Doctor says Trump’s decline is ‘getting worse’

 A top doctor has joined the list of medical experts who say that President Donald Trump is suffering from apparent cognitive decline, alleging it’s getting worse and happening rapidly.

Dr. Vin Gupta a practicing pulmonologist, affiliate assistant professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and NBC News medical analyst, recounted Trump’s family history of age-related dementia, saying he is seeing a “trend line” and that “it seems like it’s getting worse.”

Trump’s father died in 1999 at age 93 from pneumonia, complicated by Alzheimer’s disease, and had previously been diagnosed with dementia.

Gupta noted that Trump has struggled to express his thoughts recently while experiencing issues with regulating his speech and focusing.

“Word finding difficulties,” Gupta noted. “The fact that he has inattention, he loses his train of thought. Everybody is describing these speeches as meandering, covering 30 different topics in the course of, say, 2 minutes.”

The medical professional also pointed to Trump’s memory issues, most recently by confusing Greenland with Iceland during a rambling address at the World Economic Forum.

Doctor fuels cognitive decline rumors

The doctor said Trump’s message to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre blaming the country for not giving him the Nobel Peace Prize was another alarming sign of cognitive decline.

“The fact that he would even put a letter like that out there in the public domain has caused a lot of alarm,” Gupta said. “Who does that? That is not even behavior for him that we think would meet a standard of decorum or just proper behavior.”

The doctor suggested the letter to Støre warranted a “more thorough public assessment of his neurological fitness” because it “crossed a line of proper adult behavior.”

Gupta also claimed Trump is showing signs of early Alzheimer’s disease or frontotemporal dementia, saying much of the president’s behavior is “consistent with those diagnoses.”

“The acting out, behavior changes, lashing out, acting unreasonable,” Gupta explained. “One could say this is his core fundamental personality based on what we’ve seen over, frankly, his entire adult life, but it’s getting worse.”

‘Makes one wonder what’s happening behind the scenes’

Like others, the doctor also noted Trump’s awkward walking and trouble going down the stairs of Air Force One in Davos.

“He does seem like he’s walking gingerly, [it’s] hard to know what to make of that. But when you couple that with all these other signs of his cognitive performance, it makes one wonder what’s actually happening behind the scenes,” he said.