Questions surrounding Trump’s mental acuity are a real 2024 story | His speech is becoming harder and harder to understand.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-age-harris-ramble-rcna168979

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  1. Sarah Cooper needs to start doing those lip-synced comments again.

    They made the gibberish fun to watch.

  2. >*She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s — and I own a big building there — it’s no — I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said, ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?*
    *-Trump*

    Wow, I went into that article expecting to see something that showed Trump’s inability to speak, but this is worse than I expected. He completely forgot that he was talking about Harris…

  3. awrinkleinsprlinker on

    It’s almost impossible to follow. There are (brief) moments of coherence for sure, but other times it’s just a word dump. None of makes sense, and the harder you try to understand it the worse it makes him look.

  4. Why isn’t his mental acuity and apparent signs of dementia not getting more attention? Is it because there is too much other crazy shit he does that the media is overwhelmed?

    John Oliver did a great piece on the word salad that the Orange turd spews at rally’s.

    All I know is that we all have to Vote Blue in November.

  5. No_nukes_at_all on

    The debate is going to be the big one, Having him alone on stage against a middle aged articulate and coherent opponent is going to work as a giant highlighter on his poor mental and cognitive state.

  6. It’s straight elder abuse at this point. Someone from his family needs to come get Grandpa and take him off to jail, where he belongs.

  7. Finally this is starting to be discussed. Let’s see how many more outlets start talking about his obvious mental decline.

  8. “Trust me, Harris is really dumb”

    Uh….Trump makes no sense

    None

    You expect me to believe Harris is an idiot when I can watch her answering a question in a reasonable manner, and Trump talks about bacon and windmills and Andrew Jackson when asked about the cost of living?

  9. Mammoth_Sock7681 on

    What, who doesn’t understand “fake infrastrucker, ershure para” or “Saudi Arabia and Russia will reepeedoo aaahh”?

  10. Even_Establishment95 on

    How any of those MAGAts listen to that and say, “I love his policies!” Is beyond me and downright disturbing. There’s no policy in that word salad. Just a bunch of gibberish and claims that the *other* side is lying and destroying the country without any sort of evidence. And they trust his every word and parrot it nonstop. God help us.

  11. needcoffeepronto on

    But English professors everywhere are commenting on the brilliance of his weave oration technique /s

  12. To his 50+ Million worshipers he is speaking in tongues in a Divine language they are not capable of understanding. To them this their failing not his.

  13. vacuous_comment on

    He has had this dementia riddled speech for a long time and nobody has really cared.

    His supporters are in a cult and the press want to gin up coverage for the horse race.

  14. Potential-Raccoon822 on

    Haven’t you heard about Trump’s ability to weave his sentences when he goes off on tangents. He said he can talk about 9 topics and bring them all back perfectly, with no mess-ups or error. He said he knows several English scholars, and they said he was brilliant with his words and never mispronounce anything. It’s the media that makes him look bad 😆

  15. Yeah, it’s quite clear that whatever the fuck is going on, he’s just rapidly getting worse and worse. Like soon it’ll be to the point where no one fucking understands what he is saying—which is also good and bad.

    He shouldn’t be fucking campaigning, at all. Like no one can literally understand him.

  16. I delivered mail, and one of my customers was a lady who, at the age of sixty, became hard to understand. The last time I saw her all I could do was nod and smile and go on to the next house.

    A year or so later, I spoke to a man there who was preparing the house for sale, and I asked about her. She had a form of dementia that interfered with speech and had to be institutionalized. He said she would have angry, frustrated outbursts (who can blame her?) I estimate she went from seeming normal to being unable to function independently within two years.

    Trump seems to be about half way there.

  17. This needs to be front and center for the rest of this election season. The guy is an incoherent, rambling, undiagnosed dementia patient that shouldn’t be allowed near a coffee maker, yet he’s being trotted out to control the government? I can’t wait for George Conway and crew to get a hold of this and start blasting it even louder. Hopefully every media outlet starts giving this issue it’s just due like they did Biden. Hahahahaha I know….

  18. I worked in an old-school asylum years ago, a place right out of Cuckoo’s Nest, and I did a stint on the ward for geriatric patients, many of whom were formerly successful business people and small-town notables who had become too dilusional and disruptive to stay at home or in assisted living. No, they didn’t just sit in a corner rolling their eyes and flibbering their lips. Some were sadly silent, some were prone to unpredictable violence, but most of them sounded exactly like Donald Trump during his recent campaign speeches and interviews. Word Salad City. They’d use real words, often strung together in coherent sentences, and while serving them coffee of meds, they could momentarily seem totally polite and normal. But on a sleepless night or any time they could garner a captive audience (which was often me, working alone on the night shift..) they would launch into these circular rants to nowhere that could last for hours and (I’m not making this up) they sounded exactly like Donald Trump. You’d listen politely, do your best to bring the conversations around toward meaningful conclusions, try desperately to puzzle their historical accounts, their memories, and their (often clever) observations together into a snapshot of their former selves – but in the end, it was nothing but long repeating loops of jabber that went exactly nowhere. It was sad. It was exhausting. It sounded remarkably like Donald Trump, and we were seeing glimpses of it as far back as 2016 when he was rambling about “having nuclear” and being very smart at the Wharton School.

  19. Probably why he isn’t campaigning over Labor Day Holiday Weekend. He’s having another age related episode.

  20. Moist_Albatross_5434 on

    His handlers should be jailed. Wheeling him out onto stages across the U.S. to ramble incoherently for hours at a time, its elder abuse at this point.

  21. Don’t worry Republicans, if Trump drops out due to old age, you can just run your VP pick instead. 👍

  22. killabeesplease on

    He has always been difficult to understand. It’s always a stream of “conman speak” that is just meant to misdirect and make it sound like he’s confident. He just can’t turn it off.

  23. DetectiveOk3869 on

    11 days ago, when Trump was at the Arizona border he said:

    “…the Supreme Court just ruled that you’re not allowed to have illegal aliens vote…”

    There is no question Trump has lost his mind.

  24. Showmethepathplease on

    Compare the coverage of trumps mental capacity to that of Biden 

    Night and day 

    The press has failed. It’s disgusting that they have normalised Trump on many levels 

  25. DragonriderTrainee on

    He’s become so incoherent that the odds of him ever properly going to prison are almost nil now. He’ll be behind bars a year before he’s too dementia ridden to even stay there and not get moved to a nursing home.

    I wanted to see him in prison when he still had enough brains to suffer for several years, at least, and forced to eat vegetables instead of MacDonalds. Very little chance now of that happening.

  26. AfterNefariousness5 on

    Did y’all see that truth post where he posted it but wasn’t finished with his thought and he left it up for hours before taking it down. This dude has some serious mental health problems and the more bad news he gets, it’s only going to get worse.