Trump sent health fears soaring during a chaotic trip to Davos, Switzerland this week for the World Economic Forum, where the 79-year-old repeatedly confused Greenland with Iceland, struggled to walk in a straight line on the red carpet after disembarking from Marine One, and displayed one of his worst hand bruises yet.
Dr Vin Gupta, a practicing public health physician and prominent medical analyst for NBC News, told MeidasTouch he hopes the president is getting medical help as he claimed Trump is displaying several signs of dementia.
"He's the president of the United States so let's hope, beyond the headlines, that he is getting the care that he needs," Dr Gupta said.
He noted that Trump has a family history of age-related dementia, claiming that Trump is displaying a lot of "similarities" to his father, Fred Trump Sr, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in his 80s.
"We're observing the trends that we first noticed a few months ago. There's a symmetry between some of these earlier signs in his case and what his father went through," Dr Gupta explained.
He highlighted that Mary Trump, the president's niece, has also observed these similarities. “I think that Donald has had undiagnosed, untreated, psychiatric disorders for many, many years, predating his first administration,” Mary told Erin Burnett on CNN’s OutFront on Thursday.
Dr Gupta noted that while he doesn't have access Trump's medical data or chart, he has been "observing the facts," as he highlighted several specific symptoms of cognitive decline the president appears to be suffering from.
.“Word finding difficulties,” Dr Gupta said. "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, two minutes.”
"Clear inability to express his own thoughts, difficulty completing a sentence, tangential speech," he added. "Of course, memory issues. He doesn't know that he's talking about Greenland for even the course of a sentence and confuses it with Iceland."
....Addressing whether Trump is showing signs of early Alzheimer's, Dr Gupta noted: "A lot of the symptoms that we just talked about are consistent with those diagnoses."
"Frontotemporal Dementia you know, the acting out, behavior changes, lashing out, acting unreasonable. 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," he added.
Dr Gupta also highlighted concerns with Trump's gait and psychomotor performance. "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.
"President Trump is the sharpest, most accessible, and energetic president in modern American history," White House spokesperson Liz Huston told the Daily Beast in a statement on Thursday as she accused "disgraced doctors with Trump Derangement Syndrome" of pushing "blatant lies"
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