Cognitive Decline? Trump Appears to Forget Who He’s Running Against

https://newrepublic.com/post/185625/donald-trump-forget-joe-biden-kamala-harris

29 Comments

  1. Just_the_nicest_guy on

    They said that it was going to be a town hall but they couldn’t let Dementia Donnie take any unscripted questions so it was just a standard Fox News-assisted whine-fest.

  2. Hoping the debate sinks Trump as hard as it sunk Biden.

    It won’t happen, of course. He could shit himself on stage and spend the entire night talking about the evils of the penny-farthing and how he fully intends to beat Jimmy Carter on election day, and he’d lose only a fraction of a percent of his ~~willful idiots~~ base.

  3. Moist_Albatross_5434 on

    It’s really sad they are making the demented old man run for president. His handlers should be ashamed of themselves, maybe even jailed. It’s elder abuse at this point.

  4. Woof. You can see he sort of realizes he messed up when he pauses before saying “Biden aaand Kamala”

  5. And the Trump campaign’s attempt to spin this was the most hilarious part:

    >Trump was talking about who he was running against (Biden) before Democrats staged a coup and replaced him with Kamala.

    No, Trump very clearly is talking about the election, he says: *I can’t imagine New Hampshire voting for him.* And he seems to realize his mistake later on when he mentions Biden, then adds an *and Kamala*, but it’s Harris-~~Vance~~ *Walz* this year, not Biden-Harris.

    Edit: Walz, obviously, sorry!

  6. NevadaGoldHoard on

    When someone is already so stupid to begin with how can you tell when they are in cognitive decline? He seems the same as he always has to me.

  7. alogbetweentworocks on

    If he ever has the energy to go on campaigning again, I hope every once in a while, reporters would ask him if he has a chance to beat Joe Biden in November. A few days later, ask him how he’s doing against Hilary Clinton.

  8. Frightening that JD Vance could possibly become president if this tickets wins the presidency.

  9. Amazing-Membership44 on

    This just shows how biased against democrats the media actually has become, if this had been Harris, it would have been top story all over the media.

  10. >You take a look at bacon and some of these products and some people don’t eat bacon anymore…and we are going to get the energy prices down when we get energy down you know this was caused by their horrible energy WIND they want wind all over the place. But when it doesn’t blow we have a little problem.

  11. He’s at the point of dementia where not everything can be excused as a simple mix up. Word salad is one thing, but forgetting key information is usually when you should start looking at assisted care companies or facilities

  12. zero_blammos_given on

    He’s not forgetting, he’s fantasizing. He’s in such denial that he dreamed up a scenario where Biden would “take back” his nomination at the DNC like some fucking WWE sketch. He wants to be running against Biden so badly that he can’t help but go back to the old scripts. The same way he brings back “lock her up” 100 years after running against Hillary.

  13. capture-enigma on

    The fact that most of mainstream media won’t touch this subject, is really disturbing. This man is obviously mentally ill, and when you add probable cognitive decline on top of it, that’s a recipe for disaster. He is not a normal political candidate, so why do media like the NYT still treat him as such? If Kamala gave a speech as demented and nonsensical as the average Trump speech, the media would be up in arms. It’s fucking ridiculous

  14. Does it matter? It doesn’t to his supporters. He could shoot someone on 5th Ave and harris would still be the bad girl in their eyes.

  15. He thinks he is being cute but just sounds like a moron.

    He thinks that he can convince voters that Kamala is a Biden puppet by referring to his opponent as “Biden”, but that makes no sense to people deep in the MAGA lore because Biden was himself supposed to be an Obama puppet. Trump would often refer to Biden as “Obama” even fairly recently.

    What you’re seeing here isn’t a memory lapse. This is just how these degenerates talk.

  16. he for sure has cognitive decline, but I think this is more so that he has absolutely nothing on Harris that sticks or works. It’s not like he’s running on any policy of his own, so all he has left is to insult Biden still.

    they spent years attacking Biden, his family etc. and now all of that is useless, but they have nothing to pivot too

  17. ButterscotchBloozDad on

    Not new. He thought he was running against Obama in ‘16 and ‘20. Dude is mentally vacant aside from his feral survival skills.

  18. I love how the he clicks his pen, almost like a signal to let Trump know that he said something wrong.

  19. Biden stutters and the media loses their collective shit. Trump rambles about Hannibal Lecter and forgets who he’s running against and not a fucking peep.