Dr. John Gartner Warns Trump’s Cognitive Decline and Megalomania Could Escalate Global Conflict
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Bill Press interviews psychologist Dr. John Gartner about a new ABC/Washington Post poll finding 59% of Americans believe Donald Trump is mentally unfit for the presidency and a physicians’ letter urging Trump’s lawful removal due to an unsanctioned war and his sole authority over nuclear weapons. Gartner argues Trump is a “malignant narcissist” with worsening frontotemporal dementia, claiming his disinhibition, tangential speech, confabulation, language errors, and loss of social context are increasingly visible, citing clips about “SEA” vs “SEE,” a Sharpie story, and graphic remarks to schoolchildren. He links Trump’s self-glorification (coins, passports, building names, images as Pope/Jesus, a triumphal arch) to delusions of grandeur and warns of escalating war and possible first-use nuclear action, doubting political checks like the 25th Amendment or Senate conviction.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Good to see you again and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:12.3 | Now, as all of you regular listeners know, unlike the rest of the media, on this podcast, we've paid a lot of attention to Donald Trump's mental health, or lack of it, |
| 0:24.4 | starting with a special series back in 2016 with a group of mental health professionals |
| 0:30.1 | who published a book called The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump |
| 0:33.7 | and sounded the alarm that Trump was showing signs of serious cognitive problems and could |
| 0:40.6 | not be trusted with the job of president. Ever so often since then, during his first term and |
| 0:47.6 | now during his second term, we've gone back to talk with leading mental health professionals, |
| 0:53.2 | all of whom report that things |
| 0:55.0 | have only gotten worse and will continue to get worse the longer Trump stays in office, |
| 1:01.7 | which is especially troubling today when a mentally unstable Donald Trump has launched a one-man |
| 1:08.7 | illegal war against Iran with his finger on the nuclear button. |
| 1:15.3 | Indeed, Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump has said so many crazy things lately that we thought |
| 1:20.8 | it was time to check in once again with one of the leading mental health professionals in this |
| 1:25.9 | country who believes that Trump is daily showing signs of serious dementia. |
| 1:31.6 | Dr. John Gardner, psychologist and former professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School. |
| 1:38.8 | Dr. Gardner, welcome back to the Bill Presspot. It's great to talk to you again. |
| 1:43.1 | Oh, thank you. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:44.4 | We've talked before about Trump's, let's just say, problems with his mental capacity. |
| 1:49.8 | But I want to start, Dr. Today with some breaking news. I mean, just last Friday, ABC and Washington Post |
| 1:56.6 | released a poll that didn't get a lot of a media attention, but it showed that 59% of Americans |
| 2:05.0 | think that Donald Trump is mentally unfit to be president. |
| 2:08.9 | 59%. What's that tell you? |
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