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Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls
(www.theguardian.com)
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But… that’s the sugar free one… he must have been on something else.
I mean, 3 diet cokes is a lot of caffeine.
Edit: I've been corrected that 3 diet cokes is, in fact, not a lot of caffeine. Guess he's micro-dosing amphetamines. My bad, y'all.
A 12oz Diet Coke is 46mg caffeine. A cup of coffee is about 150mg.
Yeah, came here to say this. Soda generally doesn't have a lot of caffeine compared to coffee.
From someone who has been on the caffeine pony - caffeine withdrawal is no joke. If he's been deprived of his diet cokes for medical reasons, it makes total sense that they'd give him some right before a televised address read from a teleprompter that he wasn't supposed to deviate from.
As a regular consumer of caffeine, let me assure you it is not. As someone else said, he had the equivalent of a cup of coffee. I personally don't start suffering any significant withdrawal symptoms until I have more than 100 mg per day, and fairly significant withdrawal symptoms if I regularly have over 400 mg per day. But even as a single dose of caffeine, 150 mg is pretty typical. That said, caffeine can give a temporary boost to cognitive function, even for dementia patients.
They must have meant diet cocaine. As in not cut with sugar.
There's no such thing as a "sugar high". This is just Trump being Trump. He's been an idiot for ever.
Remember his speech to the boy scouts in his first term?
I don't remember the speech, but I'm guessing he was complimenting how hot their younger sisters were.
He deviated into a story about a rich guy he knows with a boat, and what sort of parties happened on that boat.... I think hookers were mentioned. To children..!
So... he was trying to recruit their sisters, then.
only 3? With the way he consumes those things, he was probably actually going through a withdrawal
Hint: He was sniffing a lot during that drooling speech.....