In attempting to explain President Donald Trump’s behavior, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said Trump clearly has dementia and “doesn’t read.” Pritzker has a history of being critical of Trump, but these specific comments came in response to Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago and other cities in the United States. Pritzker suggested that this decision is devoid of logic and can only be explained by the president’s mental state.
Pritzker is not the first person who has suggested Trump might be showing signs of cognitive decline as he ages. After all, he is 79 years old. Experts have noted that he struggles to stay on topic while speaking, among other concerns. Dr. John Gartner, former Johns Hopkins professor and co-host of the podcast Shrinking Trump, told The Daily Beast that Trump actually “used to be a very articulate person.”
“We have to see a major deterioration in functioning in language and thinking and psychomotor performance and impulse control and a whole variety of areas,” Gartner said, adding that “there are times when he’s really unable to complete a thought.”
Meanwhile, Pritzker thinks cognitive decline might explain some of Trump’s recent decisions, including his decision to deploy National Guard troops. “This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” the governor told The Chicago Tribune. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”
What makes this so significant, Pritzker added, is the amount of power Trump currently has. “Unfortunately, he has the power of the military, the power of the federal government to do his bidding, and that’s what he’s doing,” he said.
Back in August, after Trump criticized Pritzker’s weight, Pritzker accused Trump of relying on the kinds of insults a fifth grader would use. “I would say also that his personal attacks on me are just evidence of a guy who’s still living in fifth grade,” he said at the time. “He’s the kind of bully that throws invectives at people — because he knows that what he’s saying is actually commentary on himself.”
At the time, Trump was already threatening to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, and Pritzker was speaking out against it. Clearly, Trump was not happy about that. “You have a guy in Illinois, the governor of Illinois, saying that crime has been much better in Chicago recently and Trump is a dictator,” Trump said at the time. “Most people are saying, ‘If you call him a dictator, if he stops crime, he can be whatever he wants’ — I am not a dictator, by the way.”
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