Written on 13 June 2025.

PERPLEXITY:  There is significant public and expert debate regarding Donald Trump's mental health and cognitive condition, but there is no formal diagnosis from a qualified professional who has personally examined him, nor is he officially considered "mentally challenged" in the clinical sense26.

Expert Opinions and Concerns

• Cognitive Decline and Dementia: Many mental health professionals and psychologists have raised concerns about Trump’s cognitive abilities, citing symptoms such as diminished verbal fluency, tangential thinking, perseveration, confabulation, phonemic and semantic paraphasia (word substitution and word creation), confusion of names, deteriorating judgment, impulse control, and motor functioning456.

• Signs of Decline: Observers note that Trump’s speech has become less coherent over time, with frequent rambling, invented words, and difficulty finishing sentences. Some experts point to physical signs, such as a wide-based gait and trouble with physical tasks, as potential indicators of frontotemporal dementia45.

• Personality Disorders: Trump is frequently described by some experts as having traits of narcissistic personality disorder or malignant narcissism, which are linked to certain behaviors but are not considered intellectual disabilities or cognitive impairments in the traditional sense25.

• No Formal Diagnosis: It is important to note that mental health professionals who have not personally examined Trump cannot provide a formal diagnosis. Some experts caution against armchair diagnoses and emphasize the limitations of diagnosing public figures from a distance26.

Summary Table

Conclusion

Donald Trump is not officially diagnosed as "mentally challenged." While many mental health professionals have expressed concerns about his cognitive decline and personality traits, these observations are not equivalent to a formal diagnosis of intellectual disability or mental challenge256.

According to Blundell (Blundell, a Canadian former shock jock and currently a podcaster), there are suspicions Trump needs a catheter to control his incontinence. There are reports that he stinks, to put it bluntly.

Trump has managed a trifecta. He’s mentally, physically, and morally unfit to serve. The people around him know it — but they’re too busy using him to care. He was always lazy and uncurious, but it’s reached new depths.

Trump’s performance at the G7 meeting and early departure alarmed other world leaders. Canadian host PM Mark Carney had to end a press session early when Trump started going off the rails. Blundell has it covered.

Written on 11 June 2025.

Im Gegensatz zum gereinigten Wasser, das aus den Kläranlagen abgeleitet wird, gilt der Klärschlamm oder Biofeststoff, wie er in der Wirtschaft genannt wird, als „freigestellter Abfall“.
Das bedeutet, dass sich die Behandlung hauptsächlich auf die Abtötung von Bakterien und die Untersuchung auf Schwermetalle im Klärschlamm konzentriert.
Es gibt keine Routineuntersuchungen auf Chemikalien, einschließlich der so genannten „forever chemicals“, die in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten entwickelt wurden und sowohl von privaten als auch von industriellen Nutzern in das Abwassernetz gelangen.
„Ich denke, die große Sorge ist, dass diese Stoffe (langlebige Chemikalien) so langlebig sind, dass sie Hunderte, wenn nicht Tausende von Jahren im Boden verbleiben“, sagt Alistair Boxall, Professor für Umweltwissenschaften an der Universität York.
„Es kann sein, dass wir in zehn Jahren anfangen werden, zu verstehen, dass diese Moleküle Schaden anrichten“, sagte er. „Dann werden wir in einem ziemlichen Schlamassel stecken, weil wir in Großbritannien Böden haben werden, die Rückstände dieser Moleküle enthalten, und im Moment haben wir keine Möglichkeit, diese zu beseitigen“.
Im Jahr 2022 verbot der US-Bundesstaat Maine als erster Bundesstaat die Ausbringung von Schlämmen, die mit "Chemikalien für die Ewigkeit" kontaminiert sind, nachdem hohe Konzentrationen in Wasser, Boden und Nutzpflanzen festgestellt worden waren.
Die Wasserwirtschaft hat Berichte in Auftrag gegeben, in denen untersucht wird, was passieren könnte, wenn die Ausbringung eingeschränkt wird.
Einer von ihnen sagt voraus, dass das „wahrscheinlichste“ Szenario darin besteht, dass etwa drei Millionen Hektar Land für die Ausbringung des Klärschlamms fehlen werden. Nach Ansicht der Wasserwirtschaft würde dies dazu führen, dass der Schlamm entweder verbrannt oder auf einer Deponie gelagert wird. Beide Optionen würden zusätzliche Kosten verursachen, die auf die Verursacher abgewälzt würden.
"Diese Untersuchung ist ein weiterer Beweis dafür, dass wir den privatisierten Wasserunternehmen nicht vertrauen können, dass sie verantwortungsvoll mit Abfall umgehen", sagte Reshima Sharma von Greenpeace.
"Solange sie damit durchkommen, werden sie alle Probleme auf unser Land abwälzen und das Geld einstecken, das sie in Lösungen investieren sollten."

