Ok ...something somatic is going on with Orangina...

[PCIntern]

Do y’all remember a long long time ago when he went to the hospital in the middle of the night and they never said why he went? They just evaded questions with BS answers until the lazy media got tired of asking.

I believe that they were evaluating him following some sort of episode or episodes. I’m certain he was given neurological tests and he’s been lying about their results since. In fact, his usual mechanism of projection was implemented against President Biden, by stating that he, the President, was infirm and senile because…that’s what he, Trump, nearly always does.

We are witnessing his rapid decline in real time. There is little question that it’s accelerating and is exacerbated by stressors. The Biden turnover is possibly the most recent: it’s the political equivalent of being left at the altar. Being shot at is another as is having to sit through a multi-week jury trial and then to be found guilty on top of that.
To be truthful, all of these would severely affect, at least emotionally, a perfectly normal, reasonably well-adjusted individual.

Well, he certainly ain’t that. Add to the above the essential dissolution of his marriage, the fear concerning pending litigation, and the stresses of running a criminal enterprise and this is a recipe for accelerating his dementia.


Okay, you don’t like diagnosing over the teevee? Please allow me to ask: honestly, most here are of sound mind. How many could deal with this concatenation of nightmares and feel stable? Right. So a malignant deteriorating narcissist who’s showing real signs of confusion is gonna see their persona’s health plummet.

As a final point, his dress and demeanor is “off” and has been for years. This is not the Trump I recall from Atlantic City, where he was a shitbag, but analytical and sharp in his crumby way. No…this guy is a shell of his former self, as they say. That’s why he’s being hidden presently while they figure out what to do with him. They even sent that POS Nazified prick Stephen Miller out on MSNBC,…they don’t know what else to do to stay relevant.

[TBF]

1. Agree - Donald can't even get through a speech without losing track of what he's saying.

I think they were hoping that the young energetic VP candidate could take over some of the rallies etc. Alas they completely bombed that - Shady Vance isn't even likable to his own party.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

108. He can't get through two sentences

without losing track.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

112. They're gonna hide him like John Gill from Star Trek.

Anyone else remember the Nazi episode Patterns of Force?

[unblock]

2. Agreed entirely except about the media is corrupt, not lazy.

Donnie has a history of paying to kill adverse stories and otherwise manipulating the media and the media seems quite willing to play along.

[erronis]

19. Agree. And there are probably old scores that could be settled or blackmail

if his buddies in the M$M treat him badly. I'm sure trump and dear-departed epstein shared a lot secrets about those powerful self-serving white boys who are "in charge."

[amerikat]

3. Not sure he will make it to election day.

What happens if he doesn't. Who replaces him?

[speak easy]

17. Vance

a boy can dream

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

25. Vance. President candidate Couch Fucker

Don't think s VP has ever won when the Presidential candidate died before the election. Who would be the new Veep?

[COL Mustard]

51. Has it ever happened?

I don’t recall any case where a Presidential nominee had died before Election Day

[Wednesdays]

87. The closest it's ever come was Horace Greeley in 1872

He was the Democratic nominee that year. His wife died a week before the election, and, grief-stricken, he died four weeks later. That was before the Electoral College cast its votes, and had he won the most electors, it might have triggered a Constitutional Crisis.

That was avoided since Grant won in a landslide that year.

[COL Mustard]

90. Interesting

I was a history major in college, but I never knew that! Thanks!

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

103. Me, neither - but it could happen ...nt

[3Hotdogs]

53. And how many times has a presidential candidate died between nomination and the election?

[Gore1FL]

57. I suspect VP choice would be dealt with after the election.

Organized electors might be able to deal with it when they cast their votes as one option. If not, I suspect it would play out as normal with a presidential nomination and approval in the House and Senate.

Because this hypothtical all happens before an election, I guess it might go to the Senate in some electoral college hijinks with each state getting one vote, but that seems cumbersome and unnecessary.

[hatrack]

82. Kid Rock, of course!!

[BlueKota]

34. According to a CNN article

If a Republican candidate withdraws, becomes incapacitated, or dies after the primaries the Republican National committee could reconvene their convention and let delegates vote on a new candidate or they can just appoint someone to run themselves.

