The governor told NBC News that the president’s mental state should be serious cause for concern.
Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) accused Donald Trump of behaving erratically after a Thanksgiving rant where he raged at the Democrat and called him a slur.
During a Sunday morning appearance on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” the 2024 vice presidential candidate suggested the president was “fading physically,” and his “mental capacity” should also be serious cause for concern.
In a late Thursday evening rant, the Trump called Walz “seriously retarded” while falsely accusing him of allowing “hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia” to invade his state.
Fronto temporal dementia
Neuropsychologist have been saying it since his first term.
https://youtu.be/9OtO-cypKmY
I’m all for the differently-abled having the same opportunities as everyone else, but this seems like a poor condition for the “leader of the ‘free*’ world” to have, right?
As far as I’m concerned, disabled folks should be able to be hired to do any job that a normally-abled person can do, if they can do it with reasonable accommodations. But I’m going to have some questions if a blind person wants to do color grading, or if a nonverbal person is applying to be a live interpreter. The answer isn’t no, but I do have some questions.
Those questions grow with the number of lives that are at risk. A potential surgeon who has a motor control disability is probably going to need a longer interview. An air traffic controller with sensory processing issues, even longer. A nuclear bomb technician with uncontrolled hallucinations, let’s block out most of the day.
A really old guy with memory, processing, and concentration issues wants a job running a decent chunk of the whole world? A job that takes heightened focus and quick decision making, and that regularly burns out people half his age? A job that has a lot of handles on foreign and domestic policy, and the nuclear codes? I think we should probably spending a couple of months talking about that, and poring over his medical records.
And then we should hire someone else instead, because come on
Yup. Equality is unhelpful in the real world past a certain point. It’s better to think of equitability instead. Colour blind people can become pilots, but their rating is limited according to the extent of their condition, such as being banned from night flying, or not being given a commercial licence. So they have equality in being allowed to train and to take the medical assessment, and equitability in being treated differently due to their specific circumstances rather than in general terms.
As there are already restrictions on who can be president, it’s not too much to ask that they also be of sound mind. The equitable (indeed only sane) thing would be for anyone with dementia to be immediately removed from the military chain of command.
Yeah I agree.
Cognitive/psychological disabilities are a bit different than physical disabilities.
We can acknowledge that.
Someone without the ability to think or plan or even be aware of where they are shouldn’t be in charge of other people’s lives or livelihoods.
Taught this term as a kid, in recent years saw complaints from the referenced community, wonder if choosing “disabled” is best for balance these days 🤷♂️