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Calculated Shard: 192 (from laksa119)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa192.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.alternet.org/trump-health-2675097917/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.alternet.org/trump-health-2675097917/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trump-health-2675097917\/","crawl_time":1776311978,"first_indexed_time":1770313604,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,alternet!www,\/trump-health-2675097917\/ s443","src_root_hash":"14340544814419502192","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Trump’s brain is 'deteriorating disproportionately' — and it’s getting worse: psychiatrist - Alternet.org","meta_descriptions":["Experts are weighing in on President Donald Trump's mental and physical health after his first year in office.Speaking with iPaper, Dr. John Gartner, American psychologist, psychiatrist and former assistant professor at John Hopkins Medical School, explained, \"the main way to diagnose dementia is th..."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Experts are weighing in on President Donald Trump's mental and physical health after his first year in office.\nSpeaking with iPaper\n, Dr. John Gartner, American psychologist, psychiatrist and former assistant professor at John Hopkins Medical School, explained, \"the main way to diagnose dementia is that we see a deterioration from someone’s own baseline in these four areas: language, memory, behaviour, and psychomotor performance.\"\nHis swollen ankles and feet, along with his bruised hands, have sparked conversation about the oldest president ever inaugurated. While the White House claims\nTrump\ntakes too much aspirin and suffers from chronic venous insufficiency, there continue to be questions about his mental decline as well.\nSince taking office, Trump has bragged that he's taken multiple cognitive tests. Such testing appeared to have begun in 2018,\naccording to a New York Times report\nat the time. In January, Trump revealed that he\nhad taken three cognitive tests\nin December.\nDr. Vin Gupta said that there appears to be a “symmetry” between the president’s recent behavior and early warning signs of the disease, as quoted by\nthe Huffington Post last month\n.\nTrump's constant claims that former President Joe Biden was in cognitive and physical decline only highlight questions about himself and his own health problems.\nTrump recently acknowledged undergoing a CT scan, after initially misstating it as an MRI, with doctors saying it was to rule out cardiovascular problems and showed no abnormalities.\nFred Trump Sr. suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, so some are raising questions about whether the family history could be impacting the president.\n\"Trump hit back last month in an interview, claiming that while his father had Alzheimer’s, he did not. However, in doing so, he forgot the name of the disease,\" the site stated.\n“First of all, if you look at tapes of him in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. He was still a jerk… but he was speaking in polished paragraphs,\" continued Gartner. “Now he has trouble completing a sentence, a thought and sometimes even a word… That’s a huge deterioration from his baseline, and he also used to be quite physically coordinated, and now he can barely walk a straight line.\"\nIndeed, a video of Trump arriving in Switzerland showed him weaving as he walked from the plane.\n“On the red carpet at Davos you may have noticed him weaving. That relates to one of the signs of what I think he has: frontotemporal dementia. That walk is called a wide base gait where he swings his right leg in kind of a semicircle and that drives him to the left,” Gartner continued. “That seems to have gotten dramatically worse recently. It may be related to the stroke I think he’s had on the left side of his body.”\nA stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) isn't the same as a prolonged degenerative brain disease, though it can cause motor function changes.\nIt can \"produce tremendous disinhibition of behavior because it’s the frontal lobes that are the brakes of the brain. So that’s what inhibits us from acting out,” he said.\n“Part of his brain [appears to be] deteriorating disproportionately, so he’s losing the brakes, and this is someone who was always impulsive and always acted out aggressively… Whilst he’s becoming confused about what’s happening, he’s also becoming aggressively disinhibited to act in impulsive and erratic ways,\" the doctor said.\nIt is something that is noticeable since the last administration, he observed, but \"now we're seeing deterioration almost week over week. The rate of decline is accelerating.”\nThe doctor confirmed, “The high-pressure job can also accelerate cognitive dysfunction.”\nThe report added that many experts caution that no one can diagnose the president without a proper examination.