Donald Trump recently misstated the birthplace of his father, was unable to pronounce the word origins, stated that wind power gives you cancer, called Tim Cook Tim Apple and a host of other missteps that could simply be called “faux pas” if taken individually.  However, these are not one off blunders – together they are screaming dementia.

Over twenty years ago, I had the horrific experience of witnessing my mother’s descent into galloping Alzheimer’s disease.  We attempted to ignore the initial symptoms – passing them off as mere aging or poor sleep habits or a myriad of other minor frailties.  Although dementia is sometimes difficult to diagnose when only a few symptoms present themselves, the days of denials disappeared rapidly due to severe memory impairment, aggression and paranoia to the point of her believing people were breaking into her apartment to murder her.  In a very few instances, one had to see a bit of humor in the situation.  As a Presidential election approached, she was angry that she was unable to vote.  She stated, nonetheless, that if she were voting, it would either be Republican or Communist.  The funny moments, however, were few and far between.

I suppose I could say that the process was mercifully short – a bit less than 2 years.  It was hell but I learned first-hand a number of the indications of mental deterioration.  What is frightening beyond words is how many of the symptoms are displayed by Donald Trump.  Here are some of them:

·        Impairments in language and communication.

·        Inability to focus and concentrate.

·        Diminished reasoning.

·        Verbal bellicosity.

·        Rapid mood changes.

·        Confusion.

·        Being repetitive in conversation.

·        Apathy.

·        Poor judgment leading to bad decisions.

·        Challenged in problem solving.

·        Aggression and frustration.

·        Suspicion and paranoia.

·        Short attention span.

·        Inability to handle complex tasks.

·        Agitation.

·        Inappropriate behavior.

·        Increased narcissism.

·        Forgetting details of current events.

·        Less interest in work with more time watching television.

·        False accusations.

·        Confusion with people’s names.

·        Inaccuracies stated as truths.

It’s beyond time.  The 25^th Amendment must be invoked.

More of some of my recent tweets.

·        We all knew someone like Trump in Middle School.  Fortunately, most of the rest of them grew up.

·        Trump’s name will be in history books, but it will be redacted.

·        Next from Rudy Giuliani:  “Collusion?  Oh, I thought you said confusion.  No confusion.  Donald knew exactly what he was doing.”

·        If Trump has to write out his State of the Union, it will start “Slate of the Onion.”

·        Trump is said to be finalizing details for his annual physical.  Is he trying to find someone to pee for him?

·        Trump had to serve “hamberders” to Clemson team because he was out of “covfefe.”

·        The consensus is either Trump is an agent for Russia or is Russia’s useful idiot.  Neither is the least bit comforting.

·        When can we have an Impeachment March?

·        Trump’s notes from his meeting with Putin were probably just a bunch of stick figure drawings.

·        It’s obvious someone else is writing some of Trump’s tweets.  The use of the word “usurpation: gave it away.  Trump wouldn’t know what it meant even if he could reach a dictionary.

·        Unfortunate misstatements are the cornerstones of this presidency.

·        Who needs a salary when you’re a grafter cheating the American people out of millions?

·        Trump decided to build the wall from Saran Wrap if they can figure out how to get it off the roll.

·        Trump’s Oval Office is the tweeting toilet.

·        Pictures showed Trump signing blank papers.  The staff told him they’re stealth orders.

·        If things keep going the way they are, the wall’s function will only be to keep Americans from migrating to Mexico.

Once again, my commentaries have been limited to Twitter, so here is a recap of some of my recent tweets.

·        For Pearl Harbor Day, Trump issued a congratulatory message thanking Pearl for all of the hard work she has been doing.

·        To be fair, who among us hasn’t given “thumbs up” to mourners at a funeral.

·        Methinks Tariff Man will soon have to answer to Sheriff Man.

·        Trump is wondering whether prison toilets are comfortable enough for tweeting.

·        Melania’s Christmas decorations look like Cousin It and his family are bleeding.

·        My Christmas wish to Trump:  “May your Christmas be worse than the Griswold’s.”

·        Sarah Sanders tries to be June Cleaver with her pearls, but she’s actually Eddie Haskell.

·        “Safe” tear gas is like a little pregnant and minimally dead.

·        For Trump’s appointees, “vetted” means checked by a veterinarian.

·        Trump said he would have helped at a Food Bank like President Obama did, but he doesn’t know the recipes for Big Macs and Diet Pepsi.

·        Trump’s response to the Khashoggi killing, “Well, you know it’s only like murder.  No big deal.  But Hillary’s emails …”

·        The good news for Ivanka if she is indicted is that maybe then she wouldn’t have to travel far for her conjugal visits.

