Is Donald Trump just admitting he's a chronic insomniac? On Tuesday, September 24, while speaking in Savannah, Georgia, the 78-year-old former president had many laugh out loud with his comment: "I find it very hard to sleep; I've got so many ideas. I am thinking all the time."
People were obviously irritated by the comments.
Someone brought up Trump's history, saying, "Yeah, thinking about how to stay out of prison or flee the country," while another said, "Trump literally admitting to his manic episodes."
Another individual asserted, "Lack of sleep over an extended time leads to . . . exactly what're seeing. Insane rants that usually don't make any sense. The 'ideas' are things he comes up when he's in this psychotic sleepless state."
Doctors and specialists may have a theory as to why Trump wanders off topic, as OK! Magazine has previously reported.
“There’s reasonable evidence suggestive of forms of dementia,” A clinical psychologist named Ben Michaelis has conducted mental evaluations for the state's highest court, according to Michaelis. “The reduction in complexity of sentences and vocabulary does lead you to a certain picture of cognitive diminishment.”
“Tangentiality certainly amped up, and it’s difficult to follow him,” Michaelis noted. “You’d expect some cognitive diminishment of course, he’s 78 years old — if he was your grandfather you wouldn’t expect anything different. He just happens to be running for president.”
Author Andrew Budson of "Seven Steps to Managing Your Aging Memory" and neurology professor at Boston University also chimed in on Trump's tendency to shift subjects somewhat rapidly while addressing a crowd.
“There are absolutely changes that are occurring, without any doubt,” Budson said, as per The Daily Beast. “Now, it’s much more about evoking different things, using general terms and saying the same thing again and again, then jumping to something else, then jumping back to it."
According to Fred Trump III, the politician's nephew, the sickness "runs in the family."
"I’m not happy about it because guess what? I worry about it myself," he stated before saying that it worries him that Donald is "spewing" nonsense and can't "stick to a message."
"Now, like in North Carolina yesterday, he had one goal: to talk about the economy in a state he shouldn’t be at. He shouldn’t be spending millions of dollars. So, he goes to play the old merry tunes of craziness. You can tell his his base, while still amped up and dangerous, you can see them kind of chilling out a little bit on this play. It may be on its way to being played out. Not immediately. It’s going to be they’re going to be there for this election. There’s no doubt about it," he said.
Business Times has reached out to Donald Trump for comments.
