For weeks, a licensed psychologist has been publishing detailed video breakdowns of President Trump’s physical movements, each one adding a new layer of concern.
Dr. John Paul Garrison, who posts under the name “Dr. G,” reviewed footage from this week’s GOP midterm convention and concluded that Trump showed what he called “steep” neurological decline. A follow-up clip pushed the claim further still, describing a separate appearance as consistent with actual seizure activity.
The convention clip was the first one he flagged.
As Trump criticized Democrats over proof-of-citizenship voting rules, his body appeared to jerk suddenly. Garrison labeled the movement myoclonus, an involuntary muscle spasm tied to a range of possible neurological causes. “I’ve shown many times that his arm has a tendency to spasm now,” he said. “And this is what we call myoclonus. It’s an involuntary jerk that happens very quickly.” He argued the jerk was forceful enough to interrupt Trump’s own speech pattern mid-sentence, adding, “You could actually hear it when he said against.”
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The next appearance he pointed to went further still.
While Trump watched an opera singer perform as balloons dropped around him, Garrison spotted a rapid sequence: an arm jerk, bared teeth, and a drooping mouth, all inside a few seconds. “Something simple like myoclonic activity shouldn’t go through the body in that way,” he said. “That’s more consistent with seizure activity because you’re seeing it spread. It’s spreading from the arm to the mouth to the eyes, and then you’re seeing it in the mouth again.”
Garrison’s channel has built an entire archive around these kinds of readings.
Weeks earlier, he analyzed footage from a NASA speech where Trump’s whole body appeared to twitch, calling it the most concerning clip of the president he had reviewed up to that point. “What you just observed was a distinct and concerning neurological event, and you got to watch it cross both hemispheres in his brain,” he said at the time, describing a pattern that moved from one arm, to a blink, to a vocal hesitation, and then to the opposite arm.
He’s applied a similar lens to other appearances too, including a Rose Garden appearance where Trump appeared to briefly doze off during remarks from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a separate incident involving the president’s hand tremoring while signing paperwork related to renaming Lake Ontario.
Across all of it, Garrison tends to hedge his conclusions rather than state them outright. “I’m not insisting that’s what’s going on with him, but it is clearly something neurological, whether it’s post-stroke or something else,” he said in one earlier video.
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