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Anonymous wrote:WTF? He gets up in the middle of a big meeting, wanders over to a door and babbles about how beautiful his ballroom is (the ballroom that doesn't even exist yet).
This is not about his dementia, but I just had to post this clip from the same meeting with oil execs in the White House. Ignore the comments about Tucker Carlson. What struck me odd here is that the presidential anthem is played when Trump walks in the room to take a seat. Is this normal? It wasn’t a state event. It was just a meeting with executives. Now I see why he thinks he’s king of the world. And his staff are totally encouraging it.
I think it IS about his dementia. They have to do these silly things to convince him he’s in charge, while they are running the show. If he complains, the mask falls.
Good point. This reminds me of techniques I've seen discussed about how to handle people with dementia. Instead of correcting them when they say things that are not tethered in reality (e.g., I'm getting dressed to go meet my sister when said sister has been dead for years), you should gently go along with the delusion until you have an opportunity to redirect their attention to something else. All the yes men and women that Trump has surrounded himself with this term are creating this bubble around him that perpetuates his sense of being all-important, all-powerful. That is very dangerous for our country because a day will come when they will have to tell him something he doesn't want to hear. I can't believe that our lives are in the hands of such a mentally unbalanced individual. What could go wrong?
As Fred Sr’s dementia progressed, they kept his office open for him with a desk and pretend papers to shuffle. Every day he would be dressed up and driven into the office to “work”. This was mostly done to give Trump’s mother a break, because he had become agitated and hard to manage by this stage.
Someone needs to do something similar for Trump. Rig up a pretend phone to “tweet” with and some Big Boy Executive orders to sign, so he can play-act as President and think he’s driving the country like Maggie Simpson with her toy steering wheel.
(The problem, of course, is who’s behind the real steering wheel.)