
Donald Trump faced a fresh wave of 'dementia' accusations on Wednesday after the 79‑year‑old president mocked Vice President JD Vance's weight during an Easter lunch speech at the White House.
For context, questions over Donald Trump's mental fitness have been a running subplot of his presidency, fed by his age, his erratic public appearances and his own insistence on advertising his cognitive test scores. The latest row was triggered not by a medical report or a procedural slip, but by an off‑the‑cuff insult that many viewers felt crossed from vintage Trump needling into something closer to unfiltered, disinhibited cruelty.