The elephant in the room - Donald Trump's physical and mental deterioration

[Vittorio]

Every lie made about the great President Reagan seems to be true of the 45th President.

Lol, this is actually a thought which passed through someone's synapses en route to their fingertips.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Trump speaks at HBCU:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1171498439651127296

He looks awful. (Perhaps its the light?) He's incoherent. (Not that he's ever particularly coherent.) And apparently he doesn't want any astronauts in his Space Force, today. (Maybe he just doesn't want any non-white astronauts?)

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Trump Called Out ‘Where’s My Favorite Dictator?’ When Looking for Egyptian President at G7

During a reception at the Hotel du Palais in Biarritz, France, at the recent G7 summit, President Donald Trump was looking for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and called out, “Where’s my favorite dictator?” according to the Wall Street Journal, citing several people who were in the room at the time.

According to the witnesses, Trump appeared to be joking, but, the Journal said, “his question was met by a stunned silence.”

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Trump is seriously, frighteningly unstable – the world is in danger

I think we have to face the truth that no one seems to want to admit. This is no longer a case of excessive narcissism or grandiosity. We’re not simply dealing with an unusually large ego.

The president of the United States is seriously, frighteningly, dangerously unstable. And he’s getting worse by the day.

[President Johnson]

Trump speaks at HBCU:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1171498439651127296

He looks awful. (Perhaps its the light?) He's incoherent. (Not that he's ever particularly coherent.) And apparently he doesn't want any astronauts in his Space Force, today. (Maybe he just doesn't want any non-white astronauts?)

But, but look at Sleepy Joe...

[Crumpets]

Trump speaks at HBCU:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1171498439651127296

He looks awful. (Perhaps its the light?) He's incoherent. (Not that he's ever particularly coherent.) And apparently he doesn't want any astronauts in his Space Force, today. (Maybe he just doesn't want any non-white astronauts?)

What ever happened to “Tan Mom” Patricia Krentcil?

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

I have always found it odd how Republicans hate brown people, but their disgusting fake tans make them look more like the people they hate.

[Badger]

Trump is seriously, frighteningly unstable – the world is in danger

I think we have to face the truth that no one seems to want to admit. This is no longer a case of excessive narcissism or grandiosity. We’re not simply dealing with an unusually large ego.

The president of the United States is seriously, frighteningly, dangerously unstable. And he’s getting worse by the day.

Short but excellent article.

Notable how silent the blue avatars are, present company excepted

[T'Chenka]

I have always found it odd how Republicans hate brown people, but their disgusting fake tans make them look more like the people they hate.

It's deeper than skin (even though it also isn't). Elderly upper class racist white Republicans could steal young fit brown bodies to walk around in (like in that movie) in order to prolong their lives, and they would sit in the mirror and admire their own brown beauty, only to then turn around and hate the other brown people - unless they knew there was a white guy inside pulling the puppet strings.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunned by Trump's press conference

As a political reporter for most of the last 30 years I have also endured many long and rambling political press conferences with Australian prime ministers and world leaders.

But watching a full presidential Trump press conference while visiting the US this week I realised how much the reporting of Trump necessarily edits and parses his words, to force it into sequential paragraphs or impose meaning where it is difficult to detect.

I’ve read so many stories about his bluster and boasting and ill-founded attacks, I’ve listened to speeches and hours of analysis, and yet I was still taken back by just how disjointed and meandering the unedited president could sound. Here he was trying to land the message that he had delivered at least something towards one of his biggest campaign promises and sounding like a construction manager with some long-winded and badly improvised sales lines.

I’d understood the dilemma of normalising Trump’s ideas and policies – the racism, misogyny and demonisation of the free press. But watching just one press conference from Otay Mesa helped me understand how the process of reporting about this president can mask and normalise his full and alarming incoherence.

(Fox News has it on video at length.)

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1175762997920391168

The entire helicopter-presser this morning was even worse than Mr. Trump's usual disgustingly low bar, both in presentation, topics, and coherence. (If I can find an online video of the whole thing, I'll link it here.)

[Crumpets]

Are we just going to ignore that Trump clearly has the legs of a satyr, and is thus likely the Antichrist?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

At the start of Sleepy Story time at the UN with Mr. Trump, where he reads a story that obviously is new to him about a United States where people are not discriminated against for their religion, he appears to forget the Vice President's name.

