‘Malignant Narcissism’: Trump's Late Night Rants Spark 'Accelerated' 'Dementia' Concerns

In recent months, speculations and theories around President Donald Trump's mental health have been rife.

Adding to the trend, Ty Cobb, a former White House attorney who served during Trump's first term, said that the president's mental state has deteriorated at an accelerated pace since he returned to office.

Cobb also claimed that Trump is showing signs of dementia.

During a recent media interaction, Cobb shared his views on the president's current mental health.

Appearing as a guest on The Beat, Cobb called the president “insane” and said that Trump's mental "deterioration" has "accelerated" since his second term began.

He pointed to Trump's late-night Truth Social posts and irregular sleep patterns as examples, saying one classic symptom of Alzheimer's disease is sleep-wake reversal.

"This is somebody who just is lost," Cobb said, adding that the pattern of late-night posts followed by apparent fatigue during daytime Cabinet meetings is consistent with that symptom.

"That's a classic symptom of dementia," he said.

Following Cobb's appearance, the program showed a compilation of Trump moments, including a nearly 10-minute segment in which Trump discussed snakes in Peru.

However, it was not only these incidents that raised eyebrows.

Cobb also referenced Trump's recent Truth Social posts threatening Iran and an AI-generated image that the president shared of himself being embraced by Jesus Christ.

In a recent The Daily Beast podcast, Dr. John Gartner, a clinical psychologist and former professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, cited a Truth Social post Trump made on April 5, in which the president warned that Iran's power plants and bridges would be destroyed unless the country opened the Strait of Hormuz.

The president wrote, "Open the F*****' Strait, you crazy b*******, or you'll be living in H*** - JUST WATCH!"

Gartner said that Trump's post reflects two mental health concerns.

He described the first as Trump's "malignant narcissism," which he said the president has exhibited throughout his life.

The second one, according to Gartner, were signs of frontotemporal dementia, which he said Trump has been displaying "since 2019."

Gartner said dementia is progressive and worsens over time.

"So people that knew him in the first administration, you know, say he's not the same man he was four years ago. Now it's not the same man he was four weeks ago," he said.

Gartner said Trump has shown decline across four areas -- thinking, verbal language, physical condition and behavior. "Those are the four main areas we look for in dementia," he said.

Recent polls have shown declining approval ratings for Trump, with younger voters shifting toward the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections.