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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Is Donald Trump mentally fit? Polls show growing doubts ahead of annual medical exam

Many Americans continue to fear that Donald Trump is experiencing a decline in his mental faculties in a manner similar to what the country came to believe Joe Biden underwent during his own presidency.

With the president’s Oval Office events and rallies around the country increasingly defined by a tendency to wander off into unrelated topics and nonsensical asides Trump himself has dubbed “The Weave”, he’s is set to visit Walter Reed Medical Center Tuesday for a scheduled annual physical. It isn’t clear yet if he’ll be subjected to one of the “cognitive tests” he boasts about acing on the campaign trail as a means of heading off speculation about his capabilities.

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