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I do think Trump's losing it but this come's across as a slip of the tongue. He is clearly saying that his mother was born in the UK and seems to contrast with his father, but then says his father was born "there" when it sounds like he means "here." It is still a little bit of senior moment but not to the level of forgetting where his father was born. There are plenty of good examples. I feel like posts like this undermine the legitimate argument because they come across as disingenuous. |
DP. You described it as a senior moment. Do we want a US president who just started a war to have senior moments? That is a legitimate question. |
No, I don't. I am in my early fifties and I think this would be disqualifying for someone my age, too. I am in no way defending Trump. I am critiquing the way we attack him. It will be more effective if we don't exaggerate or stretch the truth. No need to. |
So what is the best way to criticize the most powerful person in the world who exhibits a severe personality disorder and cognitive decline? |
I don't think I am bring unclear. When you argue in bad faith, it backfires because it shifts the focus from the Trump' actual weaknesses to your lack of credibility. Anyone can see this is an exaggeration and it makes people who say it look biased. In Trump's case, there are plenty of senior moments, constant signs of no impulse control and rage, and never ending lies. I am just saying that there is no need to pretend he doesn't know where his father is from when he misspoke a word. |
Sounds like you’ve never known someone with dementia. |
He was gesturing toward the leader of Germany as he said the word "there." That's not misspeaking a word. |
He didn’t misspeak. “My father was born,” Trump said while gesturing towards Merz. “He knows all about my father. My father was born there.” |
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Gavin newzkme was on Kimmel last night and described a conversation he had on the phone with Trump last summer and it was so bizarre and disturbing. If you had that kind of conversation with your own parent, you’d be like “I don’t think they can live alone anymore and we definitely need to take the keys.” I assume the people that work with him get that kind of insanity pretty regularly. They are all such traitors for covering it up and enabling him. The Biden situation was not ideal but it was nothing like this.
Newsome also said that he can just call trumps cell and he’ll often just pick up—he said there was a good chance if he xalled from kimmels show last night he would just pick up. That suggests to me that his staff is NOT managing him at all. People criticized Biden staff for over managing him but it seems worse to have a cognitively impaired president and no one with the skills or interest to help manage him. Did Bibi just call directly on his cell and say “you’ve got to bomb Iran”? It’s scary that I think this is a real possibility. |
Yesterday Trump said his father was born at the foot of the Alps. That is not mixing up his mother’s birthplace of Scotland. The man is lost and Miller is running the country. Why do you think he’s having MRIs and other tests every month? He clearly has a condition that is being monitored. Sections of his brain are dying. |
Suspect he has a number of conditions at this point. And his increasingly reckless behavior is undoubtedly connected to some kind of cognitive disorder. |