I don't think Deteriorating Don knows where he is or what year it is

[EarlG]

He called into the Sean Hannity show last night. For the very first question, Hannity set him up with a softball about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, finishing by saying "Your reaction to her attacks on him on the issue of race?"

Here's an exact transcript of Trump's answer, which took two minutes and forty seconds:

"Well first of all what you said about Russia the New York Times is fake reporting, it's a fake newspaper as far as I'm concerned, and er, Washington Post likewise I always try and figure out which is worse. And then you have CNN, and frankly ABC, CBS, NBC, and but you have some good ones in between, locals are great, locals we do great in, er, I couldn't possibly be here, and on, er, social media, I don't, does anybody do better in terms of er people watching and the importance of social media is so we get the word out but you know the sad thing is you have so many incredibly talented writers, journalists, frankly including yourself cuz I consider you really a journalist to, to a very, to the largest extent the job you've done cuz you got the Russia hoax correct, and your people that came on that show night after night including by the way, er, our great Congressman, and, and Senators, and Senators, you had John Kennedy on tonight you have a lot of em on, but, a lotta people got it right, and a lot of our Congress, and, and Senate, they got it right, and, they got it wrong and they got Pulitzer Prizes the Pulitzer Prize is worthless as far as I'm concerned because when you have the Maggie Habermans getting a Pulitzer Prize and she got it all wrong she doesn't I haven't spoken to her in forever, she's like my biographer, like she knows everything about me she knows nothing about me, and they talk about they have sources they don't have sources they're made up they make em up in their mind they have no sources I know when there are sources but, if you look at the Times and I guess the Washington Post they got Pulitzer Prizes and they were totally wrong. And they got em I guess before the end result. And there was no collusion, and now this thing turns out to be a total hoax and now it finds out that we caught Obama, Biden, er, that's why I didn't think that Susan Rice could get it cuz she's part of this whole, er, illegal thing that happened which is one of the worst perhaps the worst, political scandal in the history of our country, and they got caught, now let's see what happens but they're caught red-handed, and, er, but these writers, the writers got Pulitzer Prizes, and that shows you a Pulitzer Prize is worthless and frankly you ought to start a petition to return the Pulitzer prize cuz they were all wrong, they were wrong on the, on the whole subject of, Russia Russia Russia it was made up, fabricated, it was a crime that was committed, and you look at Hillary Clinton where she paid for the fake dossier and now the dossier is proven to be totally fake, it's a disgrace what happened and no other president should have to go through it Sean."

Sad.

(Trump's answer starts at 1:21 in the video below)

[JHB]

1. "Use your words, Donald. The best words, remember?"

"And fewer of them."

[JHB]

2. Sarah Cooper is going to have to get marathon training for this one

[Hekate]

3. That's really frightening.

The GOP is going down in history as the most corrupt party in our history — they could have stopped him.

[SharonClark]

6. Bingo

[obamanut2012]

10. Jesus Christ

[dalton99a]

18. Republicans are his co-conspirators and accomplices.

He can do and say whatever he wants without any real consequences

[Swede]

4. He's a rambling man.

An orange rambling idiot man.

[George II]

8. Didn't see this - see my post #7 below!

[bringthePaine]

69. R-A-M-B-I-N-G-O er, no, wait, lemme start again with the banjo...😂

[klook]

77. Tryin' to make a livin' and doin' the best he can....

Apologies to Dickey Betts.

[eppur_se_muova]

100. Can we start callin' him Ramblo now ? nt

[Mike 03]

5. Jesus H.

Can you believe we are in this situation? In the United States of America?

Yet too many anchors and reporters continue to treat discussion of his mental condition as taboo. And they talk about Joe.

Think I'll bookmark this just for the hell of it. It's stunning, really.

[George II]

7. First line of his favorite song from the Allman Brothers: "Lord I was born a ramblin' man"!

[VWolf]

35. I was thinking more along these lines:

[lagomorph777]

53. Me too! And this:

[VWolf]

88. Tasty! n/t

[IBEWVET]

96. Thanks

Helped clear my mind after reading that crap.

