Top psychologist John D. Gartner has suggested that Donald Trump suffers from three distinct mental disorders, which he believes are evident in the behavior of the Republican frontrunner. Gartner, a psychologist, psychotherapist, author, activist, and former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical, shared his insights exclusively with The Mirror.
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He posits that Trump is afflicted by “malignant narcissistic personality disorder, hyper manic temperament, and dementia.” “His hyper-manic temperament is where his anger comes to the fore. The 40 tweets in one night.. even on holidays. His tweets are always filled with rage, constantly labeling people as losers. Trump is up at 3am on a holiday, ranting about how anyone who doesn’t idolise him is a loser,” Dr Gartner explained to The Mirror.
Dr Gartner attributes Trump’s erratic behavior as evidence for his diagnosis. Trump’s relentless posting of ‘Truths’ on his social media platforms, his disjointed speeches at campaign rallies, and the 77-year-old’s inability to distinguish between individuals. The author of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump added: “[Trump’s narcissism] consists of four components, narcissism, paranoia, psychopathy, sadism. These are people who live and breathe rage; if they’re not being adored, they seek to destroy and inflict pain on anyone who won’t worship them.”
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Finally, Gartner revealed: “I believe that he’s showing unquestionable signs of dementia, and that’s the diagnosis.. we have over 500 signatures from licensed mental health professionals on a petition asking for Trump’s removal,” reports the Mirror.
While Gartner maintains there is a basis for diagnosing individuals from afar, he also cautions that if Trump does have untreated dementia, it’ll exacerbate all of his angry outbursts.
“When people become demented.. whatever personality disorder they had, whatever sounds bad, becomes 10x as bad.. it’s hard to imagine.. the Donald Trump you see today is the best Donald Trump you’ll see,” he elaborated. On April 5, Trump lambasted Joe Biden as a violent thug in a new campaign video – which also criticizes Madonna for boasting she “thought about blowing up the White House.”
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The former president unveiled the unhinged 1.29-minute video on his social media platform Truth Social which features a series of clips of Democrats promoting violence against Trump. But what many refer to as mad ramblings, Dr. Gartner says, is much more.
“The press labels it as ‘rambling’, but that’s actually misinformation… people understand [those who ramble]… but when… you listen to his speeches, they’re incoherent,” he commented. He further added: “Language, behavior, motor performance, in the area of behavior, he’s becoming more erratic, more disoriented, all the things he did before but now it’s in a more primitive and decontrolled way, he’s just a pageful ID with no cortex to direct it, and think how dangerous that could be.”
At a fundraiser on April 8, Trump bizarrely claimed Biden had a soiling accident in the Oval Office. These comments were made during a roughly 45-minute speech at a dinner where he repeatedly mocked Biden’s age and ‘inability.’
Despite only being three years apart in age, Dr. Gartner suggests Trump is attempting to deflect from his own issues. “When [Trump] says Obama is president, he’s not joking. He never jokes anyway. He genuinely got confused about who the president was. That’s a level of confusion you see in Alzheimer’s and dementia. This question is one of ones we ask patients; if they don’t know the president, they get admitted,” Gartner clarified.
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“Pathologising Biden’s signs of aging, but ignoring Trump’s dementia symptoms, we don’t have a culture of revering our elders, so we pick on these frailties,” Dr Gartner pointed out. “Meanwhile, it’s one thing to forget the name of the president of France but another to forget the president of the United States.
You can’t have both side-ism when you’re comparing apples to rotted oranges… the false equivalence is very damaging.. a tale of two brains, Biden’s brain is aging, and Trump is dementing.. that’s what happens with misinformation. It takes away our ability to believe.. We’re told not to believe our eyes. There are still a few areas on earth where truth still exists, and one is science and medicine,” says Gartner, as he urges individuals to “pay attention.”
“He’s really a tottering old man that needs care we can see he’s really losing it and needs care. Chief executive of the country that has no executive functioning left,” said Gartner. And his angry outbursts have transferred into a gag order on the former president, as Judge Juan Merchan grew tired of Trump’s constant bashing on social media.
Now, Trump is seeking to have New York’s highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses, jurors, and others connected to his hush money criminal trial.
Merchan held him in contempt of court and fined him a total of $10,000 for violating the gag order 10 times in recent weeks. The judge told Trump afterward that future gag order violations could send him to jail.
