Donald Trump suffering from senility ? These disturbing statements worry even his own camp

Several recent statements by Donald Trump raise questions on his mental health. Inconsistencies, conspiracy theories, frontal attacks on Kamala Harris… Her mental health has become a political issue.

&Less than two months before the American presidential election, Donald Trump seems to be stuck in a campaign without ideas, but which has not yet escaped him. He has even managed to remain popular with Republicans and is not at all behind in the polls, as Kamala Harris' supporters had hoped since July. His chances of winning the election are quite real, even if he is no longer the favorite. The Republican would become, if he were to be elected, the oldest president at the end of his term, at the age of 82.

And it is quite easy to see that several leading American newspapers are now publicly launching the hypothesis that his age is a problem for governing. “He too has mixed up names (like Biden), confused facts and stumbled over his arguments. Mr. Trump's rambling speeches, his sometimes incoherent statements and his extreme outbursts have raised questions about his own cognitive health, and, according to polls, stimulated doubts among a majority “voters”, highlights the New York Times. Indeed, Donald Trump's age and health also seem to be a subject for public opinion in the United States. According to the study conducted by the Marquette University School of Law, 57% of Americans think he is too old to govern. In other words, more than one in two Americans consider Donald Trump unfit to the presidency of the country.

In recent weeks, some of his media statements, which are at the very least questionable, are increasingly raising questions and giving a different twist to this race for the White House. It must be said that many of his statements are now raising questions among observers and journalists, concerning his own abilities and in particular his mental health.

Last night, during the big debate against his rival Kamala Harris, Donald Trump spouted a series of false information, particularly on immigration. “In Springfield, they eat dogs, they eat cats… They eat the animals of the people who live there. This is what is happening in our country, and it is a disgrace,” he said, later saying that Democrats support “postnatal” abortions, or infanticide.

He also appeared somewhat confused last week when asked about child custody in New York, reigniting the debate over his ability to to govern the United States for a second time. 

Donald Trump was asked about American families struggling to pay for childcare due to the cost of living in America. The former president responded to a number of questions, including about customs duties on imports into the country. The sequence went viral on social media and in newspapers. “Incomprehensible”, “incochial”, “gibberish”, were the headlines in some American newspapers. “He couldn't form a coherent sentence,” Massachusetts Rep. Katherine M. Clark lamented on X. Trump's outburst also drew mockery from some Democrats. Because of his comments on child care, Trump could now be subjected to the same “coherence” test as Joe Biden, particularly because of his age, says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a presidential communications specialist at The Annenberg School of the University of Pennsylvania, in the New York Times.

According to American communication experts, and as reported in the columns of the New York Times, “he jumps from one topic to another seemingly at random, often confusing listeners in search of a main element, a pattern that experts call “tangential thinking,” a sign of confusion that increases with age. And he makes outlandish assertions without any factual basis,” the daily indicates. At a rally in Nevada last June, he even got lost in completely incomprehensible rhetoric. Donald Trump implied that he was on a sinking boat, wondering whether it was better to be electrocuted in the water or attacked by a shark. “I'm going to get electrocuted every time,” he suggested. “I don't go near the shark. So we could stop it. We're going to stop it for boats.” Almost delirious remarks that raise serious questions about the former president's state of health.

It is clear that Donald Trump has made many strange statements and slip-ups in recent weeks, and even months. Last month, he notably suggested that schools were sponsoring transgender surgery, demonstrating an obsession with the “woke threat.” “Your child goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation,” he said. “The school decides what happens to your child,” he had also launched. After having confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi and having declared several times that he had beaten Barack Obama and not Hillary Clinton, he had nevertheless considered himself to be “mentally fit.”

As early as 2019, doctors were warning about Trump's state of health

Is the real estate mogul really “mentally fit” ? An element hotly contested by “doctors and other mental health professionals” to Nancy Pelosi, the 52nd speaker of the US House of Representatives, since 2019, reveals The Guardian. This collective of health professionals said they were “deeply concerned” that there was something seriously wrong with Donald Trump. “His health was failing,” one might even read. For her part, Nancy Pelosi explained that she “knew of Donald Trump's mental imbalance.” And she added: “His banging on tables, his tantrums, his lack of respect for our nation's patriots, and his complete disconnection from reality.” and actual events. His repeated and ridiculous insistence that he was “the greatest of all time” was beyond doubt to her.

“He continues to be dangerous. If his family and staff truly understood his disregard for basic principles of law and basic rules, and if they had taken into account his personal instability in not winning the [2020] election, they should have intervened. Whether through willful blindness, money, prestige or greed, they did not do so – and America has paid for it.” “a heavy price,” she laments in the columns of The Guardian.  

"She showed a massive crowd, but they don't exist! She's a cheater"

On August 10, 2024, on the social network Truth, Donald Trump claimed that a rally at an American airport to greet Kamala Harris had never existed. “Nobody was there. Did anyone notice that Kamala cheated on her?” airport ? There was no one on the plane,” he said, in a form of delirium contesting all reality. He accused his competitor in particular of having used artificial intelligence for the photos published on social networks that same day. “She showed a massive crowd, but they don't exist! She's a cheat, no one was expecting,” he wrote. In fact, the rally was well attended by journalists from different media outlets. The Washington Post reported that about 15,000 people were present that day. An event that was widely documented in photos and videos, dismantling Donald Trump's argument.

“She was Indian at heart and all of a sudden she became a black person”

On May 21, the former president of the United States, still on the social network Truth, claimed in a message that Joe Biden had authorized the FBI to assassinate him. “Now we know, for sure, that Joe Biden is a serious threat to democracy,” he wrote. “You know, they just can't wait to do the unthinkable.” Comments related to the search warrant for Donald Trump's property Mar-a-Lago, as part of the search for classified documents in August 2022.

Finally, more recently, on July 31, 2024, he accused Kamala Harris of having “become black” for electoral reasons, during an exchange with African-American journalists in Chicago. “She was Indian at heart and all of a sudden, she changed and she became a black person,” he said. Words that are “divisive and disrespectful,” was what Kamala Harris responded with. As a reminder, born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, Kamala Harris is the first black woman and woman of South Asian origin to seek the presidency of the United States of America. She defines herself as a “black woman”.