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Well, he did have Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disease that affects memory. And we’re supposed to believe that he had no symptoms of until January 21, 1989

Well, he did have Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disease that affects memory. And we’re supposed to believe that he had no symptoms of until January 21, 1989. As a person that had a grandmother and aunt that developed it, that’s… mighty suspicious.

DonHopkins 3y ago
Shadowing Trump’s attacks on mental fitness — his own father’s dementia https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/20/donald-trump-dementia-father-fred-alzheimers-biden/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/20/donald-tr... >Trump avoids mention of his father’s Alzheimer’s disease as he lashes Biden for being ‘cognitively impaired’ >Donald Trump invited his extended family to Mar-a-Lago in the mid-1990s. As the clan gathered at the palatial Florida estate, though, his father was badly struggling, according to Mary L. Trump, Donald’s niece. >Fred Trump Sr., the pugnacious developer then in his late 80s, didn’t recognize two of his children at the party, recalled Mary L. Trump, who attended the gathering. And when he did recognize Donald, the family patriarch approached his son with a picture of a Cadillac that he wanted to buy — as if he needed his son’s permission. >The incident, Mary L. Trump said, left Donald Trump visibly upset at his father’s descent into dementia, which medical records show had been diagnosed several years earlier. Trump reflected his anguish in an interview around that time, with Playboy in 1997 reporting that seeing his father “addled with Alzheimer’s” had left him wondering “out loud about the senselessness of life.” >“Turning 50 does make you think about mortality, or immortality, or whatever,” Trump, who had recently reached that milestone, told the magazine. “It does hit you.” [...]
- lupusreal 3y ago
  Quite frankly, anybody too old to be an airline pilot should be disqualified as POTUS.

DonHopkins 3y ago

Shadowing Trump’s attacks on mental fitness — his own father’s dementia https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/20/donald-trump-dementia-father-fred-alzheimers-biden/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/20/donald-tr... >Trump avoids mention of his father’s Alzheimer’s disease as he lashes Biden for being ‘cognitively impaired’ >Donald Trump invited his extended family to Mar-a-Lago in the mid-1990s. As the clan gathered at the palatial Florida estate, though, his father was badly struggling, according to Mary L. Trump, Donald’s niece. >Fred Trump Sr., the pugnacious developer then in his late 80s, didn’t recognize two of his children at the party, recalled Mary L. Trump, who attended the gathering. And when he did recognize Donald, the family patriarch approached his son with a picture of a Cadillac that he wanted to buy — as if he needed his son’s permission. >The incident, Mary L. Trump said, left Donald Trump visibly upset at his father’s descent into dementia, which medical records show had been diagnosed several years earlier. Trump reflected his anguish in an interview around that time, with Playboy in 1997 reporting that seeing his father “addled with Alzheimer’s” had left him wondering “out loud about the senselessness of life.” >“Turning 50 does make you think about mortality, or immortality, or whatever,” Trump, who had recently reached that milestone, told the magazine. “It does hit you.” [...]

lupusreal 3y ago
Quite frankly, anybody too old to be an airline pilot should be disqualified as POTUS.