Trump is clearly a moron with some kind of clinical brain dysfunction, but this is just like 2 seconds of fumbling with words, which pretty much anyone who does public speaking can do. I was expecting more than like 2 second’s worth based on how big a deal the story sounded like.
IDK, maybe Newsweek is trying to run cover for him by running a big non-story about something innocuous to distract from the Nikki Haley / Nancy Pelosi thing.
Also he refuses to admit any fault ever, so when he misspeaks and says the wrong words/pronunciation he tries one of the following:
- to make it fit into his sentences awkwardly
- repeats it and tries to say it correctly and pretend he didn’t say it wrong
- repeats it and tries to make both words fit with what he’s saying
He’s a narcissist and doesn’t like to think about times he’s been wrong, I also have a feeling that he won’t stfu for long enough to swallow excess saliva. This short example of slurring just seems like a standard human mistake even though he’s gone downhill over the years.
I really don’t understand Newsweek.
Right, it’s one or two words he fumbles. His cognitive decline has been observed since 2016, nothing new here.
The article first says the video “is stoking concern among social media users” which, if you ask me, is not something news worthy. But then it goes on to point out how this was re-posted by the Biden campaign. Which does seems a little more of interest than just a bunch of yahoos on twitter pointing fingers.
Newsweek seems to always have a bullshit story above the fold and something somewhat relevant below it.
I KNEW IT
Your take seems the most plausible to me, especially considering the clip they link to is super super short and removes any context.
I immediately wondered why this was a story given that clip.
The last time Newsweek reported on him 🙄
You have a twice-impeached president but focus on this?
Yeah. I’m becoming more and more convinced that Newsweek is blowing up non-stories about Trump to dilute genuine criticism of him by creating a “stupid criticism of Trump that has no merit” bucket in people’s minds.
For-profit media doing whatever is most profitable, which is clickbait and gossip.
Could assume their viewership only reads headlines and conservatives ignore it anyway?
There’s a perpetual debate about which presidential candidate has the smallest amount of mental illness. The media is running with it. Every stumble, every mark, every labored breath is a sign they’re going to drop dead any second.
I mean they are both old as hell. I actually have been really pleased and surprised with what Biden’s done but he’s definitely old, and he doesn’t have Trump’s animating meanness energy to keep him sustained.
I would attribute “what he’s done” to the company he keeps. But that has nothing to do with his mental condition. There are plenty of old people (70+) that are totally mentally fit. Biden clearly has mental issues, slurred words, saying shit that doesn’t make any sense, forgetting where he is, etc.
I’d say they’re both mentally compromised in different ways. Where Biden suffers from slow degradation brought on simple old age, Trump suffers from a legitimate mental illness.
We could always just vote for someone who doesn’t suffer from some sort of mentally illness, but that’s not allowed.
You aren’t wrong about any of this, but let’s not forget that a split second “BYAAAAAH” (Howard Dean) can tank an entire presidential run if it gets media attention.
With that said, Trump has had dozens of these blunders over the years. It means nothing.
It would be hilarious if Trump just keeled over. Not only would his fans go nuts with insane theories but it would save the country a lot of trouble.
Arguably, it’s the best thing that could happen for this country right now, that’s also in the realm of possibility. Like, a meteor conveniently taking out the more corrupt half of the supreme Court would obviously be better, but not realistic.
I keep thinking someone might assassinate him. But that makes him some kind of martyr, which is bad. But then I wonder who would be the next demagogue and how would they use that to their advantage?
A certain archduke comes to mind.
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No, not right now. September or October would be better.
Agreed. Make him a martyr now and someone will take the mantle.
You know they will wait for 3 days outside Maralago for the third cumming of christ.
And then Jesus came…
All those Big Macs and KFC Big Crunch’s have to come back to haunt him eventually. Dude can’t be the only person on Earth immune to cholesterol.
Honestly, I think him keeling over before the primaries are finished will harm the country. One of his opponents could run basically unopposed, and they’re all pretty shit.
And the moderate conservatives that are sitting it out because trump will gladly show up and check the ® box for pretty much anyone else. Don’t know why it’s so tough to get people to show up and vote on the democratic side, the conservatives will show up and vote for roadkill.
Part of dagma and zealotry is undying faith in the cause despite everything in the face of it. Democrats merely act in self interests and with basic minimum empathy, we have no allegiance to anybody and we do not idolize our politicians.
I disagree with the statement that we lack empathy very much, almost to the point of being offended. I would say that democrats are empathetic to a fault. In fact I think that empathy is regularly mocked and abused by the parts of this population that see it as weakness and take advantage of democrat attempts at understanding and tolerating shit behavior. Democrats main fault, IMO, is their fractured nature due to all their special interests, all the groups they have empathy for and want to help. There are multiple “causes” they fight for/against. Environment. Poverty. Minorities. Education. Workers rights. Etc. And getting them to get together to vote for a candidate that may not check all the boxes for all the reasons is really fucking difficult, whereas all a conservative has to do is check off a couple boxes in the god/guns/country/‘murca boxes, or just say they wanna fuck up everything the libs do and everyone shows up to vote.
I said the opposite of what you interpreted. Democrats have at least the bare minimum amount of empathy for society to work, as opposed to Republicans who functionally lack empathy.
I get a little bit excited every time there’s a Breaking News alert on my phone. Unfortunately the definition of breaking news is now such that it basically means someone retweeted something stupid.
