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Dennis Donovan

(29,950 posts)
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 03:36 PM Oct 2024

Vice President Harris: I've been hearing reports that Trump's team is saying he's suffering from exhaustion

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Vice President Harris: I've been hearing reports that Trump’s team is saying he's suffering from exhaustion. That's apparently the excuse for why he's not doing interviews. Being President is probably one of the hardest jobs in the world. We really do need to ask, if he's exhausted being on the campaign trail, is he fit to do the job?
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Vice President Harris: I've been hearing reports that Trump's team is saying he's suffering from exhaustion (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Oct 2024 OP
Fantastic response BlueKota Oct 2024 #1
This is a winning message for the last couple weeks of the campaign ok_cpu Oct 2024 #2
Excellent!!! MaryMagdaline Oct 2024 #3
Boom. Three weeks of media obsession with Biden needs to be reconciled. Duncan Grant Oct 2024 #4
👏 Deuxcents Oct 2024 #5
She is frickin' awesome!! CrispyQ Oct 2024 #6
If his staff is admitting that he is exhausted... 3catwoman3 Oct 2024 #7
Adderall must have quit working or gotten toxic to him. LiberalArkie Oct 2024 #16
exhaustion and adderall do not mix well. ecstatic Oct 2024 #26
The incontinence has been going on for years. Read this transcript of interview with japple Oct 2024 #34
Fascinating interview. 3catwoman3 Oct 2024 #46
It is worse. He is prevented from golfing bc of security concerns. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2024 #20
Then drop samplegirl Oct 2024 #42
Bingo! Perfect Response. MineralMan Oct 2024 #8
Excellent response. AnotherMother4Peace Oct 2024 #9
Every word here is gold. NBachers Oct 2024 #10
Now who's the sleepy one! Crowman2009 Oct 2024 #11
Do you remember? His term::: Sleepy Joe. keithbvadu2 Oct 2024 #12
they would have chewed Biden to pieces of 'exhaustion' 4catsmom Oct 2024 #13
Every news outlet worthy of being called a news outlet should be asking the same thing. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2024 #14
You just don't realize how exhausting it is telling all those lies. You try it. You'd be exhausted too. And negativity SupportSanity Oct 2024 #15
He's not fit to be alive. spanone Oct 2024 #17
And let's not forget that Biden IS doing the job every day, the one Donald cannot. Bev54 Oct 2024 #18
Dems need to lean super-hard into this matter with ad spots; just list LeftinOH Oct 2024 #19
Lol Joinfortmill Oct 2024 #21
She is just great. bikes and bunnies Oct 2024 #22
President Harris needs to reformat how the white house pressers are done ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 2024 #23
you can't let this stand, Trump PedroXimenez Oct 2024 #24
She's got the look of someone... jmowreader Oct 2024 #25
He's been blowing smoke out of the exhaust BattleRow Oct 2024 #27
Bout damn time Democrats took off the gloves Owens Oct 2024 #28
Well, the Republicans made a punching bag out of markodochartaigh Oct 2024 #33
We all know its not Trump that the Republicans want in the WH Owens Oct 2024 #29
She lays her point out so nicely! ffr Oct 2024 #30
TY! EXACTLY.. Mahalo Kamala! Cha Oct 2024 #31
Maybe he listened to his own speeches Qutzupalotl Oct 2024 #32
"Many people are saying BaronChocula Oct 2024 #35
May he take all the down ticket GOPs with him! Most of them aren't fit to do the job either. Trumpism has made them so. Ford_Prefect Oct 2024 #36
Exhaustion enid602 Oct 2024 #37
Low energy. Zero stamina. dalton99a Oct 2024 #38
To Trump, campaigning is hard, presidenting is easy JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2024 #39
You can tell Trump is tired. Aussie105 Oct 2024 #40
And That Ladies in Gentlemen, is How it's Done Beetwasher. Oct 2024 #41
We all know the answer to that question COL Mustard Oct 2024 #43
Too much "Camplaining" Mira Oct 2024 #44
Well, at least he is no longer "camplaining" Mira Oct 2024 #45

ok_cpu

(2,170 posts)
2. This is a winning message for the last couple weeks of the campaign
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 03:40 PM
Oct 2024

won't make it through the MAGA skulls, but trump either continues to skip appearances and get repeatedly hammered or feels compelled to resume them and show his continuing decline.

Duncan Grant

(8,675 posts)
4. Boom. Three weeks of media obsession with Biden needs to be reconciled.
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 03:42 PM
Oct 2024

As my dad frequently said, “Turnabout is fair play.”

3catwoman3

(26,455 posts)
7. If his staff is admitting that he is exhausted...
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 03:50 PM
Oct 2024

...it's probably much worse than that.

Reminds me of the Soviet press saying that Boris Yeltsin had a cold.

LiberalArkie

(17,785 posts)
16. Adderall must have quit working or gotten toxic to him.
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 04:25 PM
Oct 2024

Adderall may be habit-forming, and this medicine is a drug of abuse. Tell your doctor if you have had problems with drug or alcohol abuse.

Stimulants have caused stroke, heart attack, and sudden death in people with high blood pressure, heart disease, or a heart defect.

Do not use this medicine if you have used a MAO inhibitor in the past 14 days, such as isocarboxazid, linezolid, phenelzine, rasagiline, selegiline, or tranylcypromine or have received a methylene blue injection.

Adderall may cause new or worsening psychosis (unusual thoughts or behavior), especially if you have a history of depression, mental illness, or bipolar disorder.

