Trump rally shows he lacks mental acuity to continue as GOP candidate
By: Rex Huppke (USA TODAY)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Folks, I'm worried about Donald Trump and his mental decline, which was on full display at a rally Tuesday night on one of his Florida golf courses.
Folks, I'm worried about Donald Trump and his mental decline, which was on vivid display at a rally Tuesday night on one of his Florida golf courses.
During the event, the former president slurred words, claimed his son Don Jr. is married when he's actually just engaged, and consistently described the world around him in a manner wholly inconsistent with reality.
During one heartbreaking moment, Trump stopped talking for a full minute while the usual eerie music favored by an unhinged conspiracy group called QAnon played in the background. He sweatily moved his head back and forth and randomly pointed at people, appearing to not know exactly what he was doing.
It's clear Trump lacks the mental capacity to run against Biden
It was tough to watch, but there's little question the 78-year-old no longer has the faculties needed to take on President Joe Biden in the race for the presidency. It's now up to Trump's family and responsible members of the Republican Party to find a way for him to gracefully step aside and let a younger and more competent candidate take over, possibly someone like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
At one point during Tuesday's rally, Trump said tourists who go to Washington, D.C., and visit the Jefferson Memorial or the Washington Monument "end up getting shot, mugged, raped." It was troubling to see a man hoping to become president again act so confused. Violent crime in the District of Columbia is down more than 20% this year, as crime nationwide has plummeted.
Trump's delusions continued as he incorrectly identified America as "a Third World nation," babbled confusingly about the fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter and then very freely said, without a hint of irony, "We are a nation where free speech is no longer allowed."
Trump's rally was sad to watch, as the 78-year-old has clearly lost it
It was truly sad. We've all known older friends or relatives whose minds have started to slip. There's no shame in it. But surely the Republican Party knows that with Trump so clearly in decline, it can't win in November.
At one point during his speech, Trump appeared to completely forget that hundreds of his supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, injuring police officers and desecrating the halls of our nation's government. Those domestic terrorists have been tried for their crimes, convicted and properly sentenced, yet Trump said: "But when people who love our country protest on January 6 in Washington, they become hostages unfairly imprisoned for long periods of time."
What the heck was he talking about?
Slurred words, imagined dystopian scenes and a rant about airports
Trump slurred his words again while apparently making a promise that, if reelected, no American will ever overdose on drugs again: "Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing and hosplee."
I don't know what hosplee means. I don't even know if Trump knows what it means or if he even knew he was there in the South Florida heat, randomly talking about airports:
"We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess. You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won't leave, that they have no idea when they will, where tickets prices have tripled, they don't have the pilots to fly the planes, they don't seek qualified air traffic controllers and they just don't know what the hell they are doing."
Trump's imagined view of dystopian airports has no basis in reality. This past Sunday, a one-day record of 3 million travelers were screened by the Transportation Security Administration.
USA TODAY recently reported that the average domestic airfare last year was only 9% more than what it was in 2019, compared with overall inflation at 19% in the same period.
Old Trump truly needs to step aside for the good of the country
Trump's clear disconnect from reality, which he admirably tries to cover with incessant lies, should prompt pundits, political strategists and all major news outlets to immediately call for him to step aside, for the good of the country.
He's obviously too old and frail to handle the rigors of another four-year term.
I look forward to the breathless news coverage and weighty editorials about a presidential candidate who has so clearly become unelectable.
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The Republican Party is trying its damnedest to distract and mislead the American voters about its dementia-ridden, incoherent candidate.
apparently, they're doing a bang up job, cause while all should be aware of the psychotic neurotic cult leading byproduct of a educaztion system that has failed US and then some, it is truly amazing the amount of US that are apparently quite dumb.
While Biden is not ones first choice that comes to mind, to even think about Trump, as a better alternative is just disturbing, as his grab for a stroked ego, and ultimate power, leads one to believe he is often thinking of Putin, in a golden shower, for this maniacal menace of the apprentice has become quite the master of disaster and a true threat to our country, that should be quite easy to see, but when so many lies and diabolical deliberate distortions of the actual truth are distributed, and basically they can be attributed to the one holder of over 30,000 lies while in office, while all the while his base following doesn't seem to be swayed at tall, it seems that far more than just Trump have lost their minds, and unfortunately, he's helping far too many to keep it that way, each and every day,
and night
he says he was the apple of Putin's eye.
Trump Claims He’s the Putin Whisperer: ‘I Was the Apple of His Eye’
They are avoiding your seed.
No doubt...
