All you need to do is compare this radio interview he did in 2012 with how he sounded in 2016, let alone now. He used to be able to speak in complete sentences, with wider vocabulary and coherent trains of thought. Now...https://soundcloud.com/iaindale/iain-dale-interviews-donald-trump-sept-2012
Republicans are dependant upon Trump for their legitimacy and to advance their agendas. They can't acknowledge there's anything wrong with him less they endanger their own positions.
The medium is still the message. Incoherence doesn't register on video if the delivery is forceful. Biden was visibly weak and foggy. If you *read* Trump's speeches his decline is unmistakable.
maybe, but, he just doesn't give a shit. No one pushes back. He seemed pretty coherent in the interview where the journalist questioned the ms13 tattoo.
My mom died of vascular dementia, was in a nursing home for 8 years. The decline after mini-strokes and the plateaus that follow are deeply familiar. And his language deterioration exactly mirrors my mother’s. He will be down to even fewer phrases after this plateau (which could be years or days)
Same. Mom died in slow motion with the same thing. The thing that I note is he still seems able to sign his name. I assume that the location of the mini-strokes affects what goes, but writing became a struggle early on for Mom and eventually just went.
At some point during Obama's first term he turned from the "1980s playboy asshole" character to the more modern "quasi-sentient grievance machine" character. I am not enough of a Trumpologist to know if this was a distinct medical break or just racism + early but routine Twitter brain poisoning.
Can't wait for Vichy media to try to sanewash him doing nothing but nonverbal grunts while shit flows out his pantslegs. Maybe they'll just bust out the deepfakes at that point (assuming his handlers don't do that first).
I assume he will at some point speak less and less on TV, then disappear. Vance will explain Trump's newest decrees, with a few seconds of Trump in a car waving and giving a trademark thumbs up spliced in. People will spend lots of time arguing whether it's old footage, etc.
I think third already hit sometime on the campaign, around when he started sway-dancing to music, talking about "the weave", showing up late and outright canceling events etc.
The weave especially, felt like combination something a doctor told him + get ahead of it pr
Yeah, it became pretty clear towards the tail end of his campaign that his handlers can no longer "coach" him on what to say. Like his brain does not absorb the info, let alone allow him to repeat any of it. They were printing out talking points on paper for him to hit and he still couldn't do it!
"the weave" was his attempt to rebrand his rambling by claiming whenever he goes off topic it is all part of an an intricate weave of ideas that will makes sense eventually
It’s helpful to have all this laid out at regular intervals because the daily barrage of insanity has made most of us numb to it. Good work from @rexhuppke.bsky.social
The Broligarchs bought him to make him their front-man so they could loot and destroy the country. That continues unabated. Nothing he does or says matters.
When I saw this I thought "Finally! Could this be the start of a wave of actual coverage of this obvious crisis by corporate media?" And then I saw it was published 22 days ago so yeah, nope.
It’s fine to cover his mental decline, which I’m sure is real, as long as people understand this is not going to help rid us of Trumpism. The Democratic party is filled w/ many frail elderly people in various states of decline, and Biden’s failing health while in power is extremely damning.
To be fair, Felon47 is dealing with forty years of untreated syphilis festering, thirty years of Adderall addiction, twenty years of progressing dementia and five years of COVID-19 brain packed on top of a solidly double-digit IQ.
If he weren't a wealth hoarder, society would have locked away for mass murdering a million Americans with his intentionally mismanaged COVID-19 response.
So you are correct about the "untreatable," but society at large needs to defend itself from his continuing malfeasance.
Even if he was (and I'm certainly not saying that he was) Biden at least surrounded himself with competent and professional people. Trump has surrounded himself with asskissers, backstabbers, and people he's too stupid to realize are using him for their own agendas. There is no comparison.
“There is no horseshoe. There is only white people who are at best uncomfortable with any power being held in Black hands. Those white people are at all points of the ‘left-right’ spectrum.”
JRB was beloved of the Black electorate, thus hated.
Why have I seen some of the most hard hitting reporting coming from USA Today these days? They also posted footage of a young other being kidnapped by ICE
Six years ago I said that anyone who has cared for a dementia/alzheimers patient can clearly see that he is one too. The style of semi-agreement and the particular pattern of bluster during interviews is undeniable.
