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“REP RONNY JACKSON ON BIDEN’S COGNITIVE DECLINE”

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All right, former White House physician Congressman Ronnie Jackson has been sounding the alarm on Biden's rapid cognitive decline. He's now demanding the president take a cognitive test or drop out of the 2024 race. He joins us now. You know, more than anybody, you've taken care of three presidents in the course of your life. I would argue, in my opinion, it's the hardest job on the face of this earth. When I started talking about his, him being weak and frail and in a significant cognitive decline, I was attacked for saying it. But I think it's now pretty much common knowledge, and it seems to be getting worse. Isn't cognitive decline degenerative? It's something that's never going to get better. Doesn't it seem like it's every time now that he speaks? Well, absolutely, Shawnee, you're exactly right. You and I have been blowing this alarm for a long time now. It's no longer breaking news when I say that, you know, I tell the American people that there's something wrong with Joe Biden. Everyone can see that now. That's not in question anymore. It's what are the Democrats going to do about it? And you're right. The natural course of any of these illnesses, I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's Alzheimer's or dementia or multi-infarct dementia or what it is. I'm not making a diagnosis, but I'm saying he has a cognitive issue related to his age. The natural course of all of these illnesses are they get worse with time. They don't get better. And you know, Shawn, it's sad, but it's becoming a joke at this point. It really is. You know, I mean, the White House is nothing more than an assisted living facility right now. Well, it's a terrifying joke because the consequences are so great for our country. It's an embarrassment. It's a joke. It's scary. I mean, there's a lot of things that come, you know, these are real issues here. You know, look at what's going on right now domestically. I mean, what he's done to our country and he's not in control. He does not know what's going on and you know, we got crime in the streets. We've got our Southern border out of control, our economy, the process, you know, just the cost of living. Look overseas and we've got these wars that are breaking out. We've got the threat of terrorism. We have big issues right now that this country needs to be dealing with and we need a commander in chief and we need a head of state that's cognitively and physically fit to do the job and this man is absolutely not. I was thinking about earlier, Shawn, like I said, it's not a joke, but you know, when I worked at the White House for 14 years, you know, in the Bush administration, we passed out presidential M&Ms. In the Biden administration or in the Obama administration, we passed out presidential kisses. The Trump administration and the Reagan administration, it was presidential jelly beans. I'm assuming now that if you go up there, you get a presidential jello cup. I don't know what's going on, but it's just sad, Shawn, and it's very dangerous and we've got to do something about it and I think the big difference between when you and I first started talking about this and now is that the Democrats are in damage control right now. They are frantic. They realized that they've made this mistake. They've put this man in office and expected him to be our president for four years and he's not going to make it four years, I don't think, and he's certainly not going to make it another four years and now they're desperately trying to figure out what do they do about this. Well, I mean, and you could make a comparison. By the way, the media, for example, the USC Clemson game was this weekend. President Trump with Governor McMaster of, you know, they showed up especially at halftime. They went on, went out right to midfield. I mean, you could hear the crowd just, you know, raving for Trump, you know, and by the way, this, the media defines this as booing. Dr. Jackson, I've interviewed President Trump extensively for hours at a time and I can tell you he is as sharp now as he was when I knew him 30 years ago. There's no decline, zero. He makes one little mistake. The media goes insane. We have about 20 seconds. Shawn, he's incredibly sharp. He's got a better memory than I have, than you have. We all know this. You know, let's just start with the fact that President Biden could not walk out on that field, much less go out there and get a roaring applause like President Trump did. So we've got big issues.

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-20. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level
None
Narcissistic State
Grandiose
Authorship
Aide-Written
Intensity
35%

On Thanksgiving Day 2023, amid acute legal pressure from the ongoing NY civil fraud trial, this post amplifies a Ronny Jackson video attacking Biden's cognitive fitness. Likely aide-managed (3 PM ET, business hours, formulaic structure), it nonetheless reflects a characteristic psychological posture: projecting a shared vulnerability — cognitive fitness at age 77 — entirely onto an opponent via a credentialed surrogate. The displacement function is transparent in context: surrounding same-day posts reveal intense preoccupation with the fraud trial; this clip-share redirects both audience attention and the subject's own anxiety toward Biden's liabilities. Jackson's former-physician status provides deniable medical-adjacent framing that Trump could not assert directly without clinical challenge. Clinically, the projection mechanism is consistent with the immature defense pattern observed across the posting corpus, and is particularly notable given that the very construct being weaponized — cognitive decline — increasingly features in commentary about the subject himself. Danger level: none.

Authorship Analysis
Aide-Written
Indicators:
  • Post time converts to approximately 3:00 PM ET on Thanksgiving Day — squarely within business hours, consistent with aide-managed posting
  • Formulaic structure: all-caps caption introducing video content, no personal elaboration, no typos
  • No stream-of-consciousness, no emotional interjection, no first-person pronoun
  • Announcement/amplification format typical of Scavino-managed content curation
Psychological Profile
▶ State
Grandiose State

Trigger: Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Biden / media narratives about Trump's own cognitive fitness; ongoing civil fraud trial creating acute vulnerability)

Sentiment
-0.45
▶ Clinical
Malignant Narcissism:
Narcissistic
55%
Antisocial
20%
Paranoid
35%
Sadism
15%
Defense Mechanisms:
projectiondisplacementrationalization
Cognitive Complexity:
Complexity
10%
Parasocial Techniques:
Recruiting a credentialed surrogate (former White House physician) to deliver attack, preserving deniability while amplifying the messageAll-caps framing positions the video as important breaking information rather than campaign content
Danger Assessment

None

Gaslighting Detected:
  • Framing Jackson's political commentary as carrying medical/clinical authority by using the title 'Rep. Ronny Jackson' and the clinical-sounding phrase 'cognitive decline' — implying diagnostic weight that Jackson explicitly lacks standing to assert regarding Biden
  • Reality distortion: the post presents a partisan attack as if it were medical reporting
Reality Distortions:
  • Jackson is presented as a medical authority on Biden's cognitive status; he has not examined Biden and is acting as a political figure
  • The framing implies Biden's cognitive decline is a clinical fact rather than a contested political claim
Fact Checks (3)
"Rep. Ronny Jackson has made public statements about Biden's cognitive decline"
True

Jackson, a Republican congressman and former White House physician, has repeatedly and publicly claimed Biden is cognitively unfit, including calls for cognitive testing.

"Jackson's commentary on Biden's cognitive status constitutes a clinical medical assessment"
Mostly False

Jackson has acknowledged he has not examined Biden in his capacity as Biden's physician. His statements are made as a political figure, not as an examining clinician. Medical ethics bodies have noted that diagnosing public figures without examination violates the Goldwater Rule.

"Biden exhibits cognitive decline (implied claim of the video)"
Unverifiable

No independent clinical examination has been publicly released. Biden's White House physician issued a fitness report. The claim is contested and politically motivated in this context.

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Rage Level
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Max Danger
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