[marble falls]

9. His soliloquies have to be a major cause of global warming.

[CaptYossarian]

47. At least the Capitol has a dome.

They capture all of that and heat DC with it.

[lagomorph777]

56. All that methane...

[Submariner]

11. And we allow this idiot to have the nuclear codes

when he should be committed to 72 hours of involuntary observation for the safety of the nation. Sick.

[JohnnyRingo]

27. They say he "tells it like it is".

And the country is a mass of confusion these days.

[CaptYossarian]

48. They'll have to retool "Ball of Confusion" by the Temptations.

Fifty years and what's changed?

[PatSeg]

45. I guess it doesn't matter

He's destroying the world without nuclear weapons. I suppose you could say he's an overachiever in some regards, such a constant destructive force. How could one uninformed, incompetent, unintelligent fool dismantle the institutions, alliances, and society that took decades, even centuries to build? It makes one appreciate how fragile and vulnerable civilization is. History has taught us that over and over again, yet so many forget so easily.

[tblue37]

89. He didn't do it by himself. He has a whole party of enablers helping him do it. nt

[PatSeg]

95. Yes

As with any tyrant, he can only succeed with the help of the enablers, though I don't think any of them ever anticipated how truly awful he would be. Too caught up in their own self-interests to see the big picture.

[iluvtennis]

12. Nothing of value said...just BS word salad. And his supporteres frind this acceptable. Sad. nt

[tanyev]

26. A 6 foot 3 inch, 239 lb package of bullshit, meanness and stupidity.

[iluvtennis]

28. Correction - 300 lbs...no way does trump weigh 239 lbs. nt

[tanyev]

30. Yep, that's part of the bullshit.

[NewJeffCT]

55. and there is no way that Trump is 6'3"

He was 6'2" before he ran for president and there are pictures of him next to 6'3" guys (baseball player Alex Rodriguez, CA Governor Gavin Newsom, for example) and 6'2" guys (Justin Trudeau) and Donny is clearly shorter than all of them and likely has lifts in his shoes as it is.

He may be 6'0" or in the 6'0" to 6'1" range, at best.

[iluvtennis]

90. Wow, so that's the reason he looks like a blimp with 300+ lbs on the 6 ft frame. nt

[NewJeffCT]

92. These guys are both listed at 6'3"

Trump is also in work boots, where it would be easy enough to hide lifts.

[iluvtennis]

93. thanks for those pics - clarifies things. nt

[Layzeebeaver]

57. Ordinary normal farm bullshit is insulted by his bullshit in addition the package it's in. Nt.

[Generic Other]

37. Didn't even use salad dressing

Just plain old vinegar.

[iluvtennis]

43. truth

[Midnight Writer]

86. That's what scares me. Lots of people listen to this drivel and shout "Right On!"

[iluvtennis]

91. yep, indeed it's drivel. but many in his base just don't think/analyze what is said, they just

take it at face value.

[Midnight Writer]

98. Exactly. It is "key words" that they hear. All Trump has to do is string together some key words

and phrases that evoke an emotional response, and that emotional response overcomes any logical cognition of what is actually being said.

It is an old salesman trick tested to the extreme by talk radio.

[DBoon]

97. They think being able to put 2 words together is elitist

Common people just throw words together

[packman]

13. He has a ping-pong mind

Just bounces off one thing to another

[ismnotwasm]

14. He's disgusting.

[gratuitous]

15. He's like a beauty pageant contestant

Contestants train for the Q&A portion by memorizing a shit-ton of research and statistics, and it can be difficult for a teen-ager to sort through all the really valuable stuff they've memorized and keep their answer short, sweet, and to the point. Under the pressure of the big stage and the bright lights, it's no wonder some of their brains go "Ker-sproing!" and we have Miss Teen USA from South Carolina to remember forever on the internet.

But this is the president of the United States, allegedly a grown up. Yet he goes full-tilt boogie on even the simplest questions, cramming all the grievances real and imagined into every utterance.

