldn't talk at all

My Dad would just stare at us, with a look of incomprehension of anything we were saying.

So sorry

Thanks

Yep - aphasia eventually sets in & it becomes a struggle to find words. For some reason, nouns usually seem to be the first thing to go, so you see people using the wrong names for people or things. 1/

When I went through chemo I couldn't remember names,numbers or nouns.

Can confirm. It’s how things went with my dad as well. Trump fits the bill

I suspect that's why he says things like "in a certain period of time" - he can't remember the words for dates, days, or time frames. Same reason everything is in two weeks. It's the only thing that comes to mind. 2/end

He hasn't been able to stay on a specific train of thought for the longest time. He meanders about free associating as he goes which is why we all wonder WTH he's saying. He was like this 10 yrs ago but he's much worse now.

It's more noticeable now, plus he looks so ELDERLY and tired lately. Not that he ever looked good🤮, but that's more noticeable too.

First time was literally ever scared .. he knows he’s cooked with Epstein and project 2025 wants Vance

Thibgs are gonna start moving a lot faster now cause the end of the summer was supposed to be the dead line and people are starting to wake up and fight back now

Which is terrifying. 🫤

I hope by the end of September things have flipped around. Everyone needs to sit up and pay attention.

Also Putin un and chi are meeting to discuss how to handle the United states .. and he thought all three were his besties .. so the break up could be hard on him ..

Yes, and people develop ways to hide the symptoms.

#TACO2Weak

I also think two weeks is what he says when he has no intention on doing anything ..

So interesting. You really wrapped it up.

I always thought the “two weeks” thing was because that’s how long the goldfish memory of MAGA (and the media for that matter) takes to forget he said it.

Two weeks is a political strategy. Within the course of 2 weeks they news cycle changes multiple times. They are just betting that we will have forgotten by then.

These symptoms can also be brought on by lack of sleep and exhaustion, can’t they. I’ve always thought that better described Trump until this weird silence.

Sadly, can confirm as well. My late mother couldn't speak/brain wasn't working enough so she could speak at the end. The brain just starts the final shutdown at that stage, I think.

Interesting. In her last years, my grandmother had only three nouns: “people,” “way”, and “thing.” “Way” was anything associated with movement, and “people” was anything associated with people, such as clothing or jobs.

I'm not buying it . I think it's all an act so he can go permanently golfing on our dime. I prefer he go golfing in maximum security . He can find his phone and rant and rage about bs at all ours of the day.

Hours not ours

He was seen on the golf course today. I really wish he would die but I just think speculating about it is worthless at this point.

C’mon. Let us play. It’s been a long time.

Me, too. My dad slipped very suddenly from moderate to full blown dementia. They can’t pump him full of uppers and Provigil anymore.

My mom was the same way, she stopped talking and then she she decided to go home...I was happy for her...she deserved better then the last 5 years of her life...dementia and Alzheimer's are horrible diseases.

Same. My Dad gave many speeches over his career, and some nights he would go from silent to giving a full speech with passion. 🥺

Yes. My father in law just passed away.about 2 - 3weeks before he could not talk or eat any more.

Thank you for the insight. I'm sorry for your loss.

Same. My dad had an unusual form of dementia in that he was aware of the loss, but he lost language, like nouns, first. But Trump's body posture is similar to others at the memory care place. The random hat is interesting. Suggests he was only concerned with having a hat and not making a point.

I think they are covering up something bad on his head. I haven't seen his awful tangle of ferret fur on his real head for ages.

I wondered the same.

It could be the lighting in the photo, but even the hair that’s exposed on the part of his head that we can see below the hat, looks different. Thinner and more gray.

Every family who has gone through the downward spiral of dementia with a family member knows it is going to get much, much worse from now on.

It’s unfortunate that his own family will not do anything to help because he is their meal ticket. I know Trump is a detestable monster, but I also believe he has been surrounded by sharks (Miller, RFK, etc) who know what is wrong with him and are taking advantage of it

Exactly. My heart goes out to those who have to deal with it. And if tRump indeed has dementia (as Reagan did) then those who are enabling this should be ostracized forever. It's abuse.

My mother tapered off on speaking. I don’t recall her saying anything the last 6 months.

I saw it with my mother and her sister, and their mom, my grandmother. And now I’m seeing it with my husband. There’s a lot of similarities.

