Didn't Reagan have dementia during his presidency?

[Moostache]

52. I remember it vividly...

Reagan in that deposition looked and sounded EXACTLY like my currently 82-year old dementia afflicted father. He was confused. He was repeating himself. He was not making any sense. And he looked dimminished - vastly.

Dementia is an insidious condition and its cruelty to the victim and their loved ones is painful and destructive. I am living through it for a second time with my father (the first time was with my paternal grandmother, who also started a massive cognitive decline around age 82-83 and then lived for another 14 years in mental oblivion with no recognition of anyone and no ability to remember what day, month, year it was or where she was). The nightmare never ends and the cruelest part is when you convince yourself that your loved one is still in there, still aware and that the signs of decline are slowing or arrested or even reversing when the truth is the opposite.

I feel badly for anyone afflicted with this disease with one glaring exception - Donald J. Trump. I want him to suffer a debilitating stroke that robs him of function and leaves him in a wheelchair, unable to speak without slurring, unable to control his bodily functions, and unable to self-locomote. I want to watch that happen to him. I want to see it impact him and steal the light from his eyes the way I watched my grandmother disappear and I am watching my father do the same (and fear that should Ilive another 25 years that the same fate awaits me). My sense of cosmic justice DEMANDS that a monster like Trump gets the full course of decline and all the attendant miseries as well.