DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.
This post was originally going to be about the latest anti-vax insanity and how it ultimately reflects Trump’s Malignant Narcissism, but that got derailed fast.
Why?
Because someone with a big audience pushed a post claiming Trump is on an Alzheimer’s-specific infusion drug, linking it to everything from bruises to sleepiness to “confusion.” Sadly, the post is spreading.
Well, circumstantial click bait evidence doesn’t hold up in court.
An “Infusion” Of Reality
Here’s the reality:
Trump’s symptoms don’t align with Alzheimer’s.
On the surface some may seem like they fit. Plus, many people wrongly confuse Alzheimer’s with dementia in general and lump all the symptoms together.
It’s wrong.
It’s naive.
It’s dangerous.
And dammit, it makes my job harder. After Trump’s budget bullshit got me and my Pathological Narcissism course dumped, I showed up here. I’m so grateful and amazed to have gained over 15,000 valued subscribers in eight months (a sincere thank you!). But, my facts have to compete with long-time journalists who should know better and have tens of thousands of subscribers.
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A serious symptom analysis quickly debunks Alzheimer’s.
Trump’s symptoms are consistent with another, less common but more disruptive and, in his case horrific, disorder — Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). There are a couple of subtypes with important distinctions, but his changes in personality and behavior, along with specific language and physical problems, are consistent with FTD variants.
A HUGE and Critical Distinction
This isn’t guesswork pulled from thin air. This is the conclusion drawn from analysies by hundreds of clinical and research experts in mental health.
What is FTD?
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) refers to a group of disorders caused by progressive nerve cell loss mainly in the brain’s frontal lobes (the areas behind your forehead) and/or its temporal lobes (the regions behind your ears).
Brain regions impaired in FTD are the ones responsible for self-monitoring, impulse control, and reality-checking. The nerve cell damage caused by FTD leads to loss of function in these brain regions, and in bvFTD, the nerve cell loss is most prominent in areas that control conduct, judgment, empathy and foresight.
A key symptom found in FTD is confabulation. This is seen when a person creates confident, detailed fabrications that fill gaps without any awareness they’re false. As the brain’s frontal lobes and their networks degenerate, one effect is that a person’s ability to evaluate whether a memory is accurate weakens.
In fact, confabulation is used as a key indicator for FTD.
Confabulation is much less frequent in Alzheimer’s, because Alzheimer’s primarily affects memory-storage regions (like the hippocampus), causing forgetting rather than inventing.
A result of confabulation, disturbing but true, is that Trump could likely “ace” a lie detector test (as opposed to a cognitive test) because he truly believes what he says.
FTD patients believe their invented story is true.
For example, he really believes it when he confabulates about ending seven, or is it eight(?), wars.
He also thinks it’s a great honor to get that hilarious FIFA “Participation Trophy.”
I bet all the ten year old soccer kids are jealous!
He has no clue that the rest of the world sees it as a joke, just more proof of his decline.
FTD is the dementia that causes a rise in inappropriate behaviors. Like playing a video of himself in a jet dumping on Americans.
Or, as a sign of severely and frighteningly progressing FTD, playing God.
HE. MUST. GO.
He belongs in a Psychiatric Home, not a White House!
There’s also typical physical symptoms seen with FTD.
Here’s the two main physical symptoms we often see with Trump, and how they reveal cognitive symptoms.
An awkward gait often shown by disposition or swinging of a limb, like when Trump swings his right leg when he walks. These are not seen with Alzheimer’s.
Patients with FTD also sometimes tilt forward. This is not seen with Alzheimer’s.
This is the symptom
Confusing Alzheimer’s with FTD is dangerous because it downplays the presence of his main disorder — Malignant Narcissism!
From Warning Bells to Air Raid Sirens
The Guardrails Are Gone
Watching Trump is witnessing a malignant narcissist without the brain’s guardrails — judgment, restraint, empathy — leaving an unhinged finger on the big button and a hunger for validation, control and vengeance.
That’s what makes this moment so volatile, and so dangerous.
For years, clinicians and researchers, myself included, have been sounding the alarm on Trump’s malignant narcissism—his grandiosity, paranoia, total lack of empathy, and need for vengeance.
When Bandy Lee published The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump in 2017 — bringing together 27 experts — it wasn’t sensationalism. It was a professional alarm bell. The Duty to Warn organization followed, representing tens of thousands of mental-health professionals.
Back then, most people rolled their eyes. Today, the term “malignant narcissism” (MN) is showing up everywhere: on cable news, in congressional hearings, even late-night comedy. You can click here for a review of Malignant Narcissism
But what wasn’t widely understood is how a dementia like FTD alters an already disordered personality.
A Deadly Combination
Here’s where it gets even more dangerous.
MN and FTD feed off each other. FTD erodes impulse control, self-monitoring, and reality-testing — the brakes a malignant narcissist desperately needs but never had much of to begin with.
Meanwhile, without the inhibition, the malignant narcissism thrives unchecked: rage, paranoia, reckless decisions. It’s not just additive—it’s synergistic. You’re seeing it in action every day.
It’s pedal to the metal.
With no brakes.
Headed for Destruction.
And we’re all passengers.
“Trump isn’t just losing his grip on reality — he’s losing his brain. And the part that’s left is run by a malignant narcissist.”
FTD on its own is tragic:
Together, they make a uniquely combustible threat.
The grandiosity that once had a shred of calculation now comes out as unfiltered delusion.
The sadism breaks free to wreak vengeance and cruelty on perceived enemies and innocent victims.
This is why you’re suddenly hearing a lot more people talk about Trump’s cognition. The MN made his behavior impossible to ignore; the FTD makes his decline undeniable and frightening.
I will add that, he is at family risk for Alzheimer’s. But, he is augmenting, not diminishing, and the progression of symptoms, especially over the past several months, are strongly consistent with FTD.
In addition to confabulations, current diagnostic criteria for the bvFTD variant describe that behavioral disinhibition may manifest as “socially inappropriate behavior,” “loss of manners/decorum,” or “impulsive, rash or careless actions” [Reference here]
“…First, there may be a compromise of the frontal structures responsible for inhibiting the impulse (i.e., “loss of brakes”), or there may be a hyperactivation of the structures that generate the impulse (i.e., “excess gas”)…” — Rascovsky K., et.el.
“Behavioral disinhibition is one of the most prominent and disturbing manifestations of bvFTD.” — Rascovsky K., et.el.
Also, Trump often shows instances of possible Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia. also typically linked to FTD. There are many examples of this, for instance, mispronouncing words like “United States” as “United Shersh,” “mishes” for “missiles,” “cricious” for “Christmas,” and “Cricket Joe” for “Crooked Joe,” and devolving into word salad ramblings and overuse of simple words like “thing.”
Weirdly, There’s a Silver Lining
As disturbing as the symptoms are, everyone is finally noticing.
It’s no longer theoretical.
It’s happening live in decaying color.
People who ignored the psychological concerns are now asking needed questions.
It’s long overdue. And necessary.
The challenge now is whether the world can survive his decay turned up to eleven.
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