• WesternInfidels@feddit.online
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 days ago

      I haven’t got the stomach to watch the whole thing, but in the bits of it I’ve watched, he seems so much more alert, so much more present, so much, dare I say, smarter, than he’s been when speaking publicly recently. He makes jokes, he’s funny, he smiles. He completes some sentences. He doesn’t seem like the tongue-tied partially-senile Fox-News-grandpa he is when he talks to the public or the press.

      He quips that somehow he’s a “king” but he can’t get his ballroom approved. He’s a piece of shit, he behaves like he’s here to destroy America as we know it, but that’s a legitimate by-God joke. I’ve never seen him make an actual joke before.

      Am I imagining that? I don’t know what to make of it. Is the “flailing senile dumbass” just a character he’s playing? Is it a ruse? So many people who have had face time with him say he’s genuinely a moron.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 days ago

        That’s what I was mentioning in another thread, he’s way more healthy than I realized. Someone said that the Dementia drugs he’s likely taking, makes you more aware until they wear off after a little bit. That’s probably what’s happening? Maybe? He still looks like total shit though.

  • notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    5 days ago

    Apparently all one needs to be is ‘nice’ to him and he’ll fight to the death for them. He called it being ‘seduced’ and admitted this is wrong while smiling and shrugging because he doesn’t care.

    I’m stuck between knowing (based on his patterns) this is fundamentally untrue, and knowing it explains a lot of his ‘diplomacy’ and weakness.

    I guess it depends on how he defines ‘nice’…again based on patterns it seems like ‘nice’ to him is utter god-level deference, unquestioning loyalty, and extreme power for him to gain from and acquire.

    Guess we can’t be friends then.