You may have blood circulation problems that can cause numbness, pain, or discoloration in your fingers or toes.

ecstatic

(34,703 posts)
26. exhaustion and adderall do not mix well.
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 05:18 PM
Oct 2024

I used to take (prescribed) Adderall and I remember a stretch of time when I barely had any sleep for days and I experienced a hallucination. While walking past my son's room I saw a group of guys sitting at a table or something like that. It was a quick flash, like a microsecond. I knew that it had to be related to exhaustion combined with the meds, so I didn't overthink it, but I can only imagine how someone like trump would handle that--he would probably turn it into a conspiracy or maybe ghosts or psychic abilities and go down a rabbit hole into full psychosis.

Also, hasn't he been shitting himself? That's probably something they're trying to get under control as well. Why won't these media folks expose him? I'll never understand it. A candidate shitting himself in the middle of an interview is important information for American voters to have.

japple

(10,459 posts)
34. The incontinence has been going on for years. Read this transcript of interview with
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 06:11 PM
Oct 2024

Noel Casler: The former "Celebrity Apprentice" talent handler on what he saw behind the scenes.

https://www.noelcasler.com/news/full-disclosure-an-interview-with-noel-casler

4catsmom

(617 posts)
13. they would have chewed Biden to pieces of 'exhaustion'
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 04:09 PM
Oct 2024

but not even a chirp from the media?
I have to admit, when I read this my first thought was they are positioning Trump to 'drop out' so they can make Vance president in the unlikely event of a Trump win. Vance is 100 times more malleable than Trump and is almost a better liar.

SupportSanity

(1,321 posts)
15. You just don't realize how exhausting it is telling all those lies. You try it. You'd be exhausted too. And negativity
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 04:16 PM
Oct 2024

is extremely exhausting. Being this negative takes its toll.

Phew! Nobody understands.....

LeftinOH

(5,503 posts)
19. Dems need to lean super-hard into this matter with ad spots; just list
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 04:28 PM
Oct 2024

the ever-growing appearances he's backing out of -- intercut with images of him looking haggard. No mercy.

 
22. She is just great.
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 04:56 PM
Oct 2024

Very impressed with everything she's been saying and doing.

It was deeply satisfying to see her tell il douche to his face "you are a disgrace."

ArkansasDemocrat1

(3,213 posts)
23. President Harris needs to reformat how the white house pressers are done
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 05:04 PM
Oct 2024

Only those that didn't savage Joe and are not complicit in sanewashing get to ask questions. Ignore the usual suspects since they're gonna make up their own slant anyway, they get a video and handout. Don't give them energy, don't give them her attention.

Owens

(474 posts)
28. Bout damn time Democrats took off the gloves
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 05:38 PM
Oct 2024

Republicans have gone after Biden and his son relentlessly for the past 4 years, time to start "punching back".

markodochartaigh

(2,534 posts)
33. Well, the Republicans made a punching bag out of
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 06:00 PM
Oct 2024

Obama, steamrolled Al Gore, tarred and feathered both Clinton AND his wife, and made Carter look crotchety for wearing sweaters and turning down the thermostat. About the last Democratic president that wasn't relentlessly attacked by Republicans and their sycophantic lackeys in the media was Johnson. And I think that that was only because he knew about Nixon's treason, the South hadn't yet turned, and there was a lot of sympathy for the Democratic party after the assassination.

Owens

(474 posts)
29. We all know its not Trump that the Republicans want in the WH
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 05:40 PM
Oct 2024

They want Vance and Project 2025, they will throw Trump under the bus in a heartbeat

BaronChocula

(2,621 posts)
35. "Many people are saying
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 06:15 PM
Oct 2024

trump is unfit."
YAAAAAAAAAS!

Putting him on the receiving end of his rhetorical habits is so gratifying.

I hope she says this every hour of every day to the point where he goes on defense and embarrasses himself wildly by trying to prove her wrong.

Ford_Prefect

(8,310 posts)
36. May he take all the down ticket GOPs with him! Most of them aren't fit to do the job either. Trumpism has made them so.
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 06:25 PM
Oct 2024

enid602

(9,253 posts)
37. Exhaustion
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 06:30 PM
Oct 2024

Odd that he suffers from exhaustion, as he’s been unemployed for four years, and when President he never went to work before 11:00AM.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,044 posts)
39. To Trump, campaigning is hard, presidenting is easy
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 07:42 PM
Oct 2024

Sleep 'til nine, do the hair 'til 10, motorcade out to Andrews AFB to play some golf, stopping on the way there and on the way back to go thru the McDonalds drive thru. Watch some Fox News, Tweet some all-cap messages, wonder where Melania has gone off to, haven't seen her all week, turn in.

As far as policy: fill the cabinet with nihilists and anarchist, turn them loose, the place runs itself.

It's good to be king.

Aussie105

(6,930 posts)
40. You can tell Trump is tired.
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 12:33 AM
Oct 2024

Too tired to sneer and pull faces at the camera.

Too tired to have Party of Trump (clan) meetings and insult every minority group he can think of from single individuals (Kamala) to half the population (women).

Have the angry/attacking/defensive tweeting gone down any, I wonder?

Either his ego/drug motivated energy levels are running on empty, or he is at stage 1 of the Final Countdown, where the Grim Reaper visits him in the end.

The MSM will ignore this, though.
Out of politeness, I guess (being generous there) - but if he does go with the Grim Reaper, they will suddenly have blank moments in their print and TV media. He is a good space filler after all, lots of material to work with.

We might even see a resurgence of feel-good news, like 'Fireman rescues cat stuck in tree' as leading news on your local evening TV news.



COL Mustard

(7,314 posts)
43. We all know the answer to that question
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 09:47 AM
Oct 2024

But millions of our fellow Americans will still vote for him. I can’t understand it anymore.

I hope Kamala wins, and by a landslide. But I’m nervous.

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