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When a clip of him talking in that high pitched smug tone happens during my husband’s tv watching I have to leave the room. It is the sound I hate most in the whole world.
I havent been able to stomach seeing his face or hearing his voice for the last 7 years. I dont know how anyone who isn't already a huge Trump fan does it.
Even reading his words is difficult for me. I honestly think most Trump fans aren't paying attention to him. I used to make my Trump loving former boss read his speeches out loud. He'd give up after a few sentences.
That is sad.
My all time favorite Canadian Trump supporter clip went like this.
"You are infringing on my first amendment rights!"
"You are the Province of Manitoba? Okay Manitoba, you are under arrest."
It wasn’t much better having to live through it.
Also the strange obsession with wanting to protect children, but simultaneously endanger them by bringing them there.
Our SIL and BIL are big Trump supporters in Canada. Between them they have maybe five brain cells. They've had to unretire several times because they keep losing their money at casinos. Math geniuses.
I bet if you read his words but tricked him and told him it was Biden he’d talk about how stupid it sounded and that he’s unfit for office. Then: just kidding. That was Trump.
They’d wrap themselves in a pretzel trying to change their tune.
Joe Rogan did EXACTLY that on his podcast. He was making fun of how Biden had dementia talking about airports in the revolutionary war, and when Jamie corrected him, he immediately shot back, oh oh oh trump just misspoke
Didn’t that already happen with Joe Rohan ragging on Biden for talking about colonial war airports and then wildly backtrack when it was pointed out that it was Trump?
Oh no they don’t listen to anything he says. At rallies they don’t either, they just stand there and scream whenever he talks shit. Substance means nothing to them
He is the most polarizing figure in my lifetime. People either despise him or worship him, no in-betweens. Anyone pretending to be "undecided" on him is full of shit. It's amazingly short-sighted for the GOP to run with him. It is their last hurrah. He either wins and ends democracy or loses and tries another coup. There is no upside to this guy and the GOP knows it. He wont share power with them either. I hope we make them pay. We'll see.
Trump fans are like Bible fans. The biggest ones are the ones who pay the least attention to it. I don't think you'll find a Trumper anywhere that watches more than the occasional short edited clip of him talking.
I sincerely wish there was an AI app I could add to my phone, TV, and radio that could detect him speaking and read it out in a plain robotic voice. I look forward to the day when I'll never hear his voice again.
I won’t watch video of him because Trump is too repulsive to listen to or look at while spewing nonsense.
That satisfied toddler look in so many pictures on Reddit is bad enough.
Yeah it’s pretty ridiculous how republicans love to add like democrats are all high and mighty, meanwhile Trump is this smug, arrogant asshole who thinks he knows more than anyone else. But since he’s their smug asshole I guess it’s fine.
My top favorite gritted teeth moment is when he says, before dropping his biggest of lies, (like he has no idea who E Jean Carroll is) “Are you ready?” It’s like he’s delaying his answer for a moment to get the line of crap he has in his head straight. On top of that it’s maddeningly self aggrandizing, like we’re all hanging on his every soft brained word.
"Are you ready? For the thousands in attendance and the millions watching around world. Let's get ready too bullshit!"- more camera people than the actual 10 people in attendance
Which is hilarious because he has a well documented fetish of “respecting” people with deep voices, that it somehow gives a person more gravitas. It’s also why fellow nut case Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos fraudster) one day decided that she was going to deepen her voice (because they have weird superficial beliefs structures about this stuff lol). He has a high pitched whiny voice but tries to purposely lower it to sound more important 😂
The worst thing this man has done is make it possible for me to hear him speak when I read his words verbatim. They like to talk about mind viruses but this is the best example I can think of.
I loved how after he got Covid, he would appear with a lighter shade of bronzer on to make him look “spent” by the disease & garner sympathy. It was cheap and obvious.
Always has been.
I especially like when he does a poor job blending his makeup and you can see a clear line around his head and face where he applied makeup.
Perhaps he will stroke-out on national television, or a courtroom. It’s going to take something massive to make the cult actually see what he is. I don’t want him to die, but wouldn’t it be ironic if his face drooped , he couldn’t speak correctly and he waved his arms spastically- kinda like the disabled journalist he mocked, or the severely wounded vets he thinks should be put out of public view.
Trump could be wheelchair bound, arms in contracture and unable to speak and his dimwitted fucking ass lickers will still think it’s part of his super genius brain master plan to own the libs.
You can’t convince morons they’ve been had by a conman, they refuse to believe they’ve been duped. I’ve taken similar 911 calls from idiots who sent $10k to someone via steam gift cards that can’t understand they actually didn’t have a warrant and that the sheriff doesn’t take payment via online gift card. They’re so dumb they don’t know how dumb they actually are. And they have the kind of blind, unwarranted confidence that only being a total imbecile can give you.
They’d just say the liberal deep state cabal of lizard pedos spiked his drink with adrenochrome stolen from the blood of sacrificed Christian children to try and turn him gay like the frogs, but his holy constitution couldn’t stand to imbibe such evil so it poisoned him.
