‘An Alzheimer’s thing’: Trump just shrugs at his memory lapses, ‘whatever it is, my attitude is whatever’

We all know something is wrong with Donald Trump‘s brain, but is he actually suffering from Alzheimer’s? Suspicions that all’s not well in the presidential cranium have dogged him throughout his political career, but his increasingly surreal speeches and strange pronouncements over the course of the last year have heightened speculation.

In what feels like a classic case of overcompensation, any time Trump’s mental fitness enters the news cycle, he quickly points out that he’s not only still sharp as a tack but somehow, as he approaches 80, sharper than he’s ever been. He’s also unperturbed by his doctors subjecting him to repeated cognitive tests, simply boasting that they’re impressed at him acing them.

Now, in a new article about Trump’s health in New York Magazine, it seems he’s thoroughly unconcerned that his mental faculties are failing. In an interview, Trump discusses the health of his father, Fred Trump, who lived to age 93:

“At a certain age, about 86, 87, he started getting, what do they call it?”

The apparently confused Trump tapped his forehead, unable to recall the word he was looking for. Karoline Leavitt helpfully chimed in: “Alzheimer’s”. Trump continued: “Like an Alzheimer’s thing. Well, I don’t have it.”

The interviewer then asked Trump whether he ever thought that he might be suffering from it:

“No, I don’t think about it at all. You know why? Because whatever it is, my attitude is whatever.”

Well, that’s reassuring.

It probably goes without saying that the man in personal control of the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, who could singlehandedly wipe out human civilization with the touch of a button, should maybe take his mental state a little more seriously than “whatever”.

The predictable counter to this from MAGA acolytes is that it’s totally fine for Trump’s brain to be turning into porridge because Democrats allowed the same to happen to Joe Biden while he was president.

Well, first up, I’m not entirely that “oh yeah, well your guy was a vegetable too” is that great a defense of a man you claim to support. Secondly, many people on both sides of the aisle loudly and pointedly called out Biden’s clearly faltering health as making him unfit for office throughout 2023 and 2024!

The simple logic should be that if you thought Biden was mentally incompetent to be president, you must also apply the same standards to Trump. And, let’s face it, the writing is on the wall.