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Dennis Donovan

(30,650 posts)
Fri May 2, 2025, 12:08 PM 22 hrs ago

Public Notice: Trump's brain is gone. It really should be a bigger story.

Public Notice - Trump's brain is gone. It really should be a bigger story.

Stephen Robinson
May 02, 2025

Donald Trump’s recent interviews with Time and The Atlantic revealed a president who is completely unhinged and incoherent. Sadly, that’s 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 Trump’s 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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Public Notice: Trump's brain is gone. It really should be a bigger story. (Original Post) Dennis Donovan 22 hrs ago OP
Trump has specific themes which he uses to answer every question andym 22 hrs ago #1
In other words, he was ALWAYS a moron. AZ8theist 18 hrs ago #55
Adding this malaise 22 hrs ago #2
🙄🤪 underpants 22 hrs ago #3
Yeah, but....... essaynnc 22 hrs ago #4
I share your belief. Thank you! h2ebits 21 hrs ago #17
Trump is just a pawn/frontman DENVERPOPS 21 hrs ago #24
" Aren't the billionaires getting everything that they want too?" - Exactly. erronis 20 hrs ago #26
I think that's what it's all about. calimary 20 hrs ago #31
Magicians call it misdirection. lavoosh99 19 hrs ago #46
Yeah, mamacita75 15 hrs ago #65
I'm sorry for feeling this way but Dan 22 hrs ago #5
I would pay my retirement to watch that! lastlib 20 hrs ago #28
You won't get that satisfaction maxsolomon 20 hrs ago #40
IMO Orange Julius' brain was going even before the election Vogon_Glory 22 hrs ago #6
Biden was overcome by him DENVERPOPS 20 hrs ago #29
Yep. calimary 20 hrs ago #32
'Dazzle them with bullshit' stillcool 18 hrs ago #52
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance... Candide350 3 hrs ago #71
Biden refused to prep for the debate. Self Esteem 18 hrs ago #57
And yet, where is the 24/7 nonstop coverage by mainstream media? llmart 22 hrs ago #7
Everyone needs to recognize/know DENVERPOPS 20 hrs ago #30
From Jeff Tiedrich pic posted on Bluesky - DeeDeeNY 3 hrs ago #70
Reporters and others never thought that Biden, Clinton, Harris of others would have them disappeared or Gitmo'd. LiberalArkie 21 hrs ago #8
He would still do all of those things Keepthesoulalive 20 hrs ago #37
The thing about insanity is, you yourself don't know you are insane. Mr.Bee 21 hrs ago #9
He has donkey brains. LoveSucky 21 hrs ago #10
Insulting to donkeys....... lastlib 20 hrs ago #27
I liken him to a tapeworm - FUGLY as hell to look at... 3catwoman3 19 hrs ago #45
Excellent question. Kid Berwyn 21 hrs ago #11
The interview by ABC News' Terry Moran tore the mask off thought crime 21 hrs ago #12
Saw that orangecrush 8 hrs ago #69
Yes, AND it doesn't help that his "advisors" only tell him what he wants to hear. In the mtg with Bukele in the Oval, Amaryllis 21 hrs ago #13
So the king is not in command bucolic_frolic 21 hrs ago #18
He is in command in the sense that he only alllows people to advise him who will tell him what he wants to hear. Amaryllis 21 hrs ago #21
His fear is gone. quakerboy 21 hrs ago #14
Even Reagan asn't this bad Warpy 21 hrs ago #15
He's getting the pass BaronChocula 21 hrs ago #16
Don't forget DENVERPOPS 17 hrs ago #61
Here's one thing I DON'T get BaronChocula 15 hrs ago #63
He acts as if he DENVERPOPS 54 min ago #72
Just waiting for someone to leave the mike on... multigraincracker 21 hrs ago #19
"A Face in the Crowd." Thanks for Posting. John1956PA 21 hrs ago #23
If found it should be easy to store. Does anyone have a thimble Size small Ping Tung 21 hrs ago #20
Trump is a vicious, ruthless, sadistic psychopath who will destroy this country, Irish_Dem 21 hrs ago #22
It appalls me how the basturd gets away in the media with his verbal vomit.... lastlib 20 hrs ago #25
;-{) Goonch 20 hrs ago #33
JEEZ MorbidButterflyTat 18 hrs ago #56
No, no you have it all wrong senseandsensibility 20 hrs ago #34
I'm sure our Dem leadership will get right on that. flvegan 20 hrs ago #35
NO MorbidButterflyTat 18 hrs ago #54
really? "The 'rest of them" stillcool 18 hrs ago #60
Presidential Weekend at Bernies Chasstev365 20 hrs ago #36
According to Trump's doctor... PJMcK 20 hrs ago #39
But nobody else will. dchill 20 hrs ago #42
Boasts about Trump's energy PJMcK 20 hrs ago #38
"Sadly, that's not news." But it is... dchill 20 hrs ago #41
Like a cross between Death of a Salesman and The Madness of King George... Wounded Bear 19 hrs ago #43
Every story or discussion about his actions should BEGIN with questions about his limitations, disorders, past wiggs 19 hrs ago #44
Message auto-removed Name removed 19 hrs ago #47
Well Hello!! How's Chicago these days? GP6971 19 hrs ago #48
drumpf NEEDS editing + he has no minders now. this is what he was last time, but he was stopped before. pansypoo53219 18 hrs ago #49
Just reading that BigDemVoter 18 hrs ago #50
How to draw a pig: Celerity 15 hrs ago #66
Call him "Delusional Don" jcboon 18 hrs ago #51
He has always been deranged and incoherent, stop pretending he was ever normal Meowmee 18 hrs ago #53
Yeah. He sounds very little unchanged from 2020 or 2016 or 2009 for that matter. Self Esteem 18 hrs ago #59
The best thing for him to do right now is just fucking die already Orrex 18 hrs ago #58
It should be... Godot51 16 hrs ago #62
Other people are running the country. ananda 15 hrs ago #64
He can't complete a sentence!!!! Grins 14 hrs ago #67
It amazes me how many fucking people thought he was coherent in his first term. He sure as fuck wasn't. But that said, Karasu 9 hrs ago #68
Trump's cognitive decline will never lead to his removal from power Fiendish Thingy 48 min ago #73