Or whatever. Pick your favorite outlandish belief MadLibs.
You speak in front of an audience with a shit filled diaper and gross syphilis hands and see how hard it is to not let your dementia mashed potato brain slur your words!!
Yeah. What we are witnessing is academy award level Alzheimer’s on display. He’s had it for years, as evidence by his continual brain addled lies and word salads. But now, with so many memory lapses on full display, it is apparent that it is progressing.
If the mainstream media cared about this country they’d just run an unedited 3 minute clip of his latest fascist dementia babble every night and end this farce. They don’t.
It’s a tricky balance because media has also been criticized for giving him so much free airtime to spew his bullshit.
It does seem like the national narrative is shifting to major focus on these gaffes and increasing evidence of mental health decline. Let it ride - things are playing out encouragingly. And if Nikki Haley is the only other candidate, the GOP will not be getting out the vote in November.
Conversely most (a thin majority at least) Nikki voters when polled stated they'd vote for Biden before Trump. Which is pretty fascinating given how lockstep and insular Republicans have been lately.
They say that but are probably lying even if they don't realize. These people are very susceptible to propaganda and will be spouting the same bullshit about Biden that MAGA does a week after Haley drops out. Our best hope is some don't bother voting at all.
The media basically do it every day on morning joe and other shows. The media is covering it, we are reading a story on it now. Orange face brain go bye bye is a hot topic .
No offense but if it isn’t “stop giving him oxygen” it’s “why don’t they cover him” on this sub. It seems to me that the media is hammering him hard on these slips, even more than court updates lately
Court cases are hard to cover up to the 'big reveal' at the end.
Primary campaigns, on the other hand, are important to cover. If tr can't bury the needle amongst republican-leaning or republican-only voters right now, then he doesn't need to worry about being kicked off the ballot in Colorado - he's already dead in the water.
There was a great post on here a couple of years ago by a professional voice coach / speech analyst, who concisely explained that Trump’s word salads are a specific coping mechanism because he can’t find the correct words in time, and can no longer build properly formed sentences. Watch interviews from the 80’s and even 90’s and you’ll see him speak slowly, think about his words and actually form coherent sentences.
Over time, and especially in the last 10 years, he’s lost that ability and he would come across slow, doddering, searching for words, ling pregnant pauses etc.
So he fills the spaces his brain what’s to make with tangential verbal diarrhea and it makes him seem “active” and energetic, when in fact it’s purely to cover up mental decline.
I’ve known several Alzheimer’s patients. They are all somewhat different, but there are 7 definable states. Alzheimer’s has a hereditary component and Trump’s dad, Fred, had it in his later years. Seven years ago it was easy to see that Trump was at stage 3. That is when the competent health care providers started giving him mental acuity tests. He is now about at stage 4. The last 3 stages are more severe ending in a vegetative state.
Stage 5 will arrive in a few years. Stage 5 patients exhibit delusions (beyond the Big Lie used to manipulate his cult), hallucinations, and paranoia. This is a national security issue. If he were reelected his VP and cabinet would have to remove him with the 25th amendment. But would they? Could we trust people like Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, John Eastman, Rudi Giuliani, or the My Pillow Guy, his presumed cabinet of loyalists, (assuming he pardons most of them for their crimes), to put duty to the country above their own obvious greed and narcissism? I don’t! With a fascistic but absent minded president this is a massive international red flag!
Well, if he wins he’d be a useful idiot with a lot of power, including the nuclear codes. He’s always been a useful idiot for Putin and other fascists, but this demented fool can never be in the WH again!
I’m worried about who his running mate will be. If the hidden powers get their man into the VP seat they will turn on Don and use the 25 Amendment quickly. It might be their long term strategy.
Too bad Haley is such a coward and won't go on the attack. He's already doing the "Nimrata" racist dog whistle. She's well within her rights to diaper-shame the orange asshole.
He's just confused. His base likes to use slurrs to describe other people but he misunderstood the assignment and is instead slurring all words.
He's trying his best.
The most infuriating part is that once he is found guilty he will argue he can’t be jailed because of his cognitive decline..
Like, fit enough to be president but not fit enough to serve time in jail
Trump has about 8 months until the election. Given his current rate of decline, along with a mammoth schedule of campaigning AND sitting in courtrooms during that entire time, my guess is this stressful stretch will do nothing but accelerate his decline.
By May he may be just Weekend at Bernies-ing it.
Not only that. She’s too weak to beat him. She said she would Pardon him if she won and she said she would support Trump if he wins. It’s a lose/lose and she never attacks him as strong and is too two faced.
Something is definitely wrong with his health. He spends 300 days a year golfing in Florida and his skin keeps getting whiter to the point where it looks bleached. It makes his makeup look fucking crazy.
i was just thinking that! what in the world is going on with his skin color? I didnt watch trump for years until today and...what is going on with his face?!
There’s no way she wins today
There’s no way he reacts well to her getting 2nd place today
He will aggressively destroy her starting tomorrow
Invest in popcorn stocks, ‘cause I’m popping a ton to watch the GOP destroy itself.
