Experts seem to think the bruises that appear on his hands are related to a once monthly infusion of a drug to slow frontal temporal dementia progression.

The White House's suggestion they are from shaking hands doesn't hold water as they have appeared on both of his hands.

Additionally, the repeated Cognitive Impairment tests which he claims he "aced", are not normal. A one-off test maybe, but repeated tests suggest thy are monitoring his dementia rather than looking for it.

Some of the symptoms of Frontal Temporal Dementia are believing your own lies, personality changes, loss of inhibition with risky decisions taken, reduced empathy, repetitive behaviors, language difficulties, and sometimes motor problems.

Shouldn't it be mandatory for doctors to report such things in the POTUS? He appears to be taking risky illegal decisions.

The symptoms appear to be of Actinic Purpura, which occurs in red/blond haired people with light coloured skin as they age (55+). The capillaries in the skin are damaged by long term exposure to UV and break easily under impact pressures most people wouldn't normally notice.

The bruises appear frequently on the backs of hands and forearms, last for a week or two then disappear.

There is no cure and doctors suggest wearing long sleeves and makeup to cover the unsightly bruises, along with frequent applications of sunscreen/body lotion to mitigate further harm to your skin.

Possibly, but that doesn't fit with repeated cognitive tests, which suggests they are monitoring dementia.

42 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

Possibly, but that doesn't fit with repeated cognitive tests, which suggests they are monitoring dementia.

Keep reporting in Doctor

Trump is very ill both physically and mentally, there's no doubt that his faculties have declined significantly over the past few years. Watching him walk up or down a set of stairs is actually quite frightening.

"It must be because of M.I.T., my relationship with M.I.T., very smart. I say, 'What would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there?" Trump said. "By the way, lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice that?"

During a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, abruptly switched from discussing immigration to saying this: “The other thing I say to Europe: we’ve – we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery.”

Trump proceeded to speak, non-stop and unprompted, for two minutes about windmills, claiming without evidence that they drive whales “loco” and that wind energy “kills the birds” (the proportion of birds killed by turbines is tiny compared with the number killed by domestic cats and from flying into power lines).

The abrupt changes in conversation are an example of Trump “digressing without thinking – he’ll just switch topics without self-regulation, without having a coherent narrative”, said Harry Segal, a senior lecturer in the psychology department at Cornell University and in the psychiatry department at Weill Cornell Medicine. Segal said another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is confabulation. “It’s where he takes an idea or something that’s happened and he adds to it things that have not happened.”

A high-profile example came in mid-July, when Trump claimed his uncle, the late professor John Trump, had taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, at MIT.

Trump recalled: “I said: ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John? Dr John Trump.’ I said: ‘What kind of a student?’ And then he said: ‘Seriously, good.’ He said: ‘He’d correct – he’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”

The problem is: that cannot possibly be true. First, Trump’s uncle died in 1985, and Kaczynski was only publicly identified as the Unabomber in 1996. Second, Kaczynski did not study at MIT.

“The story makes no sense whatsoever, but it’s told in a very warm, reflective way, as if he’s remembering it,” Segal said. “This level of thinking really has been deteriorating.”

I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor. You can’t – in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. Uh, you have a shower head the shower doesn’t uh, the shower doesn’t, you think it’s not working. It is working. The water’s dripping out and that’s no good for me. I like this hair lace and [sic] – I like that hair nice and wet. Takes you – you have to stand in the shower for 20 minutes before you get the soap out of your hair. And I put a, a thing – and it sounds funny but it’s really not. It’s horrible. And uh, when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet, no water comes out. You’re washing whole – water barely comes out it’s ridi – this was done by crazy people. And I wor – wrote it all off and got it approved in Congress so that they can’t just change it.”

“Any fair-minded mental-health expert would be very worried about Donald Trump’s performance,” Richard A Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College.

He added: “If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness.”

54 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Trump is very ill both physically and mentally

Jesus man.

Do you ever take a day off?

2 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

Some of the symptoms of Frontal Temporal Dementia are believing your own lies, personality changes, loss of inhibition with risky decisions taken, reduced empathy, repetitive behaviors, language difficulties, and sometimes motor problems.

Reduced empathy. What a joke.

I probably only met 2 people with "empathy" in my entire life.