The article also says neither party has any obligation to chose the running mate as the new nominee.

My guess since the RNC has been Trumpified it would be someone who is very loyal to him and kisses his butt.

[angrychair]

49. Well certainly not Vance

I don't think they they have the name recognition in Congress to field a candidate plus the Republican caucus is a pit of vipers and backstabbers.

Their choice would likely be DeSantis and/or Nikki Halley.
Outside possiblity of Sean Hannity.

No one that could beat VP Harris and Gov Walz.

[hunter]

50. The Republican Party will appoint some Hitler clone...

... and the deplorables will stand and salute.

We the people, Conservative and Liberal, must not let them win.

[rubbersole]

60. Brian Kemp.

[sarchasm]

91. Eric or Ivanka ...(((shudder)))

Lara is RNC co-chair, so possibly a family member?

[C Moon]

92. That wouldn't surprise me.

[BlueKota]

100. That's what I'd be afraid of

[Tickle]

4. He looks the same to me

but what do I know. 😊

[PJMcK]

84. Try this

I Googled “Trump 1990 vs. Trump 2024” and there are lots of pictures and articles that highlight the contrasts the OP pointed out.

Trump has always been a shitbag loser. These days, he’s losing his mind right in front of us.

[C Moon]

93. How many times have we been here: thinking tfg is done.

There's so much money and power behind him, he always springs back.
I think August is too soon to speculate. A lot can happen.

[Tickle]

102. how many more times must I hear his groups are getting

smaller, it's the same people that go to them?

Just say he's a dick and shouldn't be back in the white house.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. It is beyond delicious seeing the RePugs in total disarray.

The Harris/Walz enthusiasm tsunami is only going to grow as the DNC draws closer, MSM is going to have to get awfully creative to continue the narrative of a neck n neck horse race.

[FalloutShelter]

6. Agree 100%

Have been saying for months, I did not know how much longer they could put him in front of the public.
Looks like we’re at that point.

I have seen this type of decline in my own father. He was a wonderful guy, but after his dementia diagnosis and the filters came off, he was an entirely different person… a volcano of anger and grievance. It was a long slow decline over ten years, and then very swift ending with a massive stroke. I told my husband, he had never really met my father. That’s how changed he was.

Sorry to get so personal, but to me Trump’s condition is clear as day. To bad nobody loves him… not his wife… not his children, otherwise they would get him help.

[Katcat]

41. For sure

My sister has dementia or one of the other memory loss crap. My BIL is half deaf, half blind and neither have been to a doctor in years and I’m trying to find a doc close to them so my sister can get a diagnosis and maybe meds. Or something. Anyth8ng.

[FalloutShelter]

44. I'm so sorry.

It's a tough road. I hope you chat get some help.

[Fiddlelady11]

68. My sister too had dementia or

Some other brain fog disease. One doctor said she had plaque on her brain. The problem with these people with dementia/ Alzheimer’s, they are not necessarily sweet and docile. My sister had an explosive temper and my mom and I were afraid of her. Eventually my brother stepped in when she couldn’t handle her finances. It was a long process over many years. But I remember her explosive temper! I imagine that is going on with tRUMP. He is probably hell to be around. I believe people with this disease are in rage, because they know something is wrong with them. My sister finally went into a home with 24 care when she stopped wearing clothes. I am waiting for that with trump!!!! If Ivanka had an ounce of decency, she would be having him evaluated and put in an home. But she doesn’t have an ounce of decency. Alzheimer’s/dementia is a terrible way to go out. I hope they find a solution.

[madaboutharry]

75. He wouldn't have to go to a home, the Uber wealthy

have the money to hire a staff of health care providers to give 24 hour care.

I would have thought that as awful as Ivanka and Jared are, that they would step up to try to do something. Maybe they have, but the others in the family seem to have more power.

I am very sorry about your sister.

[NonPC]

94. Ivanka is in Hiding

She’s not going to do anything, other than cash whatever check she gets from his estate when he dies.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

113. After what he did to her, I don't blame her

All manner of pics of him fondling her out there, no need to rehighlight his depravity. Google them if you like.

My sister didn't communicate with him for the same reason. She (nor I) didn't mourn his death. It was a relief, really.

