Public Notice: Trump's brain is gone. It really should be a bigger story.

[Dennis Donovan]

Public Notice - Trump's brain is gone. It really should be a bigger story.

Stephen Robinson
May 02, 2025

Donald Trump’s recent interviews with Time and The Atlantic revealed a president who is completely unhinged and incoherent. Sadly, that’s not news. But what stood out is that Trump is consistently confused and disconnected from reality even on issues that are supposedly in his wheelhouse.

Trump has always been an ignoramus who masks his intellectual shortcomings with bombast and declarations of his own brilliance, but his rambling nonsensical responses in these latest interviews should set off alarms — especially in light of all the media attention and scrutiny Joe Biden received after his disastrous debate performance or when Special Counsel Robert Hur described him as “a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

Trump, who turns 79 in June, is the oldest person ever elected president. His repetitive speech patterns, frequent use of empty phrases, and overall rambling discourse are too often graded on a curve.

White House officials and pandering Republicans might boast about Trump’s boundless energy in a manner that would shame North Korean state media, but the Time and Atlantic interviews tell a very different story.

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[andym]

1. Trump has specific themes which he uses to answer every question

he has done something great, others are unfairly attacking him, he doesn't know various people who criticize him unfairly etc. Every answer is something like that, no matter what the question. He has a long history of this. So it's difficult to say he is deteriorating, although his recent comments connecting Harlem riots with Harvard funding to Stephen Smith might be a sign things have gotten worse. If he has dementia it is not a memory loss variety but rather a cognitive variety.

[AZ8theist]

55. In other words, he was ALWAYS a moron.

[malaise]

2. Adding this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220286254

[underpants]

3. 🙄🤪

We spoke to [Biden] last year, Mr. President.

Huh?

We spoke to him a year ago.

How did he do?

You can read the interview yourself.

Not too good. I did read the interview. He didn't do well. He didn't do well at all. He didn't do well at anything. And he cut that interview off to being a matter of minutes, and you weren't asking him questions like you're asking me.

[essaynnc]

4. Yeah, but.......

It doesn't matter. He's just the distraction. He's the front man to cause the confusion so we all rally behind everything that he's attacking, while behind the scenes, those with a more nefarious agenda are doing what they want to.

Didn't Musk just get away with kneecapping the agencies that would have held him accountable for all his other crimes? Didn't he also walk away with all of the social security information from virtually every American?

Isn't trumph out selling snake oil and gold cards and properties and crypto on every street corner? Isn't he closing deals for trummp hotels in other countries, as well as expecting the rest of the world to come groveling to him for tariff relief? I wonder how much he's raking in from all this?

Isn't the heritage foundation still moving forward with their implementation of project 2025 in a way far beyond their wildest dreams?

Aren't the billionaires getting everything that they want too?

trumph is just the lightening rod. While we're watching him and distracted by his batshit crazy actions, we're being set up and robbed blind.

SPEAK OUT !! PROTEST !!! STAND UP AND BE COUNTED !!!!

[h2ebits]

17. I share your belief. Thank you!

[DENVERPOPS]

24. Trump is just a pawn/frontman

No different that Reagan and WBush were.......It is a distraction/diversion from what all the extreme right wing fanatics like the 2025 crowd, Republican Oligarchs, and Corrupted Republican Politicians are doing in the shadows, behind smoke screens, and behind closed doors.........

[erronis]

26. " Aren't the billionaires getting everything that they want too?" - Exactly.

[calimary]

31. I think that's what it's all about.

THERE’S the bottom line. Right there.

[lavoosh99]

46. Magicians call it misdirection.

The OSS (Orange Shit Stain) creates massive misdirection to distract people from his crimes. (Has anyone checked Fort Knox lately?)

[mamacita75]

65. Yeah,

Exactly!

[Dan]

5. I'm sorry for feeling this way but

I want him to go totally brain dead on National TV in a State of the Union address. I want him to literally take off his pants on national TV and start playing with his din-a-ling and grab a female by her privates and blow his nose on Speaker Johnson's head. And then I want him to recover.

[lastlib]

28. I would pay my retirement to watch that!

(wouldn't be much of a payment, but it's all I've got......)

[maxsolomon]

40. You won't get that satisfaction

The part of his brain that will retain function is his bullshitting. He'll always be able to lie.

[Vogon_Glory]

6. IMO Orange Julius' brain was going even before the election

The rubes and grifters may have lapped up his cracks about “Sleepy Joe,” but in my opinion, as with so many things said by the current occupant of the White House, every attack is a confession.

[DENVERPOPS]

29. Biden was overcome by him

in the Debate, by a well known, old technique used in debates called the "Gish Gallop" debate technique.
Trump was well coached on it, and Biden's debate team didn't prep Biden for it...........or well known techniques to combat someone using it in a debate............

Check it out....google it...........

It goes back to the old adage:

If you can't DAZZLE them with BRILLIANCE........BAFFLE them with BULLSHIT.........in this case rapid fire bullshit......

[calimary]

32. Yep.

[stillcool]

52. 'Dazzle them with bullshit'

never heard that before, but wow is that accurate.

[Candide350]

71. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance...

Baffle them with bull sh*t!

[stillcool]

79. thanks.

[Self Esteem]

57. Biden refused to prep for the debate.

The sobering take by Ron Klain, who was Biden's Chief of Staff when he was VP and again when he was president, as well as brought in by Biden to prep for the debate, shows why that debate was going to be a disaster.

