"Lee said the screening test Jackson gave Trump ‘gives the public a false sense of reassurance.’ Indeed, Donald Trump Jr. used the results of the test in a tweet: ‘More #winning. 30 out of 30.’
She said the test, though useful for detecting Alzheimer’s and the like, indicates little about ‘his high functioning, his frontal-lobe functioning, that we’re questioning.’ To figure out what causes the worrisome traits President Trump exhibits — disordered decision-making, an insatiable need for affirmation, little impulse control, confusion about facts, difficulty foreseeing consequences — you’d need more extensive tests, a psychological exam and an MRI.
But, in a sense, you don’t need a doctor’s diagnosis to see that there’s a lot of chaos and volatility in the presidential brain."
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