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.
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Anyone who listens to this fucker talk for even a minute and thinks “yep, that’s my guy” is either evil, an utter moron or both
I’ve said this before, but he knows how to lull people into a semi trance. It’s a sing-song way of gently speaking that they use in cults. If you speed up what he’s saying on youtube, you can see the effects immediately disappear and something I would suggest trying on relatives who are caught in his spell. Tell them you want to hear the speech but you’re in a hurry and 1.5x it.
You know who was considered an idiot by contemporaries and mocked for his bizarre, rambling speeches? Hitler.
Should try deepfaking some of his speeches with Biden’s voice. Change things like “leftist” or “liberal” to “right wing” or “conservative” and similar. All except for like the last one or two. Then as they are seething, reveal that it was trump all along.
Could do the same thing in reverse and reveal it as Biden’s speech. Lots of them agree with most of what Biden says. They’re just brainwashed into hating the other side.
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Trump is seeing either a prison cell or authoritarian leader in his future. I think he is feeling the stress of these futures. He may be thinking he has nothing left to lose.
Trump and Biden are both too old to be running for president. Biden has been a good president but should have just did the one term. Trump was a terrible president who packed the supreme court with right wing religious nuts, tried to destroy our democracy, enabled bigots and racist, and gave the rich tax cuts…and much more.
I will vote for Biden and our democracy. Because Trump is un-American and a criminal president.
Stop voting for Republicans, they don’t believe in our democracy.
I will vote for Biden and our democracy.
This is the only option if you don’t want to seriously damage our country and its democracy.
Yes. He most certainly has.
Yes. Eight years ago, he sounded more like George Wallace circa 1968 and 72. He was just missing a syrupy south Alabama drawl and a country band to warm up the crowd.
Now he sounds like Hitler trying to do the Nuremberg Rallies in English.
The republican traitor filth must all be held to account.
The dementia lean in that picture is strong
I think Trump has dementia from untreated brain syphilis.
“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.
He’s crazy enough that he violated his oath of office and is no longer qualified to hold any public office of the United States, let alone the Presidency.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4591133
Page 17:
V. The persons who framed Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment regarded the President of the United States as an officer of the United States
The President of the United States was among the officials who took the oath to the Constitution that under Section Three triggered disqualification for participating in an insurrection. As noted in the previous section, the persons responsible for the Fourteenth Amendment sought to bar from present and future office all persons who betrayed their constitutional oath. “All of us understanding the meaning of the third section,” Senator John Sherman of Ohio stated, “those men who have once taken an oath of office to support the Constitution of the United States and have Fourteenth Amendment distinguished between the presidential oath mandated by Article II and violated that oath in spirit by taking up arms against the Government of the United States are to be deprived for a time at least of holding office.” No member of the Congress that drafted the the oath of office for other federal and state officers mandated by Article VI. Both were oaths to support the Constitution. Senator Garrett Davis of Kentucky saw no legal difference between the constitutional requirement that “all officers, both Federal and State, should take an oath to support” the Constitution and the constitutional requirement that the president “take an oath, to the best of his ability to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.” Senator James Doolittle of Wisconsin declared that Congress need not pass laws requiring presidents to swear to support the Constitution because that “oath is specified in the constitution.”
In fact, the exact question of whether the disqualification from public office covered the Presidency came up at the time the Fourteenth Amendment was being drafted: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/lsb/lsb10569
Specifically:
One scholar notes that the drafting history of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment suggests that the office of the President is covered:
During the debate on Section Three, one Senator asked why ex-Confederates “may be elected President or Vice President of the United States, and why did you all omit to exclude them? I do not understand them to be excluded from the privilege of holding the two highest offices in the gift of the nation.” Another Senator replied that the lack of specific language on the Presidency and Vice- Presidency was irrelevant: “Let me call the Senator’s attention to the words ‘or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States.’”
I’ll highlight that last bit again:
Another Senator replied that the lack of specific language on the Presidency and Vice- Presidency was irrelevant: “Let me call the Senator’s attention to the words ‘or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States.’”
That is from this paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3748639
Some people seem to have a lot of trouble with figuring out what “or” means, in a list of things.
Several criminal prosecutions, a fubar civil trial, a sketchy Presidential bid, likely out of money, is one of the most hated (and simultaneously beloved) people in human history, and he’s looking down the barrel of turning 80 in a couple years…
He’s not gonna get any saner, folks
