Mental competence is only a story if a Democrat is in office. Reagan got so bad that his top staffers seriously considered invoking the 25th amendment. That fact is not in dispute yet media buried that story then and still does. They treated Reagan’s obviously declining mental abilities as a funny story and often attributed it to his loss of hearing.
I agree. Republicans are still complaining that the Dems hid Biden's mental decline. I guess they forget it was Harris who ran for president. And they seem to have forgotten that Reagan had alzheimer's WHILE HE WAS IN OFFICE. But I guess that's okay because, you know, he was Republican. These people make me sick.
I want to say it's not exactly about dishonesty. It's more about maintaining respect for the person and also maintaining a 'consistency' in governing. FDR was a great president but was pretty much bound to a wheelchair. Most people at that time didn't know that. Those around him hid the disability to avoid having him appear 'weak'. And he definitely wasn't weak. With Reagan, I understand the delay in announcing his disability, and the same with Biden. I'm so tired of people saying the Democrats were hiding Biden's decline. They weren't hiding it. They talked him out of running for president again.
I find it interesting that no one ever brings up that his father died from Alzheimer's. I don't have a medical degree, but I think there is some evidence of it being hereditary. Anyone know?
Yes. That is true. His father was first diagnosed with dementia at about the same age as Donny 2 dolls. It was later diagnosed as Alzheimers. I am positive that we will see an even sharper decline now. Keep him on the golf course or article 25 him. He's got the codes!!!!!
Hi B.EA. Yes genes do play a role in Alzheimers (confirmed by an interenet research) though the state of knowledge is not strong with late onset (after 65) dementia. I'm a retired psychologist who specialized in children (and hence their teachers and parents) rather than the elderly. That said the rambly incoherence of Trump definitely merits raised eyebrows and would suggest it would be worthwhile to have a proper assessment. But that would require Trump's consent and if there's anyone smart enough to get him at present to consent to it they could make a lot more money with their ability to make intractible people change their minds than messing around assessing people with dementia.
I have a friend who was a "change of life baby". Her parents were already " old" when she was born and she had several brothers and sisters 15-20 years older. Her parents and all of her siblings had and died from Alzheimers. She is now 75 and was just diagnosed. I am sure he is TERRIFIED of it and why he has to make such a big deal of "I'm a very stable genius", how long he can talk at these rallies...except he doesn't say anything. It's the same exact script on and on and on. I think he is living on rage and resentment. If anything keeps him going, it's that.
When Fred Trump got it, they dressed him up everyday in a suit and stuck him in an office with a phone and pencils and paperclips while he could pretend he was still.CEO.
Everybody talks about Joe. I never really saw it in him. I knew he was getting older, slower, I knew he stuttered which made it sometimes more difficult for him, I knew his final debate was a disaster, but I still don't think Joe was as bad as the Tangerine Tyrant. I still think Joe is more cogent and aware than this blithering idiot. Maybe it is because Joe is inherently a.good person...while Donnie is a demon. No one will force him to do anything. They probably love it. Put an EO in his hand, have him sign it with a crayon, hold it up and take a picture, then send him off to play golf, all the while MAGA is running the asylum...right into the ground. Just like Fred...
No, please see my above about going on in this Alzheimer's route. Trump's behavior is not like what you describe in his father... not at all. Trump may end up with Alz but this is not an explanation of what we are experiencing with Trump now. And Reagan was not at all like this either. Please reconsider.
This Alzheimer's lay diagnosis is too specious a route to take. I believe Trump is mentally "off" to a treacherous-for-the-country degree. I am not a psychiatrist, nor would one be qualified to say from afar with certainty anything about his mental state but clearly he is not right. I believe his illness is more psychopathological-- narcissistic, lying or not knowing truth from fiction, memory problems from age and also lying ( that he covers over). He has had years of practicing his act on people getting away with a lot. I think his idea about people is very low, sociopathic, that he can prevail with threats. The more power he gets the more he uses to keep himself on top in his own eyes and the eyes of others who fear him. He creates this environment for himself and he uses it.. often very cruelly. He collects fearful people.He seems incapable of feeling for other people. Trump shows insatiable insecurity, the need for power. No power is enough. He wants more.
