Donald Trump has always had some level of difficulty conveying coherent ideas, but things are getting much "worse" in his brain, according to a family member on Sunday.
Trump has long bragged about his passing of a basic Montreal Cognitive Assessment [MoCA] test used to assess whether a patient has cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. That brag is itself "failing the cognitive test," according to his niece, a trained psychologist.
Psychologist Mary Trump took on the ex-president's cognition in a blistering blog post this weekend, saying her uncle passed a test that is "absurdly easy—and it’s meant to be."
"It seems that some people, at least in corporate media, are starting to pay attention to Donald's increasing difficulties being coherent, completing a thought, staying on point, and connecting dots," she wrote on Sunday. "Now, he's never been a particularly articulate person in the first place, but there is a vastly noticeable difference between the way he talked in the past and how he talks now. But although he’s worse, he’s not different. After all, this is a man who for years now has been bragging about passing a very basic cognitive test."
She added:
"A couple years ago, [MSNBC host] Lawrence O'Donnell asked me what it meant that Donald was bragging about something so insignificant, and I said that his bragging about passing the cognitive test was failing the cognitive test," Mary Trump wrote.
She continued, saying that his recent actions point to another type of cognitive impairment, namely an inability to comprehend failure.
"We can look at much of Donald's performances over the last few years as similar kind of failures. For example, while his reaction to the 2020 election and his inciting of an insurrection were moral and characterological failings, they also pointed to this psychological and emotional inability to deal with reality," she said. "The recent debate—and the way he’s been talking about the debate—have similarly been cognitive failures. By claiming a massive victory, he’s not just trying to spin the massive loss Vice President Kamala Harris handed him, he’s trying to alter a psychologically unbearable reality. He actually said last week that one of the reasons he believes he won so resoundingly is because of how the audience reacted to the debate in real time. There was, in fact, no audience at the last debate."
Mary Trump went on to say his "fear of failure is so intense and deep that he needs to create a delusional system so that he can convince himself and other people that his lies are truth, that his version of events is not just preferable, but actual even when that is not the case at all."
"We have a choice to make and it seems to me that it’s an obvious one," she then added. "A neuropsychiatrist put it this way a few months ago when President Biden was still in the race: The difference between President Biden and Donald Trump is that the former is aging while the latter is dementing."
Now that Vice President Kamala Harris is in the race, Trump is in even worse shape, Mary Trump said.
"The new contest is much to Donald’s disadvantage. Not only is his new opponent almost twenty years younger, but Kamala Harris is also very sharp, very prepared, and very smart. She makes the contrast between what it means to be a normally functioning intelligent person who understands how to make a point, understand nuance, and grasp all sides of the argument that much starker against an incompetent dullard who can’t argue his way out of a paperbag."