Does Donald Trump Have Dementia?
Monday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Meacham and host Joe Scarborough had a conversation about the latest White House fiascoes. Scarborough said Trump “was mumbling, he was rambling around, incoherent, and then just sort of quit talking. Walked off.”
This conversation is significant for two reasons: Scarborough has a long relationship with Trump, and during the transition and early days of Trump’s presidency, Scarborough made numerous trips to both Trump’s home and his Mar-a-Lago estate. The second reason is that Scarborough’s words reflect his own personal experience—Scarborough’s mother suffers from dementia.
“My mother’s had dementia for 10 years,” Scarborough remarked concerning Trump’s wondering why “no one ever asks” about the Civil War. “That sounds like the sort of thing my mother would say today.”
.. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, people who have a parent, brother or sister with Alzheimer’s are more likely to develop the disease.
At the time of his death in 1999, Fred Trump—the father of Donald Trump—had suffered from Alzheimer’s for six years.