[appleannie1]

111. That would be up to Melania, not Ivanka.

Both of them are only in the game for what they can get out of it.

[MyOwnPeace]

45. Sad story that I'm sorry you had to live through that......

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but it happens to many.

However, I don't feel bad that nobody loves him - he brought it on all by himself. May he and his ego suffer great agony as he watches his own being get what he so richly deserves - and lives it out VERY alone.

[Zoomie1986]

69. Well, the difference between your dad and TSF

Is that the latter has always been a volcano of anger and grievance. That hasn't changed about him since at least the 80s.

[calimary]

105. Thank you for this, FalloutShelter.

What an agonizing experience to endure. And I’m sure you had a hurricane of mixed feelings - wanting to stay close but feeling so repelled, AND hopeless about what, if anything, could be done to help.

I’m sorry you had to live through this. I know a lesser version of that, watching my parents’ decline. It’s like an emotional drowning.

And PLEASE DON’T punish yourself for whatever feelings you had, deep down, that you had to try to keep to yourself while it was all unraveling. They come. They’re there. We ALL have ‘em. And it’s a desperately heavy lift.

But it eventually - inevitably - does come to an end. And I discovered that it makes one discover one’s own strength and forbearance, and a deeper appreciation of slowly moving forward, and leaving it behind, in the past.

Time does help heal.

[FalloutShelter]

107. Thank you so much for your kind and

Compassionate response.
I do have peace and delight in remembering Dad before the dementia. The Navy man, AAA baseball player, Coach, Big Brother’s BOD, Deacon, Classic film affectionado, Aeronautical Engineer. NASA medalist and so much more.

TFG has NEVER done ANY of that.

Thank you from my heart.

[Skittles]

7. he's having a breakdown

the attention is no longer on him, but even worse for him is the spotlight shifting to a black woman - he cannot take that at ALL

[anciano]

8. Exactly.

You nailed it.

[PCIntern]

9. Excellent point.

[electric_blue68]

12. THAT is Such a delicious Irony!

speaking particularly as a born & bred NYC'r

And there's DA Fanni, AG Lettica, and Judge Chutkin, as well.

[oasis]

18. Drip, drip, drip.

[Sky Jewels]

98. Black women are kicking his ginormous ASS...

Skittles style!

[GoCubsGo]

10. Either that, or he can't find an arena that doesn't require payment up front.

The Secret Service doesn't want him to continue open-air rallies, and all he can get are cheap outdoor venues. Everyone knows he's going to stiff them for the rental and security costs.

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. May I add, the dawning realization that he will go down as the most despised President of all time?

His buffoonery during the COVID crisis added an additional 300,000 dead. History won't forget.

[fierywoman]

13. The constant lies and the projection. Since many Americans don't know what projection is,

I would like to see the campaign and/or the Lincoln Project do a series of ads where the beginning is someone calmly saying, "In psychology, projection is -- " (using very simple, direct language), then illustrating tfg saying something against the Dems and the end would be a clip showing him doing that thing or the end of a trial that concluded that he had done that thing ... a series of tfg's biggest hits ... Easy example: when he says, The Biden crime family, bring up the result of the NY fraud trial. Etc, etc, etc.

[wordstroken]

33. Your outline for a campaign ad or Lincoln Project spot is genius!

Simple. Concise, yet comprehensive. Powerful.



I hope a production mastermind picks up on your idea and runs with it!!

Thanks, fierywoman.

[fierywoman]

36. Thank you !

[Dave Bowman]

40. Great idea!

[usonian]

67. Projection: "Every accusation is a confession"

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Alternatively: He that smelt it dealt it.

[hibbing]

14. I turn it on, no water comes out!

[Warpy]

15. He is neither normal nor well adjusted. C'mon, you know that

and all his life, no matter what has happened to him, how many times he's gone bankrupt or how much money that belonged to other people he's gambled and lost, his lawyers have always managed to fix it all for him.

That's why hearing the uuilty verdict 34 times and hearing about the huge payments he's been assessed to his rape victim and to the state of NY, it hasn't really penetrated, his lawyers will fix it for him, they always have.

Nothing is going to be real to him until a door shuts behind him that he can't open if he wants to, whether it's guarded house arrest or prison. Until that control is taken away from him and he realizes his lawyers haven't fixed things for him, it's not going to hit him.

