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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPublic Notice: Trump's brain is gone. It really should be a bigger story.
Stephen Robinson
May 02, 2025
Donald Trumps recent interviews with Time and The Atlantic revealed a president who is completely unhinged and incoherent. Sadly, thats not news. But what stood out is that Trump is consistently confused and disconnected from reality even on issues that are supposedly in his wheelhouse.
Trump has always been an ignoramus who masks his intellectual shortcomings with bombast and declarations of his own brilliance, but his rambling nonsensical responses in these latest interviews should set off alarms especially in light of all the media attention and scrutiny Joe Biden received after his disastrous debate performance or when Special Counsel Robert Hur described him as a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.
Trump, who turns 79 in June, is the oldest person ever elected president. His repetitive speech patterns, frequent use of empty phrases, and overall rambling discourse are too often graded on a curve.
White House officials and pandering Republicans might boast about Trumps boundless energy in a manner that would shame North Korean state media, but the Time and Atlantic interviews tell a very different story.
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andym
(5,950 posts)he has done something great, others are unfairly attacking him, he doesn't know various people who criticize him unfairly etc. Every answer is something like that, no matter what the question. He has a long history of this. So it's difficult to say he is deteriorating, although his recent comments connecting Harlem riots with Harvard funding to Stephen Smith might be a sign things have gotten worse. If he has dementia it is not a memory loss variety but rather a cognitive variety.
AZ8theist
(6,699 posts)malaise
(283,556 posts)underpants
(190,237 posts)We spoke to [Biden] last year, Mr. President.
Huh?
We spoke to him a year ago.
How did he do?
You can read the interview yourself.
Not too good. I did read the interview. He didn't do well. He didn't do well at all. He didn't do well at anything. And he cut that interview off to being a matter of minutes, and you weren't asking him questions like you're asking me.
essaynnc
(903 posts)It doesn't matter. He's just the distraction. He's the front man to cause the confusion so we all rally behind everything that he's attacking, while behind the scenes, those with a more nefarious agenda are doing what they want to.
Didn't Musk just get away with kneecapping the agencies that would have held him accountable for all his other crimes? Didn't he also walk away with all of the social security information from virtually every American?
Isn't trumph out selling snake oil and gold cards and properties and crypto on every street corner? Isn't he closing deals for trummp hotels in other countries, as well as expecting the rest of the world to come groveling to him for tariff relief? I wonder how much he's raking in from all this?
Isn't the heritage foundation still moving forward with their implementation of project 2025 in a way far beyond their wildest dreams?
Aren't the billionaires getting everything that they want too?
trumph is just the lightening rod. While we're watching him and distracted by his batshit crazy actions, we're being set up and robbed blind.
SPEAK OUT !! PROTEST !!! STAND UP AND BE COUNTED !!!!
h2ebits
(871 posts)DENVERPOPS
(11,966 posts)No different that Reagan and WBush were.......It is a distraction/diversion from what all the extreme right wing fanatics like the 2025 crowd, Republican Oligarchs, and Corrupted Republican Politicians are doing in the shadows, behind smoke screens, and behind closed doors.........
erronis
(19,332 posts)calimary
(86,053 posts)THERES the bottom line. Right there.
lavoosh99
(18 posts)The OSS (Orange Shit Stain) creates massive misdirection to distract people from his crimes. (Has anyone checked Fort Knox lately?)
Exactly!
Dan
(4,646 posts)I want him to go totally brain dead on National TV in a State of the Union address. I want him to literally take off his pants on national TV and start playing with his din-a-ling and grab a female by her privates and blow his nose on Speaker Johnson's head. And then I want him to recover.
lastlib
(25,825 posts)(wouldn't be much of a payment, but it's all I've got......)
maxsolomon
(36,456 posts)The part of his brain that will retain function is his bullshitting. He'll always be able to lie.
Vogon_Glory
(9,798 posts)The rubes and grifters may have lapped up his cracks about Sleepy Joe, but in my opinion, as with so many things said by the current occupant of the White House, every attack is a confession.
DENVERPOPS
(11,966 posts)in the Debate, by a well known, old technique used in debates called the "Gish Gallop" debate technique.
Trump was well coached on it, and Biden's debate team didn't prep Biden for it...........or well known techniques to combat someone using it in a debate............
Check it out....google it...........
