根據持照臨床與法醫心理學家 Dr. John Paul Garrison 的說法，總統 Donald Trump 在近期一場電視直播演說中顯得「憤怒、困惑且失控」。Garrison 分析了他所稱在這場「有些不尋常」的演說中出現的衰退跡象和「奇怪行為」。

Garrison 專長於肢體語言，並已發布多支影片，記錄他所稱的「President Trump's mental decline, his strange brain glitches [and] his odd behaviors」。他主張，這些行為正變得「逐步惡化」。在他發布於 YouTube 的最新分析中，Garrison 表示，同樣的模式在 Trump 最近於白宮記者協會晚宴上的演說中也清晰可見。他的評論基於公開影片畫面和行為觀察；文章並未表示他曾親自檢查 Trump，或作出正式醫學診斷。

Garrison 一開始指出演說中的一個段落，Trump 在其中多次攻擊前 CNN 主持人 Don Lemon 的智力，稱 Lemon 擁有「the lowest IQ on television」。在該段發言中，Trump 說：「But I know what I'm saying,」Garrison 表示，他無法「figure out what on earth that's in reference to or what it's supposed to mean.」

「I think that we are hearing internal thoughts out loud. I think there's a lot of confusion,」Garrison 說。「So this is concerning on a couple of levels. One is that he's saying things that make no sense. And two, he seems unaware that he said it.」

Garrison 接著指出幾個 Trump 似乎難以清楚說話的時刻。他提到一個不常見的例子：Trump 在察覺自己把某個詞說得含糊後，似乎試圖自我修正；這名心理學家說，Trump「frequently does not」能做到這一點。Garrison 也表示，即使在使用提詞機時，Trump 仍展現出明顯的說話困難；他認為這一細節值得注意，因為準備好的講稿通常會給演說者一份固定文本可供依循。

「He cannot get full sentences out. He gets distracted mid-sentence,」Garrison 說。他補充：「Now, Trump is someone who does tend to go off script a little bit, but he's rambling more. He's mumbling more to himself.」

根據 Garrison 的說法，隨著演說繼續進行，Trump 的口齒含糊變得更明顯。他說，到演說進行到一半時，Trump 在努力「to keep his energy up」之際，言語上的失誤變得更加頻繁。

Garrison 隨後聚焦於 Trump 對民主黨參議員 Adam Schiff 的評論，稱 Trump 顯示出更多「agitation」和「anger」的跡象。他也說，Trump 在這一大段中「very mean-spirited throughout a lot of this」。在同一部分，Garrison 表示，Trump 似乎很難試圖「make sense」自己應該要傳達的內容；Garrison 稱，這是 Trump 過去在公開發言中曾能處理得很好的任務。

「See, there was supposed to be a joke in there, but he couldn't get to the punchline. He's struggling to make sense of what he is supposed to say,」Garrison 說。「And historically, he's somebody that could talk off the cuff a little bit. He might make a joke out of what they're talking about. And he does that a little bit here, but in general, he's getting lost and then just meandering. He understands it to a degree, but there is an underlying thread of confusion about the different lines he's delivering.」

這項分析出現之際，公眾仍持續審視全國性政治人物的年齡、體力和溝通風格，尤其是在高關注度的電視露面中，照稿發言、即興發揮和觀眾反應都可能影響外界對表現的看法。

Garrison 總結稱，Trump 的表現呈現多項令人擔憂的跡象。

「We saw someone who was raging, impulsive. His judgment was bad. There were so many problems throughout the speech. He was confused so many times. I do not think he knew half the time what he was reading. And unfortunately, I think that this is only going to get worse. I think in the next 6 to 8 months, we're going to see a dramatic change in the way that he presents based on everything that we saw today and everything we've been seeing for the past few months.」