\nRead the full report here.","attrs_markdown":"- [Home](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/)\n- [MSN](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/msn\/)\n- [Commentary](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/commentary\/)\n- [Frontpage featured](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/Frontpage-feature\/)\n- [Frontpage videos](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/Frontpage-videos\/)\n- [Frontpage news and politics](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/Frontpage-news-and-politics\/)\n- [Culture](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/culture\/)\n- [Video](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/video\/)\n- [AlterNet All-Access](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/alternet-2020\/)\n- [new-stories](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/new-stories\/)\n- [Science & Health](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/science\/)\n- [Human Rights](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/human-rights\/)\n- [most-popular](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/most-popular\/)\n- [Uncategorized](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/uncategorized\/)\n- [News & Politics](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-politics\/)\n- [The Right Wing](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/the-right-wing\/)\n- [Election '20](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-2020\/)\n- [Environment](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/environment\/)\n- [Economy](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/economy\/)\n- [World](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/world\/)\n- [Media](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/)\n- [Trump](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trump\/)\n- [Labor](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/labor\/)\n- [Immigration](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/immigration\/)\n- [DC Report](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/dc-report\/)\n- [Documentaries](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/documentaries\/)\n- [Personal Health](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/personal-health\/)\n- [Drugs](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/drugs\/)\n- [Belief](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/belief\/)\n- [Education](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/education\/)\n- [Gender](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/gender\/)\n- [Food](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/food\/)\n- [LGBTQ](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/lgbtq\/)\n- [Books](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/books\/)\n- [Election '04](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-04\/)\n- [Water](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/water\/)\n- [Election '08](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-08\/)\n- [Election '16](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-16\/)\n- [Election '18](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-18\/)\n- [alternet](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/alternet\/)\n- [Stack Commerce](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/stack-commerce\/)\n- [Poll](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/Poll\/)\n- [SEO SideBar](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trending-topics\/)\n- [Trending Topics Sister Sites](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trending-topics-sister-sites\/)\n- [news](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news\/)\n- [Corrections](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/corrections\/)\n- [MSN UK](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/msn-uk\/)\n- [Election 2024](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-2024\/)\n- [AlterNet Exclusives](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/alternet-exclusives\/)\n- [Breaking Social](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/breaking-social\/)\n- [2026 Midterm Elections](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2026-midterm-elections\/)\n\n- [Subscriptions](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/core\/r_dashboard\/subscriptions \"Subscriptions\")\n\n![Quantcast](https:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-44Kjy7lrEDP7I.gif)\n\n[![](https:\/\/assets.rbl.ms\/25047129\/origin.png)](http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/)\n\n[Science & Health](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/science)\n\n[Belief](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/belief)\n\n[culture](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/Culture)\n\n[Video](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/video)\n\n[Economy](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/Economy)\n\n[2026 Midterm Elections](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2026-midterm-elections\/)\n\n[Alternet+ Login]()\n\n- [Science & Health](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/science)\n- [Belief](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/belief)\n- [Culture](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/culture)\n- [Video](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/video)\n- [Economy](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/economy)\n- [Rights](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/human-rights)\n- [AI Standards](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/alternet-s-code-of-standards-for-artificial-intelligence\/)\n- [Alternet+ Login]()\n\n- [Hot Topics \\>\\>](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/)\n- [Corrections](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/corrections\/)\n- [FAQs](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2021\/12\/faqs\/)\n- [GET OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER\\!](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/st\/sign-up-for-alternets-newsletter)\n- [News & Politics](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-politics)\n- [GO AD FREE\\!](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/st\/AlterNet_Plus_Signup)\n- [SUPPORT OUR WORK](https:\/\/kindest.com\/442355-defend-democracy-today-support-fearless-insightful-journalism)\n\n1. [Home](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/) \\|\n2. [Trump’s brain is 'deteriorating disproportionately' — and it’s getting worse: psychiatrist](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trump-health-2675097917\/) \\|\n\n# Trump’s brain is 'deteriorating disproportionately' — and it’s getting worse: psychiatrist\n![Trump’s brain is 'deteriorating disproportionately' — and it’s getting worse: psychiatrist](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media-library\/u-s-president-donald-trump-attends-a-ceremony-marking-the-24th-anniversary-of-the-september-11-2001-attacks-on-the-united-sta.jpg?id=61743092&width=1245&height=700&quality=50&coordinates=0%2C250%2C0%2C250)\n\nU.S. President Donald Trump attends a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States at the Pentagon, in Washington D.C., U.S., September 11, 2025. REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein\n\nU.S. President Donald Trump attends a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States at the Pentagon, in Washington D.C., U.S., September 11, 2025. REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein\n\n[Sarah K. Burris](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/author\/sarah-k-burris)\n\nFebruary 05, 2026 \\| 10:27AM ET[Trump](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trump\/)\n\n[![BeLoud Share](https:\/\/play-lh.googleusercontent.com\/ihbH1YVhifEj1YYPkqcRYbTkzHRNI2TgoO5x6B_jy9yiD8-Et6RSF8NoF7zYc0YdJlwt)](https:\/\/www.beloud.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trump-health-2675097917\/&title=Trump%E2%80%99s%20brain%20is%20'deteriorating%20disproportionately'%20%E2%80%94%20and%20it%E2%80%99s%20getting%20worse:%20psychiatrist)\n\nExperts are weighing in on President Donald Trump's mental and physical health after his first year in office.\n\n[Speaking with iPaper](https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/world\/trump-really-ill-just-old-experts-weigh-in-4203450), Dr. John Gartner, American psychologist, psychiatrist and former assistant professor at John Hopkins Medical School, explained, \"the main way to diagnose dementia is that we see a deterioration from someone’s own baseline in these four areas: language, memory, behaviour, and psychomotor performance.\"\n\nHis swollen ankles and feet, along with his bruised hands, have sparked conversation about the oldest president ever inaugurated. While the White House claims [Trump](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/11\/trump) takes too much aspirin and suffers from chronic venous insufficiency, there continue to be questions about his mental decline as well.\n\nSince taking office, Trump has bragged that he's taken multiple cognitive tests. Such testing appeared to have begun in 2018, [according to a New York Times report](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/16\/science\/trump-cognitive-test-moca-nyt.html) at the time. In January, Trump revealed that he [had taken three cognitive tests](https:\/\/people.com\/trump-brags-about-acing-third-cognitive-exam-again-11878541) in December.\n\nDr. Vin Gupta said that there appears to be a “symmetry” between the president’s recent behavior and early warning signs of the disease, as quoted by [the Huffington Post last month](https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/vin-gupta-donald-trump-health_n_6973495fe4b0283a09774653?ref=bffbhuffpost&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_main&fbclid=IwY2xjawPxkUhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFwdERrckdvbHpnamg5Mldlc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmLbNUydyIdzoqXNeV_UT2NbSxj0no_qey6T42e74OyLUhwyJreyWkQlXov__aem_5rrxAzueYYYpd5ZXabBrAw).\n\nTrump's constant claims that former President Joe Biden was in cognitive and physical decline only highlight questions about himself and his own health problems.\n\nTrump recently acknowledged undergoing a CT scan, after initially misstating it as an MRI, with doctors saying it was to rule out cardiovascular problems and showed no abnormalities.\n\nFred Trump Sr. suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, so some are raising questions about whether the family history could be impacting the president.\n\n\"Trump hit back last month in an interview, claiming that while his father had Alzheimer’s, he did not. However, in doing so, he forgot the name of the disease,\" the site stated.\n\n“First of all, if you look at tapes of him in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. He was still a jerk… but he was speaking in polished paragraphs,\" continued Gartner. “Now he has trouble completing a sentence, a thought and sometimes even a word… That’s a huge deterioration from his baseline, and he also used to be quite physically coordinated, and now he can barely walk a straight line.\"\n\nIndeed, a video of Trump arriving in Switzerland showed him weaving as he walked from the plane.