That's as expected.
1. It sets forth the truth about their Lord and Master, which is something they cannot handle.
2. What could they possibly say that we would actually have any interest in reading?
......trump is a retard.
Mmmm...
Biden is an empty vessel....
they're trying real hard to project trump's incoherent psycho-babble upon biden. trump has nothing but bullshit to run on...
Pretty much the whole republican party has nothing but bullshit to run on.
it's a conga line of willful ignorance.
the GOP have no accomplishments to campaign on so they have to make this election personal...
What else is new?
I guarantee nobody at that rally noticed...
their maga hats are too tight. they couldn't get them off last night. a week went by and now it's july. they finally got them off and their kids cried, you're maga morons mom and dad...
apologies to frank zappa.
This is a very well done article.
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Sometimes you can figure out what he means when his brain freezes on a word just by seeing the context. This one is a puzzlement though.
This begs the question - what drug cocktail was he on during the debate?
meth & PCP
diet coke
I think he was trying to say "hospitalized", but being a 12 letter word it was beyond his capabilities.
any word exceeding 3 syllables...
It's time to start the 'lie counter' for Donald again. People are becoming numb to that monster's ability to lie-lie-lie. We can't let it stand. Because Truth matters!
What is stunning is the amount of people who wish to live in Donald's alternative world. That he can 'pull' people into that world through influence to surrender their power to him is astounding. When I see Donald Trump. . "The Lying Wonder" I imagine:
what books are on the floor ?
the ones going into the fireplace next...
not if Mein Kompf , The Cat in the Hat, or Debbie does Donny, as she bites off his tiny mushroom headed salami
pretty sure that trump is still under a non-compete from slim jim ...
i could picture a Slim Jim promotion featuring seductive Stormy jackin off Daniels' perpendicular putty pounder, while screamin Snap into a Mushroom headed bread stick, with Trumps tiny serpentine salamander wigglin round like a tiny earth worm pulled in two while the Stormy thighs and skys open up, and reign down upon Trumpy, a Golden Showered White Powered by White Powder extravaganza, where Mushroom little boy penis is forced to asexually procreate with a slug , a blood sucken not fckn hermaphrodite gone wild, as it sexually assaults it self, then has to pay itself, $135,000 , and then $85,000,000.00 cause it couldn't keep its mouth shut, Snap into a hermaphrodites' tiny mushroom headed broken breadstick for a dick like a two piece slimy salamander sychophant slim Jim BABY !
sorry, puffin a tad early today and my imigination has been known to float away
that would add an interesting variable into his story...
The theme is "Truth" and "lies" . . .well, we can say 'Truth' is littered about while lie is at its ghoulish best! (Sorry to have taken so long to get back to it.)
puffin is good any time of day
yes, yes it is, unless i have something to get done, as my add just doe
Arvo..
I just wish lightening would strike twice and solve the problem instantly..for both sides and the rest of the world..
a big dose of vegemite to each could alter the course of american history...
Evening Vangy...crikey!!...
Now there's a thought..😁
We could save you mob and the world...🦘
half the mob would probably try to make it's consumption mandatory by law...
Does it help keep one regular? I think that's what might be needed in this country
keeping their heads from obstructing the opening should be the primary focus of that half ...
OZ to the rescue.
Morning..we stand by our mates..
Morning Trouty...Nahh doesn't help in that department..
Besides we thought there was enough verbal diarrhoea over there to sink a battle ship at the moment..
Geez did Biden really call Zelenskyy Putin because it is headlines here??
That's what is being reported. The right wingers are all over that slip of the tongue, but ignore the fact that Trump calls Putin a genius, which is infinitely worse.
Right wingers (on another article) are 'all over' the first 3 part question which in part asked about V.P. Harris and Biden slipped and called out Trump's name. It was little, but so far it's wha they've got on him.
That lightning should only strike the one who has earned it and put us all out of our misery - the convicted felon and rapist former 'president'
don't forget traitor and humper of sex workers...
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What I don't understand is if Biden has a constant cough, . . .why don't he have any water about the podiums? Does he not want it? Does his staff not prepare for it?
Yes, there should be water there. Unless they are afraid of him looking bad sipping a bottle of water?
It happened to Trump in the past.
Interesting. It does draw attention to a 'nagging' cough. Usually, a speaker will take a sip when the audience member is speaking (a question). It would serve him well if his wife/staff got 'help' for it.
Yes, Trump drinking water was. . .interesting. . .a two-hand event. (a little weird, but I have even done it since myself due to ice or something in the bottle.)