Trump kneeling over and dying would be arguably the worse outcome. We all saw what happened when Dear Leader took a L, with the culmination being January 6.
In Trump land, unless Dear Leader dies in a golden light and ascends to heaven. The autopsy could be conducted live with the most unbiased person and it still wouldn’t matter. There will be massive conspiracy theories about the “Biden Crime Family”/Deep state/Hunter Biden’s laptop etc. assassinated Trump and that revenge needs to be taken.
Trump needs to be made irrelevant first. No one is going to storm a building over someone who is irrelevant.
If racial slurs did tank his candidacy, regular old slurring probably won’t.
Sounds like Aphasia, maybe the 2 brain cells collided and caused a stroke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia
But I’m not an expert, it would have been nice to have the rest of the speech.
Trump’s picture has been my mnemonic for dysarthria which is a bit more of a precise term for what we’re talking about.
There’s also the possibility of tertiary syphilis.
Personally, I hope it’s a carnivorous brain worm.
What’s wrong with him is not what I’m hopeful for. What I’m hopeful for is what Douglas Adams once suggested happened to the second-worst poet in the universe:
his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
that starved a long time ago.
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I have no idea what that is but it implies primary and secondary syphilis…
- Is Donald Trump secretly a cyborg with malfunctioning speech synthesis software?
- Could he have accidentally taken Valium instead of his daily multivitamins?
- Did someone place a curse on him using an ancient Mayan spell for turning people into slow-talking zombies?
- Was he subjected to some top-secret government mind control experiment gone wrong?
- Has he been possessed by the ghost of James Earl Jones?
- Did aliens kidnap him, replaced him with a clone whose vocal chords were damaged during birth?
- Did he take part in a hypnotherapy session to become a more relaxed version of himself?
- Does he have a severe case of sleep apnea only exhibited when speaking in public?
- Was he attempting to record a hilarious hidden track for his next presidential album?
- Were his vocal cords affected by a mishap while eating spicy food before the event?
- Is there a chance he’s suffering from a neurological disorder such as Parkinson’s Disease?
- Is it possible he’s now fluent in Klingon and we’re all misinterpreting his guttural growls?
- Could it be that he has a rare form of laryngitis caused by shouting too loudly over the years?
- Or perhaps, he’s being remotely controlled by a puppet master through voice commands?
Truly, questions were raised.
I read this in Tucker Carlson’s voice.
And I will thank my lucky stars I have no fucking clue what that sounds like. Instead, I’ll go with Kermit. Or Marvin, the Martian, who is similar because I’m not very good with voices.
Yeah, I’m sure THAT’S what will convince them to drop him. Not all the other far too many issues, but his slurred speech. For sure. /s
If it’s interpreted as weakness, maybe.
He’s an overweight 77 year old in heel lifts with a bad hair restoration job.
Weakness isn’t what bothers them. They just want somebody who hates all the same people they hate. To see their bumfuck opinions parroted back to them by a man in a tie.
Or if they believe he’s strong, then they can believe they are strong. Or smart or whatever they are insecure about.
He is, but that’s not what they see. What they see is the Ben Garrison body builder version of him. It’s why his catchphrase was “winning”, and everyone against him was a failing loser. I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole election denial thing was just them (and honestly, him) not being able to cope with taking an L.
This is exactly what it is.
There was another article I read earlier about typical old Republicans lamenting the fact that they had accomplished nothing to run on going into this election. That’s the old way of thinking. Now MAGA (The old Republican party is dead) voters only care about how badly you want to beat up the people Newsmax, Fox news, and whatever Billybob Basement Report podcast tells them to hate.
It’s actually pretty simple, but you won’t get any opposition to Trump while he’s alive because he cultivated an actual cult. DeSantis will have a better chance when Trump is dead as long as he can keep up the “beat up liberals, they’re the elite, they want to eat your babies, and they’re communists” bit.
His speech wasn’t exactly attractive before. He sounds more and more like his base the longer this dog and pony show continues.
Which will decline faster is 2024? Inflation, interest rates or Trump’s cognitive ability?
Interest and inflation have a lot more room to fall.
Yes ✅
He is doing what he believes Biden does.
Every accusation is a confession.
This POS needs to die of a CVA or MI. Hell, I’d be happy if he choked on a hamberder.
I’ve said it a few times already and I’ll say it again, I’m really hoping that this will be the year we read about how he was found dead on the toilet from a perforated colon and a traumatically prolapsed rectum
That’d be wonderful.
The same people voting for this fossil are saying Biden is too old. Their willfully ignorant hypocrisy is mind-blowing. I honestly don’t get how one can reach this level of cognitive dissonance without being aware of it.
I’m not from the US, but I have the distinct opinion that both Biden and Trump are too old. My parents are/were younger, and I wouldn’t trust them with decisions about anything other than what they want for breakfast.
Bernie Sanders seems saner, but you guys really need some lesser-than-septuagenarian who has non-Xitter oomph, and who has compassion and respect for human life and the planet.
He’s slurred his words, forgotten words, used the wrong words, acts like he’s on ketamine half of the time.
He might be too old to be president, guys.
acts like he’s on ketamine
When I’m spangled on ketamine I’m a philosopher king compared to Trump.
What are the chances he had a stroke, or a heart attack?
God I hope he did lol
“Yoshemites.”
Imagine not knowing how to pronounce Yosemite, arguably the 2nd most famous park in the US.
