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https://news.yahoo.com/befuddled-trump-cant-figure-bush-040026373.html"During a campaign stop in South Carolina, Trump reminisced about defeating Jeb Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
When I came here, everyone thought Bush was going to win, he said. They thought Bush because Bush supposedly was a military person. Great. You know what he was a mili- ... he got us into the, uh, he got us into the Middle East. How did that work out, right?
Trump, who once boasted of having the worlds greatest memory, forgot that Jeb Bush never served as president, was not a military person and was not involved in conflicts in the Middle East."
Rorey
(8,514 posts)I wish the media would focus a little more on it. When he speeches are listened to carefully, which is difficult because he's so unpleasant to listen to, his focusing problems are obvious. He has learned to sort of ad lib to cover his mistakes, but there's clearly something not working right in his brain.
Peacetrain
(24,288 posts)iluvtennis
(21,496 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,109 posts)yardwork
(69,347 posts)Even before that
housecat
(3,138 posts)believe it have been absorbed into a cult with no exit plan.
Bayard
(29,604 posts)And Biden will obliterate him on stage.
progressoid
(53,161 posts)not sure that they know the difference between the Bushes either.
Peacetrain
(24,288 posts)when he was only 12 during the Vietnam war..
Rebl2
(17,705 posts)Do remember they said Obama let 9/11 happen 🙄
Johonny
(26,130 posts)Boomerproud
(9,283 posts)shrike3
(5,370 posts)Rebl2
(17,705 posts)NBC/MSNBC according to his rant about them recently.
shrike3
(5,370 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,436 posts)malaise
(295,871 posts)aka The Slobfather😀😀
Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)He's descended into a form of thinking that Piaget called "concrete operations" in which problem solving reaches an "all or nothing, black and white" paradigm. His rant about executing Milley is a perfect example. Further, his promise to punish his enemies and eliminate the free press are similar examples of absolutist problem solving. This kind of thinking is prevelant in 4-6 year old children. What is thoroughly alarming is that NO ONE in the media is accurately identifying Trump's cognitive decline-- his overt dementia. Joe Scarborough took a stab at it this morning, but he's not an expert in human cognition.
Further, the combination of mental confusion and regression with his ability to communicate on an emotional level are markings of Alzheimer's disease, as contrasted with ischemic dementia in which there is a more general decline over all areas of cognition. Another distinguishing feature is Trump's loss of long term memory. He should easily discriminate between political opponents at varying times in his political and public life were he to be afflicted with garden-variety dementia. He can no longer do so. Yet people in his own party refuse to point out the obvious and endanger all of us with Trump's child-like thinking-- something that will only get worse with time. It's possible that, very soon, Trump's attorneys will plead that Trump cannot competently stand trial due to cognitive decline, yet will win primary after primary, because NO ONE in the GOP will dare break the bad news to his MAGA base.
It seems that no one truly knows this, but Trump is really DONE. It's just that the reality hasn't hit Trump world. His speeches are truly distasteful and ugly. He holds no appeal for expanding his base, and independents are fleeing his influence. Were it not for right wing media, Trump would be a byline right now. But he's still a big money maker for Fox News and other outlets. It is they who continue to keep his name on the political marquee, even though he's well past any substantial political value. It's as if he's the Potemkin candidate-- just a billboard of a candidate with nothing behind it.
Aaeia
(170 posts)Here's how it's going to play out. If it comes to t-rump actually standing trial - he will then, keep fighting or be declared "incompetent to stand trial". If he fights a little longer to sentencing stage the above statement will hold true. So, he'll spend the rest of his days in Mara-largo. As all those news clips of him bumbling thru will be held as evidence as proof of his incompetency.
He won't be going to jail to everyone's disappointment but at least he won't be running for president.
Just my take on the general proceedings.
Recycle_Guru
(2,973 posts)then you know the fix is in.
NoMoreRepugs
(12,060 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)He has a Dr. Feelgood thats cranking him up for public appearances. Sadly each drug cocktail guarantees more will be needed for the next jolt to his central nervous system and his tired old brain.