This is not, to my mind, Alzeheimer's. It's more similar manic or schizoid behavior. I have known similar behavior. But we cannot diagnose. We can see what we call not normal, mentally off.. Many do not though.
So round and round we go after this, one thing after another. WE the people have helped him do this!! We have not recognized the OBVIOUS for quite awhile as he has grown worse. Only in this trail of destruction may some come out from their own partisanship and hate/revenge/retribution cycle- maybe, hopefully.
And then there’s how he described the Declaration of Independence on the recent ABC/Moran interview. Look at Moran’s face in this clip via Bluesky as Trump shows he has no idea. .
"It's what it says it is. It's a declaration of unity and love". No you fool...it was a declaration that we weren't going to live under a king and were going to be free from a monarch/fuhrer/dictator. (And don't tell him it's a copy. He thinks it's the real one).
If it wasn't us living through this nightmare in real life, it would be like a Stanley Kubrick movie. Whatever is out there in the universe.. karma, whatever...please do something! 🙏
I think fair minded people should expect the media to give Trump's apparent intellectual shortcomings the same amount of attention and critical scrutiny as was handed out to Biden. But if Trump really is deemed mentally incapable we get President Vance. That is not a comforting thought.
I do think Vance could run a more coherent and sensible economic policy. He might even back track on tariffs but that would take guts and political courage. But in terms of making America's name stink internationally I reckon he could be even worse. Vance running foreign policy would probably be a bigger disaster than Trump.
I think about this every time someone says "Impeach him!" which is often. Consider that Vance is almost 40 years younger than Trump and he's propped up by the likes of Peter Thiel. It's one of those "the devil you know or the devil you don't know" choices. And the entire line of succession is appalling, at least until we get a Democratic Speaker of the House in January 2027.
Agreed Susanna. I think there's something to be said for an ineffectual, incompetent and possibly demented devil to a younger smarter agent of political Satanism.
Yes, this is my biggest fear. You know the expression "Don't wish too hard, you just may get it". Vance.terrifies me,.because.he is younger and smarter and way meaner. Plus the religion, and he's part of the billionaire tech bros bought and paid for by Peter Thiel. He and Curtis Yarwin are the two scariest that very few write about. Dark Enlightenment. We.are.kind.of damned if we do and damned if we don't. My wish is for a karma asteroid to wipe them all out in a single shot like the dinosaurs. Not leaving Trump, JD Vance, Elon or Mike Johnson or any of them. They are all a danger. I honestly don't think I will be alive to see the end of this. I don't know if that's good or bad.
Stephen, after reading all of the incoherent musings of the orange mad king, I had to take an aspirin and lie down. The term "word salad" was rightly coined to describe his hallucinogenic manner of rambling on and avoiding answering simple questions. And this idiot has possession of the nuclear Presidential Emergency Sachet (aka the football)!! That should keep us all up at night.
Reading Trump transcripts --word for word carefully and out loud-- can be both enlightening and terrifying. People filter and hear only what they want to hear. The problem is as much bias (notably confirmation bias, sunk cost fallacy, and cognitive dissonance) as it is how the brain processes information. Reading, word for word, eliminates the tendency to fill in phrasing, punctuation, and even the central message from such statements.
This is absolutely frightening- and then we see videos of cabinet meetings with a round robin of members praising T for his outstanding work, stoking his ego with comments about his skillful work in negotiating his lovely (not) tariffs and overall management. When they are all out of office and their actions are being dissected, it will be interesting to see how they try to spin their absolute disregard of the law, and their part in the fleecing of the American people!
"By the way. I don't.know him. I don't think I've ever met him"😂
Is there anything or anyone he DOES know? To his point, HE'S A.DISGRACE! He sounds.like my Chatty Cathy doll when I was a little girl (and I'm almost 69) You pulled her string and she talked like 3 lines.
Now we have the " Dimwit Donnie" doll: . " I don't know. "Noooo..Ive never met them. She/he it is a disgrace"!Elon needs to change his battery because he's glitching. He knows nothing about Chris Krebs but " I think he was deficient". You know enough about him to set "Pious Pam" Fake Christian Blondi after him, cancel his security clearance and even his global entry program at the airport. And if you didn't know him, how will you pick out Miles Taylor from a lineup?