Risky decisions being linked to dementia? Did you just make that up?

'Some of the symptoms of Frontal Temporal Dementia are believing your own lies, personality changes, loss of inhibition with risky decisions taken, reduced empathy, repetitive behaviors, language difficulties, and sometimes motor problems.'

Sounds like a Pattaya expat. :)

2 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

Possibly, but that doesn't fit with repeated cognitive tests, which suggests they are monitoring dementia.

They are just checking he is obeying orders correctly, the skin bruising is typical of old age I get them easy and I notice lots of these bruises on expats over 65.

49 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Jesus man.

Do you ever take a day off?

He doesn't take a day off, like some others, President Trump clearly lives in some folks heads, rent free!!

15 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

He doesn't take a day off, like some others, President Trump clearly lives in some folks heads, rent free!!

While others rush to join threads discussing Trump in order to protest others discussing Trump.

1 hour ago, kiwikeith said:

They are just checking he is obeying orders correctly, the skin bruising is typical of old age I get them easy and I notice lots of these bruises on expats over 65.

Lots of expats over 65 are also seriously unhealthy.

Experts seem to think the bruises that appear on his hands are related to a once monthly infusion of a drug to slow frontal temporal dementia progression.

3 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

The White House's suggestion they are from shaking hands doesn't hold water as they have appeared on both of his hands.

Additionally, the repeated Cognitive Impairment tests which he claims he "aced", are not normal. A one-off test maybe, but repeated tests suggest thy are monitoring his dementia rather than looking for it.

Some of the symptoms of Frontal Temporal Dementia are believing your own lies, personality changes, loss of inhibition with risky decisions taken, reduced empathy, repetitive behaviors, language difficulties, and sometimes motor problems.

Shouldn't it be mandatory for doctors to report such things in the POTUS? He appears to be taking risky illegal decisions.

"Experts seem to think the bruises that appear on his hands are related to a once monthly infusion of a drug to slow frontal temporal dementia progression."

So name the 'experts'?

3 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

Experts seem to think the bruises that appear on his hands are related to a once monthly infusion of a drug to slow frontal temporal dementia progression.

There’s a lot of erroneous baiting experts out there that many here tend to latch onto.

14 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Experts seem to think the bruises that appear on his hands are related to a once monthly infusion of a drug to slow frontal temporal dementia progression.

"Experts seem to think the bruises that appear on his hands are related to a once monthly infusion of a drug to slow frontal temporal dementia progression."

So name the 'experts'?

Key experts who have voiced these concerns include:

• Dr. John Gartner: A clinical psychologist and co-founder of the group Duty to Warn, Gartner is one of the most vocal experts on this topic. He has pointed to several signs he believes are indicative of FTD, including a "wide-based gait" (a specific way of walking where one leg swings in a semicircle), deterioration in motor skills, and an increase in language and verbal difficulties, such as "phonemic paraphasia" (inability to complete words properly).

• Dr. Harry Segal: A clinical psychologist and a host with Dr. Gartner on the podcast Shrinking Trump, Segal has echoed concerns about Trump's psychomotor functioning and increasingly bizarre and impulsive behavior, which he views as signs of accelerating cognitive decline. 

Other medical professionals have noted general cognitive decline based on linguistic analysis of his speech patterns

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Trump is very ill both physically and mentally, there's no doubt that his faculties have declined significantly over the past few years. Watching him walk up or down a set of stairs is actually quite frightening.

"It must be because of M.I.T., my relationship with M.I.T., very smart. I say, 'What would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there?" Trump said. "By the way, lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice that?"

During a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, abruptly switched from discussing immigration to saying this: “The other thing I say to Europe: we’ve – we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery.”

Trump proceeded to speak, non-stop and unprompted, for two minutes about windmills, claiming without evidence that they drive whales “loco” and that wind energy “kills the birds” (the proportion of birds killed by turbines is tiny compared with the number killed by domestic cats and from flying into power lines).

The abrupt changes in conversation are an example of Trump “digressing without thinking – he’ll just switch topics without self-regulation, without having a coherent narrative”, said Harry Segal, a senior lecturer in the psychology department at Cornell University and in the psychiatry department at Weill Cornell Medicine. Segal said another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is confabulation. “It’s where he takes an idea or something that’s happened and he adds to it things that have not happened.”

