Doctor Warns Trump May Be Showing Dangerous Red Flag

President Donald Trump is facing fresh scrutiny over his health after a prominent psychiatrist warned that the 79-year-old commander-in-chief may be showing troubling signs of cognitive decline — including repetitive speech patterns, verbal confusion, and increasingly erratic behavior.

Dr. Henry David Abraham, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, says Trump’s recent public appearances have sparked serious concerns among mental health experts who believe the president’s behavior has dramatically changed in recent years.

“This is not normal. This is dangerous,” Abraham warned, arguing that Trump’s repeated phrases and fixation on certain talking points could point to deeper neurological or psychological issues. “This is a man who has access to nuclear weapons.”

Abraham, who says he has studied Trump’s public behavior for decades, claimed the president’s speeches have become noticeably shorter and more repetitive over time. He pointed to what psychiatrists call “perseveration” — the uncontrollable repetition of words, phrases, or behaviors — as one of the biggest warning signs.

Trump has frequently repeated the same attacks on political enemies, revisited old grievances, and repeatedly boasted about passing cognitive tests during rallies and public events. Abraham believes the pattern is becoming impossible to ignore.

“It’s a red flag,” he said. “People perseverate because they can’t think of anything else to say, because they’re cognitively impaired, or because their emotional motor is stuck in high gear.”

The alarming claims come as critics continue raising questions about Trump’s behavior during his second term in the White House. In recent months, the president has launched increasingly personal attacks on reporters, lashed out at opponents late into the night online, and veered wildly off-topic during speeches — something Trump himself jokingly calls “the weave.”

But Abraham dismissed that explanation, warning that the behavior could actually signal cognitive deterioration.

“He’s trying to rationalize tangential thinking,” the psychiatrist said, adding that the growing frequency of Trump’s rambling speech patterns is “absolutely” concerning.

Abraham also pointed to moments where Trump appeared confused during public remarks, including one speech earlier this year in which he reportedly mixed up Greenland and Iceland multiple times.

According to the psychiatrist, Trump’s behavior appears to have shifted dramatically over the last decade.

“In the last five to 10 years, he has planted red flags of concern again and again and again, and they’ve clustered,” Abraham said.

The concerns are no longer limited to a handful of critics. Abraham is one of 36 medical experts who recently signed a statement submitted to Congress claiming Trump may be mentally unfit to serve as president.

While the group stopped short of diagnosing Trump with a specific condition, the experts warned that his public behavior suggests a potentially dangerous decline that could have global consequences.

Some members of the group reportedly pushed for discussion of the 25th Amendment — the constitutional process that allows a president to be removed from office if deemed incapable of performing duties — though such a move remains highly unlikely with Trump’s Cabinet continuing to publicly support him.

Abraham said the possibilities range from exhaustion and lack of sleep to something far more severe, including dementia or another condition affecting cognition and impulse control.

“What we’re missing in this whole story is medical transparency,” he argued. “The safety of the country and the world has to be given a higher priority.”

The White House has repeatedly defended Trump’s health and dismissed attacks on the president’s mental fitness, but critics say the growing number of medical professionals speaking out is likely to intensify debate over Trump’s condition heading deeper into another volatile election season.