And even then, he'll spend his time figuring out the best ways to destroy anyone he thinks has wronged him.

It will never be real. Nothing will ever be his fault. That's how damaged he is.

[llmart]

26. To add to all that...

his attorney, Jenna Ellis has flipped.

[Warpy]

35. He thinks he has plenty more where she came from

and she's old and ugly anyway (that's him, not me).

Personally, I think she's a snake and will hold back a hell of a lot that she knows. He thinks she's completely irrelevant.

[Katcat]

43. I think

The money people have told him that the spigot is drying up and that’s the main reason Lara is head of the RNC.

[highplainsdem]

16. He isn't being hidden. He did a long interview Monday that was streamed and had hundreds of thousands

of views:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-was-interviewed-by-a-controversial-livestreamer-who-gifted-him-a-cybertruck-and-a-rolex/ar-AA1ohyzN

I posted a couple of clips from the interview that day.

[wishstar]

20. He also announced an interview with Musk for next Monday

that's certain to draw a lot of viewers too.

[Pacifist Patriot]

80. I honestly believe they get his meds adjusted...

For sporadic public appearances, but it can't be maintained consistently. Which is why he doesn't appear daily. He literally can't function to an acceptable degree without a chemical cocktail that has to be managed just right.

[gay texan]

21. There was leaked video of him recently

On the golf corse in the golf card. He was out of breath in between words.

[erronis]

22. And his best buddies Putie and Fat Boy aren't returning his calls.

He'll need to find some NIGERIAN PRINCES or the Merde-Iago crowd to stroke his tender appendages.

[MyOwnPeace]

47. I'm thinking he's having a tough time........

finding ANYBODY to 'stroke his tender appendages' these days! Melania ain't around and Stormy's $130,000 doesn't seem to be enough to cover the bill these days!
Of course, he could always call 'Empty' Greene or 'Handy' Boebert - I'm sure they'd be willing to 'lend a hand!'

[Liberal In Texas]

23. I still think that sudden visit to the hospital was because he had a stroke.

Might have been a mild one, but still. Those memory questions he claims were a cognitive test are kind of the same thing I remember my elderly mother being asked after she had a stroke.

We may never know, or if we do it will be years from now.

There's probably not a chance he could make it through another full term and the prospect of Vance taking over is horrrifying.

[Hekate]

24. I think you are correct, and believe Dr Mary Trump would agree with you. She's been predicting just this...

This is the arc of his mental & physical downfall.

Now What?

[WestMichRad]

27. I doubt he gives a rat's...

… arse about his marriage to Melonia… Melanoma… whatever… he is a malignant narcissist, after all… but I agree the rest seems pretty likely. I hope he deteriorates in a way that devastates and humiliates him.

[surfered]

28. Nancy Pelosi 's book recounts doctors warning her of Trump's mental condition.

[DavidDvorkin]

29. It couldn't happen at a better time.

[llmart]

30. I'm in Michigan...

On Monday I was watching the local news and they reported that trump was going to be holding a rally the next day in the township which is across the highway from where I live. I didn't think much of it until today when someone told me it was Vance who showed up and the so-called rally was at the local police station. It was reported that less than 100 people showed up for that and that the stupid hillbilly was interviewed standing in front of a Harris sign!

[MyOwnPeace]

48. OMG!!!!!!!

Can't wait to see the Faux Spews coverage of THAT event!

Thanks for the 'Not-Fake' news!

[H2O Man]

31. Way recommended.

A while back, a respected (for good reason) forum member said the felon is an entertainer who would not experience a melt down. I agree that he is an entertainer. But he is also a sociopath, and as such, is at risk for brief periods of delusional thinking when under significant stress. And stress is, exactly as you note, going to create physical symptoms when prolonged. For our system evolved for life on the savanna, not in a courtroom, facing potential incarceration. Like yourself, I see indicators that the felon is on the decline.

[Iggo]

32. It'd be okay with me if he'd hurry up about it.

[MyOwnPeace]

54. I like the way you think!

"Yeah, come on! Grab the spotlight! That 'what-ever-she-is-today' lady has taken away your 'center-stage' spot!
GO for it - claim your 'military tribute' and 24/7 coverage of a memorial parade, a 'Rotunda' viewing where those not-in-jail can go back to the Capitol to place their 'Trump-as-Super Hero' cards on your coffin and the tRump staffers can try to find where Melania is and keep Jr. clean for a few hours of public appearance - plus you know that the Secret Service will provide enough 'coverage' to keep that other line of people waiting to piss on your coffin away and 'out-of-range.'
And it can all be wrapped up with a golf cart dragging your sorry A$$ all the way back to Merde-a-Lardo, unless you want to be over there at hole number one in Jersey - with whatever wife and stolen documents you have buried there.......

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

115. A fate not best delayed

If that's not Shakespeare, it should be.

[Aussie105]

37. Cognitive dissonance.

Older people are prone to this, believing one thing yet the real world providing daily evidence the belief is off kilter.

"Cognitive dissonance is a mental discomfort that arises when a person holds two or more contradictory beliefs, values, or attitudes. This can lead to a state of tension and anxiety, as the person tries to reconcile their conflicting thoughts."

Trump is an extreme case, given his personality.
He truly believes his destiny is to be President, and then be free to morph US Democracy into a North Korean or Russian strong man dictatorship.

And yet . . . the daily evidence he tries to ignore says it isn't going to happen.

The stress, the tension must be driving him mad - or helping to make his madness worse.

[LudwigPastorius]

38. You are in a better position to judge if Trump is in decline than I because...

I have never seen him "analytical and sharp".

[area51]

59. There are videos on youtube

of Trump from the '80s where he was able to string words together & carry on a conversation.

[LudwigPastorius]

61. Yes, but he's been the same scatter-brained lunatic since he entered politics.

Here's his speech in 2015 announcing he was running.

Looks like essentially the same gibberish to me.

https://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/

[rubbersole]

62. And 'fist' dancing/smiling while ogling underage girls...

..with super-buddy Jeffrey Epstine. There are a lot of very stupid Americans.

[iemanja]

39. Good observations, BUT

I wish you wouldn’t refer to Trump by the name of a delicious orange beverage.

[Prairie Gates]

42. Untreated syphillis, as many have known for some time

[Zoomie1986]

71. He doesn't have untreated syphilis

It's always on the panel for routine blood work, which means a lab would have picked it up, long ago, and even Dr. Weirdo would have put him on a sound protocol to treat it.

Besides, he doesn't exhibit other key factors to make such a diagnosis. You'd know he's not a tertiary syphilis patient if you'd ever seen one.

[ShazzieB]

77. Absolutely correct.

I've posted about this a couple of times before. The tertiary syphilis trope is poppycock.

Syphilis has been 100% curable for basically Trump's entire lifetime. The idea that someone with plenty of money and access to good health care could contract the disease and go undetected and untreated for decades is laughable.

Imo, the only reason this silly notion has hung on like it has is because advanced cases of a disease that is easily curable with cheap drugs are so rare in industrialized nations like the U.S. that most of us will never encounter an example of it irl.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

116. So not -quite- like his idol

Hitler was reputed to have untreated syphilis

[Ilsa]

124. The tertiary syphilis patients I've seen (only a few) were

absolutely barking mad.

[H2O Man]

117. No, his medical history

shows that he was successfully treated for syphillis each time he had it. More, Ivanka was also successfully treated for it when he shared it with her.

[liberalla]

121. Whaaaaaat??? I've never heard this before

trump has had syphilis and shared it with his daughter?

trump has had syphilis (multiple times) and shared it with his daughter (once)?

Is this real? I've never thought of you as a jokester, and I'm thinking your serious.
Is this medical history information public?

[H2O Man]

122. That is most

likely because I made it up as an obvious effort at humor.

[liberalla]

123. Well!

duh!

Like I said I don't think of you as a jokester... but I'll have to remember this

[H2O Man]

125. My children tell

to not try to tell a joke again, especially in public. They've warned me that if I do, they will take me to the animal shelter and have me put to sleep at 3:45 pm/est.

