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intrepidity

(7,228 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 05:47 AM Oct 2020

When Fred Trump refused to retire due to Alzheimer's, guess what his family did?

There is a long history in the Trump family of denying serious illness. According to a Trump family friend, Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., insisted on working even after his Alzheimer’s disease advanced in the 1990s. “To retire is to expire!” Fred Sr. would say. The friend said that as Fred Sr.’s disease worsened––he once came down the stairs wearing three neckties––the family created a system so that Fred could think he was still running the Trump Organization. Every day Fred Sr. would go to the office in Brooklyn and they would give him blank papers to sort through and sign. The phone on Fred’s desk was set up so that it could only dial out to his secretary. “Fred pretended to work,” the family friend said.https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/don-jr-thinks-trump-is-acting-crazy-presidents-covid-joyride-has-family-divided

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When Fred Trump refused to retire due to Alzheimer's, guess what his family did? (Original Post) intrepidity Oct 2020 OP
I'll gladly donate a ream of paper...even colored, if that would help. Frustratedlady Oct 2020 #1
I can donate crayons SnowCritter Oct 2020 #14
Won't work--he needs Sharpies Maeve Oct 2020 #16
Strap up everybody! North Shore Chicago Oct 2020 #2
Me thinks capitalism can drive to insanity. rickyhall Oct 2020 #3
How do we fight DownriverDem Oct 2020 #11
'Pretending to work' is the family biz soothsayer Oct 2020 #4
Jebus, drumph on a roid rage is gonna be a spectacle!!! ResistantAmerican17 Oct 2020 #5
KnR. Thanks for the link Hekate Oct 2020 #6
getting played again disalitervisum Oct 2020 #7
Drumpf is following in his father's footsteps hkp11 Oct 2020 #8
... and his grandfather's, more or less, wait and see Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2020 #10
He was also a draft dodger Major Nikon Oct 2020 #13
Just throw a play phone in the cell, a Sharpie, Post-Its (for his memory), porno mags., plenty Illumination Oct 2020 #15
nice! hkp11 Oct 2020 #17
A phone with a dummy Twitter app so he can type tweets all day long that nobody ever has to see. tanyev Oct 2020 #18
I guess it is in the family genes.. dicksmc3 Oct 2020 #9
How effed up is it BlueMTexpat Oct 2020 #12

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
1. I'll gladly donate a ream of paper...even colored, if that would help.
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 05:52 AM
Oct 2020

Just sayin'.

I'll bet there was a family conference, last night.

SnowCritter

(805 posts)
14. I can donate crayons
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 08:20 AM
Oct 2020

Big box, big crayons - whatever he needs.

I'd even make a special trip down to the Crayola Experience store in the Mall of America if need be.

DownriverDem

(6,187 posts)
11. How do we fight
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 07:59 AM
Oct 2020

repubs attacks on socialism? I've pointed out that we have Democratic Socialism with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Police Department and Fire Department to name a few. They say they don't want to pay for college. These are the same folks who went to college back when it was affordable.

 

disalitervisum

(470 posts)
7. getting played again
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 07:04 AM
Oct 2020

Every day for the past few years since this revolting extortionist money-laundering pedophile slum lord soviet agent piece of filth trump and his bloodsucking cockroach third-rate hustler family exploded into your lives, I've been watching you get fucked. Every day.

If you really believe scrump actually thinks daddy is acting crazy and there's some kind of rift in the trump family that could be leveraged to cause dissension or discomfort for these vile syphilitic creatures, you deserve whatever you get.

I'm wasting my breath. It's useless.

hkp11

(275 posts)
8. Drumpf is following in his father's footsteps
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 07:04 AM
Oct 2020

well, he can keep working as a fake prez in a 4x4 cell for many years to come

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,605 posts)
10. ... and his grandfather's, more or less, wait and see
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 07:54 AM
Oct 2020

tRump's grandfather died as an early case of the 1918-1920 flu.

It remains to be seen what tRump will die of and when, but relapses are not uncommon with Covid-19.

 

Illumination

(2,458 posts)
15. Just throw a play phone in the cell, a Sharpie, Post-Its (for his memory), porno mags., plenty
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 08:22 AM
Oct 2020

of meds, a T.V. (only showing Fox News) & stuff him full of junk food. He would surely be saying: Putin WHO? He'd be happy as a lark in springtime!...

dicksmc3

(262 posts)
9. I guess it is in the family genes..
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 07:23 AM
Oct 2020

I think this post is appropraite after seeing stooge signing blank sheets of paper at The WRMC this past weekend. Then takinga JOY RIDE to show his cult he's perfectly sane.. WOW! This man has got to go!!

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