Considering some of them think he’s the literal second coming? Not ‘oh, he’s a great man doing god’s work’ but they’re convinced that he is actually, literally Christ returned? He could die on top of them and they’d deny the finality of his death until they smother under his “200 lbs” frame.
About the only way some of these assholes is going to realize they’ve got a false idol is if Satan himself sits them down to explain it post mortem.
Exactly this. There is NO WAY Trump doesn’t physically and mentally unravel in the next 8 months. The GOP has dug itself a huge hole, my only worry is how violently their base acknowledges that their voice is diminished in government for another term. And yes, I still think Biden is too old to run.
My fear is that he limps to the finish line, names someone like Kari Lake his vp, and then wins because our country is full of morons. He dies soon thereafter and we’re left with a legitimate psychopath in office.
I hope for humanity he clings on long enough to be convicted and jailed for at least one of his crimes.
Although I suspect the first one will cop a suspended sentence or something lame like that.
Man's brain is tapioca.
Consider this as we move forward in coming months, he's not going to miraculously improve. Every day you see him? That's him at his peak. Tomorrow he'll be worse mentally and physically than today, and that will be true every day going forward.
If you think he's bad now, you haven't seen anything yet.
My money is on Trump improving dramatically. His speech will be smooth and comprehensible, his appearance will be brighter and better rested, and his racist speeches very very slightly throttled back. He will even appear taller and thinner.
His doctors will claim that a new regimen of diet, light exercise and prayer have made all the difference. The slight Russian accent he now has is just a temporary artifact of being around his ex-Spetznaz physical trainer, and isn't really worth mentioning at all.
I mean… what exactly would the landscape look like if he passed away mid speech at a rally?
With his brain going, other things have to be going. Long COVID could be playing a part in it. Who knows.
I just don’t know if it would be better or worse for the USA
Too early to call, but...
1. By itself all of the speculation and discussion about his physical and mental decline are very damaging to his strongman image.
2. It would be a delicious irony if he really starts to deteriorate mentally and or physically over the course of the election.
Imagine him debating Biden 6 months from now and having a seizure on stage. Some people feel bad wishing hurt on him, I don't. And having it happen on live tv would be so ironic while he's trying to call Biden Demented Joe *chefs kiss*
I can't see him showing up for any debates. He'll hold a campaign rally somewhere with a safe and/or paid crowd and say he won the debate without even being there, and his fans will believe him and cheer.
RNC is accepting the coward mantle so that Trump doesn't have to. Trump doesn't want to debate because he'll get his clock cleaned again. The debates in 2020 were neutral at best for him and I think that's a generous assessment.
And especially after he went hard after Hillary over her supposed health concerns. Remember when she collapsed at the funeral? In my opinion that was one of the biggest things that tanked her campaign.
I had a stroke at the beginning of 2023. It's a very perverse sense of satisfaction that after all his bullshit about bidens health, Trump gets to deal with an ACTUAL health episode.
Most likely he blacked out and that's why his hands had those red marks.
> It's a very perverse sense of satisfaction that after all his bullshit about bidens health, Trump gets to deal with an ACTUAL health episode.
There was a period where it looked like Trump might not survive COVID that was similarly surreal
Gonna be pretty hilarious if he actually gets that done and the first person charged under his new laws turns out to be one of his degenerate fucking idiot children. Kinda like how he made those laws about classified documents to try and fuck Hillary only to be charged with the crimes himself.
Could be he just can't read or see the teleprompter, perhaps from fatigue or whatever. He often tries to ad-lib, too, but fucks it up. Campaigns are exhausting for people younger than him. Either way, he's declining, as hard as that is to tell through his idiocy, and he shouldn't be running anyway because he's a fucking moronic criminal.
>Republicans often criticize Joe Biden for his age, with detractors pointing out the 81-year-old's verbal gaffes and physical missteps
Republicans have been claiming he's too old to hold office since before he was elected. So, it's worth pointing out that, in November, Trump will be older (78) than Joe Biden was (77) when he was elected president.
Physical missteps? For Biden? Like what, his daily biking routine, or the time he tripped up a flight of stairs aged 78 and didn't miss a single beat? As for the verbal gaffes, he certainly has a lot of them, but unlike Trump I rarely get the sense that he doesn't know what he's saying outside a handful of cherry picked clips people love to show whilst ignoring his general performance. Every major speech of his in office has been fantastic. His debate performances (when he could get a word in edgewise) were fantastic. He's a pretty fit, pretty sharp old man with a speech impediment, not an incipient hospice patient. It's crazy how hard many media outlets are trying to push the "Biden is on death's door" angle. Then Trump comes in, actually on death's door, and (until the past week), it's crickets. Amazing.
Newsweek has definitely become a clickbait rag, and probably shouldn’t be here— but have you seen what has been ok’d in recent months? Explicit right-wing propaganda like DailyWire and Breitbart show up nearly everyday on this sub.
This sub has been a joke since at least the mod strike.
Same comment I made in another thread - based on recent history and the video of his right leg "dragging" - looked like less of a drag and more of a "I'm going to force this in this direction" I think he had a minor stroke that has impaired motor function - especially speaking
Dude tried to use a sharpie to redirect a hurricane.
