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Salon Update: President Trump shows 'more evidence of cognitive decline,' psychiatric expert says
2020-02-25
[SALON] President Donald Trump’s speech in Florida over the weekend provides evidence that he is suffering from cognitive decline, according to a psychiatric expert.

Seth Davin Norrholm, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, said Monday that the president’s recent rant about Christmas included at least three signs of mental problems.

"So if anybody wants to be a nice conservative, talk show host is not a bad living, I would say. But I have to say, he’s a very unique guy and he’s a great man and he’s been a great friend. So thank you to Rush. Thank you," Trump said.

"And let me begin by wishing you a beautif ‐ look, do you remember this? Do you remember this? Remember, they were trying to take Christmas out of Christmas. Do you remember? They didn’t want to let you say Merry Christmas," Trump continued.

"You’d go around, you’d see department stores that have everything red, snow, beautiful, ribbons, bows. Everything was there. But they wouldn’t say Merry Christmas. They’re all saying Merry Christmas again. You remember?"
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  The more these so called 'experts' speak in ways like this, the more I come to believe they are foaming at the mouth, hair on fire insane.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2020-02-25 16:00  

#15  He likes the spotlight? Make him sizzle: "Fellow citizens and taxpayers, please give your full attention to this great man of medicine. Weigh carefully his many public pronouncements. Compare his achievements with the achievements of those of us whom he regards as demented lunatics. Then ask yourselves, 'Don't our vets deserve better than this?'" And so forth.
Posted by: Maggie Clong8696   2020-02-25 14:38  

#14  VA employee is the tell
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-25 14:17  

#13  The left is still pushing a 25th Amendment solution to their problems; Trying to cloak their efforts using fake science?

Jeeesh, these people are sore losers and never give up whenever power is involved. I'd say the professor might have a fruitful area of research with a large pool of subjects if he studied the looney Dems who have TDS.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-02-25 12:11  

#12  The lefty media tends to latch onto quack and frauds. This is yet another case of it...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2020-02-25 12:03  

#11  He's a quack.

And part of the VA problem.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-02-25 10:48  

#10  ^ I smell BS.

1. His title is misleading. He's actually not a psychiatrist - never went to med school, let alone was board-certified. Has degrees in psychology.

2. The guy's an attention whore who's constantly submitting pseudo-scientific pop psychology sound bites to anti-Trump and far left-wing journalists.

3. He's neither a doctor nor an author of peer-reviewed, serious scholarship but a former "program analyst" at the VA Hospital. In other words, the guy has hyped himself beyond all connection to his academic worth by constantly appearing in the shite political press. He's an activist, not a scientist or doctor.
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-25 10:35  

#9  Seth D. Norrholm, PhD

Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Principal Investigator
Human Psychophysiology of Emotion Laboratory

Program Analyst
Trauma Recovery Program, Atlanta VA Medical Center
Posted by: Frank G   2020-02-25 10:18  

#8  "Worf! Rotate shield frequencies!"

You know what consistently displays 'mental problems'? Stories like this one that are recirculated every couple of months and the authors expecting anyone to take it seriously.
Posted by: Raj   2020-02-25 09:49  

#7  associate professor of psychiatry

Means he didn't pass the Medical Exam.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-02-25 08:36  

#6  Biden accidentally tells South Carolina crowd he's a Dem candidate 'for the United States Senate'
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-02-25 08:19  

#5  Lemme see. The guy is a billionaire; President of the United States of America; married to a smoking hot elegant lady; every time he shows up to speak tens of thousands of people stand in line to cheer him; and he paced the field at the Daytona 500. Where can I get me some of that cognitive decline?
Posted by: Matt   2020-02-25 08:11  

#4  any of these 'psychiatrists' that are paid by the aholes in the media to diagnose someone by merely watching a video of them should have their credentials revoked and blackballed by their profession.
Psychiatry is witch-doctory enough.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-02-25 07:21  

#3  The insanity defense predates modern psychology. People could tell someone wasn't right (till the credentialed got into the game to make up every excuse for foul behavior). If you're going to run a Marxist for prez, you might take up Soviet psychiatry like this as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-02-25 06:43  

#2  Pres. Trump has a very good memory of the Obama years. Salon and Norrholm are projecting Joe Biden.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098   2020-02-25 06:06  

#1  More frequent, raucous Trump rallies and overseas travel with Ivanka appear to be slowing, possibly reversing the decline of functional cognition.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-02-25 05:52  

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