\n\n“On the red carpet at Davos you may have noticed him weaving. That relates to one of the signs of what I think he has: frontotemporal dementia. That walk is called a wide base gait where he swings his right leg in kind of a semicircle and that drives him to the left,” Gartner continued. “That seems to have gotten dramatically worse recently. It may be related to the stroke I think he’s had on the left side of his body.”\n\nA stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) isn't the same as a prolonged degenerative brain disease, though it can cause motor function changes.\n\nIt can \"produce tremendous disinhibition of behavior because it’s the frontal lobes that are the brakes of the brain. So that’s what inhibits us from acting out,” he said.\n\n“Part of his brain \\[appears to be\\] deteriorating disproportionately, so he’s losing the brakes, and this is someone who was always impulsive and always acted out aggressively… Whilst he’s becoming confused about what’s happening, he’s also becoming aggressively disinhibited to act in impulsive and erratic ways,\" the doctor said.\n\nIt is something that is noticeable since the last administration, he observed, but \"now we're seeing deterioration almost week over week. 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All Rights Reserved. - \"Poynter\" fonts provided by fontsempire.com.","attrs_readable_markdown":"Experts are weighing in on President Donald Trump's mental and physical health after his first year in office.\n\n[Speaking with iPaper](https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/world\/trump-really-ill-just-old-experts-weigh-in-4203450), Dr. John Gartner, American psychologist, psychiatrist and former assistant professor at John Hopkins Medical School, explained, \"the main way to diagnose dementia is that we see a deterioration from someone’s own baseline in these four areas: language, memory, behaviour, and psychomotor performance.\"\n\nHis swollen ankles and feet, along with his bruised hands, have sparked conversation about the oldest president ever inaugurated. While the White House claims [Trump](https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/11\/trump) takes too much aspirin and suffers from chronic venous insufficiency, there continue to be questions about his mental decline as well.\n\nSince taking office, Trump has bragged that he's taken multiple cognitive tests. Such testing appeared to have begun in 2018, [according to a New York Times report](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/16\/science\/trump-cognitive-test-moca-nyt.html) at the time. In January, Trump revealed that he [had taken three cognitive tests](https:\/\/people.com\/trump-brags-about-acing-third-cognitive-exam-again-11878541) in December.\n\nDr. Vin Gupta said that there appears to be a “symmetry” between the president’s recent behavior and early warning signs of the disease, as quoted by [the Huffington Post last month](https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/vin-gupta-donald-trump-health_n_6973495fe4b0283a09774653?ref=bffbhuffpost&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_main&fbclid=IwY2xjawPxkUhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFwdERrckdvbHpnamg5Mldlc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmLbNUydyIdzoqXNeV_UT2NbSxj0no_qey6T42e74OyLUhwyJreyWkQlXov__aem_5rrxAzueYYYpd5ZXabBrAw).\n\nTrump's constant claims that former President Joe Biden was in cognitive and physical decline only highlight questions about himself and his own health problems.\n\nTrump recently acknowledged undergoing a CT scan, after initially misstating it as an MRI, with doctors saying it was to rule out cardiovascular problems and showed no abnormalities.\n\nFred Trump Sr. suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, so some are raising questions about whether the family history could be impacting the president.\n\n\"Trump hit back last month in an interview, claiming that while his father had Alzheimer’s, he did not. However, in doing so, he forgot the name of the disease,\" the site stated.\n\n“First of all, if you look at tapes of him in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. He was still a jerk… but he was speaking in polished paragraphs,\" continued Gartner. “Now he has trouble completing a sentence, a thought and sometimes even a word… That’s a huge deterioration from his baseline, and he also used to be quite physically coordinated, and now he can barely walk a straight line.\"\n\nIndeed, a video of Trump arriving in Switzerland showed him weaving as he walked from the plane.\n\n“On the red carpet at Davos you may have noticed him weaving. That relates to one of the signs of what I think he has: frontotemporal dementia. That walk is called a wide base gait where he swings his right leg in kind of a semicircle and that drives him to the left,” Gartner continued. “That seems to have gotten dramatically worse recently. It may be related to the stroke I think he’s had on the left side of his body.”\n\nA stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) isn't the same as a prolonged degenerative brain disease, though it can cause motor function changes.\n\nIt can \"produce tremendous disinhibition of behavior because it’s the frontal lobes that are the brakes of the brain. So that’s what inhibits us from acting out,” he said.\n\n“Part of his brain \\[appears to be\\] deteriorating disproportionately, so he’s losing the brakes, and this is someone who was always impulsive and always acted out aggressively… Whilst he’s becoming confused about what’s happening, he’s also becoming aggressively disinhibited to act in impulsive and erratic ways,\" the doctor said.