I now feel obligated to share some actual information on the felon and his daughter. When she was a teen, he pressured her to have both a nose and boob job. For that reason, I consider him a sick scumbag. It does make me feel sorry for Ivanka. I can't imagine how hurtful and harmful that would be for a daughter, and their relationship between 2017 to 2021 has, in my opinion, to be viewed in that light. Both ways. I do not like anything about her, but I do not view her as harshly as I once did. I think the felon needs to be incarcerated as soon as possible.

[SCantiGOP]

46. Damn

Well written and objectively accurate.

[LiberalBrooke]

52. He is angry and throwing tantrums.

His staff is trying to calm him down.

[PatrickforB]

55. Yeah, to be honest, if I had gone through half of what Trump has had happen, I'd be a basket case.

For sure. I mean no doubt. When my first wife left me, and then I got demoted at work because I wasn't functioning well, developed some financial problems, and then just as things were getting to be OK, I fell on ice and my right quadraceps completely separated from my kneecap. So surgery, painful physical therapy and about a 2.5 year recovery.

I guess I grew up, you know. Became more spiritual, more thoughtful, more prayerful. Oh, I know lots of people on here don't subscibe to that. That's fine. No worries. But I do. I needed to forgive, release and get back in touch with inner peace and joy.

Bottom line, I'd say I'm pretty much recovered, but definitely not the same person I was going into it, you know?

I like to think I am better. Lots of meditation, and so on.

Like you, though - I can remember that post you made about giving a fuck a couple weeks ago. I don't think I replied, but I was thinking about you, because my wife and I had a horrible time as the media was ganging up on Biden. It was an awful few weeks. Well, you know.

Now, we have this joy, which is great, and I'm confident Kamala and Coach Walz will win decisively and gain control of both houses of Congress. Hopefully.

What bothers me, I think, is that I know I should be balanced no matter what is happening around me, but that is hard, you know? It really is.

So Trump has to be....well, I would hate to be him. While I believe he should be in prison along with so many of his follwers, I don't wish anything more than that on him. My hope is that Biden saved the republic with his noble, selfless gesture and the Democrats are now galvanized with hope and joy. Might be a lot like FDR getting us out of the depression, you know - that was an existential crisis too, along with WWII - my dad fought in the Pacific during that one. He wouldn't ever really talk about it.

Seems like the pendulum is swinging back in favor of freedom and away from the iron grip of Wall Street and the raw greed of a few billionaires.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

119. My uncles didn't talk about WW2

I know for sure one had what we'd now call PTSD. Lots of military in my family. It was the only way out of the Louisiana and West Virginia towns they lived in. Honorable discharges or 20 year retirements for all of them, too.

[Bob_in_VA]

56. Here's my CT

Strikes me that a likely, but unsupported, reason why the GOP honchos were all in on Trump running was to get Trump elected with a well chosen (good little fascist) VP and as soon as the inauguration was over, invoke Amendment 25, get Trump into a private mental health facility and begin implementing Project 2025.
Can I prove any of this? Of course not. But why else have so many been willing to (metaphorically) jump on their swords for someone clearly mentally deteriorating before the public's eyes.

[Zoomie1986]

72. Blackmail

The Russians did get into the RNC email servers, you know.

[mysteryowl]

58. If trump's health takes him out of the campaign, what happens to the votes he gets?

Would they automatically transfer to the person the RNC picks?

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

120. JD Vance for President is what would take place. Just like us. ...nt

[ecstatic]

63. "How many could deal with this concatenation of nightmares"

Fair point BUT let's not forget that donny is very delusional. I don't think he absorbs reality the way we do. His narcissism protects him... cushions him from a lot of the huge blows.

Really, out of all of those events you mentioned, the only one that I think broke through to him was the "bullet" whizzing by his head, missing by mere inches? That's why he keeps saying, "I shouldn't be here..."

[Sky Jewels]

99. He could be having a narcissistic collapse,

where all of those barriers to reality suddenly come crashing down.

[Hekate]

64. This needs another kick

[Cha]

65. Yes Karma Can Be A *****!

[moniss]

66. I would question whether

a lifetime of "self medicating" might be catching up with an older brain functioning under stress both mental and physical.

[Zoomie1986]

70. The slob attire has an easy explanation

As a final point, his dress and demeanor is “off” and has been for years. This is not the Trump I recall from Atlantic City, where he was a shitbag, but analytical and sharp in his crumby way.