andym

(5,950 posts)
1. Trump has specific themes which he uses to answer every question
Fri May 2, 2025, 12:17 PM
22 hrs ago

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.

underpants

(190,237 posts)
3. 🙄🤪
Fri May 2, 2025, 12:18 PM
22 hrs ago

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)
4. Yeah, but.......
Fri May 2, 2025, 12:23 PM
22 hrs ago

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 !!!!

DENVERPOPS

(11,966 posts)
24. Trump is just a pawn/frontman
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:51 PM
21 hrs ago

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.........

lavoosh99

(18 posts)
46. Magicians call it misdirection.
Fri May 2, 2025, 03:34 PM
19 hrs ago

The OSS (Orange Shit Stain) creates massive misdirection to distract people from his crimes. (Has anyone checked Fort Knox lately?)

Dan

(4,646 posts)
5. I'm sorry for feeling this way but
Fri May 2, 2025, 12:25 PM
22 hrs ago

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)
28. I would pay my retirement to watch that!
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:56 PM
20 hrs ago

(wouldn't be much of a payment, but it's all I've got......)

maxsolomon

(36,456 posts)
40. You won't get that satisfaction
Fri May 2, 2025, 02:26 PM
20 hrs ago

The part of his brain that will retain function is his bullshitting. He'll always be able to lie.

Vogon_Glory

(9,798 posts)
6. IMO Orange Julius' brain was going even before the election
Fri May 2, 2025, 12:33 PM
22 hrs ago

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)
29. Biden was overcome by him
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:57 PM
20 hrs ago

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......

Self Esteem

(2,097 posts)
57. Biden refused to prep for the debate.
Fri May 2, 2025, 04:45 PM
18 hrs ago

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.

DENVERPOPS

(11,966 posts)
30. Everyone needs to recognize/know
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:59 PM
20 hrs ago

that 95+% of ALL media in the United States is owned/operated by Republican Oligarchs and Republican Corporations......

LiberalArkie

(18,047 posts)
8. Reporters and others never thought that Biden, Clinton, Harris of others would have them disappeared or Gitmo'd.
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:07 PM
21 hrs ago

Or sued into oblivion

Keepthesoulalive

(1,233 posts)
37. He would still do all of those things
Fri May 2, 2025, 02:12 PM
20 hrs ago

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 wasn’t elected.

lastlib

(25,825 posts)
27. Insulting to donkeys.......
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:55 PM
20 hrs ago

try something a lot lower on the food chain---like slugs.....

3catwoman3

(26,586 posts)
45. I liken him to a tapeworm - FUGLY as hell to look at...
Fri May 2, 2025, 03:22 PM
19 hrs ago

…and sucks the life out of anything he’s involved with.

