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I have incredibly low expectations for Trump, but virtually every day he somehow still astonishes me with his idiocy.
But, what's a lot more disturbing is that nobody in this administration is trying to keep him out of the spotlight.
It was awful that when Biden's team realized he was losing his mental faculties, they kept it under wraps and tried to act like everything was normal. But, at least they realized that he wasn't normal, and that the world wouldn't have confidence if the US president was in visible cognitive decline. Normally when an elder gets dementia, you take away the car keys. But here they're letting Trump drive, and they're sitting in the car with him as he drives down the sidewalk, and they're grinning, acting like everything is normal.
The only slight hint of normality here is that he's apparently taken a lot of cognitive exams lately. That's not normal, so someone must be convincing him that it's necessary, and actually managing to get him to repeatedly take that test. Maybe it actually will reach a point where he fails the cognitive test badly enough that they take away the keys. Then again, with MAGA if he orders the US to nuke Greenland, there's a pretty decent chance they'll do it rather than risk what could happen if they question his orders.
What's funny is the only meaningful reason to administer multiple cognitive tests over this time period is to systematically track changes in cognitive performance over time.
Why would a doctor need to monitor this? Because observing changes across repeated assessments helps determine whether cognitive function is stable, improving, or declining, and whether any intervention, treatment, or further investigation is warranted.
Repeated cognitive tests should not be interpreted as proof that Trump has great cognitive performance. What they usually mean is that a doctor is paying closer attention and keeping an eye on things over time, because they have identified some uncertainty, risk factor, or possible concern that they want to monitor, and not because everything is obviously fine, no issues, nothing to see here folks.
Yeah, exactly. If you have a cognitive test and everything is as expected, they're not going to schedule another one just for fun. And, while you could have a second one to show that things are improving... improving from what? What cognitive impairment was there where he was expected to show improvement? There's no way to spin having multiple cognitive tests as a good thing, regardless of how he performed on them.
It is meant to be astonishing you so you think he is inkompetent and therefore not dangerous while he signs implements from the heart of republikan far right extremist agenda into law. He is dangerous. There is a very good reason that historically we have preferred intelligent well spoken heads of state, even when those haven't the sole responsibility to lead