I‘m not concerned about Trump rambling in public, that’s just window-dressing to keep our attention away from the well-oiled authoritarianism machine working in the background. And *that* is here to stay even if he himself were removed
We must turn the page on this dark chapter of our nations history. How dark you ask? Look no further than “Nation On The Brink: My Time on the Fence” in bookstores next week.
See how easy that was?
To state the fucking obvious?
Very well done. Why can’t we flood the zone with this and blast Bruce, Eddie Vedder and everyone else shouting it from the stages on 11
We've been seeing articles like this, laying out his incoherent ramblings and talking about cognitive decline, for at least five years now. No one seems to care.
These aren't the worst. And Biden gave a terrific SOTU address in March 2024 that Trump wouldn't even be able to read. We all know he is not only demented, he is ignorant and disinterested. He doesn't work. He doesn't know what the Declaration of Independence is. His memory is shot. HE HAS TO GO.
While I think Biden/Trump comparisons are useless for obvious reasons (their constituencies have 2 entirely different sets of cognitive/intellectual/coherency demands; the press is aware of this an adjusts accordingly...rightly or wrongly), the fact that TRUMP IS GORKED needs to be hammered home.
Why is this question still being asked? The malignant (psychopathic) narcissist w/some variety of comorbid dementia *has been* cognitively declining for years, showed signs during his first ruinous term in office. There’s oceans of documented examples over the yrs about it. Still the media asks.🙄
What sucks about all of this is that, assuming he’s in decline, he’ll never actually face a single consequence of being one of the worst human beings on this planet in the last 100 years.
Oh, FFS, he has "always" sounded worse than Biden (or nearly any other public figure) ever did. This is not particularly new. But yeah, thanks for noticing...
His father had to be placed in a home at age 86 when he had bottom 15% mental acuity for someone his age. Trump turns 80 this summer. Stress can worsen the disease onset, and narcissists find being mocked or held in low regard maximally stressful.
I’ve noticed even more marked decline since the inauguration, esp when he’s tired. I’ve also noticed the right side of his face gets a slight droop, exacerbated by fatigue.
I'd really like a vote in Congress on making complete, accurate speech and Q&A transcripts mandatory. He speaks on our dime, and everything he says should be considered part of our public record and national history.
Secretary at his dr’s office misunderstood dr’s handwriting & wrote bone spurs.
The dr had written brain worms.
If only the dr would have read the letter before signing off trusting his secretary, history may have played differently, maybe.
& don’t forget about how stressful it must have been with all the shit with Hunter in 2024 which as a loving father would have stressed any loving father.
It's hard for me to judge because he's always sounded like a complete moron. I suppose now he rambles more and feels less obliged to follow a script. I mean, if he went completely senile how could we tell?
Reading these transcripts, I would very charitably suggest that, like a lot of guys in their 80s, Trump is quite deaf. That's why he doesn't understand a lot of questions when they're first put to him. He can't make out the words. But that doesn't fully explain his nonsensical answers!
he also reportedly has shitty vision but is too vain to wear glasses (he'd need bifocals so can't only wear contacts) which is why all his memos etc have to use huge type
He's known in the business as the most technically demanding person to teleprompter operate for. Both needs huge type (fewer words fit on screen) and will go off script and off topic for sentences at a time
Trump's baseline is being a malignant narcissist, which does yield mental impairment. I have (unfortunately) listened to him since 2016, and his mental deterioration since that time, reminds me of those I have known who have developed Alzheimer's. He does not have 3 & 1/2 more years.
During an April 30 interview with NewsNation, Trump was asked by Stephen A. Smith about his war against Harvard University. The president proceeded to describe imaginary riots in Harlem...
Just read the transcripts of the Time and ABC interviews. The impression I get is not cognitive decline but a liar who doesn't like being called out on his lies. And a bully.
Stupid, ignorant, a psychopath, a pathological liar, a rapist, a fraudster, a criminal. Is he senile now? Fuck if I know. But I know if he is, it doesn't make him particularly worse than he already was...
Looked up the definitions of psychopathy and he checks all the boxes- as he does for sociopathy and malignant narcissism. When it comes to deeply rooted awful conditions, he's no. 1!
