Adam James, a licensed physical therapist with 14 years of clinical experience, has ignited a political firestorm by suggesting Donald Trump may be showing signs of frontotemporal dementia and might have only a few years — or even months — left to live. Drawing solely from public footage, he points to Trump’s shuffling gait, apparent balance issues, slurred speech, and limited vocabulary as possible markers of neurological decline, even hinting at a past stroke-like event.
James stresses that frontotemporal dementia can progress rapidly, especially in someone nearing 80 with potential cardiac or kidney problems. Yet his analysis remains speculative: Trump has not disclosed any such diagnosis, and his medical team insists he is fit for office. That tension — between alarming visible symptoms and the absence of transparent medical records — leaves Americans trapped in uncertainty, forced to weigh partisan loyalty against the unnerving possibility of a president visibly running out of time.