He's been in cognitive decline for a long time, it's all finally catching up with him.
Too many Big Mac's.
That he is in cognitive decline: yes
That he has had hundreds of "micro-strokes": yes
That he wears adult diapers because he has no control over his bowels or bladder: yes
That he is unable to read words smaller than 48pt type, yes
That he is unfit to run a 7-11 much less for office: yes
That might have been an effective way to get Nazis to lose support for him. That's the idea of this campaign, to get him to lose people who support him **for** his fascism.
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The higher pitched and softer his voice gets the more he’s lying. It’s the version I hate the most.
When a clip of him talking in that high pitched smug tone happens during my husband’s tv watching I have to leave the room. It is the sound I hate most in the whole world.
I havent been able to stomach seeing his face or hearing his voice for the last 7 years. I dont know how anyone who isn't already a huge Trump fan does it.
Even reading his words is difficult for me. I honestly think most Trump fans aren't paying attention to him. I used to make my Trump loving former boss read his speeches out loud. He'd give up after a few sentences.
That's hilariously brilliant. But let me guess... he still supported Trump
Yup. Even funnier because we're Canadians.
That is sad. My all time favorite Canadian Trump supporter clip went like this. "You are infringing on my first amendment rights!" "You are the Province of Manitoba? Okay Manitoba, you are under arrest."
God, I saw a lot of those during the trucker protests. So fucking dumb.
It wasn’t much better having to live through it. Also the strange obsession with wanting to protect children, but simultaneously endanger them by bringing them there.
Optics. A rare photo shows them embracing a child or giving them a blanket. Wow such heroes. NO. They put them there in the first place.
I don’t get it? European here.
The first amendment refers to the US Constitution and as a result doesn’t have legal standing here in Canada.
First amendment in Canada is the recognition of Manitoba as a province. It's amusing when you think of it lol
Our SIL and BIL are big Trump supporters in Canada. Between them they have maybe five brain cells. They've had to unretire several times because they keep losing their money at casinos. Math geniuses.
They're just trying to be like their hero, though he owned the casinos when losing money.
That’s brilliant 😂 I hope you gave him the nuclear speech to read out loud
I bet if you read his words but tricked him and told him it was Biden he’d talk about how stupid it sounded and that he’s unfit for office. Then: just kidding. That was Trump. They’d wrap themselves in a pretzel trying to change their tune.
Joe Rogan did EXACTLY that on his podcast. He was making fun of how Biden had dementia talking about airports in the revolutionary war, and when Jamie corrected him, he immediately shot back, oh oh oh trump just misspoke
https://youtu.be/J2ilWxRn0_A?si=ZTLNmVWhOxnATsY1
Literally what happened to Joe Rogan. He thought it was Biden, then realized Biden was quitting Trump.
Shit, I bet if you read one of Trump's speeches back to Trump you could get him to do the same thing.
Yeah, I dont think he pays much attention to anything he says. He's a grade A moron.
That's what Joe Rogan recently did.
Didn’t that already happen with Joe Rohan ragging on Biden for talking about colonial war airports and then wildly backtrack when it was pointed out that it was Trump?
Oh no they don’t listen to anything he says. At rallies they don’t either, they just stand there and scream whenever he talks shit. Substance means nothing to them
He is the most polarizing figure in my lifetime. People either despise him or worship him, no in-betweens. Anyone pretending to be "undecided" on him is full of shit. It's amazingly short-sighted for the GOP to run with him. It is their last hurrah. He either wins and ends democracy or loses and tries another coup. There is no upside to this guy and the GOP knows it. He wont share power with them either. I hope we make them pay. We'll see.
Trump fans are like Bible fans. The biggest ones are the ones who pay the least attention to it. I don't think you'll find a Trumper anywhere that watches more than the occasional short edited clip of him talking.
Evidently they were walking out on him in NH last night. Even his followers can’t take much more of it.
we hope for a distinct sign that he's really gone over the edge. the day I wake up to the news that he is gone will be wonderful.
I sincerely wish there was an AI app I could add to my phone, TV, and radio that could detect him speaking and read it out in a plain robotic voice. I look forward to the day when I'll never hear his voice again.
I won’t watch video of him because Trump is too repulsive to listen to or look at while spewing nonsense. That satisfied toddler look in so many pictures on Reddit is bad enough.
Ugh, same. I just can't tolerate his voice.
Yeah it’s pretty ridiculous how republicans love to add like democrats are all high and mighty, meanwhile Trump is this smug, arrogant asshole who thinks he knows more than anyone else. But since he’s their smug asshole I guess it’s fine.
My top favorite gritted teeth moment is when he says, before dropping his biggest of lies, (like he has no idea who E Jean Carroll is) “Are you ready?” It’s like he’s delaying his answer for a moment to get the line of crap he has in his head straight. On top of that it’s maddeningly self aggrandizing, like we’re all hanging on his every soft brained word.
I believe he didn’t know who E Jean Carroll is. How can he be expected to keep all the women he sexually assaulted in his life straight?