·        Picking Trump’s most dangerous trait is like choosing between salmonella and all the other food poisonings.

·        Tariff Man, Tariff Man

Drives the market down the can.
And he sends the debt sky high.
Next he’ll tweet another lie.

·        Trump should be Time Out’s Man of the Year.

·        Trump thought Mueller’s questions would be like, “Spell cat.”

·        Norman Bates was spotted at Safeway trying to buy Lucky Charms dressed as his mother.

·        I took some time off from Twitter after the election until I remembered that so many people are still ignorant and racist.

·        Trump called Representative Schiff “Adam Schitt” and the other kids on the playground laughed and laughed.

Yes, Trump and his cronies bear responsibility.

My second ever blog contribution on February 2, 2017 begins:

“Nothing humorous to start with today.  Thirteen Jewish Community Centers across the country received bomb threats yesterday, one quite close to home.  I predicted this escalation the day after the election.”  Thus began my entry into activism, joining the Anti-Defamation League, the ACLU, signing petitions and writing to my representatives.

Yesterday, 11 Jewish worshippers were murdered and more wounded by a shooter shouting, “All Jews must die.”  Yesterday, after stating that the nation’s gun laws had little to do with the shooting and suggesting that the synagogue should have had an armed guard, Trump jumped back on the campaign trail and attacked and name-called prominent Democrats. 

Yes, Trump and his cronies bear responsibility.

During the campaign, Trump chose to repeat the theme of “America First,” the motto of Nazi-friendly Americans in the 1930s, such as Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh.  This reflects an exclusionary America, emphasizing virulent patriotism and restrictive immigration.  “God bless this man,” stated the Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website supporting Trump.  After David Duke, the former grand wizard of the KKK, endorsed him, Trump refused to condemn him.

Yes, Trump and his cronies bear responsibility.

Immediately prior to the election, Trump released a campaign ad with images of prominent Jews financier George Soros, Janet Yellen, and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein with the description of “global special interests,” and “those who control the levers of power.”  He connected them with Hillary Clinton, saying she “partners with these people who don’t have your good in mind.”

Yes, Trump and his cronies bear responsibility.

In August, 2017, hundreds of torch-bearing white nationalists marched through the University of Virginia campus, changing slogans such as “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us.”  Trump said, “There were some very fine people on both sides.”

Yes, Trump and his cronies bear responsibility.

The Anti-Defamation League indicated that anti-Semitic acts in the U.S. rose 57% in 2017.

Yes, Trump and his cronies bear responsibility.

Last week, California Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted a warning that three wealthy Jewish Democrats were buying the mid-term elections.

Yes, Trump and his cronies bear responsibility.

Last Friday, Trump rallied against “globalists,” a code word for Jews used by Nazis to depict them as moneybags and radicals.

Yes, Trump and his cronies bear responsibility.

Today, Eric Trump said that the synagogue shooter doesn’t represent the right.  He is very, very wrong.  Not only does the shooter represent them, he reflects them, he is legitimized by them, and he is accepted by them.

Yes, Trump and his cronies bear responsibility.

And, yes, I will continue to fight.

Once again, Twitter has been attracting my attention more than blog writing, so here are some more of my recent tweets.

·        On seeing a video of a horse running through a French bar:  The one time “a horse’s ass rampages through a bar” doesn’t apply to Kavanaugh.

·        We need to mess with a bunch of Trumpeteers’ brains and tell them the first law passed by a new Democratic Congress will be “Put Urinals in Women’s Restrooms Act.”

·        To be fair, who among us hasn’t ordered our own child to cover up our affair with a porn star?

·        Lindsay Graham is about to have the vapors.

·        I’ve been alive through 13 Presidents (including the one that will have the asterisk).

·        If Sarah Sanders were Pinocchio, by now her nose could have restored the rain forests.

·        Trump will likely blame the stock market plunge on Hillary’s emails.

·        Tomi Lahren’s mouth is set on auto stupid.

·        Kavanaugh’s testimony became just like your crazy drunk Uncle Larry flipping out at Thanksgiving when someone else took the turkey neck.

·        Explaining things to Trump with sock monkeys will confuse him.  He’ll keep asking which is the left sock and which is the right.

·        Kavanaugh may be qualified professionally, but he definitely failed his job interview and character references.

·        I’m not predicting a blue wave.  I’m a 70 year grandpa working his ass off to make it happen.

·        I guess Kavanaugh’s behavior does sort of validate his lengthy virginity.

·        I think the Kavanaugh Committee should just line the table in front of him with liquor and see what happens.