It goes back to the old adage:
If you can't DAZZLE them with BRILLIANCE........BAFFLE them with BULLSHIT.........in this case rapid fire bullshit......
calimary
(86,053 posts)stillcool
(33,715 posts)never heard that before, but wow is that accurate.
Candide350
(8 posts)Baffle them with bull sh*t!
Self Esteem
(2,097 posts)The sobering take by Ron Klain, who was Biden's Chief of Staff when he was VP and again when he was president, as well as brought in by Biden to prep for the debate, shows why that debate was going to be a disaster.
He didn't want to prep. Didn't seem to think he needed to. When they were able to get him to prep and mock debate, he often struggled laying out a reason voters should vote for him and then would say he was tired and go lay out by the pool.
Biden walked into a buzzsaw of his own making.
llmart
(16,408 posts)Crickets.
DENVERPOPS
(11,966 posts)that 95+% of ALL media in the United States is owned/operated by Republican Oligarchs and Republican Corporations......
DeeDeeNY
(3,712 posts)LiberalArkie
(18,047 posts)Or sued into oblivion
Keepthesoulalive
(1,233 posts)For giggles. He has no morals or boundaries only cruelty. They stood a better chance of survival if they had told the truth and made sure he wasnt elected.
Mr.Bee
(641 posts)Darn Old Twump
LoveSucky
(28 posts)lastlib
(25,825 posts)try something a lot lower on the food chain---like slugs.....
3catwoman3
(26,586 posts)
and sucks the life out of anything hes involved with.
I dont feel bad about insulting tapeworms.
Kid Berwyn
(20,184 posts)It's no longer newsworthy that a brain-dead, depraved traitor is destroying America for the benefit of his master, Putin.
thought crime
(188 posts)Insisting Abrego Garcia has MS 13 tattooed on his knuckles even as Terry Moran tried to drop it from the conversation.
orangecrush
(24,405 posts)Amaryllis
(10,306 posts)Stephen MIller told him TWICE that the 9-0 SCOTUS decision was in his favor.
So when he says "that's what my people are telling me," this is true.
bucolic_frolic
(50,076 posts)He's being spoon fed by various advisers who carry out their own, or others, agenda.
Rubio, Miller, Bondi have inordinate influence. Navarro has run adrift on the shoals of tariffs.
Amaryllis
(10,306 posts)quakerboy
(14,341 posts)Dictators who are unconcerned about elections no longer have to pretend to play along with journalists or reality
Warpy
(113,287 posts)although he was blowing his lines by the end of his second term.
King Carbuncle is not going to finish this term. He's bad enough that he's not even useful as a figurehead.
BaronChocula
(2,671 posts)that greedy white conservative men have benefitted from since Day 1.
Greedy white conservative men aren't treated like everyone else. They are America's true protected class.
DENVERPOPS
(11,966 posts)Corporations, that are all run by greedy consrvative white men........
Any day Trump Will Sign one of his "orders" changing USA to United Corporations of America.....
Or.............Corporate Tyranny of America.......
BaronChocula
(2,671 posts)Rapey was always rich, but on the outside of every elite group he wanted to be a part of aside from whores in the media. Once he consolidated his republican power, the greedy white male establishment (GWME) not only embraced him, but kissed his ass. They even stuck with him when he promised to bring down their enterprises with tariffs.
Now that they got him elected and they see trouble on the horizon, they don't seem to have his ear anymore. He doesn't GAS about their concerns it seems. It looks like now that he has all the power he wants, he doesn't even care about the GWME anymore. Could it be he doesn't think he needs them?
DENVERPOPS
(11,966 posts)doesn't have to listen to anybody these days...................Even all the individuals and groups that brought him to this place.'
He is giving a humongous gift to the Corporations by destroying all the agencies and regulations put in place by FDR ........
The Corporations wanted to return to the Wild Wild West of Robber Barrons and monopolistic businesses, all part of the Gilded Age that lead us into the great depression........So Trump and the Republicans have given the Corporations exactly what they wanted, along with Citizens United, etc
The problem is that he is serving TWO masters, the Corporations and Putin....and Putin takes precedence.....Putin wants to DESTROY America, which necessitates destroying the economy which necessitates destroying industries and Corporations.....
multigraincracker
(35,544 posts)John1956PA
(4,011 posts)Ping Tung
(2,262 posts)
Irish_Dem
(69,082 posts)kill, kidnap, torture human beings for his own pleasure and to make money and gain power.
