Johns Hopkins psychiatrist and clinical psychologist Dr John Gartner has warned that US president Donald Trump is the 'sickest patient' he has seen in four decades of practice, telling a podcast audience that Trump shows signs of 'accelerating' frontotemporal dementia based on years of public observation.
Gartner, a former assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, set out his assessment on The Daily Beast podcast. He stressed that he has never examined Trump in person and is instead drawing on a long record of broadcasts, speeches, social media posts and public appearances, comparing Trump today with the man Americans first watched enter politics in 2015. In his view, what he calls a pattern of cognitive and behavioural decline has sharpened markedly in the past few years.