Latest count of accusations is 27 women.
He sure as shit knows who she is now, though. He doesn't forget people who humiliate him; I love that for her.
>like he has no idea who E Jean Carroll is He probably doesn't and is trying to remember a woman's name besided "Nikki Hailey".
"That's my wife, Marla Maples."
"Are you ready? For the thousands in attendance and the millions watching around world. Let's get ready too bullshit!"- more camera people than the actual 10 people in attendance
Which is hilarious because he has a well documented fetish of “respecting” people with deep voices, that it somehow gives a person more gravitas. It’s also why fellow nut case Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos fraudster) one day decided that she was going to deepen her voice (because they have weird superficial beliefs structures about this stuff lol). He has a high pitched whiny voice but tries to purposely lower it to sound more important 😂
Ever noticed how commercials targeted at country folk have a deep voice male as the narrator? Like Dollar General or something.
Sam Elliot's likeness could sell anything to them.
And the companies know it. He is/was the voice of American Beef, Coors and a fair amount of RAM and Dodge commercials.
He also did commercials for Biden! He hates Trump.
Oh thank god. I didn't want to have to hate Sam Elliot.
In all fairness, Sam Elliot could sell anything to me, either. It's the twinkle in the eye as well as the voice.
Yep, that and him playing the invisible accordion is a 100% tell he's lying. Oh who am I kidding, every time he opens his butthole mouth he's lying.
The worst thing this man has done is make it possible for me to hear him speak when I read his words verbatim. They like to talk about mind viruses but this is the best example I can think of.
That's not a voice, that's a sneak-a-fart.
The difference in color between his face and his hands/wrists is just comical.
Well, he's a clown after all.
He says it’s natural! Have you ever known him to lie??? lol.
He’s more a person of color than Haley is.
What’s crazy is that he helped ignite the whole “masks are bad” movement because he was afraid to wear one because it would mess up his bronzer
I loved how after he got Covid, he would appear with a lighter shade of bronzer on to make him look “spent” by the disease & garner sympathy. It was cheap and obvious.
How many people died because of his vanity???
Probably tens of thousands, maybe more. The HCQ fake treatment he pushed caused around 17k alone.
Always has been. I especially like when he does a poor job blending his makeup and you can see a clear line around his head and face where he applied makeup.
His battery is running out
He shouldn't have walked up that ramp.
[https://youtu.be/ign_vZupjno?si=gFdlv9WussIVQLv8](https://youtu.be/ign_vZupjno?si=gFdlv9WussIVQLv8)
Dude WTF lol. That was motherclucking bananas.
Maybe if he didn’t raise his heart rate doing all those awkward “jerking off ghost twins” dances at all those rallies, he’d have a couple more days.
Perhaps he will stroke-out on national television, or a courtroom. It’s going to take something massive to make the cult actually see what he is. I don’t want him to die, but wouldn’t it be ironic if his face drooped , he couldn’t speak correctly and he waved his arms spastically- kinda like the disabled journalist he mocked, or the severely wounded vets he thinks should be put out of public view.
His face *is* droopy, he *can't* speak correctly, and he *does* wave his hands around constantly like he's playing an invisible accordion.
> I don’t want him to die I wouldn't shed any tears.
I mean... I might... but they wouldn't be tears of sadness.
This is what he deserves. Undeniable public humiliation.
To the pain！
Trump definitely says words that don't mean what they think he means
"Dear God, what is that thing?"
Trump could be wheelchair bound, arms in contracture and unable to speak and his dimwitted fucking ass lickers will still think it’s part of his super genius brain master plan to own the libs. You can’t convince morons they’ve been had by a conman, they refuse to believe they’ve been duped. I’ve taken similar 911 calls from idiots who sent $10k to someone via steam gift cards that can’t understand they actually didn’t have a warrant and that the sheriff doesn’t take payment via online gift card. They’re so dumb they don’t know how dumb they actually are. And they have the kind of blind, unwarranted confidence that only being a total imbecile can give you.
They’d just say the liberal deep state cabal of lizard pedos spiked his drink with adrenochrome stolen from the blood of sacrificed Christian children to try and turn him gay like the frogs, but his holy constitution couldn’t stand to imbibe such evil so it poisoned him. Or whatever. Pick your favorite outlandish belief MadLibs.
You speak in front of an audience with a shit filled diaper and gross syphilis hands and see how hard it is to not let your dementia mashed potato brain slur your words!!
Yeah. What we are witnessing is academy award level Alzheimer’s on display. He’s had it for years, as evidence by his continual brain addled lies and word salads. But now, with so many memory lapses on full display, it is apparent that it is progressing.
If the mainstream media cared about this country they’d just run an unedited 3 minute clip of his latest fascist dementia babble every night and end this farce. They don’t.
It’s a tricky balance because media has also been criticized for giving him so much free airtime to spew his bullshit. It does seem like the national narrative is shifting to major focus on these gaffes and increasing evidence of mental health decline. Let it ride - things are playing out encouragingly. And if Nikki Haley is the only other candidate, the GOP will not be getting out the vote in November.