He wasn't as fat in his Atlantic City days as he is now. He was also in better financial straits then. It takes $$$$$ for a morbidly obese man to get suits that fit in a way that flatters them as best as can be done. He no longer has the kind of money to do that.

Hence why he looks like a slob now.

[PCIntern]

73. Big and tall men do not have to look like that

His suits are grotesque - off the rack costs a lot these days and since he apparently has special requirements for his “seat”, custom would be more but not prohibitively. However, your point is taken.

[Straw Man]

74. I think that with easy access to whatever cash the RNC can scrape up ...

... he can afford a decent suit. That's not the problem. The reason he looks like a slob now is because he is a slob now. There's only so much that the tailoring can hide.

[callous taoboy]

76. "concatenation" Thank you for that one.

[wolfie001]

78. Yep! All points valid!

Donnie Dementia 2024

[AltairIV]

79. Agreed

All clear headed and reasonable points.

[Brainfodder]

81. Maybe he is being interrogated for the espy stuff?

Overdue!
Sold state secrets IS looking mighty likely with this Crazy Uncle Nasty Traitor?

That is the end of him, that case with him lying about having them and FBI raid to get back others, that is not NOTHING!

Him not in cuffs for that alone, puzzling AF since he is just bozo citizen and gonna stay that way!

[Vinca]

83. Plus, he seems to be avoiding campaign events. When did Trump ever shun a camera?

Maybe he can't get over the assassination attempt. Not because of what it was, but because everyone there didn't worship him.

[BattleRow]

88. He has been

MIA for a while..abducted by aliens,held for ransom,in a FOX hole?
Inquiring minds NEED to know!

[LaMouffette]

85. I think the assassination attempt affected him way more than he's letting on. Plus, the news about the Iran-linked

man arrested for plotting to assassinate him had to make him wonder if there are others out there plotting the same thing.

Trump is scared—scared down to his bone spurs. Scared of being shot again, scared of being humiliated by Kamala and Tim. Scared of letting down his benefactor Putin. Scared of going to prison. Scared of losing his empire.

Wouldn't want to be Trump these days (or any day).

[NNadir]

86. If he were really interested in cognitive tests, his apoe4 test...

...genetic profile would be most useful to see. It's the genetic test that demonstrates if one has in inherited the Alzheimers that killed his father.

I certainly suspect he has it and I'm sure I'm not alone.

[nowforever]

89. I believe

Some of what is happening is him experiencing PTSD. It's classic for it to take weeks to start manifesting the psychological repercussions of a traumatic incident and it will only get worse. The Orange Turd is decompensating before our eyes and I love it.

[samsingh]

95. he's always planning a coup like they did in Dec 2020.

i believe there are lots of activities to steal the election

[onetexan]

96. I usually like watching Ari but i won't forgive him for giving that incel air time

To spew his racist disinformation.

[Evolve Dammit]

97. Ten or more Diet Cokes a day?? Aspartame alone aside from the genetic precursors and who knows what else.....

Yeah, he's in the fat Elvis stage coupled with what looks like Dad's cognitive slide.

[bucolic_frolic]

101. If Trump crumbles, they would have to move Vance to the top of the ticket!

[dchill]

104. It's blood loss from that ear miss.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

106. PCIntern, I suspect his minders are keeping him partially sedated.....

based on worsening tendency to babble on and on with incoherent gibberish in his talks and he's had a very short fuse lately during interviews.

Considering his age and probable poor health, I don't see how any person could withstand the pressure he's under right now without the assistance of drugs, considering all the legal, political and personal battles he's facing. Seems that most psychopathic narcissists would have a breakdown or stay in a state of rage.

Also, while he was in office, Dr. Ronnie was known to be passing out almost any drug of choice on demand according to some reports.

Would love to hear your thoughts on that possibility.

[PCIntern]

109. He's certainly medicated

Who knows what the cocktail is. He’s deteriorating fastly (sic).

[calimary]

118. As long as he's deteriorating. At ANY speed, although I'd prefer faster than slower.

ONWARD the deterioration!

[appleannie1]

110. And hopefully someone keeps turning the screws to tighten the inevitable.

And he loses what little is left too late to throw anyone else in the game.