·        Trump told a hurricane flood victim who ended up with a boat floating in his backyard, “Finders Keepers.

·        Teachers say Stephen Miller ate glue off his arm as a child.  I think he moved on to lead paint.

·        Where has Rudy Giuliani been?  I think he’s busy picking out all his future wives.

·        A request to all honest journalists.  Whenever Sarah Sanders or Kellyanne Conway make one of their absurd claims, please just laugh in their faces.

·        Republicans claim Democrats are violent.  I’m a 70 year old Democratic grandpa.  The most violent I could get is flinging my hearing aids.

I’ve spent more of my writing time on twitter than on a blog, so I thought I would recap some of my more recent tweets here:

·        Why should we be surprised that Trump doesn’t know what the American flag looks like; he doesn’t have a clue about what America stands for.

·        One thing’s for sure.  The only building Mitch McConnell might get named after him is an outhouse.

·        Trump is not familiar with proper human behavior when someone dies.

·        Trump refuses to honor Senator McCain because he has the mind of a middle school bully.

·        If the bad news about him didn’t exist, Trump wouldn’t have to worry about Google featuring it.

·        Trump is so offensive, he’ll likely be banned from his own funeral.

·        Let’s not forget that Trump negotiated a nuclear deal with North Korea.  Oh, wait, let’s forget it.

·        There are so many people flipping, Simone Biles might have to give up her medal.

·        Equating Trump with Capone as NRA spokeswoman Loesch did is okay with me.

·        Indicted California Rep. Duncan Hunter uses the classic “throw your wife under the bus” defense.

·        Giuliani said Trump’s people will revolt if he is impeached.  What he should have said is, “Trump’s people are revolting.”

·        Remember when Trump promised to drain the swamp?  Instead, he’s loaded us up with more gators.

·        Trump’s followers haven’t become unhinged; most of them were never hinged to begin with.

·        Legalities aside, how can Trump’s evangelical base be okay with him admitting he paid hush money to his porn star and Playboy bunny lovers?

·        The bullet Cohen said he’d take for Trump turned out to be a suppository.

·        Who among us hasn’t publicly called an 8 times convicted felon a “great man?”

·        I’m waiting for Giuliani to yell, “Guilty isn’t guilty.”

·        Trump says, “Michael Cohen? Barely knew him.  Brought me covfefe once.  Hillary’s emails.”

·        Roses are red, purple are grapes.  Since Cohen’s going to flip, can’t wait for the tapes.

·        Didn’t Rand Paul used to be Eddie Haskell?

·        Melania will be leading a class in the easy way to get a Genius Visa.  (Spoiler alert: marry rich.)

·        I’m always flattered if someone calls me a lib, a libtard, a lefty, etc. It means that they are acknowledging that I have more human decency than they do.

·        The Trump library will be empty if the one Dick and Jane book gets checked out.

·        Giuliani says Trump, Jr. may not have even known Natalia Veselnitskaya was Russian.  Well, of course not – the name is obviously Swedish.

·        Every time Trump leaves the country he honors it.

Having just reached my 70^th birthday, I decided to celebrate with a septuagenarian blog instead of a staggering number of candles.  If someone ten years ago had suggested that at this age I would be an active member of the “Resistance,” I would have laughed.  In January, 2017, I began my blog in response to Trump’s inauguration, because I truly feared for the future of my grandchildren.  I still do with great anxiety, but in addition, there are multiple other vast levels of concern about Trump and his cronies.  Just a few examples:

·        Racism – He referred to Neo-Nazis as “very fine people,” attacked a Muslim Gold Star Family, claimed a judge was biased because “he’s a Mexican,” has discriminated against African Americans his entire career, refused to renounce KKK leader David Duke, originated the “birther” movement against President Obama, and has stereotyped Jews to their face.

·        Hate Crimes – Under Trump such crimes increased 15% against Latinos and 38% against Arabs.  Anti-Semitic crimes in just the first quarter of 2017 increased a whopping 86%!!!

·        Enemy of the Free Press – Trump and his mouthpieces like Sarah Huckabee have created a state news outlet of Fox News – equivalent to Pravda of the Soviet Union, Rodong Sinmun of North Korea and China’s People’s Daily.  Fortunately, their efforts to hamper the flow of real news through legitimate outlets has failed.

·        Destruction of the Environment – Among the multitudes of programs and rules slain by this administration are such things as eliminating NASA climate monitoring, rollback of car emissions standards, cuts to clean energy programs, loosening of regulations on toxic air pollution, downsizing of national monuments, halting of mining health study, canceling rule to protect whales, pulling out of Paris Climate Agreement, expansion of offshore drilling, denying protection for endangered species, reopening of streams to mining waste, etc., etc., etc.