\n\nIt is something that is noticeable since the last administration, he observed, but \"now we're seeing deterioration almost week over week. The rate of decline is accelerating.”\n\nThe doctor confirmed, “The high-pressure job can also accelerate cognitive dysfunction.”\n\nThe report added that many experts caution that no one can diagnose the president without a proper examination.\n\n***[Read the full report here.](https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/world\/trump-really-ill-just-old-experts-weigh-in-4203450)***","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Experts are weighing in on President Donald Trump's mental and physical health after his first year in office. Speaking with iPaper , Dr. John Gartner, American psychologist, psychiatrist and former assistant professor at John Hopkins Medical School, explained, "the main way to diagnose dementia is that we see a deterioration from someone’s own baseline in these four areas: language, memory, behaviour, and psychomotor performance." His swollen ankles and feet, along with his bruised hands, have sparked conversation about the oldest president ever inaugurated. While the White House claims Trump takes too much aspirin and suffers from chronic venous insufficiency, there continue to be questions about his mental decline as well. Since taking office, Trump has bragged that he's taken multiple cognitive tests. Such testing appeared to have begun in 2018, according to a New York Times report at the time. In January, Trump revealed that he had taken three cognitive tests in December. Dr. Vin Gupta said that there appears to be a “symmetry” between the president’s recent behavior and early warning signs of the disease, as quoted by the Huffington Post last month . Trump's constant claims that former President Joe Biden was in cognitive and physical decline only highlight questions about himself and his own health problems. Trump recently acknowledged undergoing a CT scan, after initially misstating it as an MRI, with doctors saying it was to rule out cardiovascular problems and showed no abnormalities. Fred Trump Sr. suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, so some are raising questions about whether the family history could be impacting the president. "Trump hit back last month in an interview, claiming that while his father had Alzheimer’s, he did not. However, in doing so, he forgot the name of the disease," the site stated. “First of all, if you look at tapes of him in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. He was still a jerk… but he was speaking in polished paragraphs," continued Gartner. “Now he has trouble completing a sentence, a thought and sometimes even a word… That’s a huge deterioration from his baseline, and he also used to be quite physically coordinated, and now he can barely walk a straight line." Indeed, a video of Trump arriving in Switzerland showed him weaving as he walked from the plane. “On the red carpet at Davos you may have noticed him weaving. That relates to one of the signs of what I think he has: frontotemporal dementia. That walk is called a wide base gait where he swings his right leg in kind of a semicircle and that drives him to the left,” Gartner continued. “That seems to have gotten dramatically worse recently. It may be related to the stroke I think he’s had on the left side of his body.” A stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) isn't the same as a prolonged degenerative brain disease, though it can cause motor function changes. It can "produce tremendous disinhibition of behavior because it’s the frontal lobes that are the brakes of the brain. So that’s what inhibits us from acting out,” he said. “Part of his brain [appears to be] deteriorating disproportionately, so he’s losing the brakes, and this is someone who was always impulsive and always acted out aggressively… Whilst he’s becoming confused about what’s happening, he’s also becoming aggressively disinhibited to act in impulsive and erratic ways," the doctor said. It is something that is noticeable since the last administration, he observed, but "now we're seeing deterioration almost week over week. The rate of decline is accelerating.” The doctor confirmed, “The high-pressure job can also accelerate cognitive dysfunction.” The report added that many experts caution that no one can diagnose the president without a proper examination. Read the full report here.
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[Speaking with iPaper](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-really-ill-just-old-experts-weigh-in-4203450), Dr. John Gartner, American psychologist, psychiatrist and former assistant professor at John Hopkins Medical School, explained, "the main way to diagnose dementia is that we see a deterioration from someone’s own baseline in these four areas: language, memory, behaviour, and psychomotor performance." His swollen ankles and feet, along with his bruised hands, have sparked conversation about the oldest president ever inaugurated. While the White House claims [Trump](https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) takes too much aspirin and suffers from chronic venous insufficiency, there continue to be questions about his mental decline as well. Since taking office, Trump has bragged that he's taken multiple cognitive tests. Such testing appeared to have begun in 