Investigate Trump's Cognitive Fitness Before He Takes Office

Investigate Donald Trump's cognitive fitness through a formal, independent evaluation before he assumes the presidency. Clinical psychologist Dr. Ben Michaelis has publicly documented a troubling shift in Trump's speech patterns, moving from tangentiality into what he describes as circumstantiality, where a speaker loses the thread entirely. This is not a partisan talking point. It is a clinical observation backed by years of comparative analysis. Trump's father, Fred Trump, was diagnosed with dementia, which Dr. Michaelis notes increases the odds of the same condition in his son. Add to that the 40-minute episode of swaying silently to music on stage, the shark-and-electrocution ramble that began as a discussion of electric vehicles, and a pattern of worsening incoherence over recent years. These are not quirks. They are symptoms worth taking seriously. Dr. Michaelis put it plainly: anyone running for the most powerful office in the world should be evaluated by multiple independent evaluators, not ones chosen by his team or his opponents. We license people to drive. The standard for the presidency should be at least as rigorous. Push for that evaluation now, and support any mechanism that removes an unfit president from power.