Donald Trump on Saturday shouted out North Carolina from the stage while speaking at his rally in Pennsylvania, leading some observers to ask if the former president simply forgot where he was. Trump, who earlier in the speech admitted to going "off teleprompter" to insult his former political fo...
  • ZK686@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    3 months ago

    Oh brother… this is just an attempt to attack his mental state because of what happened to Biden. Everyone and their mother said “Biden is fine…” only to be lying through their teeth…

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      351·
      3 months ago

      So, are the people saying “Trump is fine…” lying through their teeth? Maybe they should swap him for a different candidate, like Biden?

    • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
      111·
      3 months ago

      Watch the video in the linked article. Ignore the North Carolina thing. He just rambles and makes no sense at all. He looks bad.

      Also everybody and their mother did not say Biden was fine. Many many people were concerned about his age. We all hoped he was okay because the alternative is literally unthinkable.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      Geriatrics who are suffering from dementia don’t belong in office. We need someone who knows where they are and what year it is.

      The Repubs should run a candidate without dementia. Ideally they would consider choosing someone who is neither a rapist nor insurrectionist but that seems to be impossible since Repubs love voting for criminals.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      What you are saying is not true. Plenty of people, even adamant supporters, were concerned about how he sounded, but ultimately said he would do a fine job because he had proven himself to be an effective executive. The only people denying, in whole, that their candidate is perfectly fine are Trump supporters. They can’t do otherwise as it’s a cult, and he’s the cult leader.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      842·
      3 months ago

      Donald Trump strikes me like nothing so much as a man who has never really known a love that he hasn’t had to pay for — Snowden

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          The best part about that burn, is that Trump and most MAGA’s probably wouldn’t even register it as an insult. “they’d be real upset if they could read”.

          • Zink@programming.dev
            3·
            3 months ago

            It doesn’t even need to be an illiteracy or stupidity jab. A big part of that world sees love as something for wimps who can’t afford the actual nice things in life. The things that are flashy on the surface but hollow inside, just like them.

  • barsquid@lemmy.world
    43·
    3 months ago

    Is the dementia getting worse this year? I don’t think so. To some degree, he has always been this way. Revolutionary war airports and such. Trumpanzee cultists have just not been listening in prior years.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      To an authoritarian, the only true crime is weakness, and this is the first time that Trump has been truly weak since he came down that escalator. They may start talking about his mental decline, but the decline they really care about is in the polls.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      It’s always been bad, but also doesn’t stress usually make it worse?I’m sure he’s more stressed than ever, since if he loses the election he almost certainly goes to jail (assuming he lives that long), and it certainly looks like he may potentially lose if everyone gets out and votes.

      • Snapz@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        Believe me, I hesitated, but look at them side by side, it was just too close. Now imagine trump with his actual hair (or lack of hair) and it’s uncanny.

  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
    1022·
    3 months ago

    He’s a stupid old man. But this is the sort of non-news story smear campaign for “candidate too old”. It’s the same exact story for Trump as it was for Biden a few months ago. Both may be true, but let’s stop being hypocritical.

    Also if anyone has done a traveling sales pitch, which is all he’s doing, this happens sometimes. One of the presentations I have and give to people all over the planet is basically the exact same thing for all but 1 or 2 slides because it’s “tailored for every audience”. You go on autopilot. And sometimes you seriously don’t know where you are. You get on a plane and show up. The only people that care he missed the name of the place are people too stupid to realize he doesn’t care. He doesn’t care where he is, it could be Iowa or Montana or Missouri, they’re all shithole places to him and he just wants back on his plane and to GTFO as soon as possible. These aren’t his people. He really could not care less than he does.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      181·
      3 months ago

      He spent months, or even years, saying his political opponent was not mentally fit enough to be president, especially because of his age. He is now showing that he is the candidate who is not mentally fit enough to be president, especially because of his age. Any chance to point this out, even if the individual instance might have another explanation, is perfectly fair game.

      Although, I will agree with you, that he actually doesn’t give a shit about these people and that might explain the lapse too. But that ain’t any better.

  • riodoro1@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 months ago

    He was mentally challenged 8 years ago. What the fuck are they expecting? That he’ll learn to read all of a sudden?

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, this is something that happens to almost every candidate at one point or another. He has less of an excuse, because he’s not exactly barnstorming across the states, but it’s not even top 100 stupidest things he’s said.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    61·
    3 months ago

    Archive

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
    233·
    3 months ago

    Fwiw, he’s looking over and pointing at a group of North Carolinians that he references right before this clip, so he wasn’t actually addressing the Pennsylvania audience. But, this sort of misleading editing and attack are the kind of thing his campaign does all the time, so, tough titty.

    • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      I don’t know whether to agree or disagree with you. First and foremost, I don’t have the facts, so I say the following generically. We do not need misinformation to make him look bad. I am worried all of this is a ploy to BoTh SiDeS!

      • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 months ago

        Whatever the facts are, I can tell you that if you watch the video clip in the linked article you will hear a rambling man spout out unintelligible, complete and utter nonsense. Even if you give the guy the benefit of the doubt on the North Carolina thing, he still seems lost in his own train of thought

        • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Thank you for taking the bullet, I will not be watching that man in any capacity if I can help it. This furthers my point that we don’t need the misinformation, he’ll take care of it himself

        • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          If you watch the rest of the accompanying clip, he’s also lost in his own grandiose vision of himself - going on about how he spoke for 2 hours and they wanted him to speak more, people are stealing his “wonderful, beautiful phrases”, etc. It’s clinically narcissistic.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      Hmm, your context sounds plausible, but people have been saying he is too old and has dementia to the point that he doesn’t know what state he is in. People have been saying his brain is melting from both age and syphilis, the Adderall abuse isn’t helping either.