This is good. We all know the man rambles about anything and everything. He contradicts himself every day, and sometimes in the same press conference. He wanders around and says this and that, and may never answer the questions. It continues to get worse. I was joking about him having dementia, but after today, I’ll be damned if I‘m not looking at it a lot more closely. From Raw Story:
Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked President Donald Trump about the internet rumors that spread over the weekend that he was dead or gravely ill. Speaking to the press on Tuesday, Trump seemed shocked by the question. “How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?” Doocy asked. Trump seemed clueless. “You see that?” Doocy asked, “No,” Trump replied, before fumbling around for an answer. It sent those online to ask even more questions.
He *always* fumbles around for some sort of answer. I don’t see how he could possibly have missed those rumors, considering all the people he has in his “cabinet” and on “his team”. Those are some pretty serious rumors. And for him to say he *hasn’t* heard about them is very odd. Why wasn’t he posting on Truth Social? That’s his usual choice to be able to scream about something. But it was crickets until he had a press conference to dispel them and possibly rant about the Epstein mess. Except I don’t think anything about Epstein was said, and THAT is *very* strange.
“Doocy asked Trump if he saw that he was ‘dead’ according to Twitter. He said he has no idea. Then says, he heard about it. Says he did numerous shows, long ‘Truths,’ was very active. Then says he never heard about the rumor. Then says: ‘they wondered if I was OK, but didn’t hear it to that extent,'” described foreign affairs reporter Olga Nesterova on Bluesky. //// “Incoherence. With access to nuclear weapons unless he’s given control over that to Miller Vought or big balls,” replied legal analyst Dr. Tracy A. Pearson, J.D. //// “Well. He’s puffier and oranger than usual. His hair is insane. But that seems pretty normal to me,” observed “Mueller, She Wrote’s” Allison Gill.
Now is that a non-answer for Trump? Did his team tell him to just verbally talk around about this and that, including the rumors, and confuse people so they can’t understand what you’re saying? The comment from Olga Nesterova is pretty telling. He keeps changing his mind and is one step from going into total incoherence. That seems really bad for the man we love to hate. Trump *always* has an agenda for a press conference. Always. Except for this one, he didn’t.
“Tump Reek in the Press Corps asking him about being dead actually isn’t the slamdunk MAGA thinks it is. Trump responding to it puts it in the mainstream conversation now and puts focus back on his health…and his ankles…and his palm… Genius move, MAGA. Thank you,” wrote Wajahat Ali, who writes “The Left Hook.” //// “Here’s Trump rambling for about a minute and a half way too seriously to the question about whether or not he was actively dead,” posted Media Matters researcher Craig Harrington and including the video. //// “NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE,” Trump said. //// Others joked about the conspiracy theory, sarcastically claiming that the video was clearly pre-recorded because Trump had already died.
There is something serious going on here. He’s not himself. He doesn’t remember *anything*. I think he’s actually seriously ill, and called the press conference to show he wasn’t. Well, with careful staging, it could be a way for him to talk and to show he’s “just fine”, even if he really isn’t. He hasn’t talked to the press until today. He’s only been out golfing once. And this has been going on for *days*. What is going on here?
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