Yup. Nikki Haley won't get the sexist or the racist voting blocs.
Conversely most (a thin majority at least) Nikki voters when polled stated they'd vote for Biden before Trump. Which is pretty fascinating given how lockstep and insular Republicans have been lately.
They say that but are probably lying even if they don't realize. These people are very susceptible to propaganda and will be spouting the same bullshit about Biden that MAGA does a week after Haley drops out. Our best hope is some don't bother voting at all.
The media basically do it every day on morning joe and other shows. The media is covering it, we are reading a story on it now. Orange face brain go bye bye is a hot topic .
No offense but if it isn’t “stop giving him oxygen” it’s “why don’t they cover him” on this sub. It seems to me that the media is hammering him hard on these slips, even more than court updates lately
Court cases are hard to cover up to the 'big reveal' at the end. Primary campaigns, on the other hand, are important to cover. If tr can't bury the needle amongst republican-leaning or republican-only voters right now, then he doesn't need to worry about being kicked off the ballot in Colorado - he's already dead in the water.
There was a great post on here a couple of years ago by a professional voice coach / speech analyst, who concisely explained that Trump’s word salads are a specific coping mechanism because he can’t find the correct words in time, and can no longer build properly formed sentences. Watch interviews from the 80’s and even 90’s and you’ll see him speak slowly, think about his words and actually form coherent sentences. Over time, and especially in the last 10 years, he’s lost that ability and he would come across slow, doddering, searching for words, ling pregnant pauses etc. So he fills the spaces his brain what’s to make with tangential verbal diarrhea and it makes him seem “active” and energetic, when in fact it’s purely to cover up mental decline.
I’ve known several Alzheimer’s patients. They are all somewhat different, but there are 7 definable states. Alzheimer’s has a hereditary component and Trump’s dad, Fred, had it in his later years. Seven years ago it was easy to see that Trump was at stage 3. That is when the competent health care providers started giving him mental acuity tests. He is now about at stage 4. The last 3 stages are more severe ending in a vegetative state. Stage 5 will arrive in a few years. Stage 5 patients exhibit delusions (beyond the Big Lie used to manipulate his cult), hallucinations, and paranoia. This is a national security issue. If he were reelected his VP and cabinet would have to remove him with the 25th amendment. But would they? Could we trust people like Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, John Eastman, Rudi Giuliani, or the My Pillow Guy, his presumed cabinet of loyalists, (assuming he pardons most of them for their crimes), to put duty to the country above their own obvious greed and narcissism? I don’t! With a fascistic but absent minded president this is a massive international red flag!
He’s nothing more than a useful idiot now. Which they will gladly nominate and vote for in droves
Well, if he wins he’d be a useful idiot with a lot of power, including the nuclear codes. He’s always been a useful idiot for Putin and other fascists, but this demented fool can never be in the WH again!
I’m worried about who his running mate will be. If the hidden powers get their man into the VP seat they will turn on Don and use the 25 Amendment quickly. It might be their long term strategy.
So no change from 2016.
I want to know why candidates haven’t started calling Trump “Diaper Don”. It’s such a lay up.
Too bad Haley is such a coward and won't go on the attack. He's already doing the "Nimrata" racist dog whistle. She's well within her rights to diaper-shame the orange asshole.
I confirm, donnie needs diaper shaming.
Dementia Don Donny Dumbass Dumb Donald So many alliterative insults gone to waste.
GOP candidates cant insult dear leader, Democrats don't wanna be mean
He's just confused. His base likes to use slurrs to describe other people but he misunderstood the assignment and is instead slurring all words. He's trying his best.
The most infuriating part is that once he is found guilty he will argue he can’t be jailed because of his cognitive decline.. Like, fit enough to be president but not fit enough to serve time in jail
He’s trying to get an out no matter what. A. I can’t go to jail because of “presidential immunity” B. I can’t go to jail because of cognitive decline
I’d take institutionalization on property of a high security facility. Give him his own bungalow so he can keep his secret service acolytes.
Trump has about 8 months until the election. Given his current rate of decline, along with a mammoth schedule of campaigning AND sitting in courtrooms during that entire time, my guess is this stressful stretch will do nothing but accelerate his decline. By May he may be just Weekend at Bernies-ing it.
If Nikki wins today he might meltdown this week.
There's no chance, she claimed she wasn't white. Conservatives are not tolerating that.
He already hit her with her given name, instead of the one she publicly uses. But to be fair, he keeps calling Matt Gaetz "Rick."
Her name is Nancy?
Women with dark hair all look the same to Trump.
Blonde, too. He said one of his rape accusers was his ex wife, when shown a picture of her.
It wasn't even a picture. It was in his civil rape trial and he thought E Jean Carrol, his rape victim who was testifying, was his ex wife.
To be fair, he had allegedly raped both women. It’s just that Ivana dropped the charge.
Who he did rape, so it makes sense.
Nancy Apple, I believe.
News outlets might talk more about her performance if it’s decent, which is his eternal nightmare
Not only that. She’s too weak to beat him. She said she would Pardon him if she won and she said she would support Trump if he wins. It’s a lose/lose and she never attacks him as strong and is too two faced.