Written on 12 June 2025.

Written on 11 June 2025.

In a policy paper entitled “Securing peace in Europe through defense capability, arms control and understanding”, a number of prominent Social Democrats are calling for an immediate turnaround in foreign and security policy. The authors call for talks with Russia as an alternative to rearming the Bundeswehr, as planned by Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. They also urge a halt to the deployment of new American medium-range missiles and declare NATO's five percent target to be “irrational”.
. “In Germany and in most European countries, forces have prevailed that are looking for the future primarily in a military confrontation strategy and hundreds of billions of euros for armaments,” the “manifesto” states. “The compulsion for more and more armaments and to prepare for an allegedly imminent war is invoked instead of linking the necessary defense capability with an arms control and disarmament policy in order to achieve common security and mutual peace capability.”

The paper is signed by several dozen prominent Social Democrats, mainly but not exclusively from the left wing. Former parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich is among them, as are foreign policy expert Ralf Stegner, former party leader Norbert Walter-Borjans and other members of the Bundestag, elected representatives and former Federal Finance Minister Hans Eichel.

The authors of the paper are harshly critical of the debate being conducted by the governing parties. “Military alarm rhetoric and huge rearmament programmes do not create more security for Germany and Europe, but rather lead to destabilization and to a strengthening of the mutual threat perception between NATO and Russia,” they say.
The Social Democrats are calling for several concrete measures, including a rapprochement with Russia. They say that “the diplomatic efforts of all European states need to be intensified” and that "support for Ukraine's claims under international law must be linked to the legitimate interests of everyone in Europe in security and stability. On this basis, the extraordinarily difficult attempt must be made to re-engage in talks with Russia after the silencing of the weapons."
The authors also criticize the planned massive increase in defence spending. "There is no security policy justification for increasing the defense budget to 3.5 or 5 percent of gross domestic product for years to come. We believe it is irrational to set a percentage of GDP for military spending."

They are also calling for a halt to the stationing of new American medium-range missiles in Germany. "The stationing of long-range, hyper-fast US missile systems in Germany would make our country a prime target." What is needed now is a "gradual return to a relaxation of relations and cooperation with Russia as well as consideration of the needs of the Global South, in particular to combat the common threat posed by climate change".
Foreign policy expert Ralf Stegner, one of the lead authors of the text, told stern magazine that the aim of the outline was also to realign the debate within the party. "The SPD must remain part of the peace movement. At the moment there is uninhibited talk of the next land war and compulsory military service. As social democrats, we must defend ourselves against this form of militarization," he said. "We must not leave this to the populists. They are not for peace - they are for Putin."

Juso (young Social Democrats) leader Philipp Türmer... praised the “manifesto”. “It's good that we're having these debates now, because they have a psychological effect as well as a substantive one,” Türmer told Stern magazine with regard to the discussion about German defense spending.

“If we had actually spent 3.5 percent of GDP exclusively on traditional defence in 2024, that would have been over 150 billion euros,” criticized Türmer. “These are lunar figures that are largely disconnected from reality.”