It's so hard to tell, cuz he barely "had it" to begin with.
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the confusion sets in
... Slowly?
His underlings will prop him up for as long as he's useful.
Like that other guy. Stalin?
Finally catching up? This has been going on for years.
Just need to keep the pressure on so the stress does it's work and eventually he'll just start talking about shit he shouldn't on live tv
Can’t lose what you never had.
Did the same with Biden. I’m tired, boss.
I'm not sure he ever had it
There's a video of him on the campaign trail taking a question from Maria Butina in 2016. Honestly, listening to him speak now compared to then is a huge difference. He was so much more animated and with it than now, it's worth a watch.
https://youtu.be/FGj3btgPZ3w if you're interested
Mad cow!
Yeah, but Biden.
Sadly I think the Biden case is very relevant to this story.
Democrats hid President Biden away for months, but they couldn't hide his disasterous "I defeated Medicare" debate performance. Do you remember what it was like in the months after that? I remember being so anxious watching Biden public appearances, hoping he doesn't make a fool of himself. And then when he inevitably flubbed, I remember feeling such deep dread, thinking "oh God, Trump is going to be president again".
As the Republicans begin to give Trump the "Weekend at Bernie's" treatment, Democratic criticism will not land as hard because we have so much footage of Dems standing behind Biden during his serious cognitive decline.
Prepare yourself for "it's just a stutter"-type memes.
“Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There's very little difference between a madman and a genius,” he said. Trump then said he once asked his uncle about the Unabomber.
“What kind of a student was he, Uncle John? He said: 'What kind of a student — seriously, good ... he’d go around correcting everybody. But it didn't work out too well for him. Didn't work out too well, but it's interesting in life,'” Trump said.
Don’t send bombs through the mail, me boys! But it was too late.