A high-profile example came in mid-July, when Trump claimed his uncle, the late professor John Trump, had taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, at MIT.

Trump recalled: “I said: ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John? Dr John Trump.’ I said: ‘What kind of a student?’ And then he said: ‘Seriously, good.’ He said: ‘He’d correct – he’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”

The problem is: that cannot possibly be true. First, Trump’s uncle died in 1985, and Kaczynski was only publicly identified as the Unabomber in 1996. Second, Kaczynski did not study at MIT.

“The story makes no sense whatsoever, but it’s told in a very warm, reflective way, as if he’s remembering it,” Segal said. “This level of thinking really has been deteriorating.”

I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor. You can’t – in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. Uh, you have a shower head the shower doesn’t uh, the shower doesn’t, you think it’s not working. It is working. The water’s dripping out and that’s no good for me. I like this hair lace and [sic] – I like that hair nice and wet. Takes you – you have to stand in the shower for 20 minutes before you get the soap out of your hair. And I put a, a thing – and it sounds funny but it’s really not. It’s horrible. And uh, when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet, no water comes out. You’re washing whole – water barely comes out it’s ridi – this was done by crazy people. And I wor – wrote it all off and got it approved in Congress so that they can’t just change it.”

“Any fair-minded mental-health expert would be very worried about Donald Trump’s performance,” Richard A Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College.

He added: “If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness.”

This narrative claiming Trump is severely ill physically and mentally is a partisan smear relying on cherry-picked anecdotes and unethical remote diagnoses, while ignoring his official health reports and consistent performance.

Physical Health: Claims of "frightening" stair-walking stem from isolated clips of minor stumbles, easily explained in a 79-year-old. I'm not near 79 and sometimes I trip up/stumble!

Recent videos show normal mobility, and his physician's latest report confirms perfect health, no frailty, and an extraordinarily demanding schedule that outpaces younger leaders.

President Donald Trump typically works long hours , often described as a relentless 12- to 18-hour workday,

Mental Health: Trump's tangential, anecdotal speaking style—shark/boat rants, windmill critiques, faucet complaints—has been identical for decades.

It's deliberate showmanship and policy emphasis, not sudden incoherence. Minor verbal slips (e.g., "hair lace") are routine gaffes, not pathology.

Unabomber Story: An inaccurate family anecdote, likely conflated or embellished for effect—common in storytelling, not evidence of "confabulation" or dementia.

"Expert" Opinions: The quoted psychologists violate professional ethics by offering remote diagnoses without examination. Their concerns are speculative and politically motivated. In contrast, Trump's doctors and cognitive screenings (perfect scores on multiple tests) show excellent mental sharpness.

In short, there is no credible evidence of significant physical or mental decline. This is recycled opposition spin repackaged as concern, contradicted by medical reports, Trump's energy, and his longstanding communication style.

4 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

Experts seem to think the bruises that appear on his hands are related to a once monthly infusion of a drug to slow frontal temporal dementia progression.

The White House's suggestion they are from shaking hands doesn't hold water as they have appeared on both of his hands.

Additionally, the repeated Cognitive Impairment tests which he claims he "aced", are not normal. A one-off test maybe, but repeated tests suggest thy are monitoring his dementia rather than looking for it.

Some of the symptoms of Frontal Temporal Dementia are believing your own lies, personality changes, loss of inhibition with risky decisions taken, reduced empathy, repetitive behaviors, language difficulties, and sometimes motor problems.

Shouldn't it be mandatory for doctors to report such things in the POTUS? He appears to be taking risky illegal decisions.

Who are these medical experts? A psychologist without specific training is not competent to review circulatory disease medications.

When did they review his medication lists?

The bruising is typical of people on an aspirin regimen. Anyone who has had an older parent on aspirin will know this.

20 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

This narrative claiming Trump is severely ill physically and mentally is a partisan smear relying on cherry-picked anecdotes and unethical remote diagnoses, while ignoring his official health reports and consistent performance.

Physical Health: Claims of "frightening" stair-walking stem from isolated clips of minor stumbles, easily explained in a 79-year-old. I'm not near 79 and sometimes I trip up/stumble!