2018, [according to a New York Times report](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/science/trump-cognitive-test-moca-nyt.html) at the time. In January, Trump revealed that he [had taken three cognitive tests](https://people.com/trump-brags-about-acing-third-cognitive-exam-again-11878541) in December. Dr. Vin Gupta said that there appears to be a “symmetry” between the president’s recent behavior and early warning signs of the disease, as quoted by [the Huffington Post last month](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vin-gupta-donald-trump-health_n_6973495fe4b0283a09774653?ref=bffbhuffpost&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_main&fbclid=IwY2xjawPxkUhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFwdERrckdvbHpnamg5Mldlc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmLbNUydyIdzoqXNeV_UT2NbSxj0no_qey6T42e74OyLUhwyJreyWkQlXov__aem_5rrxAzueYYYpd5ZXabBrAw). Trump's constant claims that former President Joe Biden was in cognitive and physical decline only highlight questions about himself and his own health problems. Trump recently acknowledged undergoing a CT scan, after initially misstating it as an MRI, with doctors saying it was to rule out cardiovascular problems and showed no abnormalities. Fred Trump Sr. suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, so some are raising questions about whether the family history could be impacting the president. "Trump hit back last month in an interview, claiming that while his father had Alzheimer’s, he did not. However, in doing so, he forgot the name of the disease," the site stated. “First of all, if you look at tapes of him in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. He was still a jerk… but he was speaking in polished paragraphs," continued Gartner. “Now he has trouble completing a sentence, a thought and sometimes even a word… That’s a huge deterioration from his baseline, and he also used to be quite physically coordinated, and now he can barely walk a straight line." Indeed, a video of Trump arriving in Switzerland showed him weaving as he walked from the plane. “On the red carpet at Davos you may have noticed him weaving. That relates to one of the signs of what I think he has: frontotemporal dementia. That walk is called a wide base gait where he swings his right leg in kind of a semicircle and that drives him to the left,” Gartner continued. “That seems to have gotten dramatically worse recently. It may be related to the stroke I think he’s had on the left side of his body.” A stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) isn't the same as a prolonged degenerative brain disease, though it can cause motor function changes. It can "produce tremendous disinhibition of behavior because it’s the frontal lobes that are the brakes of the brain. So that’s what inhibits us from acting out,” he said. “Part of his brain \[appears to be\] deteriorating disproportionately, so he’s losing the brakes, and this is someone who was always impulsive and always acted out aggressively… Whilst he’s becoming confused about what’s happening, he’s also becoming aggressively disinhibited to act in impulsive and erratic ways," the doctor said. It is something that is noticeable since the last administration, he observed, but "now we're seeing deterioration almost week over week. The rate of decline is accelerating.” The doctor confirmed, “The high-pressure job can also accelerate cognitive dysfunction.” The report added that many experts caution that no one can diagnose the president without a proper examination. *[Read the full report here.](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-really-ill-just-old-experts-weigh-in-4203450)* Report typos and corrections to: [feedback@alternet.org.](mailto:feedback@alternet.org) ## [Is Trump’s erratic and violent rhetoric pushing the world toward catastrophe?](https://www.alternet.org/trumps-violent-rhetoric-2676692129/) [Read Comments - Join the Discussion](https://www.alternet.org/trump-health-2675097917/?comments=disqus "Load Comments") [![](https://www.alternet.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTExNTc3MS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTgyOTAxODkzMX0.hYGcnBOyajn9TeuPvu8KPQsSyEPs65wRHsQb0qLys1M/image.gif?width=330&height=75)]() ## [The real Epstein scandal is not that a billionaire cabal runs the world](https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/epstein-conspiracy-theories/?anplus) ## [Pope Leo just exposed Trump's greatest threat to America](https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/leo-trump-threat/?anplus) ## [Trump admin's new 'pre-crime' database is growing at 300% — and your name might be on it](https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/he-fbi-s-new-pre-crime-database-is-growing-at-300-and-your-name-might-be-on-it/?anplus) MOST POPULAR ## [Swing state demands answers as election denier clerk canceled voter registrations illegally](https://www.alternet.org/election-deniers-in-michigan/) ## [Pope Leo just exposed Trump's greatest threat to America](https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/leo-trump-threat/) ## [GOP consultant predicts Epstein's depravity will collapse after midterms](https://www.alternet.org/jefftrey-epsteoin-donald-trump/) ## [Macho men implode in Trump’s MAGA economy](https://www.alternet.org/trump-men-blue-collar/) ## [Trump has awakened a sleeping giant — and they're ready for the resistance](https://www.alternet.org/no-kings-protest-young-voters/) ## [Trump