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      Selective memory. While he probably absolutely does suffer from dementia, he’ll say whatever in the moment he thinks will make him seem the least amount of shitty. He frequently fails.

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      Erase him from news pls, we can’t read news from grannies who should have been forced to retire ages to. At least choose wise old men, possibly a literate one who’s got better chance to still have a working memory

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    I know someone like this. A lot of the possible dementia-induced-confusion is indistinguishable from the pre-dementia reality-distorting lies and malice, to the point you suspect even they don’t know what’s real anymore.

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    the people in here saying look how dumb he is can you fucking not fall for this BS please. he was very specific and direct with his language so no amount of Steve urkel “did I do that” shit walks back anything he does. and the public should not let that be the norm.

    "ohh that’s our dumb donny. " U fux

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      It seems like he shit talks and threatens people until they seem to give him something he wants. Then it’s “no waaaay we’re buds!”

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      There was literally a comedy central show called “Thats Our Bush”. Republican presidents being massive dumbasses has been the norm here for 25 years.

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        Pepperidge Farm remembers bush, and that show. it’s sort of the same basic premise. the general population glosses over actions of the president as dumb and dismisses them just the same. Bush wasn’t an idiot either and should be tried for crimes but would never stick today.

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    Trump is a confused, sick old man, with possible dementia. I think they have him take a regiment of various pills that boost him through the day, prolonging the rot happening on the inside. Makes him docile and a good little puppet. We hate him for good reason but its inhumane we let a person like this be president.

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      Possible dementia? I watched one of his speeches live recently and he randomly jumped backwards almost to the beginning and repeated himself without batting an eye at least twice. The creepy part was the reporters just ignoring it and continuing to ask questions as if nothing had happened.

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        Yeah he’s just a puppet of the oligarchy, and it’s far too late. His “benefactors” have been sending him instructions on judges to hire, people to promote to his cabinet, executive orders to sign, etc, and he does it all and then spews some nonsense in interviews. Pretty incredible how easy it was to buy the US government.

        The funny part though is when the plan starts to fall apart because a party based on distrust can’t function.

        https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-files-pam-bondi-sends-fiery-note-kash-patel-accusing-fbi-withholding-docs.amp

        I’m sourcing Fox News on purpose here. The Trump puppets are now bickering and it took like a month. The collapse is imminent unless some strong judges stop sending strongly worded letters and what’s left of the congress that cares begins voting unanimously and proposing bills unanimously to block what’s happening.

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    I don’t think this one was dementia. Qt least not primarily. He’s used to gaslighting in his personal life, and here he’s simply gaslighting the whole world on television. If there’s some dementia to this, then that is not to understand that you cannot gaslight a million people at once, because the point of gaslighting is to make its victim think they are going crazy and imagining things.

    Though… Can it be that for the MAGA audience this gaslighting does work and they really will believe Trump has never called Zelenskyj a dictator?

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    It’s getting genuinely hard to tell if he’s being deliberately duplicitous or just senile. At least when Biden had his senior moments you could tell it was just a senior moment.

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    Yeah, man. We also can barely believe half the crazy shit you say, or that people eat it up. And yet you keep doing it…

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    The correct response would probably be something like:

    “Yes you did, it was broadcast live to most of the world. Why, don’t you remember? Is your memory failing you?”