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The Daily Beast Podcast

Trump’s Failing Health Can't Be Ignored: Doctors

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

4.67.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Coles revisits her most eye-opening conversations with Dr. John Gartner, a leading expert who says the media has ignored the most urgent question about Donald Trump: his mental and physical health. From alarming changes in Trump’s language, gait, and impulse control to warnings about paranoia, narcissism, and cognitive decline, the doctor lays out why these signs matter far beyond one man. As Trump’s influence endures, this episode asks whether the real danger lies in what he can no longer hide—and what the country is still refusing to confront.

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0:00.0

I'm Joanna Coles. This is the Daily Beast podcast. And as regular listeners and viewers know, over the past few months, we've been diving deep into a subject most of the mainstream media has completely ignored the state of Donald Trump's mental and physical health.

0:20.4

From Dr. Gartner's chilling analysis of

0:23.3

Trump's language, gait and behavior, we've explored how Trump's malignant narcissism

0:29.9

intersects with cognitive decline and what it means when a man in so much power begins to unravel. We've looked at key moments from the tomb of

0:41.0

the unknown soldier to public appearances that reveal patterns of disinhibition, word salad,

0:47.0

and alleged mini-strokes, and ask the hardest questions, is Trump more dangerous as he loses

0:53.2

touch with reality, or is he still cunning enough

0:57.3

to conceal his decline? In this video, we're taking a look back and reflecting on all of these

1:03.4

conversations, so stay with me. You don't want to miss a single insight. Dr. Gardner is in the House.

1:13.2

We are extremely excited to have you here.

1:16.3

You are a man who has diagnosed President Trump as having dementia.

1:22.6

John, what are the symptoms of dementia that you can see in our president?

1:28.7

So the first most important thing to realize about a diagnosis like dementia is we're really

1:34.1

evaluating someone against their own baseline.

1:37.9

So we have to see a major deterioration in functioning in language and thinking, in psychomotor performance,

1:47.0

and impulse control, in a whole variety of areas.

1:50.0

So what a lot of people don't realize is that Donald Trump used to be a very articulate person.

1:56.0

He used to speak with a high level of vocabulary in very polished paragraphs.

2:01.6

Now what we see is not only has his vocabulary gone down, but his ability to actually put together sometimes,

2:08.6

and sometimes he's very articulate, right, because with dementia people go in and out, right, of functioning.

2:14.6

But there are times when he's really unable to complete a thought, actually sometimes

2:19.4

is unable to complete a word.

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