Doctors Speak Out On Trump's Decline

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this special episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, Joanna Coles speaks with Dr. John Gartner and Dr. Bruce Davidson about the alarming signs they believe point to Donald Trump’s physical and cognitive decline, from garbled speeches and late-night posting frenzies to what Davidson argues are visible symptoms of a past stroke. The two doctors break down Trump’s increasingly erratic public behavior, explosive decision-making, obsession with personal glorification, and troubling verbal confabulations, while warning about the risks of unchecked power in the hands of a president they believe is rapidly deteriorating. Drawing on decades of medical experience and years of closely tracking Trump’s behavior, Gartner and Davidson deliver a chilling analysis of the man currently commanding America’s military and political future. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://shopify.com/dailybeast #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.9	We see many patients who've had previous strokes.
0:21.6	For President Trump, there was video of him shuffling, and I thought that was weird.
0:28.6	Then I saw him cradling his right hand in his left.
0:33.6	He garbled words, and that suggested to me, along with a 325 milligram of aspirin, his head, a prior stroke.
0:44.0	Donald Trump's id is now sort of in control of the world, because he has no frontal lobes, he has no advisors, We have no constitution. We have no checks and balances.
0:55.7	It's like everything just radiates from his id and there's not a single thing to sort of stop an
1:01.8	impulse in his disturbed brain from becoming a war.
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1:28.0	all about the President's health, both physical and mental.
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