Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and the 2020 presidential election

By age 70 many Americans with common sense have decided they are over the hill, and already are retired. But both major candidates for president instead still think they are the best person to run the country for the next four years. Donald J. Trump was born on June 14, 1946, so he is almost 74. Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942, so he is 77. Both are beyond over the hill, and headed for Dementia Valley. On the way down there is Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The Mayo Clinic web page for this condition lists symptoms are:

“You forget things more often. You lose your chain of thought or the thread of conversation, books, or movies. You feel increasingly overwhelmed by making decisions, planning steps to accomplish a task or understanding instructions. You start to have trouble finding your way around familiar environments. You become more impulsive or show increasingly poor judgment. Your family and friends notice any of these changes.”

Trump is becoming more impulsive and showing increasingly poor judgment. An article by James Hamblin in The Atlantic on November 15, 2019 discussed The President’s Cognitive Decline.

A recent example is his announcement that the U.S. will pull out of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.). On April 21, 2020 I had blogged about how Trump wants to get reelected in the worst way – by blaming the W.H.O. and cutting their funding during our pandemic crisis. A second article by Hajer Nalli at CNN Opinion on May 31, 2020 is titled The real cost of Trump’s WHO pullout. She said:

“His feud with the WHO is yet another diversion, aimed at distracting the American public from his catastrophic failures to prevent more than 100,00 Covid-related deaths.”

A third article by Nancy LeTourneau in the Washington Monthly on March 6, 2020 described The disinformation campaign being launched against Biden. A fourth article by John F. Harris at Politico on March 7, 2020 described how 2020 Becomes the dementia campaign.