"I want to thank Vice President... <checks notes> Pence"


https://youtu.be/is6yXchwryY?t=44

[GeorgiaModerate]

At the start of Sleepy Story time at the UN with Mr. Trump, where he reads a story that obviously is new to him about a United States where people are not discriminated against for their religion, he appears to forget the Vice President's name.

"I want to thank Vice President... <checks notes> Pence"


https://youtu.be/is6yXchwryY?t=44

Pence is very forgettable.

[pbrower2a]

I have always found it odd how Republicans hate brown people, but their disgusting fake tans make them look more like the people they hate.

It's deeper than skin (even though it also isn't). Elderly upper class racist white Republicans could steal young fit brown bodies to walk around in (like in that movie) in order to prolong their lives, and they would sit in the mirror and admire their own brown beauty, only to then turn around and hate the other brown people - unless they knew there was a white guy inside pulling the puppet strings.

I've never seen that movie but I can imagine the sexual innuendos.

[T'Chenka]

I have always found it odd how Republicans hate brown people, but their disgusting fake tans make them look more like the people they hate.

It's deeper than skin (even though it also isn't). Elderly upper class racist white Republicans could steal young fit brown bodies to walk around in (like in that movie) in order to prolong their lives, and they would sit in the mirror and admire their own brown beauty, only to then turn around and hate the other brown people - unless they knew there was a white guy inside pulling the puppet strings.

I've never seen that movie but I can imagine the sexual innuendos.

There is a scene of an older white guy telling his daughter's new(ish) black boyfriend - unprompted - that he voted for Obama twice. It's a good watch.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1176543508771069952
A crook who got caught red-handed, or a sick old man who doesn't even know that he said something different yesterday?

[Badger]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1176543508771069952
A crook who got caught red-handed, or a sick old man who doesn't even know that he said something different yesterday?

Yes.

[pbrower2a]

It keeps getting worse. Diminished capacity may be a stronger case.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/JohnMTalmadgeMD/status/1176503101420949506

And going off another post from the same twitter handle, does anyone have any video of Mr. Trump conducting a normal conversation over the last few months?

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

People need to stop with this nonsense.

Politicians and Presidents are under almost 24/7 media cameras and scrutiny. Imagine having a camera follow you around daily for years - it would document some pretty stupid moments. Why? Because it’s human to ‘have a moment’. It just so happens that those moments are exposed for the world to see with Trump et al.

Very sophomoric to make such assertions of mental instability. We’re better than that.

[Nyvin]

People need to stop with this nonsense.

Politicians and Presidents are under almost 24/7 media cameras and scrutiny. Imagine having a camera follow you around daily for years - it would document some pretty stupid moments. Why? Because it’s human to ‘have a moment’. It just so happens that those moments are exposed for the world to see with Trump et al.

Very sophomoric to make such assertions of mental instability. We’re better than that.

If this was the case, you'd think the one time he wouldn't show mental instability would be during speeches standing on a podium in front of a crowd though.

[pbrower2a]

People need to stop with this nonsense.

Politicians and Presidents are under almost 24/7 media cameras and scrutiny. Imagine having a camera follow you around daily for years - it would document some pretty stupid moments. Why? Because it’s human to ‘have a moment’. It just so happens that those moments are exposed for the world to see with Trump et al.

Very sophomoric to make such assertions of mental instability. We’re better than that.

Being wrong and correcting oneself is not a lie. Such is the definitive expression of integrity.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

People need to stop with this nonsense.

Politicians and Presidents are under almost 24/7 media cameras and scrutiny. Imagine having a camera follow you around daily for years - it would document some pretty stupid moments. Why? Because it’s human to ‘have a moment’. It just so happens that those moments are exposed for the world to see with Trump et al.

That should make it very easy to produce a video, taken within the last 3 months, of him having a normal conversation, One where he demonstrates both basic understanding of the subject of discussion and the ability to follow the thread of the conversation.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Although speaking of videos,
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1178055467987275776

Lies and typical Trumpish "accuse others of what I'm doing" aside, notice that the White House found it necessary to patch together 3 different takes to create a thirty-eight second video clip.