Trump increasingly preoccupied with defending his physical and mental health

[Zorro]

The early June meeting in the Cabinet Room was intended as a general update on President Trump’s reelection campaign, but the president had other topics on his mind.

Trump had taken a cognitive screening test as part of his 2018 physical, and now, more than two years later, he brought up the 10-minute exam. He waxed on about how he’d dazzled the proctors with his stellar performance, according to two people familiar with his comments. He walked the room of about two dozen White House and reelection officials through some of the questions he said he’d aced, such as being able to repeat five words in order.

At the time, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment — which includes animal pictures and other simple queries aimed at detecting mild cognitive impairment such as dementia — was intended to quell questions about Trump’s mental fitness. But in recalling it, Trump said he thought presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden would never be able to pass it and suggested challenging him to take the test, said the people familiar with Trump’s comments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share private details.

The seeming non sequitur was part of Trump’s growing preoccupation in recent weeks over perceptions of his mental and physical health, at a time when critics have mocked him for episodes in which they say he has appeared frail or confused. The attacks Trump has previously levied against Biden — dismissing the former vice president as “Sleepy Joe,” secreted away in his basement and enfeebled — have boomeranged back on him, as opponents have seized on Trump’s own missteps to raise concerns.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-increasingly-preoccupied-with-defending-his-physical-and-mental-health/2020/06/22/c7e0a95c-b3ed-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html

[SunSeeker]

1. Desperate loser says what?

[JDC]

2. He knows he is losing it and it is eating him alive.

That brings me tremendous joy.

[Siwsan]

3. My mother became very defensive about her mental health, when she developed Alzheimer's

VERY defensive.

[Justice]

9. Agree. My uncle was the same

My uncle was a pastor. He was very intelligent, very detail oriented and had a Masters. He mixed up the order of the service, and was taken out of commission to lead as a result. He kept defending himself, saying someone had mixed the pages or it was an honest mistake. He just couldn’t accept what was happening. Doctor said it’s harder if you are more intelligent/educated because you fall so much more.

Everyone I hear Trump speak, repeating himself and obsessing as he does, blaming everyone - he sounds just like my uncle, rest his soul.

[Nevilledog]

4. Not The Onion.......*sigh*

[BigmanPigman]

5. The ads I have been seeing from The Lincoln Project

and other groups have been hammering away on his health. Good, hit him and his ego with everything you've got.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Keep hammering him. Make him crack.

Do NOT let up.

[RKP5637]

10. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Keep him defending this

His health is now in the public’s mind. He cannot help but defend it, but it would be smarter if he just ignored it.

Hillary has one fainting spell and it was an issue through the election.

And here’s what’s great about this, they wanted to make Biden’s health an issue and that was flipped. And that’s a lot the Lincoln Project’s doing IMO. They made some of their ads to get a response out of him. And it worked perfectly. That’s the type of stuff our side has lacked in recent years.

[RKP5637]

11. Yep, exactly!!! "That's the type of stuff our side has lacked in recent years." n/t

[riversedge]

8. oh, it is foreign test Mr. Trump. you trust it Trumpy??

[RKP5637]

12. Yes, Mr. tRump, foreign to you, but those are English big words. n/t

[Music Man]

13. This was going to be his only line of attack this year.

"Sleepy Joe."

If he doesn't even have that going for him, he has a hill to climb.

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. ...And we now know how well he deals with inclined surfaces. nt

[Cha]

14. Somebody should make a campaign Ad of

when BLOTUS falsely accuses Biden of "sleepy Joe" with a Split Screen of trump trying to hold a glass of water up to his ASSFACE.

#WaterGait.

[keithbvadu2]

15. OK, Donald. You both take the test on camera to be shown later that night.

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OK, Donald.

You both take the test on camera to be shown later that night.

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When Trump tried to ridicule Rex Tillerson's intelligence, MENSA offered to monitor an IQ test for them.

Trump was 'smart' enough to not take them up on the offer.

[Solly Mack]

16. That's why he prefaces the word genius with the word stable.

His way of countering reports that he is unstable. Which were already making the rounds prior to his occupying the oval.

His intelligence and mental stability were being questioned and continue to be questioned, and rightly so.


The orange pus pocket started using stable genius to describe himself. Repeatedly.

As anyone would who really wanted others to start using the same phrase about him.

No one did.

LMAO

[rusty quoin]

17. I was scared that Biden would make mistakes, but I was wrong.

The only one who is condemned into a puddle of mistakes is this (I hate to even admit it) our president, Trump.