I don’t feel bad about insulting tapeworms.

Kid Berwyn

(20,184 posts)
11. Excellent question.
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:09 PM
21 hrs ago

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)
12. The interview by ABC News' Terry Moran tore the mask off
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:13 PM
21 hrs ago

Insisting Abrego Garcia has MS 13 tattooed on his knuckles even as Terry Moran tried to drop it from the conversation.

Amaryllis

(10,306 posts)
13. Yes, AND it doesn't help that his "advisors" only tell him what he wants to hear. In the mtg with Bukele in the Oval,
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:22 PM
21 hrs ago

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)
18. So the king is not in command
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:31 PM
21 hrs ago

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)
21. He is in command in the sense that he only alllows people to advise him who will tell him what he wants to hear.
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:42 PM
21 hrs ago

quakerboy

(14,341 posts)
14. His fear is gone.
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:22 PM
21 hrs ago

Dictators who are unconcerned about elections no longer have to pretend to play along with journalists or reality

Warpy

(113,287 posts)
15. Even Reagan asn't this bad
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:27 PM
21 hrs ago

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)
16. He's getting the pass
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:27 PM
21 hrs ago

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)
61. Don't forget
Fri May 2, 2025, 05:49 PM
17 hrs ago

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)
63. Here's one thing I DON'T get
Fri May 2, 2025, 06:56 PM
15 hrs ago

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)
72. He acts as if he
Sat May 3, 2025, 09:58 AM
54 min ago

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.....

Ping Tung

(2,262 posts)
20. If found it should be easy to store. Does anyone have a thimble Size small
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:38 PM
21 hrs ago
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Irish_Dem

(69,082 posts)
22. Trump is a vicious, ruthless, sadistic psychopath who will destroy this country,
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:45 PM
21 hrs ago

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)
25. It appalls me how the basturd gets away in the media with his verbal vomit....
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:52 PM
20 hrs ago

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. - - - - - - - - -

senseandsensibility

(21,866 posts)
34. No, no you have it all wrong
Fri May 2, 2025, 02:05 PM
20 hrs ago

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)
35. I'm sure our Dem leadership will get right on that.
Fri May 2, 2025, 02:06 PM
20 hrs ago

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

stillcool

(33,715 posts)
60. really? "The 'rest of them"
Fri May 2, 2025, 04:51 PM
18 hrs ago

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)
36. Presidential Weekend at Bernies
Fri May 2, 2025, 02:11 PM
20 hrs ago

If Trump dies in office, I full expect the Republicans to still prop him up before giving power to Vance, ala Weekend at Bernie.

dchill

(42,198 posts)
41. "Sadly, that's not news." But it is...
Fri May 2, 2025, 02:34 PM
20 hrs ago

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.

wiggs

(8,222 posts)
44. Every story or discussion about his actions should BEGIN with questions about his limitations, disorders, past
Fri May 2, 2025, 03:10 PM
19 hrs ago

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.

Response to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

pansypoo53219

(22,163 posts)
49. drumpf NEEDS editing + he has no minders now. this is what he was last time, but he was stopped before.
Fri May 2, 2025, 04:19 PM
18 hrs ago

BigDemVoter

(4,619 posts)
50. Just reading that
Fri May 2, 2025, 04:22 PM
18 hrs ago

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.

Self Esteem

(2,097 posts)
59. Yeah. He sounds very little unchanged from 2020 or 2016 or 2009 for that matter.
Fri May 2, 2025, 04:46 PM
18 hrs ago

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.

Godot51

(439 posts)
62. It should be...
Fri May 2, 2025, 06:41 PM
16 hrs ago

... 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)
64. Other people are running the country.
Fri May 2, 2025, 06:57 PM
15 hrs ago

Trump is signing things, mouthing off, lying,
and playing golf.

Grins

(8,320 posts)
67. He can't complete a sentence!!!!
Fri May 2, 2025, 08:23 PM
14 hrs ago

I’ve 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)
68. It amazes me how many fucking people thought he was coherent in his first term. He sure as fuck wasn't. But that said,
Sat May 3, 2025, 12:54 AM
9 hrs ago

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)
73. Trump's cognitive decline will never lead to his removal from power
Sat May 3, 2025, 10:03 AM
48 min ago

Despite unending efforts over the past ten years by attention-seekers like Bandy Lee, the number of people aware of, or caring about, Trump’s mental state has changed very little. If they don’t 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

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