Let’s stop dancing around it: Donald Trump is no longer just bending the truth. He’s living in a different reality. And it’s affecting his mind in a way that should worry every American — including his supporters.
This isn’t politics. This isn’t about policy. It’s about a man who can no longer separate what really happened from what he wants to believe happened — and the terrifying fact that he’s trying to run the country again while stuck in that alternate world.
Look at what happened on July 15.
Trump stood up and told a long story about his uncle, John Trump, who he claimed “taught at MIT and had three degrees in nuclear, chemical, and math.” According to Trump, his uncle once told him he taught Ted Kaczynski — the Unabomber — and that Kaczynski was “very smart.”
Here’s the reality: John Trump was a professor at MIT, yes. But he did not have degrees in nuclear, chemical, and math. He studied electrical engineering and physics. And Ted Kaczynski? He never attended MIT. He went to Harvard. More importantly, John Trump died in 1985 — eleven years before the FBI even knew who the Unabomber was.
It is flat-out impossible that Trump’s uncle told him any of this. The story isn’t just wrong. It’s not even logically possible.
This isn’t a lie to dodge a question. This is something else. It’s called confabulation — when someone tells a detailed story they believe is true, even though it clearly isn’t. It’s not misremembering. It’s a serious cognitive issue. And in older people, it’s often an early sign of dementia.
If this were your dad, your uncle, or your neighbor — you’d know what you were looking at. You’d sit down with your family and start having difficult conversations.
But because it’s Trump, people keep making excuses.
We’ve all seen the warning signs, even if we’ve been trying to ignore them. The rambling speeches. The nonsense math. “We’re going to cut drug prices by 1,000 percent, 600 percent, 500 percent, 1,500 percent,” he said. That’s not how math works. A 100 percent reduction means the price is zero. Anything more than that is just gibberish.
This is a man who went to Wharton and ran businesses for decades. He knows how percentages work — or he used to.
Then there’s the claim that Obama and FBI Director James Comey faked the Epstein files. Problem: Epstein was arrested in 2019. Obama left office in 2017. Comey was fired in 2017. They had nothing to do with it. But Trump says it with such confidence, it almost sounds real — until you stop and check the facts.
Or how about forgetting that he appointed Jerome Powell as head of the Federal Reserve? That’s not a minor detail. That’s basic memory loss.
This isn’t about policy differences anymore. It’s about mental fitness. Trump is showing clear signs of serious cognitive decline — and there’s no one around him willing to stop him.
Say what you want about Joe Biden — at least his team has been doing damage control. They’ve managed his gaffes, limited his exposure, and protected him from doing real harm. Trump? He surrounds himself with loyalists who either can’t or won’t challenge him. Who’s going to step in and stop him from going off the rails? Pete Hegseth? Kristi Noem?
It’s not going to happen. And Trump knows it.
This should scare you, whether you love Trump or hate him. Because this isn’t just about a man losing his grip on reality — it’s about a man who still wants to hold the nuclear codes while doing it.
If you’re one of the people who voted for Trump once, twice — even three times — you have every right to feel conflicted. You saw something in him that you believed in. But loyalty should never mean blindness. If this were your dad, your boss, or your pastor, you’d already be worried. Don’t pretend it’s different just because it’s Trump.
We are watching a man confabulate — invent stories he believes, even when they’re provably false. He can’t process timelines. He can’t do simple math. He can’t remember his own decisions. And still, he wants to be president again.
If we keep ignoring it, the damage won’t be limited to him. It’ll be all of us.