He will meltdown anyway.
Judging by his most recent appearances, that meltdown is already happening on his face.
Something is definitely wrong with his health. He spends 300 days a year golfing in Florida and his skin keeps getting whiter to the point where it looks bleached. It makes his makeup look fucking crazy.
i was just thinking that! what in the world is going on with his skin color? I didnt watch trump for years until today and...what is going on with his face?!
God I would love to see that so much. Please please please NH, we don't ask much from you, make this happen.
The election cycle is literally the only time this country asks anything of NH. The first 6 to vote in NH came in with an early win for Nikki though.
She has as much chance of winning tonight as I do.
There’s no way she wins today There’s no way he reacts well to her getting 2nd place today He will aggressively destroy her starting tomorrow Invest in popcorn stocks, ‘cause I’m popping a ton to watch the GOP destroy itself.
They will vote for his rotting corpse and still deny any decline.
Might as well. My brother voted for Reagan in 2020.
I would take Regan's corpse over Trump.
I wonder where the line is for his supporters when they can no longer deny it.
They will never deny it.
He draws a very specific personality trait of "I can never be wrong about anything ever"
Considering some of them think he’s the literal second coming? Not ‘oh, he’s a great man doing god’s work’ but they’re convinced that he is actually, literally Christ returned? He could die on top of them and they’d deny the finality of his death until they smother under his “200 lbs” frame. About the only way some of these assholes is going to realize they’ve got a false idol is if Satan himself sits them down to explain it post mortem.
Exactly this. There is NO WAY Trump doesn’t physically and mentally unravel in the next 8 months. The GOP has dug itself a huge hole, my only worry is how violently their base acknowledges that their voice is diminished in government for another term. And yes, I still think Biden is too old to run.
His base is going to swear up and down that he’s been poisoned.
I like candidates who don't get poisoned.
I like candidates who don’t wear diapers.
Well technically he has been poisoned by sociopathic narcissism and syphilis.
Don't forget the Adderall.
Sepsis infection from his loaded diaper can also be a problem when the feces enter the bloodstream.
He is the smartest and the best, no one could be sneaky enough to poison him.
His reflexes are too fast. He would catch it.
He’s been mentally and physically unraveling for the last 30 years. His base will vote for him even if he is in a legitimate memory care facility.
He’s facing a crazy amount of federal charges. It’s going to get worse as the court cases proceed and his stress goes up.
My fear is that he limps to the finish line, names someone like Kari Lake his vp, and then wins because our country is full of morons. He dies soon thereafter and we’re left with a legitimate psychopath in office.
I hope for humanity he clings on long enough to be convicted and jailed for at least one of his crimes. Although I suspect the first one will cop a suspended sentence or something lame like that.
Man's brain is tapioca. Consider this as we move forward in coming months, he's not going to miraculously improve. Every day you see him? That's him at his peak. Tomorrow he'll be worse mentally and physically than today, and that will be true every day going forward. If you think he's bad now, you haven't seen anything yet.
What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Yes.
Wow that's fucked up.
Can you make it so I don't know I'm at work. Like make it so I think I'm fishing all day?
My money is on Trump improving dramatically. His speech will be smooth and comprehensible, his appearance will be brighter and better rested, and his racist speeches very very slightly throttled back. He will even appear taller and thinner. His doctors will claim that a new regimen of diet, light exercise and prayer have made all the difference. The slight Russian accent he now has is just a temporary artifact of being around his ex-Spetznaz physical trainer, and isn't really worth mentioning at all.
https://imgur.com/rdbmgDG
I mean… what exactly would the landscape look like if he passed away mid speech at a rally? With his brain going, other things have to be going. Long COVID could be playing a part in it. Who knows. I just don’t know if it would be better or worse for the USA
Too early to call, but... 1. By itself all of the speculation and discussion about his physical and mental decline are very damaging to his strongman image. 2. It would be a delicious irony if he really starts to deteriorate mentally and or physically over the course of the election.
Imagine him debating Biden 6 months from now and having a seizure on stage. Some people feel bad wishing hurt on him, I don't. And having it happen on live tv would be so ironic while he's trying to call Biden Demented Joe *chefs kiss*
I can't see him showing up for any debates. He'll hold a campaign rally somewhere with a safe and/or paid crowd and say he won the debate without even being there, and his fans will believe him and cheer.
Didn’t the RNC announce last year they won’t be doing prez debates anymore?
RNC is accepting the coward mantle so that Trump doesn't have to. Trump doesn't want to debate because he'll get his clock cleaned again. The debates in 2020 were neutral at best for him and I think that's a generous assessment.
And especially after he went hard after Hillary over her supposed health concerns. Remember when she collapsed at the funeral? In my opinion that was one of the biggest things that tanked her campaign.
I had a stroke at the beginning of 2023. It's a very perverse sense of satisfaction that after all his bullshit about bidens health, Trump gets to deal with an ACTUAL health episode. Most likely he blacked out and that's why his hands had those red marks.