[iluvtennis]

44. But at least the contestans spew out facts...trump just spews nonsense. nt

[Blecht]

16. Thanks for the transcript

The only way I can listen to him is when Sarah Cooper is moving her lips.

[Kingfisher86]

17. Name and shame the entire GOP party

for elder abuse.

[matt819]

19. Every newspaper and blog should run this

Have linguists and shrinks weigh in. Let Steve Schmidt and DonWinslow and Meidas Touch do their thing. Foreign newspapers should weigh in.

[dgauss]

20. Reminds me of Sarah Palin. Come to think of it, she would be the perfect VP for this administration.

[Fritz Walter]

21. Edwin Newman just turned over in his grave!

In 1974 Newman's first book, Strictly Speaking: Will America be the Death of English? reached #1 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list.

Source: Wikipedia

And he isn't even around to listen to this jibberish, let alone try to diagram the first sentence in that oral dysentery. He passed away ten years ago tomorrow.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. Stimulated Dementia

is like taking a whiz with your tongue

[Jarqui]

23. He's asked about Kamala's "attacks on him (Biden) on the issue of race"

and his answer doesn't mention Kamala, Biden with respect to race or reference racial remarks whatsoever.

Trump just drops into fake news and bogus Russia hoax stuff ... like he's incapable of conversation.

[tavernier]

24. I have three published books on activities for caregivers

of patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia that I wrote when I was a nurse and activities director in an Alzheimer’s facility. I have experience recognizing dementia, although I am not qualified to diagnose. My opinion is that this guy is in deep trouble with respect to his cognitive status.

[3catwoman3]

81. Fellow nurse here - after doing what you did, I'll bet...

...you are more than qualified to diagnose, but perhaps not licensed to or allowed to by the job parameters.

[tavernier]

83. Yes.

[Tanuki]

25. This is truly alarming.

[global1]

29. It Is Really Difficult To Even Read His Answer To Hannity Let Alone Listen To It And.....

be able to decipher what he actually said.

[kacekwl]

31. Huh ?

[H2O Man]

32. Yikes!

Recommended.

[Auggie]

33. President Queeg (just replace "strawberries" with "hoax")

[lindysalsagal]

34. "and they got Pulitzer Prizes the Pulitzer Prize is worthless as far as I'm concerned because when y

you have the Maggie Habermans getting a Pulitzer Prize and she got it all wrong she doesn't I haven't spoken to her in forever, she's like my biographer, like she knows everything about me she knows nothing about me,"

Ride that bronco, GOP, right onto the wall. The wall he'll never build.

[bluescribbler]

36. Word salad

Nothing but word salad.

[Dopers_Greed]

38. Deteriorating Don

I doubt he could even pronounce "deteriorating"

[ffr]

40. I'm not going to read all that!

Have him put it on a MAGA bumper sticker.

[Mr.Bill]

41. He must be fun in meetings.

Talk like this at your next job interview and see if you get hired.

[calimary]

42. World's longest run-on sentence.

Sheesh...

[herding cats]

46. Hannity lost him at the lead into the question.

Trump probably never heard anything beyond the "Russian dossier."

I've noticed this about him before, he hears a trigger word or phrase and everything after that is white noise to him. As to his incoherent, non-answer to the question, the scary part is in his mind it made sense. He thought he was nailing it.

[mwb970]

49. It's like he just turns on a faucet.

Then this stuff dribbles out until he turns the faucet back off.

[pandr32]

65. That describes it well

[lagomorph777]

50. Yikes. Looks like he picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue.

[calimary]

76. ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!

I see what you did there!

[Ford_Prefect]

51. It's the most stoned he's sounded yet... Whatever it is he's snorting or sniffing or eating.

[malaise]

52. That is incoherent psychobabble on steroids

CoronaVote him the fuck out!

