Scarborough Says People Close To Trump Worry He’s ‘Pre-Dementia’

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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said Friday that people close to the President have told him that they worry he’s “pre-dementia.”

“The people closest to him told us that they feared that he was in mental decline,” Scarborough said. “People very close to him told us that he feared he was pre-dementia, that he had changed. You watch Donald Trump in the late 1980s, even in the 90s, you watch him now, he is completely changed.”

He contrasted him with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who he sees as mentally acute.

Mika Brzezinski cut in: “sharp as a tack.”

Trump and Pelosi have been escalating their attacks on each other’s mental fitness in recent days after an infrastructure meeting imploded Thursday.

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  1. And post-“Mens Sana”…

  2. How about leaving out the “pre”?

  3. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    Where by “pre-dementia” they mean still able to recognize people’s faces. Sometimes. (I have a personal theory that having people around you to cater to your whims predisposes to dementia, because how could you tell)

  4. Trump has the same grasp of reality as before. In my opinion, his current level of communication more accurately displays his interior mental world . He always spoke nonsense— it was just more fluent before.

  5. Pre-nothing, he’s full blown dementia with a touch of PTSD. Along with his other mental disorders he suffered his whole life. He said that his parents had to send him away to a private school because he would disturb classrooms clearly he suffers from hyperactivity, bowl bipolar, hello Borderline personality.

    Article 25 where are you?

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