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It’s difficult to tell with Trump, because he’s so dumb to begin with.
People keep saying he's getting worse, but to me he just seems like the same old narcissistic racist asshole that he's always been 🤷♂️
Maybe his "charisma", if you can call it that, is faltering a bit, but he may just be off balance from the sudden storm of twists over the past month.
Odd timing to say this as his last 4-5 appearances at a microphone have mostly been a disaster. He was definitely prone to rambling in 2016 and 2020 but now he rambles all the time and in ways that don’t make a lick of sense. I really think that this is less cognitive issues and more just age of the brain slowing him down and confusing him.
We still have a long ways to go until November. So many more court appearances, rallies, engagements. I’m wondering if he even has the stamina because I think he’s weighing that and new poll data and having a meltdown about it currently.
I really want someone to sit him down and ask him who he thinks Hannibal Lector is.
Nah he's absolutely lost a marble or two since 2016 .... just like Biden did.
Maybe his “charisma”
You spelled bullshit wrong.
My grandfather had dementia, for a long time it was pretty hard to tell what was dementia and what was just him not giving a fuck. He was always someone who just did whatever he wanted and wasn't afraid to go against the grain and didn't really care what anyone thought of him, and he was kind of always that way. It would be really hard to pick apart which of his quirks were dementia related and what was just him. Standing naked in the doorway of his room at the nursing home waggling his dick at the lady across the hall sure sounds a lot like a dementia patient, but it also sounds like something an immature, womanizing troublemaker would do if they knew they were pretty much immune from getting in any actual trouble.
He didn't have the most severe case of dementia, it didn't progress super fast, I'm sure if I went months or years without seeing him I could have picked out some changes, but since we saw him regularly it was really difficult to see the changes over time.
And if he had an army of lackeys getting paid to cover up his mistakes and trying to keep him in line, he probably could have passed as relatively mentally competent almost up until the very end.
I won't pretend that my grandfather's moral compass always pointed north, but he definitely had one. He could also be pretty charming and personable when he wanted to. If he threw his morals out the window and had any political ambitions, he probably could have become an even more dangerous trump if someone had given him a small loan of a million dollars. Luckily all he ever really wanted to do was drive a bus.
Funnily enough, most of his siblings ended up fairly rich thanks to a successful business venture my grandfather wasn't interested in. Those branches of the family turned out a lot of real conservative assholes, and once the money started drying up, also a lot of criminals a generation or two down the line.
Trump received closer to 400M. His father was steady moving money to him to avoid it being taxed for literally his entire life.
I get the feeling…. His family doesn’t like him.
It's not just his family
Ivanka and Jared stuck to him like glue during his presidency, nowadays they are nowhere to be seen. I think they lost interest once the grift ran out.
They cashed in big enough to secure their billionaire status and don't need the doompa loompa anymore.
Rats aren't known for sticking with sinking ships. He's going down in this election, his going to prison, and people around him are liable to go down for the shit they did.
Didn’t Jared get a big amount from the Saudis?
Just do the same as with his dad. Put him in a room with a fake phone giving him random stuff to sign so he thinks he still has a say in anything
Worked with Reagan.
This has always been the way
Edit: play-diet-cokes
Amazing. Like giving your little brother a video game controller that isn't connected.
Creedthoughts.gov
Film it and name it "Good Bye, Putin!"
I was disowned for pointing out my mother was losing her faculties. They both died without once acknowledging it. Preferring instead to pretend no one noticed until it couldn't be ignored. That nephew is probably right but that doesn't mean those shitbags wont try to punish him for it.
If you read his newly released book, all in the family, they already totally fucked him and his sister or of the inheritance because Donald needed money to pay off the failing casinos, and he manipulated his dementia riddled dad into disowning his brother's kids because his brother died trying to become a pilot instead of taking on the family business.
I wish I was making that up.
This has real David Cross "starting to regret my vote for Trump" energy.... XD
You really made me scared that David cross was a trumper. Lol glad I watched that clip and found out otherwise.
Finding out that David Cross is a trumper would be like finding out that Richard Dawkins is Catholic.
...this last spending omnibus bill is where I DRAW THE LINE!
XD
Haha yeah that was great. Thank you for the reference :D
He deserves it. I hope his last clear thoughts are full fo pain and dispair.
I don't trust it, it may be an act to give him an out similar to what happened to Ron Jeremy.