I will say I don't love that the article begins with a weird application of scare quotes around "mental decline" as if it was impossible for two old people to be experiencing the same phenomenon
Tired of comparing Biden’s aging to Trump.B got old,as will we.May we not face the mean-spirited,politically motivated ridicule that was unleashed on B and still is.Why focus on T’s aging when his other personality issues and moral failings got us here and the corrupt evil cabal that is behind him.
I looked, they’re owned by a conglomerate that is owned by a holding company that I think is owned by an investment firm. I wouldn’t consider that “independent”, sorry USA Today.
I’m a gerontologist, specializing in dementias…he’s fast approaching “advanced.” He’s been deteriorating for years. It became especially evident during the election cycle. And now?…
Look I won’t hold you to it, but what are we looking at time range wise here to “impaired enough to no longer be perceived as performing the basic functions of the job”?
If we’re up to me (and many others),I would declare him incompetent now. But it’s not up to me. Note, that his minions at the White House are no longer publishing transcripts of his “speeches.” If one is to actually read the words, or listen to him for that matter, one’s head will explode.
Shame on the Dems who are so focused on Biden's decline toward the end of his term. What wasn't nearly obvious regarding Biden is so clearly obvious in trump and nothing is being done about that. The loss of 2024 was brought about by idiots voting for trump rather than any Dem candidate.
As someone who grew up in a dictatorship whose 93-year old leader held held on til the bitter end, I dont think Trump is leading. He is the figurehead for a system whose movers and shakers are in the background. These actors (e.g Stephen Miller) will prop him up because he gives them cover to work.
I just can’t get over how the media is going on and about missing the boat with Biden’s decline while the same story is repeating itself with Trump and they are doing the exact same thing all over again.
He always has sounded like someone who’s been struggling with some sort of mental illness, but the media seems to be fixated on the mental decline of an octogenarian.
Aye, biden is STILL knowledgeable and sharp about complex issues that Trump was never anything even close to caring about or understanding... and even if Biden was in decline, he had surrounded himself with talented people... Trump, not so much. There's no honest comparison except to contrast
Not sure you could notice a “change”. His rally speeches during the election were incoherent babble, yet consistent from city to city. People kept showing up and applauding and nodding along (and eventually voting for the nonsense). The press kept sane washing.
He seems to have obvious skin problems as well as who knows what else ?
He's got two bandaids on one hand , that are obvious, as well as some bad looking rash, whatever all over his hand & arm..
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grounds for impeachment or removal on their own
The MSM only cares about Dems in disarray. Grandpa could be drooling in his golf cart and they’d ignore it.
Biden was always quieter and more composed, because he has self-control, for example from controlling stuttering, which he did wonderfully.
“Not too good.
I did read the interview.
He didn't do well.”
Clearly, stinky didn’t read the interview.
Time could have kept pressing about this obvious lie but they didn’t.
They treated the compulsive liar with deference yet again!
It hit me last week, I had one of those ‘identity this object tests’ after a stroke.
Trump said he asked the doctor and the doctor told him Biden didn’t take the test.
Covid can cause clotting. Coincidental timing?
The weave especially, felt like combination something a doctor told him + get ahead of it pr
So you are correct about the "untreatable," but society at large needs to defend itself from his continuing malfeasance.
But Biden was much worse
By the end he was Mr Magoo
Trump's a mad cunt. Not arguing about her.
Yet another white man to be ignored.
“There is no horseshoe. There is only white people who are at best uncomfortable with any power being held in Black hands. Those white people are at all points of the ‘left-right’ spectrum.”
JRB was beloved of the Black electorate, thus hated.
Like you’re not practicing “identity politics” 24/7.
There is no horseshoe, just bitching white men. 🙄
But the media ignored it because Biden fell that one time.
He regularly wanders off without signing the thing he was THERE TO SIGN
They had to pull down all the transcripts of his remarks from the White House web page because they make no sense
He falls asleep at high level events on TV all the time
Need I go on?
To state the fucking obvious?
Very well done. Why can’t we flood the zone with this and blast Bruce, Eddie Vedder and everyone else shouting it from the stages on 11
The dr had written brain worms.
If only the dr would have read the letter before signing off trusting his secretary, history may have played differently, maybe.
But I’ve heard this since 2017.
And yet here we are.
We have Emily Litella as president
He's got two bandaids on one hand , that are obvious, as well as some bad looking rash, whatever all over his hand & arm..
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On his worst day Joe is a better man n was every day a better President. ✌️