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Still, per Axios, some aides would prefer it if the president showed his anger to the public more often to show the 80-year-old’s still fiery and not too old to serve.

That last paragraph made it clear that his campaign leaked the story intentionally. Sad.

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Isn’t anger a dementia symptom? Probably just spin doctoring it.

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Yeah it is. It happens with someone in my family.

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Yeah. My understanding is that at least part if it is due to being aware that you’re losing faculties and are finding things that used to be easy difficult or impossible, and the frustration and horror of that breaks people’s calm pretty horribly. And then on top of that damage to the brain often leads to aggressive behavior with no other obvious cause. It’s really awful. : (

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It’s also a common thing, especially among men, to react to disorientation with anger and seek to externalize blame, so if dementia causes them to be disoriented more easily, they’ll be aggressive more often. It’ll usually be even worse if someone corrects them because of that confusion and it hurts their pride.

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