'Troubling' new sign of Trump's cognitive decline spotted in latest interview: analysis

President Donald Trump showed a troubling new sign of his mental decline in a recent Fox Business interview, a political analyst has claimed.

Michael Popok believes that Trump has struggled to get the dates and names of crucial moments from his first term in the Oval Office right, and it could be a sign that he is struggling mentally.

"Look what happens to Justice Ginsburg, she was not exactly a young woman," Trump told Maria Bartiromo. "You had a Democrat with the liberal justice, and the liberals to stick together they stick together like glue – not like the Republicans. She decided she would live forever and two minutes after the election she went out, and I got to appoint somebody."

Popok called this a sign that the president was losing his grasp on basic figures. He said, "The fact that he can't even get dates and names right is troubling. A sign of, let's be frank, mental decline.

"Let's take it this way - it wasn't like he shouldn't have been able to remember exactly when she [Ruth Bader Ginsburg] died. He gave what is considered to be one of the most famous, viral clips, when he was coming off an airplane the day she died... you think he'd remember it.

"Trump will say anything, his handlers will let him say anything. He never corrects or clarifies anything. He lives in a bubble, and he can't even get basic things right. That should've been the first seat to fill for Joe Biden, and then to cover up for that theft, they focused on 'she should've died earlier, she should've resigned earlier.'"

Trump's cognitive abilities had been called into question earlier this year by former White House doctor Jonathan Reiner. The former cardiologist to Vice President Dick Cheney believes the constant bragging of passing a cognitive test is a sign all is not well with the president.

Reiner has expressed deep skepticism about Trump's claimed MRI scan, stating it "makes no sense" and is "not plausible" as routine preventative care, suggesting the repeated cognitive testing and imaging may indicate monitoring of an existing condition rather than routine screening.