HOW DO WE GET RID OF YOU??? You're like that T-2 in The Terminator! UN-KILLABLE. No matter what they try. 🍔🍟🍔 There has to be a way! Earthly or not. What is it going.to take? Even if he has Alzheimer's (which I believe he definitely does) Nancy Reagan was in charge at the end with Ronny and never let on.
I don't know how we survive to even the midterms. We will not survive 4 years of him.
This is one of the best posts I have ever read. Stephen.Just the title alone "Trump's Brain Is Gone" should win you a Pulitzer Prize. And whoever did the Time Magazine Interview too.. Pulitzers all around 🏆
Not that I’d ever be an apologist for Trump, but I saw a video clip of Stephen Miller, during some Oval Office event right after the 9-0 SCOTUS ruling on Abrego Garcia, telling Trump that the vote had been in his favor. So Trump may be confused or lying about his lawyers telling him that, but Stephen Miller definitely said it.
Delivering while insane is still delivering. Corp media, billionaires, broligarchs and corp monopolies may be starting to care now that their always demented, delusional tool is failing to deliver.
Why are people afraid to tell the emperor that he’s buck naked? Because his lack of clothing is the equivalence of his lack of intellect and mental acuity. His mindlessness offers his handlers the opportunity to rip apart our country and its institutions from the will of the people. Vicious circles coming to take our country and Constitution from us. Time to rise up!
Agreed, it has been obvious for some time that Trump’s mental decline has increased exponentially. So the question begged is, Who’s pulling the strings? Musk? Not so much lately. Vought and Miller - talk about rancid! - is my guess.
Why isn’t it a bigger story?? Corporate media’s endless sanewashing? It’s outrageous! You know The Scream? That’s how I feel but worse.
Mental competence is only a story if a Democrat is in office. Reagan got so bad that his top staffers seriously considered invoking the 25th amendment. That fact is not in dispute yet media buried that story then and still does. They treated Reagan’s obviously declining mental abilities as a funny story and often attributed it to his loss of hearing.
I agree. Republicans are still complaining that the Dems hid Biden's mental decline. I guess they forget it was Harris who ran for president. And they seem to have forgotten that Reagan had alzheimer's WHILE HE WAS IN OFFICE. But I guess that's okay because, you know, he was Republican. These people make me sick.
Reagan's alzheimer's was hidden from us. I don't think it would have been okay. This is about the dishonesty of the people around a president.
I want to say it's not exactly about dishonesty. It's more about maintaining respect for the person and also maintaining a 'consistency' in governing. FDR was a great president but was pretty much bound to a wheelchair. Most people at that time didn't know that. Those around him hid the disability to avoid having him appear 'weak'. And he definitely wasn't weak. With Reagan, I understand the delay in announcing his disability, and the same with Biden. I'm so tired of people saying the Democrats were hiding Biden's decline. They weren't hiding it. They talked him out of running for president again.
The Republican Party likes ‘em dumb & pliable.
I find it interesting that no one ever brings up that his father died from Alzheimer's. I don't have a medical degree, but I think there is some evidence of it being hereditary. Anyone know?
Yes. That is true. His father was first diagnosed with dementia at about the same age as Donny 2 dolls. It was later diagnosed as Alzheimers. I am positive that we will see an even sharper decline now. Keep him on the golf course or article 25 him. He's got the codes!!!!!
Hi B.EA. Yes genes do play a role in Alzheimers (confirmed by an interenet research) though the state of knowledge is not strong with late onset (after 65) dementia. I'm a retired psychologist who specialized in children (and hence their teachers and parents) rather than the elderly. That said the rambly incoherence of Trump definitely merits raised eyebrows and would suggest it would be worthwhile to have a proper assessment. But that would require Trump's consent and if there's anyone smart enough to get him at present to consent to it they could make a lot more money with their ability to make intractible people change their minds than messing around assessing people with dementia.
I have a friend who was a "change of life baby". Her parents were already " old" when she was born and she had several brothers and sisters 15-20 years older. Her parents and all of her siblings had and died from Alzheimers. She is now 75 and was just diagnosed. I am sure he is TERRIFIED of it and why he has to make such a big deal of "I'm a very stable genius", how long he can talk at these rallies...except he doesn't say anything. It's the same exact script on and on and on. I think he is living on rage and resentment. If anything keeps him going, it's that.
