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President Donald Trump has lost a long-time talent because of his "cognitive decline," one of his family members said.

During an episode of Fast Politics, host Molly Jong-Fast spoke with Mary Trump, who is the president's niece, a psychologist, and a frequent critic. The two were talking about Trump's speech at Lindsey Graham's funeral and the White House Correspondents' Dinner when Jong-Fast asked if Trump had lost the ability to read the room.

"Did he used to be able to not say the quiet part out loud?" Jong-Fast asked....

Trump's speech at his Great American State Fair exposed signs of what a specialist is calling his "neurological decline."

In a recent video, Hilary Shae, a licensed speech-language pathologist, pointed out that Trump "couldn't say 250th anniversary" or the word magnificent. She shared clips that showed Trump stopping hard as those words came up.

"Difficulties that Donald Trump has with saying specific words are consistent with dysarthria and ataxia or apraxia," Shae said. "They can occur after a stroke. They can occur with other brain disorders and dementia."...