Has Donald Trump gone nuts? This is obviously a difficult question to raise about any person, let alone a candidate, who has demonstrated vicious, paranoid, and violent behavior. (A civil trial in a federal court found him guilty of sexual abuse, after all.) So, everything is relative. Still, all the armchair gerontologists parsing every utterance from President Joe Biden, trying to distinguish his congenital stutter from his natural aging, should look at Trump, whose behavior has gone from bad to weird to bizarre. Is he suffering from a palpable form of dementia? I leave that to the medical experts, but I’d implore you to absorb what the 45th president has been saying recently and how it’s even more worrisome than what he’s been saying and doing since he came down the escalator at Trump Towers in 2015.
“Crazy” kinda lets him off the hook. When you say crazy people think like his Twitter fight with Kim Jong Un, sort of wild that it would happen but not core to his presidency. It’s more important to emphasize his actual bad performance at the job.
I mean, if people are going to criticize Biden for misspeaking and being old, it’s fair to apply that same standard to Trump. The signs of cognitive decline in the latter are hard to ignore unless you’re really determined to not see it.