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Trump, 79, Has Dementia Just Like His Dad: Trump’s Niece

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-dementia-just-dad-192646141.html

In a searing interview on The Daily Beast Podcast, the daughter of Donald Trump’s late older brother, Fred Trump Jr., laid out the clearest case she’s ever made that the president is exhibiting the same signs she once saw in his father, Fred Trump Sr., who had Alzheimer’s “for a very, very long time.”

The elder Trump was diagnosed with “mild senile dementia” in 1991. His physician cited symptoms of “obvious memory decline in recent years” and “significant memory impairment.” He was later hospitalized with pneumonia and died at age 93 on June 25, 1999.

The conversation began when the Daily Beast’s Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles pressed Mary on the family history of dementia—Mary’s grandfather and grandmother both had it. Mary explained that she is “a clinical psychologist, not a neuropsychologist,” but she said she knows enough “to assess certain kinds of neurological disorders.”

“There are times I look at him and I see my grandfather,” Mary said. “I see that same look of confusion. I see that he does not always seem to be oriented to time and place. His short-term memory seems to be deteriorating.” Trump’s lifelong impulse-control problems, she added, are also “deteriorating as well.”