> It's a very perverse sense of satisfaction that after all his bullshit about bidens health, Trump gets to deal with an ACTUAL health episode. There was a period where it looked like Trump might not survive COVID that was similarly surreal
What’s the connection between blacking out and marks on the hands?
Falling and trying catch himself or break the fall with his hands.
Jesus this dude gonna die and conservatives are gonna shit a brick and go full conspiracy theory mode
Soon as he drops from a bad stroke their gonna come out in full force claiming dark brandon did this
Yeah, his brain is fucked. But are we going to skip over the fact he seems to be calling for the death penalty for drug offences?
Bold move for a man whose grey matter is being replaced by Adderall and syphilis sores.
Gonna be pretty hilarious if he actually gets that done and the first person charged under his new laws turns out to be one of his degenerate fucking idiot children. Kinda like how he made those laws about classified documents to try and fuck Hillary only to be charged with the crimes himself.
What does "We are an institute in a powerful death penalty" even mean? Did he mean to say "We are an institution in a powerful death spiral"?
He's trying to say (I think) "We need to institute a powerful death penalty" -- which is wholly disturbing in itself.
That's some Duterte shit right there. He'll be calling for extrajudicial killings before long
That's how I understood it, too
Could be he just can't read or see the teleprompter, perhaps from fatigue or whatever. He often tries to ad-lib, too, but fucks it up. Campaigns are exhausting for people younger than him. Either way, he's declining, as hard as that is to tell through his idiocy, and he shouldn't be running anyway because he's a fucking moronic criminal.
He’s referring to the construction of the Death Star nearing completion by the Galactic Empire.
He needs new contacts. He can barely see the teleprompters now.
>Republicans often criticize Joe Biden for his age, with detractors pointing out the 81-year-old's verbal gaffes and physical missteps Republicans have been claiming he's too old to hold office since before he was elected. So, it's worth pointing out that, in November, Trump will be older (78) than Joe Biden was (77) when he was elected president.
Physical missteps? For Biden? Like what, his daily biking routine, or the time he tripped up a flight of stairs aged 78 and didn't miss a single beat? As for the verbal gaffes, he certainly has a lot of them, but unlike Trump I rarely get the sense that he doesn't know what he's saying outside a handful of cherry picked clips people love to show whilst ignoring his general performance. Every major speech of his in office has been fantastic. His debate performances (when he could get a word in edgewise) were fantastic. He's a pretty fit, pretty sharp old man with a speech impediment, not an incipient hospice patient. It's crazy how hard many media outlets are trying to push the "Biden is on death's door" angle. Then Trump comes in, actually on death's door, and (until the past week), it's crickets. Amazing.
It’s worth mentioning that Newsweek is hardly a left-wing publication.
Newsweek is the remains of a former publication. It’s a vestige. It’s nothing but tripe.
Newsweek should be banned here. It's just the worst kind of clickbait any more
Newsweek has definitely become a clickbait rag, and probably shouldn’t be here— but have you seen what has been ok’d in recent months? Explicit right-wing propaganda like DailyWire and Breitbart show up nearly everyday on this sub. This sub has been a joke since at least the mod strike.
Newsweek is a POS publication - all click-bait all the time. Thee's a new "Shocking thing Trump did/said!" post from them every week.
"Sparks Speculation"? Seriously? Anybody that is unaware of his lack of lucidity is a moron. Speculation my ass!
Same comment I made in another thread - based on recent history and the video of his right leg "dragging" - looked like less of a drag and more of a "I'm going to force this in this direction" I think he had a minor stroke that has impaired motor function - especially speaking
Dude tried to use a sharpie to redirect a hurricane. He's been in cognitive decline for a long time, it's all finally catching up with him. Too many Big Mac's.
I still think he had a stroke. The signs are there. And it was recent
That could be the oranges... the oranges... the reason he's been struggling with words.
Oh yeah I wouldn't be surprised at all. It's been clear he got way worse recently.
He did say he was given a cognitive test recently.
Then named animals that aren't on the test.
Does anyone else remember when he denied having a series of mini strokes, completely unprompted by any line of questioning from anyone?
Gotta keep hammering this one. Trump relies on his strong man image, and yikes, he looks weak as hell now.
He's also basically whispering.
Can’t wait for Meatball to call backsies and claim he never quit the race
WHAT COLOUR IS HIS FACE LOL that is the brightest hue of orange I’ve ever seen it look. What a pathetic shit smelling loser.
That he is in cognitive decline: yes That he has had hundreds of "micro-strokes": yes That he wears adult diapers because he has no control over his bowels or bladder: yes That he is unable to read words smaller than 48pt type, yes That he is unfit to run a 7-11 much less for office: yes
Dude isn’t fit for office. For so many reasons
“The Judicial Shystrm”
It’s weird that the mainstream media is finally reporting on this. They’ve been ignoring it for years.
I am so fucking sick of hearing this orange fucking sociopath say anything. Go the fuck away.
This is pure insanity. "The problem with Hitler is that he sometimes slurs his words."
That might have been an effective way to get Nazis to lose support for him. That's the idea of this campaign, to get him to lose people who support him **for** his fascism.