I'm so sorry. Genetics is fickle and scary and it's something I think about a lot these days.

I do too. With my immediate family history of Alzheimer’s I thought I would get it too. Turned out to be my husband, who had no family history, who got it instead. It’s a horrible disease.

I worry that all the scientific research and progress that has been made combating it will come to a screeching halt now. It's really trite, but it just makes us take things a day at a time. Sometimes an hour at a time.

It has come to a halt. It’s horrendous. But then I remember how many MAGA thought it would help the Covid cases decrease if the elderly died from it. The cruelty has always been the point. It’s just even more cruel now. They are enjoying it.

Same. He’s about a year give or take behind my mothers advancing dementia. She’s a broken record these days and fixates on 3 topics only. He’s starting to do the same. I called this during his 24 campaign when he was sun downing right in front of us.

Did that come on suddenly?

No, not like talking one day and not talking the next. It was a steady decline.

I hope that was the only similarity. I’m sorry he’s passed.

Yes, but was your dad able to get up walk around and go play golf?

Dementia is an insidious disease that affects everyone in different ways. Yes, my father was able to walk around but was not a golfer. I hope no one in your family is ever afflicted with it.

I was asking a genuine question. You did say near the end. When my mother was near the end she was in a bed and had been for months. So I was asking if he was walking around and unable to speak near the end.

Korsakoff syndrome (vitamin B1 deficiency) is a different condition which shares some symptoms to other memory /dementia type disorders www.alz.org/alzheimers-d...

My mother spoke less and less as her dementia progressed.

My Uncle went from diagnosis to the stage where he could not recognize anyone of engage in conversation in about 3 years.

His is Advanced hamberder dementia

Ketchup on the side

Aphasia is a symptom of certain types of dementia but not all.

There are 70 types of dementia. Some have that, some don't. My mother never had trouble speaking. In fact, she had an imaginary husband and spoke for him, too! She had vascular dementia.

This will sound odd, but I’m happy for her and her loved ones. It is very hard losing a parent. All we can hope for is that they seem content. I hope she was reasonably so.

She was locked down in a memory care facility during Covid, and I couldn't see her face to face for almost a year. When she died, the nurses told me "You know, she handled the lockdown better than anyone her, because her imaginary husband was always with her." We were indeed grateful.

❤️‍🩹

No. It happens very gradually. Both my parents have had dementia for a decade. Mom didn't stop speaking until the week before she died. Dad is becoming less talkative. He's in year ten of dementia.

My father stopped talking. It went from saying something like ‘yay’ or a giggle…to nothing. So hard.

I’m sorry. It’s so hard.

Buddy has congestive heart too pretty sure so not the same , remember the cankles!

And most likely his kidneys are screaming for an icu

See his hand? He’s rotting away literally.

His deal with the devil is finally coming due.

been allowed to run rapey wild his whole useless life.Brags about doing what he wants to women, dummer than a bag of rocks, sold his soul & probably brought a few more to Satan to get away with these perversions his whole creepy existence without retribution. I had enough long before the apprentice

Trump has been hated his entire life. Nobody who truly knew him liked him. Whenever he popped up on TV, there was a lot of “oh god this asshole again”. The makers of The Apprentice have a lot to answer for. They rehabilitated this piece of shit and the entire world is suffering for it.

I feel like this is a somewhat underrated observation. There are a lot of culpable parties, but they got him started to the point where he could become a presidential candidate. The original sinners, as it were.

They didn’t rehabilitate, they propped up a rapist bankrupt charlatan.

In the 80’s SNL had a skit where they’re trying to launch the Space Shuttle, but people keep wandering onto the launching pad. A series of problematic celebrities show up, and the chief keeps thinking about launching but doesn’t. Finally Trump and Ivana appear and he shouts “LAUNCH NOW!” BOOM!!

They knew how stupid he is . And arrogantly stupid

Advanced narcissistic dementia is something different altogether

Advanced adderall dementia

He has heart failure

He's probably on coumadin or some other blood thinner for that, which would explain the bruising. My former husband died of congestive heart failure, but he was lucid and overworking until the day he suddenly died. Trump does seem to be declining mentally at a rapid rate.

Fucking A, Tom. RIP

yes...YES!!

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