MSNBC host John Heilemann shockingly claims Trump is ‘showing signs of advanced dementia’ and is ‘paranoid and racist’
MSNBC host John Heilemann has shockingly claimed that “terrifying” Donald Trump is “showing signs of advanced dementia” and is “paranoid and racist.”
The anchor made the comments during Deadline: White House on Wednesday, when Former White House Communications Director Nicolle Wallace brought up the issue of the president’s health.
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Before making the stark comments, Heilemann prefaced by saying that no one on the panel is qualified to diagnose the president.
“I have seen friends and family members in their advanced years have dementia and have cognitive issues, right? And there are familiar things we have seen in our lives. And there are three things that I have seen in others who have gotten into stages of advanced dementia,” he began.
“One of them is delusional tendencies. Another is paranoia, intense paranoia, and the third is, unfortunately — and again, many people, good people, upstanding people have had this problem — where you’ve see someone in your family or in a family close to you where someone in an advanced stage of dementia starts to exhibit racist tendencies. They start to say — their submerged racism comes to the surface.
“You see the 80-year-old, 90-year-old man, often men, who have become paranoid, delusional and more racist… And you look at the Ingraham interview, all of that is on display. All of it.
“The thing about comparing the shooting of Jacob Blake to the choking on a three-foot putt, the stuff when he talked about the low-income housing in the suburbs — those were just nakedly racist in the case of the housing claim. The three-foot putt thing shows such disregard for black lives that it is also clearly racist, and this crazy Antifa plane story.
“I know some people want to say, well, he’s playing for the Qanon vote, but that is the sounds of a man who is drifting off into the netherworld of paranoid, delusional conspiracy theories that unfortunately are a hallmark of dementia.”
He concluded by reiterating that “Again, I can’t diagnose the guy, maybe he doesn’t have dementia at all, but if he doesn’t have dementia, he’s exhibiting a whole bunch of signs of a lot of people who do have dementia.”
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The president underwent a physical exam in June, and Dr Sean Conley wrote in the report that he showed little change in basic health measurements from 16 months ago aside from gaining a pound and his cholesterol levels dropping.
Trump has also previously boasted of flying high in recent cognitive tests.
He told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on July 9 that he took a cognitive exam at Walter Reed Medical Center in Maryland “in front of doctors and they were very surprised.”