Dr. John Gartner Warns Trump’s Cognitive Decline and Megalomania Could Escalate Global Conflict

Bill Press interviews psychologist Dr. John Gartner about a new ABC/Washington Post poll finding 59% of Americans believe Donald Trump is mentally unfit for the presidency and a physicians’ letter urging Trump’s lawful removal due to an unsanctioned war and his sole authority over nuclear weapons. Gartner argues Trump is a “malignant narcissist” with worsening frontotemporal dementia, claiming his disinhibition, tangential speech, confabulation, language errors, and loss of social context are increasingly visible, citing clips about “SEA” vs “SEE,” a Sharpie story, and graphic remarks to schoolchildren. He links Trump’s self-glorification (coins, passports, building names, images as Pope/Jesus, a triumphal arch) to delusions of grandeur and warns of escalating war and possible first-use nuclear action, doubting political checks like the 25th Amendment or Senate conviction. See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at .

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Dr. John Gartner Warns Trump’s Cognitive Decline and Megalomania Could Escalate Global Conflict is an episode from The Bill Press Show by BP Pods.

This episode is 00:32:26 long.

This episode was published on May 12, 2026.

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