FOCUS ON TRUMP’S HISTORICAL PERSONALITY TRAITS — NOT AGE
In the later months of the first year of President Trump’s second term in office, there has been considerable media attention given to his mental cognition in the context of age-related dementia. While these are critical issues for everyone, these are not the focus of this website.

Psychologists such as Dr. John Gartner have publicly diagnosed Trump with dementia and narcissistic traits, citing impulsivity, incoherence, and erratic decisions as evidence of decline. Outlets like Vanity Fair and The New Republic documented incidents including falling asleep in meetings, bruised hands, and struggles with basic word formation. Speculation draws from his age (79), family history of dementia, and linguistic analysis showing increased negative rhetoric and tangential speech compared to earlier years. Numerous media reports highlight observable behaviors like speech patterns, physical gait, public gaffes, confusion in public appearances, and frequent cognitive testing at his initiative have elevated his mental health to a focal point of serious public scrutiny by both the political right and left.​

While these observations about Trump’s perceived dementia related to his age are relevant to the performance of any sitting president, those reports are not the focus of this website’s discussion about President Trump’s mental health. Rather, the focus in this website is on documented personality traits that explain President Trump’s words, policies and behaviors. Furthermore, because observable evidence shows that he and his followers’ identities are closely entwined in a psychological phenomenon called identity fusion, this website also analyzes the personality traits of his followers.