Trumps 9/3/2020 Latrobe PA visit --mental health concerns

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

President Trump in my state  visiting western PA --  Latrobe is east of Pittsburgh so watching Cspan.    All I can think of is Flight of Ideas...  He was not like this in 2016.

CSPAN transcript:
 

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THANK YOU, PENNSYLVANIA. I AM THRILLED TO BE HERE IN THE HOME OF THE LATE GREAT, MY FRIEND, ARNOLD PALMER. WHAT A GREAT GUY HE WAS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 61 DAYS FROM NOW, WE WILL WIN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND WE WILL WIN FOUR MORE YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. [APPLAUSE] JOE BIDEN WANTS TO SURRENDER YOUR JOBS TO CHINA. YOU KNOW THAT. HE WALKED OUT WITH A LOT OF MONEY FOR DOING NOTHING. HE WANTS TO SURRENDER YOUR NATION TO THE RADICAL LEFT WING MOB. SHE IS TRYING TO CHANGE NOW. HE SAYS IT IS NOT WORKING BECAUSE WE ARE GOING UP AND HE IS DROPPING LIKE A ROCK IN WATER. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND BEFORE THE CHINA VIRUS, THIS ELECTION WAS OVER, AND NOW I HAD TO GO BACK TO WORK. AND WE DO NOT GET THE CREDIT. WE MADE A LOT OF GOVERNORS LOOK VERY GOOD, BUT I WILL KEEP YOUR JOBS IN AMERICA AND I WILL BRING RIDERS -- RIOTERS, LOOTERS, ANARCHISTS, WE WILL BRING THEM TO JUSTICE. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WE HAVE OVER 400 RIGHT NOW UNDER ARREST. THESE ARE BAD PEOPLE. OVER THE LAST 3.5 YEARS, WE HAVE SOLIDIFIED VOTERS AND OUR BROKEN TRADE DEAL. WE BUILT THE UNITED STATES MILITARY, ...

...BUT WE HAD RECORD ENTHUSIASM IN 2016. WAS THAT THE GREATEST EVENING EVER? [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND NOW IT IS GOING TO BE November 3. WE WILL KEEP IT GOING. IT WILL BE LIKE A TREE. IT TAKES A WHILE TO PLANT. THOSE TAX CUTS. THEY WILL RAISE YOUR TAXES. THEY WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR GUNS. AND THEY WILL CRITICIZE -- WE HAVE THE MEDIA BACK THERE. WITH THEIR FAKE POLLS, THE SAME AS LAST YEAR, WE CAN PUT IT -- WE HAVE IT ALL ON TAPE. THE FAKE POLLS. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE CALLED? SUPPRESSION POLLS. THEY ARE MEANT TO MAKE YOU DEPRESSED. ARE YOU DEPRESSED ECHO YOU'RE NOT DEPRESSED -- ARE YOU DEPRESSED? YOU ARE NOT DEPRESSED. WE HAVE THE REAL NUMBERS. I THINK WE ARE WAY AHEAD OF WHERE WE WERE FOUR YEARS AGO AND THERE IS FAR MORE ENTHUSIASM, IT IS STRONGER, AND WE HAVE DONE THE GREATEST JOB AGAIN. IF WE DID NOT GET HIT BY THE PLAGUE FROM CHINA, BETWEEN US, I WOULD HAVE CANCELED MOST OF THE RALLIES. I WOULD NOT HAVE NEEDED A RALLY. THAT IS A LITTLE BIT UNFAIR, BUT THAT IS OK. THAT IS WHAT CHINA HAS DONE TO OUR NATION. THEY HAVE SCREWED US FOR A LONG TIME IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS. NOBODY HAS RIPPED OFF OUR NATION LIKE CHINA. AND I HAVE TAKEN BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. WE NEVER TOOK $.10 FROM CHINA AND I TOOK 28 BILLION TO THE FARMERS, BECAUSE THEY WERE TARGETED BY CHINA. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I

 

https://www.c-span.org/video/?475315-1/president-trump-campaigns-latrobe-pennsylvania

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

While at Latrobe, Trump blaming deaths in New York for ruining his stats on handling the Coronavirus --- remove those stats and US numbers look great.