Recent videos show normal mobility, and his physician's latest report confirms perfect health, no frailty, and an extraordinarily demanding schedule that outpaces younger leaders.

President Donald Trump typically works long hours , often described as a relentless 12- to 18-hour workday,

Mental Health: Trump's tangential, anecdotal speaking style—shark/boat rants, windmill critiques, faucet complaints—has been identical for decades.

It's deliberate showmanship and policy emphasis, not sudden incoherence. Minor verbal slips (e.g., "hair lace") are routine gaffes, not pathology.

Unabomber Story: An inaccurate family anecdote, likely conflated or embellished for effect—common in storytelling, not evidence of "confabulation" or dementia.

"Expert" Opinions: The quoted psychologists violate professional ethics by offering remote diagnoses without examination. Their concerns are speculative and politically motivated. In contrast, Trump's doctors and cognitive screenings (perfect scores on multiple tests) show excellent mental sharpness.

In short, there is no credible evidence of significant physical or mental decline. This is recycled opposition spin repackaged as concern, contradicted by medical reports, Trump's energy, and his longstanding communication style.

Well that and his cankles.

Why Does Donald Trump Lean Forward?
A Closer Look at the Mystery Behind His Posture.
Is Donald Trump's Forward-Leaning Posture a Sign of a Serious Health Issue?




https://vocal.media/theSwamp/why-does-donald-trump-lean-forward-a-closer-look-at-the-mystery-behind-his-posture

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Jesus man.

Do you ever take a day off?

Why would I take a day off when causing someone who takes themselves so seriously, a great deal of offense, is so much fun?

35 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

Why Does Donald Trump Lean Forward?
A Closer Look at the Mystery Behind His Posture.
Is Donald Trump's Forward-Leaning Posture a Sign of a Serious Health Issue?




https://vocal.media/theSwamp/why-does-donald-trump-lean-forward-a-closer-look-at-the-mystery-behind-his-posture

He is simply leaning into the next invasion, the next foreign adventure, the next war that he's able to start, and the next opportunity to show what a big, and powerful man he is.

Leaning forward is often attributed with Frontal Temporal Dementia.

1 hour ago, LosLobo said:

Why Does Donald Trump Lean Forward?
A Closer Look at the Mystery Behind His Posture.
Is Donald Trump's Forward-Leaning Posture a Sign of a Serious Health Issue?




https://vocal.media/theSwamp/why-does-donald-trump-lean-forward-a-closer-look-at-the-mystery-behind-his-posture

Luckily the finger prevented him from falling! 🤣

3 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

Key experts who have voiced these concerns include:

• Dr. John Gartner: A clinical psychologist and co-founder of the group Duty to Warn, Gartner is one of the most vocal experts on this topic. He has pointed to several signs he believes are indicative of FTD, including a "wide-based gait" (a specific way of walking where one leg swings in a semicircle), deterioration in motor skills, and an increase in language and verbal difficulties, such as "phonemic paraphasia" (inability to complete words properly).

• Dr. Harry Segal: A clinical psychologist and a host with Dr. Gartner on the podcast Shrinking Trump, Segal has echoed concerns about Trump's psychomotor functioning and increasingly bizarre and impulsive behavior, which he views as signs of accelerating cognitive decline. 

Other medical professionals have noted general cognitive decline based on linguistic analysis of his speech patterns

These claims from Dr. John Gartner and Dr. Harry Segal about Trump's alleged frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or cognitive decline are unethical, unreliable partisan speculation that violates core professional standards.

Both psychologists are openly anti-Trump activists:

Gartner co-founded the "Duty to Warn" group dedicated to declaring Trump unfit, and Segal co-hosts the partisan "Shrinking Trump" podcast.

Neither has ever examined Trump personally.

Their remote "diagnoses"—citing things like "wide-based gait," motor deterioration, verbal difficulties, or impulsive behavior—flagrantly breach the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule, which prohibits mental health opinions on public figures without direct examination and consent.

Such armchair assessments are considered irresponsible and invalid by the broader medical community.

Trump's actual physicians, after recent comprehensive exams, report him in perfect health with excellent cognition.

He has repeatedly scored a perfect 30/30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a standard dementia screening tool.

His speaking style, walking manner, and anecdotal storytelling have remained consistent for decades—long before any supposed "decline."

