👆💯. Trump doesn’t want to govern. He wants to golf, eat, and be surrounded by adulation. He wants to be a popular retiree with power. |
He’s the King of The Villages. Gem him his colored loofah. |
I forgot the link https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-middle-of-the-night-meltdown_n_67e4f90ae4b0fb04a517beb9 |
Once he doesn't have any power--which he is close to--he will be tossed aside. No one really likes him. He's just a tool for them. |
Agree. This doesn't seem like dementia to me. He is quite fluent in this video with his speaking. |
Does everyone now understand why his college transcripts were never released? This⬆️ and lawsuit threats to Fordham and Wharton via Michael Cohen. |
Those hands tell me his veins are probably busted from getting lots of vitamin cocktail IVs to keep his propped up and look energetic. |
I don't think either Trump or Biden have a specific dementia diagnosis (fronto-temporal, Alzheimer's, etc). If you take away Trump's bronzer and hair dye, you have a very pale, white-haired, person that is very comparable to Biden. They both have a decrease in their walking abilities - I've seen them shuffle in the same way, which is typical of elderly people in decline. Not only do both have a marked age-related physical decline, it is accompanied by certain cognitive symptoms, specifically a decrease in their previously richer vocabulary, a disinclination to be precise when they talk - which is a sign of memory loss. Separately from this decline, I see that both continue to have the same character they always had, with some age-related loss of filter. Biden is a generally normal, decent human being. The everyman. Not spectacular in any way, but by dint of a lifetime of political effort, he knows the ins and outs of governance. There were plenty like him on either side of the aisle (now one party has thrown out all their normal people). Trump continues his progression as the caricature of a very punitive man who only gets up in the morning to exact retribution on perceived enemies. His thoughts and feelings are simplistic in the extreme, but they really always were (just behind a very thin veneer of sophistication in his NY realtor days). The reason he's successful is that he's always had enormous willpower and drive behind those simple feelings. Either he wins or he loses. Winning means striking down your enemies. Losing means letting them have normal lives. Zero-sum. Us vs Them. No sense of proportional response: enemies needs to be crushed to powder, and loyal subjects need constant testing. |
And where is Melania? Any sighting of her standing with her husband? I suspect the age difference must be very obvious at this point, like standing next to her father. |
He is just not precise. He is too lazy to put much time or thought into his decisions/actions. |
I hate to say this but, given the times, you both might want to be careful what you post online. |
Melania? Who's that? I thought they were looking for a corporate sponsor for the Easter Egg Roll? Since it apparently needs one now? |
True. If you took away his bronzer, hair dye, and combover...he'd look older than Biden ever did. |
Go look at a few videos. Watch an interview from before the Apprentice years. Watch another one from early on in his first administration. Listen to him now — and also read the transcript from the video, since most of us work very hard, often without realizing it, in an effort to make sense of what we’re hearing. The level of his vocabulary, his ability to express and respond to ideas with multiple parts, his ability to engage in reciprocal conversations, and his use of things like repetition, neologisms, and repeating stock phrases have all changed. He also has fine and gross motor deficits that seem to be worsening. This is in addition to the bored, vengeful, and indifferent qualities that you’ve noted PP. |
Trump - The lights are on but nobody is home. |