Donald Trump’s frequently bizarre public appearances, which this month have seen the president claim, wrongly, that his uncle knew the Unabomber and rant unprompted about windmills on his recent trip to the UK, have once again raised questions about his mental acuity, experts say.
For more than a year Trump, 79, has exhibited odd behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in his spontaneous remarks and at press conferences. The president repeatedly drifts off topic, including during a cabinet meeting this month when he spent 15 minutes talking about decorating, and appears to misremember simple facts about his government and his life.
Over the weekend Trump, during a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, abruptly switched from discussing immigration to saying this: “The other thing I say to Europe: we’ve – we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery.”
Trump proceeded to speak, non-stop and unprompted, for two minutes about windmills, claiming without evidence that they drive whales “loco” and that wind energy “kills the birds” (the proportion of birds killed by turbines is tiny compared with the amount killed by domestic cats and from flying into power lines).
Who exactly is still in doubt about his dementia?
bizarre public appearances, which this month have seen the president claim, wrongly, that his uncle knew the Unabomber and rant unprompted about windmills
He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.
First time in a while that a comment has made me laugh out loud 😂
Read this earlier and loved it. Quality reading. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It’s just like Stephen Colbert said back in the day: “facts have a well-known liberal bias”
He’s had the same issues since before 2016… Why is the media all of a sudden freaking out about it now? He has always been a delusional and forgetful person, the media’s been ignoring it until now
“The Guardian is a left-wing mouthpiece that should be embarrassed to pass off deranged resistance leftists as ‘experts’. Anyone pathetic enough to defend Biden’s mental state – while being labeled as unethical by their peers – has zero credibility. President Trump’s mental sharpness is second to none and he is working around the clock to secure amazing deals for the American people,” said White House spokesperson Liz Huston.
Liz Huston is a right-wing mouthpiece that should be embarrassed to pass off deranged physicians (ie: Dr. Phil, et al.) as ‘experts’. Anyone pathetic enough to defend Trump’s mental state – while being labelled as unethical by their peers – has zero credibility.
Yeah, feels like Trump’s being set up for the fall. Never forget the rest of the politicians (and populace) complicit in this government. An insulting minority of politicians put up even the slightest resistance.
Edit: Let alone the overwhelming majority of Republicans that operated in slavish
gooselockstep, slavering at the thought of what they could finally do to minorites in the open.I just watched comedian Mark Normand do a bit in Australia making multiple jokes about Joe Biden’s mental status. I’m thinking who the hell is even still talking about Biden, let alone in Australia?
The Project getting axed was the single good thing that Channel 10 has done since selling out to America.
Fucking Zionist, MAGA kissing cucks, the lot of them.
Right, as an Australian in Australia the majority of us don’t care about American and your presidential squabbles.
We only care when our government place little brother and tries to copy America
This is literally how he’s been for the past decade, it’s his version of gish gallop. If he says something stupid that he knows is easily refutable, he just keeps talking and changing the subject and saying stupider and stupider things so it’s impossible to even remember all the bullshit he said, much less what your response was going to be.
At least it’s a recognized rhetorical technique. That way nobody falls victim to it repeatedly, right?
The Gish-Gallup.
Call out the strategy by name, saying: “This is a strategy called the ‘Gish Gallop’—do not be fooled by the flood of nonsense you have just heard.”
I personally like to paraphrase the following: https://youtu.be/LQCU36pkH7c
It has been so many years since I watched Billy Madison, and yet, that is one of the scenes that still comes to mind frequently.
It’s a perfect retort. Or… Should be.
He probably forgot he raped all those children too right
Who is this Epstein guy? I hear he likes little girls almost as much as me…
We didn’t!
"I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor. You can’t – in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. Uh, you have a shower head the shower doesn’t uh, the shower doesn’t, you think it’s not working. It is working. The water’s dripping out and that’s no good for me. I like this hair lace and [sic] – I like that hair nice and wet. Takes you – you have to stand in the shower for 20 minutes before you get the soap out of your hair. And I put a, a thing – and it sounds funny but it’s really not. It’s horrible. And uh, when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet, no water comes out. You’re washing whole – water barely comes out it’s ridi – this was done by crazy people. And I wor – wrote it all off and got it approved in Congress so that they can’t just change it.”
I think we have another strong contender to be the new Having Nuclear rant.
Utter perplexity at the workings of flow restrictors (which wouldn’t prevent water from coming out of taps). The man’s a blithering nitwit.
It’s funny how if Biden forgot the middle name of a person he met in 1980, everyone called for impeachment.
It should be no surprise that Trump can fade out in the middle of a sentence and the same people keep their mouth shut.
Pretty soon Trump will be older than Biden was when Trump said he was too old to govern. Think he’ll step down then?
For me the most bizarre thing with Trump is his obsession with windmills. It was fine if he brought it up once or twice but it feels like every time he opens his mouth he has to mention windmills. Maybe he was molested by a windmill or something?
the windmills of his mind killed Big Bird
For me it’s his obsession with the raping of all those children, and being on the Epstein list.
He’s been mad about windmills ever since Scotland built some within viewing distance of his golf course there. He tried to argue they’d lower his property values and whatnot but he has been ranting about windmills ever since.
This, a lot of his weird takes can be traced back to his days as a slimeball New York real estate developer.
Also, if windmills generate a larger share of the world’s energy, the market for Russian fossil fuels declines. And Russia is not a low-cost producer. They need a higher price to make a profit than, for example, the Saudis, who have to do little more than stick a straw in the ground.
I believe he also stayed there while he was in Europe so he saw them again maybe
Maybe he’s tilting against windmills?
Donald Quixote
The Qatari plane he was trying to get could be his Rocinante. A beat up old hand me down that he thinks is the most superlative conveyance ever made.
“I call this one Jeffrey and it’s been particularly stubborn, but I swear I’m gonna knock it over one of these days”
There is a cadre of rich fucks that hate wind for some reason. Idaho’s weird-toothpaste billionaire Frank VanDerSloot has a vendetta against them too and uses some of the same rhetoric. Frank is more coherent but nonetheless still uses vitriolic ridiculousness when talking about them.
He thinks they’re giants
That explains the quietly brewing heir competition in maga world.
Not all that quiet: Vance has been jockeying a lot recently.
As if reporting on it for the 60th time will surprise anyone or cause change.
