Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) told The Daily Beast's Joanna Coles he believes President Donald Trump's cognitive decline is accelerating in a dangerous way, in an interview released this week.
This comes amid ongoing additional questions about the president's mental and physical health, including unexplained bruises on his hands.
"Do you think there has been a decline in his in his speech patterns, in the things that we would look for that might signal that he is aging mentally as well as physically?" asked Coles. "We can see he seems to be shrinking in on himself. He seems to be compressing. But do you feel that he's actually declined, having watched him for the last few years, watched him up close?"
"I mean, again, I'm no doctor, I'm no psychologist, just — I'm no child psychologist, which might be more appropriate for the president, but he definitely seems to be getting worse," said Moulton, who previously ran for president himself in 2020. "He really seems to be getting worse. He seems to be getting more senile."
Moulton turned to the issue of Trump constantly bragging about "acing" the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). "I mean, you don't talk about cognitive tests a lot if you're not taking cognitive tests, and you only take cognitive tests if your doctors are concerned about your cognitive abilities. So he really does seem to be getting senile. I mean ... everyone declines whether we like it or not. And at the, at that age and it's just — it's, I don't know, I think it's, it's just that much more dangerous."
"Most people can see that Donald Trump is dangerous, that he's dangerous for our troops, for our country, for our economy, for our national security," he added. "I mean, there's a long list, but he definitely seems more dangerous now than he was even in his first term."