This is a sad state of affairs in that it’s not been quite a full year yet. Trump is really losing it faster and faster every day. It’s not months or weeks, but days. We knew it was going to be a rough four years, but he may not even make it much after one year. Our country is being run by a dementia-ridden “madman”. His cabinet is taking over the governing. They’re even worse than he is. Mercy, the future looks dark. Thank you to Raw Story:
Donald Trump’s latest speech set off a firestorm of people online saying the address was “slurring” and “incoherent.” Trump’s remarks in North Carolina on Friday raised red flags for many. One of the most-cited examples was him saying, “I took cognitive tests. By the way, not easy. The first question is like what is this, and they show a lion, giraffe, fish, and a hippopotamus. And they say which is the giraffe?” Garry Kasparov responded to that, asking, “Who is running the country?”
Who is, indeed. It has to be his cabinet, and you could not find a nastier group of people. If you look at everything as the country descends into hell, they are putting themselves out in public, and it’s not a pretty sight (hello, ICE as$$holes). Trump was bad enough because he was a known quantity. But these others? They can *make your spine shrivel*. That’s really saying something. Oops, wandered off topic. Back to Donnie:
National security analyst Barry R McCaffrey also pounced on that, saying, “This is our President. The most powerful nation on earth. The poor man is incoherent. Three more years. Dangerous future ahead.” //// That led Dem lawmaker Ted Lieu to ask, “Why do doctors keep giving Trump cognitive tests?” //// Popular liberal influencer Spiro’s Ghost also seized on that same testing line, simply writing, “oh my god.” //// That same account also flagged another quote from Trump’s remarks: “I renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, right? That was a good one. I checked… for my whole life, I didn’t do it in my first term because I was the hunted. I had bigger problems. I had these animals trying to attack me at Mar-a-Lago,” he said. “They went into my wife’s closet… it sounds strange, but they looked at her drawers.”
Now, where in the hell did *that* come from? These are the wanderings of an addled old man, not someone who is the president of the country! Hell yes, we should be worried! Day by day, he is descending into dementia. Every. Damn. Day. I can’t stand the way he speaks on one of his good day so I miss a lot of things. But there are more and more reasons coming out to get extremely worried about us surviving not just one year, but one month.
The disjointed nature of the story Trump told led Spiro’s Ghost to write, “Wait…is he so dementia laden that he is saying that he couldn’t change the name in his first term (2017-2021) because of the Mar-A-Lago raid in 2022?!? WUT???” //// In another awkward moment, Trump was talking about insurance companies when he said, “They are totally beholden,” and then said the letters “i-n.” //// Governor Newsom Press Office pounced on that, writing, “He’s sundowning hard.” ////
Trump also caught attention with his rant against Marjorie Taylor Greene, which led ex-prosecutor Ron Filipkowski to say, “If you listen to this rant and think this demented, malevolent, addled, rambling old fool is fit to be president, you might be a MAGA cultist.” ////
Commenting on another Trump quote, “Her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties…. I think she steams them,” activist Amy Siskind said, “Listen to him slurring and sounding nuts!” “Why isn’t his mental health a top story every single day?!?” she asked.
Snark aside, we see the visual signs and hear the words of someone going into their own place where they can be anything they want to be. He can be king. He can have all the money in the world. He doesn’t have to listen to anyone. I’m sure there are many more that I’ve missed. SMH folks. What inanity will come from him next?
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