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another session of shrinking Trump. We've been meaning every week for two months

now, maybe more than that, maybe almost three, because John and I were concerned as clinical

psychologists with the ways in which the culture, the public, and the media didn't seem to be understanding what they were seeing

in the behavior, actions, and language of Donald Trump.

We saw, and for a long time, a severe personality disorder was also known as malignant narcissism, which causes

someone to care only about himself, and also to act against others without compassion, empathy,

and also to behave in criminal or amoral ways, including pathological lying.

But what John noticed in the last few years, and I saw as well,

is that we saw incipient signs of early onset dementia in Trump.

That is, we began to see linguistics abnormalities,

strange gait, other signs that he was starting to become cognitively dysfunctional.

At the same time, we were concerned that the media, the public, and the culture was seeing

Biden as somehow too old and aging in such a way that he was dysfunctional, an idea that

was being pushed by Trump and the Republican Party and partisans.

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