 

Earlier in the day tweeted:

 

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

In the July 31, 2020 meeting with leaders from the National Association of Police Organizations, President Trump started talking about anarchists  bringing and throwing soup cans instead of bricks to riot.  Another example of repeating same statements 2-3 times  in a row too.

 

 

 

[MunoRN, RN]

The highlight was actually him discussing his short-notice visit to Walter Reed Hospital last November.

There's been questions about whether his visit was due to a medical condition, to which he gave the oddly specific response that he did not go to the hospital due a series of mini-strokes (nobody to that point had suggested that's why he went).  

News outlets then reported on his oddly specific response referring to the "series of mini-strokes" that Trump himself had been the first to suggest.  

Trump responded to coverage of his own comments at the Latrobe rally: "“Then yesterday, I read that I had strokes. CNN, fake news, CNN. Right there. No, it’s true. ‘Mini-strokes’ they called them,” Trump said. “I don’t know what a mini-stroke is, but it’s not good".  

The remainder of the quote appears to be gibberish, which doesn't help support his claim that he is mentally sound; "It could be a day and I’ll admit it, it’s happened so it was right. It’s never going to happen. They’re not looking at that. You know what happens, nothing happens.”

[toomuchbaloney]

It's time to talk seriously about fitness for office. 

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

One reason to go to Walter Reed is for a CAT Scan or MRI -- imaging not available in the White House.   Twitter universe, especially George Conway concerns about mental health + signs of frontal lobe dementia, clinically fit with all the S+S I'm seeing + per Mayo Clinic info on Frontotemporal dementia.  My Dad developed Vascular Dementia ; working predominately with Geriatric home care patients, so lots experience in this area.

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Behavioral changes

The most common signs of frontotemporal dementia involve extreme changes in behavior and personality. These include:

• Increasingly inappropriate social behavior
• Loss of empathy and other interpersonal skills, such as having sensitivity to another's feelings
• Lack of judgment
• Loss of inhibition
• Lack of interest (apathy), which can be mistaken for depression...

Speech and language problems

Some subtypes of frontotemporal dementia lead to language problems or impairment or loss of speech. Primary progressive aphasia, semantic dementia and progressive agrammatic (nonfluent) aphasia are all considered to be frontotemporal dementia.

Problems caused by these conditions include:

• Increasing difficulty in using and understanding written and spoken language, such as having trouble finding the right word to use in speech or naming objects
• Trouble naming things, possibly replacing a specific word with a more general word such as "it" for pen
• No longer knowing word meanings
• Having hesitant speech that may sound telegraphic
• Making mistakes in sentence construction

Movement disorders

Rarer subtypes of frontotemporal dementia are characterized by problems with movement, similar to those associated with Parkinson's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Movement-related problems may include:

• Tremor
• Rigidity
• Muscle spasms
• Poor coordination
• Difficulty swallowing
• Muscle weakness

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/vascular-dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20378793

 

 

[nursel56]

What his supporters call "Trump Derangement Syndrome" could've been cured in large measure if this man hadn't sought to systematically hide (to include vicious legal threats and clandestine payoffs) pretty much everything others in his position are transparent about. You're hiding your finances, tax returns, medical records, his grades in college, etc. How bad can it be?

So when you make an unscheduled visit to Walter Reed on a Saturday in November and tell people it was the first part of your routine physical, and the other part will be 2 months later "after the first of the year" of course people are going to call you on it. 

I'm just surprised the press dropped it so quickly. He has a number of obvious cognitive abnormalities along with the personality disorders.

All I could think about was Woodrow Wilson, and I think the country deserves to know if we've got unknown proxies pulling the strings.

 

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

The fact that Republican Senators are enabling/covering up for him is unreal.  They got their conservative judges ....now McConnell + Graham in dogfight for re-election.  Country deserves better.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Just watched President Trump deliver 9/11 remarks at Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, PA.  Trumps speech starts at time 37 minutes - sounds very flat as if sedated reading from teleprompter; orange tan very noticeable.  Very concerned for his health.