Donald Trump has sparked fresh health fears after he was seen limping in a video with his grandson, as a clinical psychologist claimed the president has shown a ‘diagnostic’ symptom of dementia
Donald Trump has ignited fresh health worries after he was seen with a noticeable limp while spending time with his grandson.
The US president was accompanied by his nine-year-old grandson, Theodore Kushner, in the White House Presidential Walk of Fame over the weekend as the pair were seen throwing an NFL football back and forth – but the 79-year-old appeared to have difficulty walking in a straight line. Viewers of a clip showing the interaction, which has been viewed nearly a million times on X (formerly Twitter), have claimed that Trump appeared unstable on his feet, dragging one leg as he walked.
“Trump’s walk would demand a breathalyser under other circumstances,” one X user wrote, joking that the well-known teetotaller appeared drunk, while another said: “I always walk like that…when I’m drunk”.
“Limpy Don,” a third user nicknamed the president. “Trump is not well…” another person claimed. The US president seemed to be dragging his left leg in the footage.
It comes after a clinical psychologist raised concerns about the president’s right leg “swing”. Dr John Gartner argued that the president’s coordination has deteriorated in recent years, noting that this kind of decline is a sign of dementia.
“When we talk about deterioration from dementia, I was focusing on language because that’s the thing we most observe, but also we always see deterioration in motor performance,” he told The Dean Obeidallah Show.
The psychologist went on to argue that Trump has repeatedly displayed one symptom that he described as “diagnostic” of Frontotemporal dementia as he disclosed other experts have identified the same indicator in him.
“The other things that’s actually even more diagnostic, and I had a neurologist point this out and then several neurologists confirmed it, if you watch the way he walks, he has what they call a leg swing, where his right he kind of swings it in a semicircle like it’s a dead weight, and he’s just kind of swinging it around,” Dr Gartner explained.
“It’s very apparent in some tape and not so much in others, but that right leg swing is considered to be very diagnostic of a specific type of dementia, Frontotemporal dementia,” he added.
Dr Gartner said that forensic psychiatrist Dr Zoffman even told him that “she’s absolutely convinced that it’s Frontotemporal dementia that he has because of that telltale right leg swing.”
Trump has rebuffed concerns about his condition in recent months, pointing to a White House physical examination that found he was in “excellent cognitive and physical health”. After speculation about mysterious bruises on the US president’s hand, the White House announced in July that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition which affects how veins pump blood to the heart.
