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Politics
David James

‘An Alzheimer’s thing’: Trump just shrugs at his memory lapses, ‘whatever it is, my attitude is whatever’

We all know something is wrong with Donald Trump‘s brain, but is he actually suffering from Alzheimer’s? Suspicions that all’s not well in the presidential cranium have dogged him throughout his political career, but his increasingly surreal speeches and strange pronouncements over the course of the last year have heightened speculation.

In what feels like a classic case of overcompensation, any time Trump’s mental fitness enters the news cycle, he quickly points out that he’s not only still sharp as a tack but somehow, as he approaches 80, sharper than he’s ever been. He’s also unperturbed by his doctors subjecting him to repeated cognitive tests, simply boasting that they’re impressed at him acing them.

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