·        Incompetent and Corrupt Administration – Leaving Trump’s ineptitude aside momentarily, he hires or attempts to hire those who are completely ignorant of or antagonistic to the agencies they are hired to oversee.  Scott Pruitt is just the latest of those whose only aim is stealing as much as they can from the American people while destroying whatever they were hired to administer.  Examples are Betsy DeVos, Tom Price, Michael Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Ryan Zinke, Mike Pompeo, Kirstjen Nielsen, Elaine Chao and many others.

·        Health Insurance – Consistent attempts to overturn Obamacare, including eliminating the individual mandate which will make premiums more expensive for others, reinstating pre-existing conditions exclusions, eliminating a key subsidy and promoting health plans that don’t meet minimal requirements.

·        Emoluments – The Constitution prohibits elected officials from accepting gifts or payment from foreign governments.  Trump’s refusal to divest himself from his worldwide businesses lead him to perpetual violations of this clause.

·        Income Tax – What do Trump’s returns show?  He promised to make them public.

·        Immigrants – His immigration policy defines Latino immigrants as criminals.  This policy has separated families, kept children in cages and required one year olds to appear by themselves in court.  He wants to stop legal Muslim immigration by suggesting that all of them are dangerous.  He said he would prefer immigrants from Norway.  I am the descendant of immigrants, and none of them came from Norway.

·        Malignant Narcissist – I have written a blog on this subject in the past, and he exhibits all of the indications.

·        Exhibiting many signs of mental illness – Dozens of prominent psychiatrists have stated that Trump has a dangerous mental illness and is not fit to be president of the United States.  Recently a Harvard psychiatrist said Trump is a sociopath and very sick.  His moodiness, belligerence,  erratic behavior, inappropriate tweets and quickness to anger are all key indicators of the onset of dementia

·        Women’s rights – He pulled back protections for women workers; called breastfeeding women disgusting; consistently denigrated women for their looks; advocated punishment for women getting abortions; pushed back against paid family leave; boasted about sexually assaulting women; called pregnancy an inconvenience for business; among others.

·        Trump lawbreaking – Defrauding Trump University students, breaking Federal law by claiming proceeds of his products would go to charity which was not done, violating election law by emailing foreign officials asking for political contributions, using his charity to finance his presidential run, using illegal immigrants to build Trump Tower, being caught illegally not paying sales tax, and more ad nauseum.

·        Nepotism – Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have no qualifications and no business being members of the administration.  Kushner has still yet to receive complete security clearance.

·        Trade War – Fortune Magazine says, “America will likely be the bigger loser.”

·        Immaturity – Trump is the equivalent of a schoolyard bully who pats himself on the back for making up nicknames.

·        Russian Sanctions – Although almost unanimously passed by Congress, he has ignored them.

·        Lack of Focus – Aids have reported that he is incapable of reading any report more than a few paragraphs long.  He was unable to remember the words to “God Bless America.”  His impromptu remarks are rambling and filled with unrelated digressions.

·        Governing by tweets and insults – No explanations needed.

·        Total lack of honorable and civilized behavior – Slandered dying Senator McCain, pushed aside a world leader so he could be in front, mocked a disabled reporter, called nations he doesn’t like “shithole countries,” and raced ahead of 92 year old Queen Elizabeth.

·        Electioneering – His rallies are nothing short of fund-raising events for his re-election, which we the citizens are paying for.  Horrifyingly, they are reminiscent of Hitler’s in which he claimed, “Germany wants a leadership in which it can believe, nothing more.”

·        Lies – He lies, and lies, and lies, denies he lies, and lies some more.  In his first year as president alone, he made more than 2,000 false or misleading claims.

·        The opposite of patriotism – Trump has humiliated, disgraced and debased the United States of America.

·        Treason – It’s no longer a question of collusion – it is outright treason.  Allies and enemies have been switched.  After a secret meeting, Trump stood next to the former KGB agent and dictator of Russia Putin, who is intent on denying American democracy, and accepted Putin’s lies instead of the truth of United States intelligence.

From January, 2017 until now, I have gained thousands of blog readers and twitter followers, and to all of my supporters as well as opponents, I give this promise.  The gloves are off.  I will not stop; I will not give up; I will not get worn down; I will not be silent; I will not become disillusioned; I will fight; I will persevere; I will march; I will vote: I will resist and I will persist.  I’m joined by multi-millions with many more awakening to the dangers every day.  The tide is turning but we will not let our guard down.  Our voices will be heard, louder and louder.