Is Donald Trump Showing Signs of Dementia? Ex-White House Lawyer Slams POTUS' 'Insane' Late-Night Rants

Donald Trump's former White House lawyer has accused the president of being 'clearly insane,' using a radio interview on Tuesday, 31 March, to link Trump's late‑night social media blasts to alleged mental decline as dementia rumours swirl around the 79‑year‑old leader in Washington. Speaking on The Jim Acosta Show, ex‑special counsel Ty Cobb said Donald Trump's early‑hours Truth Social posts show 'the level of his insanity and depravity,' adding that he believes the president is 'gone.'

The news came after months of intensified scrutiny of Trump's behaviour since the start of his second term. For context, questions over the president's health have grown louder as he approaches his 80th birthday in June, fuelled by clips of him appearing to nod off in official meetings, high‑profile verbal slips, and the sheer volume of late‑night posts in which he revisits election grievances and praises his own work ethic. None of this has been confirmed as evidence of dementia, but it has formed the backdrop for Cobb's intervention.

Ex‑Trump Lawyer Ty Cobb Turns On Donald Trump

Cobb, who served as White House special counsel between 2017 and 2018 during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, has steadily moved from insider to outspoken critic. On Acosta's programme, he did not attempt to soften his assessment of Donald Trump's state of mind.

'These screeds that come out nightly, at 2 a.m. or 4 a.m. or whatever time Trump decides to vent without oversight, it highlights the level of his insanity and depravity,' Cobb said, referring to the president's habit of posting lengthy tirades on Truth Social in the small hours.

When host Jim Acosta pressed him with the blunt question, 'You think he's just gone?', Cobb replied, 'I think he's gone.' Acosta then added, 'And he makes it obvious every day.'

In a separate recent episode of Acosta's podcast, Cobb went further, criticising what he sees as the media's failure to treat Trump's conduct as abnormal. He called both the behaviour and the way it is often reported 'demented', arguing that it is wrong to frame it as part of the usual spectrum of political activity.

'I mean, one of the problems we have in the press, I think these days is, you know they talk about Trump's conduct as though it's somehow part of a continuum,' Cobb said. 'It's not part of the continuum. It is a, you know, demented narcissistic rupture in our society.'

Those are striking words from a lawyer who once defended Trump in the Mueller era and who understands, perhaps more than most, how every phrase about a sitting president will be parsed.

Donald Trump's Public Slips Feed Dementia Talk

Cobb's latest remarks land in an environment already thick with speculation about Donald Trump's cognitive health, although there has been no official diagnosis and no medical confirmation of dementia. That absence of hard evidence needs to be stated plainly. Still, Trump's critics have been quick to connect a series of public moments into a single narrative of decline.

The president has repeatedly promoted election conspiracies and boasts late at night on social media about how hard he works. On top of that, he has been filmed making basic errors, including mixing up the names of countries and, on St Patrick's Day, referring to Ireland's female president as 'he.' Each slip is minor on its own. Strung together, they are used by opponents as proof that something is wrong.

Then there is the question of his apparent drowsiness in the office. Since the start of his second term, cameras have caught Donald Trump seemingly nodding off during Cabinet meetings on more than one occasion. The footage has helped fuel the derisive nickname 'Dozy Don,' which now regularly appears in commentary from his detractors.

The president rejects the idea that he is sleeping on the job. In an interview given in January, Trump insisted he was simply resting his eyes, not napping. 'I'll just close. It's very relaxing to me,' he said. 'Sometimes they'll take a picture of me blinking, blinking, and they'll catch me with the blink.'

That explanation has done little to quiet the online commentary. To some viewers already convinced the president is in decline, every pause and closed eyelid looks like further confirmation. To supporters, the same footage is dismissed as unflattering angles and opportunistic framing by hostile media.

It is worth stressing that, beyond pointed words and suggestive clips, there is no independent medical assessment in the public domain that backs the more dramatic dementia claims. For now, they remain allegations, interpretations, and suspicions. Nothing is confirmed, and all such speculation about Donald Trump's mental state should be taken with a considerable grain of salt.