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Donald Trump talks constantly, which makes it a minor miracle that he can still surprise us. But he did Thursday after Time magazine published the full transcript of a 75-minute interview with the president. Conducted this week by correspondent Eric Cortellessa and top editor Sam Jacobs, the 11,000-word interview is in some ways an unremarkable artifact of the president’s usual tics: run-on sentences, bluster, insults, lies. But it also contains moments of confusion, incoherence, and paranoia that look like windows into Trump’s mental state. Far be it from us to diagnose him from afar, but suffice it to say that if any other president—or person—spoke the way Trump does, you’d probably worry about their psychological and perhaps medical well-being.

1. Trump immediately gets confused about where he was this week.

The interviewers open by asking about Trump’s Sunday dinner with Dario Amodei, CEO of the A.I. company Anthropic. They asked whether the president agrees with Amodei’s concerns about A.I. endangering humanity, but Trump chose to linger on a more important topic: the Presidents Cup golf tournament, which delayed the dinner until late. “I was the chairman of it in Chicago at Marion, which is great,” he said, incorrectly. The tournament actually happened at a country club in Medinah, Illinois. The president then caught his error, sort of: “Actually, that was yeah, Medinah, at Medinah, last year, Marion, this time of year.” Except there was no Presidents Cup last year; the tournament happens every other year. It has also never been held in Marion, which is in Massachusetts (nor at........

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