Famed psychiatrist sounds fresh alarm as Trump's speech deteriorates: 'This is dangerous'
A prominent psychiatry professor who signed a statement with 35 other medical experts raising concerns about Donald Trump's mental fitness is now highlighting alarming changes in the president's cognitive abilities — including what he characterizes as a dangerous linguistic regression and compulsive repetition patterns.
According to the Daily Beast, Dr. Henry David Abraham, professor of psychiatry emeritus at Tufts University School of Medicine, has spent extensive time analyzing Trump's public appearances for signs of mental deterioration over 40 years. His findings paint a troubling picture of declining cognitive function.
While Abraham has long characterized Trump as narcissistic and sociopathic, he believes the president is now exhibiting regression in his ability to manage language — a development he views as particularly alarming given Trump's access to nuclear weapons, the Beast is reporting.
Abraham has identified what he calls a "pathological technique of perseveration" — the compulsive repetition of verbal patterns and actions. Trump has increasingly returned to the same lines attacking political opponents and repeatedly touting his own cognitive test performance, among other self-congratulatory claims.
"This is not normal. This is dangerous. And worse, this is a man who has access to nuclear weapons," Abraham cautioned.
Abraham explained that such repetitive speech patterns indicate serious cognitive problems. "People perseverate because they can't think of anything else to say, because they're cognitively impaired, or they perseverate because their emotional motor is stuck in high gear," he said.
Abraham noted that Trump's speeches have become shorter while exhibiting increased repetition — a troubling combination. "In the last five to 10 years, he has planted red flags of concern again and again and again, and they've clustered," Abraham observed.
The psychiatrist also documented instances of verbal confusion and disorientation. Earlier this year, Trump repeatedly mixed up Greenland and Iceland during a single speech — a linguistic failing that Abraham views as symptomatic of deeper cognitive issues, according to the report.
Beyond linguistic problems, Abraham said Trump has exhibited escalating signs of rage, poor impulse control, and what appear to be manic episodes — particularly nocturnal social media binges where Trump posts 100-200 times in a single night.
"Not only did he have these kinds of linguistic failings, but he began to exhibit more and more signs of rage and poor impulse control, and at night, what appeared to be manic kinds of episodes where he would tweet, you know, 100, 200 times a night," Abraham said.
Abraham emphasized that national security must take precedence over presidential privacy regarding medical records. "I think what we're missing in this whole story is medical transparency. The safety of the country and the world has to be given a higher priority than whether or not the president has the right of confidentiality to his medical records," Abraham warned.