Dr. Frank George

And that's why all these symptoms, the physical symptoms and the behavioral symptoms are consistent with FTD, frontal temporal dementia.

he does that pretty consistently.

And part of what you can detect there is that he believes it.

So he will repeat that error.

And so that gets into a confabulation.

He believes what he says.

When he talks about, like in that same interview a couple of days ago, earlier today when he was on the plane and he was talking about

know murder is down crime is down and he just went over the same things over and over again even though they're not true and we have the lowest crime since 1900 and you know all these things and he's so far off of the question and and he's just repeating these things that he repeats over and over again he'll say the same thing tomorrow and he said last week um and that's just part of this

One way to describe it, he's truly living in his own reality.

I think he absolutely believes most of them.

Some of it is just the usual BS line, but the things that he repeats over and over,

I ended eight wars, all that kind of stuff.

He believes that.

You can ask him that on a lie detector test, and he'd pass it.

I am absolutely convinced.

So, yeah, the lies are in there, and sometimes it's hard to differentiate.

What is he making up, and what does he truly believe?

But at this point, more and more of it, he really believes what he's saying.

The coming and going is well with frontotemporal dementia, you know, it does come and go, but overall it progresses.

Alzheimer's, I think, is more of a constant progression.