Donald Trump reminds me of my father who was having ministrokes throughout his 70s

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This orange head will not listen to anyone. That is his problem if he did, surely we would not be talking about him as a Presidential candidate. It is so scary.

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Anonymous wrote:My FIL had mini strokes and vascular dementia. He was a great guy and very smart but as the disease ate away at his brain he had moments of confusion, his vocabulary decreased, and he had trouble following multi step thought processes or thinking through normal cause and effect. (As one early example, I remember him getting very upset about something Congress was considering and maybe going to pass — I pointed out the president would surely veto it, and that had not occurred to him. He was a major political junkie so the fact that he had not gamed that out in his head was really upsetting.)

To me, it seems very obvious that Trump has vascular dementia. Particularly considering his diet. I assume he is on blood thinners (which may also explain why he bled so much from a small wound to his ear). I would think he has also had some kind of procedure to remove plaque from his arteries like angioplasty. If he was more transparent about his medical situation, we might know that. But it seems pretty obvious to me, and it also explains the shuffling gait. Vascular dementia is really under-recognized and the progression is different than Alzheimer’s.

and being overweight (and probably zero exercise) doesn’t help.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, my father passed at 93. My father came to the US in 1949 at the age of 23 and live the last 70 years of his life in the US. He came for graduate school and never left. His entire working career was in the US. He was fluent in American English, but we did notice in the last 10 years of his life that he was slowly losing his control of English. By the time he passed, he sounded like a recent immigrant and half the time, I had to speak to him in his native language. We found out after he died of a major stroke, that he had had a series of mini-strokes (found during his autopsy). It explains the gradual loss of his second language in the last decade of his life.

Apparently, with mini-strokes, it is not unusual to lose things that you learned later in life and are left with mostly longer term memories from earlier in life.

If you look at videos of Trump even up through his 50's and early 60's he had a significantly larger working vocabulary. It wasn't until his late 60's, like 10 years ago, that he started losing many of the multi-syllabic works in his diction and he started using much more simple colloquial vernacular in his speech. His loss of his more advanced vocabulary and diction definitely mirrors my own father's loss of his second language and some of the more complex vocabulary that he had developed over a lifetime of working in the US after the mini-strokes had started to affect him.

I definitely see some of the same signs in Donald Trump. It would not be at all surprising if he suffers are much more serious stroke in the next few years.

What you mention about Trump's working vocab (and also ability to maintain syntax even in long sentences--multiple clauses, not just syllables) has been noticed by experts.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, my father passed at 93. My father came to the US in 1949 at the age of 23 and live the last 70 years of his life in the US. He came for graduate school and never left. His entire working career was in the US. He was fluent in American English, but we did notice in the last 10 years of his life that he was slowly losing his control of English. By the time he passed, he sounded like a recent immigrant and half the time, I had to speak to him in his native language. We found out after he died of a major stroke, that he had had a series of mini-strokes (found during his autopsy). It explains the gradual loss of his second language in the last decade of his life.

Apparently, with mini-strokes, it is not unusual to lose things that you learned later in life and are left with mostly longer term memories from earlier in life.

If you look at videos of Trump even up through his 50's and early 60's he had a significantly larger working vocabulary. It wasn't until his late 60's, like 10 years ago, that he started losing many of the multi-syllabic works in his diction and he started using much more simple colloquial vernacular in his speech. His loss of his more advanced vocabulary and diction definitely mirrors my own father's loss of his second language and some of the more complex vocabulary that he had developed over a lifetime of working in the US after the mini-strokes had started to affect him.

I definitely see some of the same signs in Donald Trump. It would not be at all surprising if he suffers are much more serious stroke in the next few years.

What you mention about Trump's working vocab (and also ability to maintain syntax even in long sentences--multiple clauses, not just syllables) has been noticed by experts.

Here is a video of him almost 20 years ago in 2005. Try to say that his vocabulary and speech patterns have not seriously degraded. The number of distinct words that he uses, plus the syntax of his sentences has always been low, but even in this video, he has significantly better syntax and more variety in his vocabulary than he does now. in 2005, he was probably at a middle school level of communication. But linguists say that now he has about a 4th grade level of communication. Definite deterioration.

How anyone could consider that a man who has mentally declined to the state that Trump is in could possibly be elected as president is beyond me. I have said before and will say again that at his current rate of decline, he will make it, at most to the 2026 midterms before he is no longer capable of holding the office. Either he will have a physical episode like a stroke or his mental decline will be impossible to hide and he will have to be removed from office. At which point, we are talking about the completely misogynistic and inexperienced Vance as president and that would be an even bigger disaster than Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, my father passed at 93. My father came to the US in 1949 at the age of 23 and live the last 70 years of his life in the US. He came for graduate school and never left. His entire working career was in the US. He was fluent in American English, but we did notice in the last 10 years of his life that he was slowly losing his control of English. By the time he passed, he sounded like a recent immigrant and half the time, I had to speak to him in his native language. We found out after he died of a major stroke, that he had had a series of mini-strokes (found during his autopsy). It explains the gradual loss of his second language in the last decade of his life.

Apparently, with mini-strokes, it is not unusual to lose things that you learned later in life and are left with mostly longer term memories from earlier in life.

If you look at videos of Trump even up through his 50's and early 60's he had a significantly larger working vocabulary. It wasn't until his late 60's, like 10 years ago, that he started losing many of the multi-syllabic works in his diction and he started using much more simple colloquial vernacular in his speech. His loss of his more advanced vocabulary and diction definitely mirrors my own father's loss of his second language and some of the more complex vocabulary that he had developed over a lifetime of working in the US after the mini-strokes had started to affect him.

I definitely see some of the same signs in Donald Trump. It would not be at all surprising if he suffers are much more serious stroke in the next few years.

What you mention about Trump's working vocab (and also ability to maintain syntax even in long sentences--multiple clauses, not just syllables) has been noticed by experts.

Here is a video of him almost 20 years ago in 2005. Try to say that his vocabulary and speech patterns have not seriously degraded. The number of distinct words that he uses, plus the syntax of his sentences has always been low, but even in this video, he has significantly better syntax and more variety in his vocabulary than he does now. in 2005, he was probably at a middle school level of communication. But linguists say that now he has about a 4th grade level of communication. Definite deterioration.

How anyone could consider that a man who has mentally declined to the state that Trump is in could possibly be elected as president is beyond me. I have said before and will say again that at his current rate of decline, he will make it, at most to the 2026 midterms before he is no longer capable of holding the office. Either he will have a physical episode like a stroke or his mental decline will be impossible to hide and he will have to be removed from office. At which point, we are talking about the completely misogynistic and inexperienced Vance as president and that would be an even bigger disaster than Trump.

Forgot to add the video:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?416156-1/presidential-candidate-donald-trump-2005-video