Minor verbal slips or embellished stories are normal, not pathological.

In short, these are not neutral "key experts" offering objective analysis; they are biased commentators pushing a political narrative contradicted by Trump's medical records and performance.

Real evidence shows no significant cognitive or physical decline.

This is recycled T.D.S, not medicine. Gartner and Segal's "concerns" are unethical violations peddled for attention, flatly contradicted by Trump's vetted health and performance. If they're so worried, they should stick to patients they've actually met—not media stunts.

1 minute ago, mikeymike100 said:

These claims from Dr. John Gartner and Dr. Harry Segal about Trump's alleged frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or cognitive decline are unethical, unreliable partisan speculation that violates core professional standards.

Both psychologists are openly anti-Trump activists:

Gartner co-founded the "Duty to Warn" group dedicated to declaring Trump unfit, and Segal co-hosts the partisan "Shrinking Trump" podcast.

Neither has ever examined Trump personally.

Their remote "diagnoses"—citing things like "wide-based gait," motor deterioration, verbal difficulties, or impulsive behavior—flagrantly breach the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule, which prohibits mental health opinions on public figures without direct examination and consent.

Such armchair assessments are considered irresponsible and invalid by the broader medical community.

Trump's actual physicians, after recent comprehensive exams, report him in perfect health with excellent cognition.

He has repeatedly scored a perfect 30/30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a standard dementia screening tool.

His speaking style, walking manner, and anecdotal storytelling have remained consistent for decades—long before any supposed "decline."

Minor verbal slips or embellished stories are normal, not pathological.

In short, these are not neutral "key experts" offering objective analysis; they are biased commentators pushing a political narrative contradicted by Trump's medical records and performance.

Real evidence shows no significant cognitive or physical decline.

This is recycled T.D.S, not medicine. Gartner and Segal's "concerns" are unethical violations peddled for attention, flatly contradicted by Trump's vetted health and performance. If they're so worried, they should stick to patients they've actually met—not media stunts.

Yeh, he really looks in excellent condition...............🤥..............🤣

9 minutes ago, transam said:

Yeh, he really looks in excellent condition...............🤥..............🤣

Try these......👓

2 hours ago, LosLobo said:

Why Does Donald Trump Lean Forward?
A Closer Look at the Mystery Behind His Posture.
Is Donald Trump's Forward-Leaning Posture a Sign of a Serious Health Issue?




https://vocal.media/theSwamp/why-does-donald-trump-lean-forward-a-closer-look-at-the-mystery-behind-his-posture

Trump's forward tilt at the waist has been consistent for decades, predating any supposed "worsening" in 2025–2026. It's visible in footage from his first term and earlier, often tied to his height (6'3"), golfing stance (where a forward lean aids swing mechanics), or simply a habitual "power pose" projecting dominance.

Speculation that it's "more exaggerated" recently ignores that it's unchanged—selective clips amplify it, but full videos show him navigating stairs, events, and travel without assistance.

The "mystery" behind Trump's forward-leaning posture is nothing more than recycled tabloid speculation and partisan wishful thinking, in other words BS!

2 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Try these......👓

I don't think it's me that needs glasses...........😀

1 minute ago, mikeymike100 said:

Trump's forward tilt at the waist has been consistent for decades, predating any supposed "worsening" in 2025–2026. It's visible in footage from his first term and earlier, often tied to his height (6'3"), golfing stance (where a forward lean aids swing mechanics), or simply a habitual "power pose" projecting dominance.

Speculation that it's "more exaggerated" recently ignores that it's unchanged—selective clips amplify it, but full videos show him navigating stairs, events, and travel without assistance.

The "mystery" behind Trump's forward-leaning posture is nothing more than recycled tabloid speculation and partisan wishful thinking, in other words BS!

Carrying too much Big Mac enhancement, or has shoe lift inserts...🤭

4 hours ago, mikeymike100 said:

Experts seem to think the bruises that appear on his hands are related to a once monthly infusion of a drug to slow frontal temporal dementia progression.

"Experts seem to think the bruises that appear on his hands are related to a once monthly infusion of a drug to slow frontal temporal dementia progression."

So name the 'experts'?

They're some of the "someones" Donny Demento talks about when he says, "People tell me...".