is 'in far over his head' — and it's only getting worse: analysis](https://www.alternet.org/trump-jamelle-bouie/) ## [Trump DOJ forgets he was president in 2020](https://www.alternet.org/trump-face-act-report-biden/) ## [Trump rattles GOP with 'exactly the opposite message' they need to in the midterms](https://www.alternet.org/trump-midterms-2676710448/) ## [Top psychiatrists issue urgent letter to Congress about Trump's mental instability](https://www.alternet.org/psychiatrists-trump/) ## [A Chinese ship just ran the US Hormuz blockade: 'This is a scary moment'](https://www.alternet.org/hormuz-blockade/) Trending Topics - 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Readable Markdown	Experts are weighing in on President Donald Trump's mental and physical health after his first year in office. [Speaking with iPaper](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-really-ill-just-old-experts-weigh-in-4203450), Dr. John Gartner, American psychologist, psychiatrist and former assistant professor at John Hopkins Medical School, explained, "the main way to diagnose dementia is that we see a deterioration from someone’s own baseline in these four areas: language, memory, behaviour, and psychomotor performance." His swollen ankles and feet, along with his bruised hands, have sparked conversation about the oldest president ever inaugurated. While the White House claims [Trump](https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) takes too much aspirin and suffers from chronic venous insufficiency, there continue to be questions about his mental decline as well. Since taking office, Trump has bragged that he's taken multiple cognitive tests. Such testing appeared to have begun in 2018, [according to a New York Times report](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/science/trump-cognitive-test-moca-nyt.html) at the time. In January, Trump revealed that he [had taken three cognitive tests](https://people.com/trump-brags-about-acing-third-cognitive-exam-again-11878541) in December. Dr. Vin Gupta said that there appears to be a “symmetry” between the president’s recent behavior and early warning signs of the disease, as quoted by [the Huffington Post last month](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vin-gupta-donald-trump-health_n_6973495fe4b0283a09774653?ref=bffbhuffpost&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_main&fbclid=IwY2xjawPxkUhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFwdERrckdvbHpnamg5Mldlc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmLbNUydyIdzoqXNeV_UT2NbSxj0no_qey6T42e74OyLUhwyJreyWkQlXov__aem_5rrxAzueYYYpd5ZXabBrAw). Trump's constant claims that former President Joe Biden was in cognitive and physical decline only highlight questions about himself and his own health problems. Trump recently acknowledged undergoing a CT scan, after initially misstating it as an MRI, with doctors saying it was to rule out cardiovascular problems and showed no abnormalities. Fred Trump Sr. suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, so some are raising questions about whether the family history could be impacting the president. "Trump hit back last month in an interview, claiming that while his father had Alzheimer’s, he did not. However, in doing so, he forgot the name of the disease," the site stated. “First of all, if you look at tapes of him in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. He was still a jerk… but he was speaking in polished paragraphs," continued Gartner. “Now he has trouble completing a sentence, a thought and sometimes even a word… That’s a huge deterioration from his baseline, and he also used to be quite physically coordinated, and now he can barely walk a straight line." Indeed, a video of Trump arriving in Switzerland showed him weaving as he walked from the plane. “On the red carpet at Davos you may have noticed him weaving. That relates to one of the signs of what I think he has: frontotemporal dementia. That walk is called a wide base gait where he swings his right leg in kind of a semicircle and that drives him to the left,” Gartner continued. “That seems to have gotten dramatically worse recently. It may be related to the stroke I think he’s had on the left side of his body.” A stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) isn't the same as a prolonged degenerative brain disease, though it can cause motor function changes. It can "produce tremendous disinhibition of behavior because it’s the frontal lobes that are the brakes of the brain. So that’s what inhibits us from acting out,” he said. “Part of his brain \[appears to be\] deteriorating disproportionately, so he’s losing the brakes, and this is someone who was always impulsive and always acted out aggressively… Whilst he’s becoming confused about what’s happening, he’s also becoming aggressively disinhibited to act in impulsive and erratic ways," the doctor said. It is something that is noticeable since the last administration, he observed, but "now we're seeing deterioration almost week over week. The rate of decline is accelerating.” The doctor confirmed, “The high-pressure job can also accelerate cognitive dysfunction.” The report added that many experts caution that no one can diagnose the president without a proper examination. *[Read the full report here.](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-really-ill-just-old-experts-weigh-in-4203450)*
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