When Fred Trump got it, they dressed him up everyday in a suit and stuck him in an office with a phone and pencils and paperclips while he could pretend he was still.CEO.
Everybody talks about Joe. I never really saw it in him. I knew he was getting older, slower, I knew he stuttered which made it sometimes more difficult for him, I knew his final debate was a disaster, but I still don't think Joe was as bad as the Tangerine Tyrant. I still think Joe is more cogent and aware than this blithering idiot. Maybe it is because Joe is inherently a.good person...while Donnie is a demon. No one will force him to do anything. They probably love it. Put an EO in his hand, have him sign it with a crayon, hold it up and take a picture, then send him off to play golf, all the while MAGA is running the asylum...right into the ground. Just like Fred...
"I think he is living on rage and resentment." His bread and butter.
💯
No, please see my above about going on in this Alzheimer's route. Trump's behavior is not like what you describe in his father... not at all. Trump may end up with Alz but this is not an explanation of what we are experiencing with Trump now. And Reagan was not at all like this either. Please reconsider.
I believe it can be a factor. He's clearly on a slippery slope, and his age (and likely lifestyle) aren't helping him.
Just let him get hit in the head with a golf ball going 100 miles an hour already. ⛳
LOL!
This Alzheimer's lay diagnosis is too specious a route to take. I believe Trump is mentally "off" to a treacherous-for-the-country degree. I am not a psychiatrist, nor would one be qualified to say from afar with certainty anything about his mental state but clearly he is not right. I believe his illness is more psychopathological-- narcissistic, lying or not knowing truth from fiction, memory problems from age and also lying ( that he covers over). He has had years of practicing his act on people getting away with a lot. I think his idea about people is very low, sociopathic, that he can prevail with threats. The more power he gets the more he uses to keep himself on top in his own eyes and the eyes of others who fear him. He creates this environment for himself and he uses it.. often very cruelly. He collects fearful people.He seems incapable of feeling for other people. Trump shows insatiable insecurity, the need for power. No power is enough. He wants more.
This is not, to my mind, Alzeheimer's. It's more similar manic or schizoid behavior. I have known similar behavior. But we cannot diagnose. We can see what we call not normal, mentally off.. Many do not though.
So round and round we go after this, one thing after another. WE the people have helped him do this!! We have not recognized the OBVIOUS for quite awhile as he has grown worse. Only in this trail of destruction may some come out from their own partisanship and hate/revenge/retribution cycle- maybe, hopefully.
And then there’s how he described the Declaration of Independence on the recent ABC/Moran interview. Look at Moran’s face in this clip via Bluesky as Trump shows he has no idea. .
https://bsky.app/profile/mmpadellan.bsky.social/post/3lo3ofbf2ns2z
"It's what it says it is. It's a declaration of unity and love". No you fool...it was a declaration that we weren't going to live under a king and were going to be free from a monarch/fuhrer/dictator. (And don't tell him it's a copy. He thinks it's the real one).
If it wasn't us living through this nightmare in real life, it would be like a Stanley Kubrick movie. Whatever is out there in the universe.. karma, whatever...please do something! 🙏
Even if Trump were not in mental decline, he has never read the Declaration of Independence, just as he has never read a Bible.
I think fair minded people should expect the media to give Trump's apparent intellectual shortcomings the same amount of attention and critical scrutiny as was handed out to Biden. But if Trump really is deemed mentally incapable we get President Vance. That is not a comforting thought.
I do think Vance could run a more coherent and sensible economic policy. He might even back track on tariffs but that would take guts and political courage. But in terms of making America's name stink internationally I reckon he could be even worse. Vance running foreign policy would probably be a bigger disaster than Trump.
I think about this every time someone says "Impeach him!" which is often. Consider that Vance is almost 40 years younger than Trump and he's propped up by the likes of Peter Thiel. It's one of those "the devil you know or the devil you don't know" choices. And the entire line of succession is appalling, at least until we get a Democratic Speaker of the House in January 2027.
Agreed Susanna. I think there's something to be said for an ineffectual, incompetent and possibly demented devil to a younger smarter agent of political Satanism.