[Duncan Grant]

54. He's the (amoral) God of his own universe.

Barking mad that one — and dangerous.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

58. Sounds like a demented old fool. nt

[Olafjoy]

59. Bat sh#* crazy

I don’t even know what to comment. His staff did not give him coherent answers to read? They weren’t standing in front of him with cue cards?? He is incoherent and insane. Verbal diarrhea 💩

[gademocrat7]

60. He is despicable.

[yonder]

61. Be bookmarking this baby - it's a babbling, bone-spurred beauty.

To paraphrase the name of an old folk song: Rattlin' Roarin' Donnie

[HootieMcBoob]

62. Hannity knows what a blithering idiot he is.

As much as I despise Sean Hannity he has got to realize what a “fucking moron” the man is. He has no other option than to kiss his ass because he’s implicated in his escapades too. Wasn’t he a client of Michael Cohen?

[kimbutgar]

63. It sounds like blah blah blah filler filler filler blah blah !!!

Makes no frickin sense!

[C Moon]

64. He doubled his meds after he found out about the Biden/Harris ticket.

[Illumination]

66. Squeeze the pimple! Get him OUT! He's nothing but a giant pustule in a sea of lard

& hatred for America!

[crickets]

67. I do believe trump and reality have parted ways, never to meet again. Damn. nt

[LudwigPastorius]

68. Full-on lunacy...

The garbage ravings of a truly demented mind...

[maxsolomon]

70. He is defined by his grievances.

The occupy his mind entirely. He'll go to his grave whining.

I noticed in his Axios interview that he cannot let anyone else finish a though, a sentence, because he starts condescending and filling space with obvious generalities that he thinks he's a genius for learning but everyone else already knew.

He wanted to be President because he is an Egoist.

[Maru Kitteh]

71. Dude. I had to stop. I couldn't read it all.

It reads like a schizoaffective manic-depressive on methamphetamines.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

72. it's like a three wheel bike with no chain

this man can't even make this bike move, but he thinks he the king of the neighborhood.

Russia scam
Fake news
The bad people I took care in portland
the Brown people I locked up at the border
he is a broken record

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

73. Transcripts of his verbiage show most clearly

how far gone he is. Just listening, he almost makes sense, because other than when he can't read a word correctly, he still has the rhythms and intonations of the English language correct. Sentence structure, not so much. Coherency is zilch.

Personally, I do my very best not to listen to him ever.

[bucolic_frolic]

74. Give Trump a break!

Running for high office while building an insanity defense is a complex dance for an overweight balding rooster!

[TommyCelt]

75. Oh my God.

[TrogL]

78. I booked an appointment with a psychologist

...because I’m having some memory issues and/or I’m being gaslighted by some sociopaths.

Compared to this I’m totally sane.

[TrogL]

79. Wait...which John Kennedy??

[grantcart]

80. I believe he's increasingly sleep deprived.

[Galraedia]

82. Anyone seen the comment section for that video?

It consists of largely foreigners that want Trump reelected and racists.

[Grins]

84. Neuropsychologist, Sterling Johnson...

"But everyday speech is definitely a way of measuring cognitive decline. If people are noticing - that’s meaningful.” - Neuropsychologist, Sterling Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Sept. 2019.

[Lock him up.]

85. "the mailmen a'gonna gedem" ??

"people r gonna juss GRAB batches ov'em" ??

"yoo tawHk about chinah 'n rushaw they'll be GRABbin plenny ov'em"...

1 question... how? Bueller...

orange-viRu$ shaw knows how to GRAB... (all he knows)

RICO THE TRUMP MOB$TER$ AND THEIr ACCOMPLICE$

[greatauntoftriplets]

87. I've been through garden mazes where it's easier to find the end.

If there was a point to that extensive word salad, it eluded me.

[ecstatic]

94. He said Russia will get mail in ballots?

Interesting admission...

[Yavin4]

99. Setting up his criminal defense like that mob boss that wandered the streets in his bathrobe.

Going for the dementia defense.

[Heartstrings]

101. Advanced degree in gibberish from Trump U...nt

[PatrickforO]

102. The only thing propping this insane, demented monster up is the Republican party and its

fear of Trump supporters. How forty or forty-five million people can still support this putz is utterly beyond me.

If someone got this way back in the 20th century, there would be an Article 25, and media guys like Cronkite calming us down after the removal, saying, "This Republic works - we had a crisis and the Constitution helped us resolve it!"