And no one will stop him.
lastlib
(25,825 posts)which is a CLEAR and overwhelming sign of his mental rot. The media should be HAMMERING at this hourly--but of course, they won't. - - -
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Goonch
(3,896 posts)
MorbidButterflyTat
(2,890 posts)Nine years ago. Feels like nine hundred.
senseandsensibility
(21,866 posts)At the WHSD (White House Correspondents' Dinner) they told us what should be a bigger story. They should have exposed BIDEN'S mental incapacity more! The people in charge of covering trump on a daily basis did not even allude to any problems with trump's mental acuity.
flvegan
(64,932 posts)And I don't mean the usual openly vocal cast of AOC, Bernie, etc.
I'm pointing directly at the rest of them. Silent...almost appearing complicit.
STERNLY/STRONGLY WORDED LETTER!! lol
MorbidButterflyTat
(2,890 posts)Dems are NOT complicit.
Enough of that crap.
stillcool
(33,715 posts)I have enjoyed the assist those that represent me have provided our state and benefitted the American people for decades. I don't know why the disdain for the entire Democratic party should bother me. I guess it's because how involved I've been in electing them for all those decades. It's not only Donald no one cares about it's the Republican party. Or maybe people want to elect more of them?
Chasstev365
(5,397 posts)If Trump dies in office, I full expect the Republicans to still prop him up before giving power to Vance, ala Weekend at Bernie.
PJMcK
(23,553 posts)... He's going to live to 200.
dchill
(42,198 posts)PJMcK
(23,553 posts)Yeah, that's why he fell asleep at the Pope's funeral.
dchill
(42,198 posts)The problem is that it's not FOX NEWS. Those lying liars are still talking about Biden. And Hillary. And all the malignant crap that the White X House tells them.
Wounded Bear
(61,821 posts)
wiggs
(8,222 posts)behavior, and current strangeness. Rather than just trying to figure out the policy feasibility. Context matters and we have more than 10 years of context to draw from. We ignore it at our own peril, not to mention global peril.
There is no bottom, no morality, no roots in logic or science or understanding. Bile, anger, fear, ignorance...all the way down.
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GP6971
(34,655 posts)pansypoo53219
(22,163 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,619 posts)the fu*king pig referred to someone as a "national disgrace" just makes my blood boil. He is the biggest national disgrace this country has ever known in every sense of the word. I hate him so much.
Celerity
(49,609 posts)
jcboon
(327 posts)Meowmee
(8,886 posts)Self Esteem
(2,097 posts)Maybe a bit more rambling but that's common in older people.
I don't think he's losing his marbles because of dementia or something...I think he's just a narcissistic moron - and always has been.
Orrex
(65,085 posts)Godot51
(439 posts)... when a Democrat does or says something questionable the media overreacts to the max; a republican, yeah, not so much.
When a fundamentalist christian molests, rapes, abuses, or commutes acts of pedophilia they ask for and receive forgiveness from their gods, their followers and the public in general and the media forgets about it; when a "satanist" (sorry, couldn't think of anyone diametrically opposed to christians in any substantial numbers) is accused, often wrongly, of such crimes, it the story of the century.
So, sure, Joe Biden was completely mentally unfit and we need to have a media shitstorm clusterfuck. He needs to be replaced, discarded, disgraced, and thrown on the trash pile.
Donnie drumpf, eh, nah...
ananda
(31,598 posts)Trump is signing things, mouthing off, lying,
and playing golf.
Grins
(8,320 posts)Ive listened and read what he has said and came to that conclusion years ago!
How anyone could listen to his disassociated ramblings and think: Yeah; this putz should be president?
Karasu
(1,036 posts)he's gotten exponentially worse since then. He literally fucking sundowned for like half an hour on the fucking campaign trail.
Absolutely nothing Biden said or did even remotely compares to this shit.
Fiendish Thingy
(19,200 posts)Despite unending efforts over the past ten years by attention-seekers like Bandy Lee, the number of people aware of, or caring about, Trumps mental state has changed very little. If they dont care already, they never will.
The only thing that might cause Trump to be removed from power before his term is up (besides death) is a catastrophic economic event, such as the collapse of SS or draconian cuts to Medicaid, which would likely trigger the 3.5% rule. If suffering becomes widespread enough, it will unite the people against the Trump administration, regardless of party, race or economic status.
The 3.5% rule:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world