I just wrote that above before I saw your post. Yes. Yes. Yes. 💯
Yes, this is my biggest fear. You know the expression "Don't wish too hard, you just may get it". Vance.terrifies me,.because.he is younger and smarter and way meaner. Plus the religion, and he's part of the billionaire tech bros bought and paid for by Peter Thiel. He and Curtis Yarwin are the two scariest that very few write about. Dark Enlightenment. We.are.kind.of damned if we do and damned if we don't. My wish is for a karma asteroid to wipe them all out in a single shot like the dinosaurs. Not leaving Trump, JD Vance, Elon or Mike Johnson or any of them. They are all a danger. I honestly don't think I will be alive to see the end of this. I don't know if that's good or bad.
Stephen, after reading all of the incoherent musings of the orange mad king, I had to take an aspirin and lie down. The term "word salad" was rightly coined to describe his hallucinogenic manner of rambling on and avoiding answering simple questions. And this idiot has possession of the nuclear Presidential Emergency Sachet (aka the football)!! That should keep us all up at night.
They should run this daily and not stop. We are sinking rapidly and the world is laughing.
Reading Trump transcripts --word for word carefully and out loud-- can be both enlightening and terrifying. People filter and hear only what they want to hear. The problem is as much bias (notably confirmation bias, sunk cost fallacy, and cognitive dissonance) as it is how the brain processes information. Reading, word for word, eliminates the tendency to fill in phrasing, punctuation, and even the central message from such statements.
This is absolutely frightening- and then we see videos of cabinet meetings with a round robin of members praising T for his outstanding work, stoking his ego with comments about his skillful work in negotiating his lovely (not) tariffs and overall management. When they are all out of office and their actions are being dissected, it will be interesting to see how they try to spin their absolute disregard of the law, and their part in the fleecing of the American people!
"By the way. I don't.know him. I don't think I've ever met him"😂
Is there anything or anyone he DOES know? To his point, HE'S A.DISGRACE! He sounds.like my Chatty Cathy doll when I was a little girl (and I'm almost 69) You pulled her string and she talked like 3 lines.
Now we have the " Dimwit Donnie" doll: . " I don't know. "Noooo..Ive never met them. She/he it is a disgrace"!Elon needs to change his battery because he's glitching. He knows nothing about Chris Krebs but " I think he was deficient". You know enough about him to set "Pious Pam" Fake Christian Blondi after him, cancel his security clearance and even his global entry program at the airport. And if you didn't know him, how will you pick out Miles Taylor from a lineup?
HOW DO WE GET RID OF YOU??? You're like that T-2 in The Terminator! UN-KILLABLE. No matter what they try. 🍔🍟🍔 There has to be a way! Earthly or not. What is it going.to take? Even if he has Alzheimer's (which I believe he definitely does) Nancy Reagan was in charge at the end with Ronny and never let on.
I don't know how we survive to even the midterms. We will not survive 4 years of him.
This is one of the best posts I have ever read. Stephen.Just the title alone "Trump's Brain Is Gone" should win you a Pulitzer Prize. And whoever did the Time Magazine Interview too.. Pulitzers all around 🏆
It's truly amazing the pass Trump gets on all of this. To imagine nearly 4 more years of this...
Oh G-d Andrew, NO! Don't even make me go there 🙏 I don't know how we can survive another.4 months 😥
Not that I’d ever be an apologist for Trump, but I saw a video clip of Stephen Miller, during some Oval Office event right after the 9-0 SCOTUS ruling on Abrego Garcia, telling Trump that the vote had been in his favor. So Trump may be confused or lying about his lawyers telling him that, but Stephen Miller definitely said it.
Delivering while insane is still delivering. Corp media, billionaires, broligarchs and corp monopolies may be starting to care now that their always demented, delusional tool is failing to deliver.
Why are people afraid to tell the emperor that he’s buck naked? Because his lack of clothing is the equivalence of his lack of intellect and mental acuity. His mindlessness offers his handlers the opportunity to rip apart our country and its institutions from the will of the people. Vicious circles coming to take our country and Constitution from us. Time to rise up!
Agreed, it has been obvious for some time that Trump’s mental decline has increased exponentially. So the question begged is, Who’s pulling the strings? Musk? Not so much lately. Vought and Miller - talk about rancid! - is my guess.
PS: the greatest line ever written about his "interviews"
"improvisational fascist jazz performance"
....otherwise known by this babbling, blithering village idiot as " the weave". LOL.
'Rescue America'