Overview
- Ty Cobb, who served as a White House attorney in Trump’s first administration, said he sees a significant, dementia-like decline in the president’s mental faculties.
- Cobb made the comments on The Beat on MS NOW, describing the decline as “palpable” and asserting that many experts and physicians share that view.
- Host Ari Melber noted that no doctor who has examined the president has publicly said he is suffering from a cognitive disorder.
- The remarks followed a high-profile press conference in which Trump repeated 2020 election conspiracies, labeled a witness to a fatal ICE shooting a “paid agitator,” and disparaged Somalis.
- Cobb pointed to Trump’s response about potentially seizing Greenland and to an insulting letter to Norway as not rational or presidential, and he cited Trump’s amplification of a post targeting the UN and NATO.