He didn't want to prep. Didn't seem to think he needed to. When they were able to get him to prep and mock debate, he often struggled laying out a reason voters should vote for him and then would say he was tired and go lay out by the pool.

Biden walked into a buzzsaw of his own making.

[DENVERPOPS]

77. Of course

It didn't help that he was traveling all over the world dealing with REAL problems for the week prior to the debate, while Trump was relaxing......

[Self Esteem]

78. And that was a big problem too.

What's really frustrating is that Biden was the one who proposed that date - not Trump - fully knowing it would be a week or so after returning.

Whatever. It is what it is. Probably helped Democrats overall because it forced a change and made the election competitive. Had that debate gone down in September, like traditional presidential debates do, and Biden is already locked in as the nominee, it would have been much worse for Democrats since it likely leads to a landslide loss that takes out Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin Dem senate candidates who barely won in real life.

[the_liberal_grandpa]

74. Precisely!

the felon threw out so many lies when it was his turn to speak the Biden, who was tired from an international trip and who, i heard later also had covid, tried to figure out which one to tackle in his brief rebuttal time.

I got so pissed at people saying he looked old and confused and needed to drop out. And everytime i relive this story it makes me want to tell democrats to go to hell for what they did.

They lost the election and still don't know what the fuck to do about what's going on.

I vowed to not give money to them anymore. Especially the corporate dems which unmasked themselves during this sham.

We need new, young leaders that are not afraid to fight back otherwise dems will just keep losing.

I know this because I have been following them since I first voted in 1972 and they keep doing the same stupid things and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory over and over and over again.

The have a huge chunk of the responsibility for being where we are today and as we read daily they don't seem to be willing to fight back causing me to believe that they hope to win just because the other side is so bad. They may yet again be wrong.

[llmart]

7. And yet, where is the 24/7 nonstop coverage by mainstream media?

Crickets.

[DENVERPOPS]

30. Everyone needs to recognize/know

that 95+% of ALL media in the United States is owned/operated by Republican Oligarchs and Republican Corporations......

[DeeDeeNY]

70. From Jeff Tiedrich pic posted on Bluesky -

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d2615af-6ced-4aee-866a-0e4e1931d882_1460x792.jpeg

[llmart]

83. That picture has been posted on here many times.

I thought it was debunked as fake, but I could be wrong. There are other versions of this particular one.

Not that it couldn't possibly be true. He's so full of shit it's possible

[DeeDeeNY]

84. Anything's possible. It reminded me of another photo when

He was walking up the stairs on his airplane with toilet paper sticking out of his pants.
I could have missed a debunking of the one with the brown stain but I never saw the toilet paper one debunked.

[LiberalArkie]

8. Reporters and others never thought that Biden, Clinton, Harris of others would have them disappeared or Gitmo'd.

Or sued into oblivion

[Keepthesoulalive]

37. He would still do all of those things

For giggles. He has no morals or boundaries only cruelty. They stood a better chance of survival if they had told the truth and made sure he wasn’t elected.

[Mr.Bee]

9. The thing about insanity is, you yourself don't know you are insane.

Darn Old Twump

[LoveSucky]

10. He has donkey brains.

[lastlib]

27. Insulting to donkeys.......

try something a lot lower on the food chain---like slugs.....

[3catwoman3]

45. I liken him to a tapeworm - FUGLY as hell to look at...

…and sucks the life out of anything he’s involved with.

I don’t feel bad about insulting tapeworms.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Excellent question.

It's no longer newsworthy that a brain-dead, depraved traitor is destroying America for the benefit of his master, Putin.

[thought crime]

12. The interview by ABC News' Terry Moran tore the mask off

Insisting Abrego Garcia has MS 13 tattooed on his knuckles even as Terry Moran tried to drop it from the conversation.

[orangecrush]

69. Saw that

[Amaryllis]

13. Yes, AND it doesn't help that his "advisors" only tell him what he wants to hear. In the mtg with Bukele in the Oval,

Stephen MIller told him TWICE that the 9-0 SCOTUS decision was in his favor.
So when he says "that's what my people are telling me," this is true.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. So the king is not in command

He's being spoon fed by various advisers who carry out their own, or others, agenda.

Rubio, Miller, Bondi have inordinate influence. Navarro has run adrift on the shoals of tariffs.

[Amaryllis]

21. He is in command in the sense that he only alllows people to advise him who will tell him what he wants to hear.

[quakerboy]

14. His fear is gone.

Dictators who are unconcerned about elections no longer have to pretend to play along with journalists or reality

[Warpy]

15. Even Reagan asn't this bad

although he was blowing his lines by the end of his second term.

King Carbuncle is not going to finish this term. He's bad enough that he's not even useful as a figurehead.

[BaronChocula]

16. He's getting the pass

that greedy white conservative men have benefitted from since Day 1.

Greedy white conservative men aren't treated like everyone else. They are America's true protected class.

[DENVERPOPS]

61. Don't forget

Corporations, that are all run by greedy consrvative white men........

Any day Trump Will Sign one of his "orders" changing USA to United Corporations of America.....
Or.............Corporate Tyranny of America.......

[BaronChocula]

63. Here's one thing I DON'T get

Rapey was always rich, but on the outside of every elite group he wanted to be a part of aside from whores in the media. Once he consolidated his republican power, the greedy white male establishment (GWME) not only embraced him, but kissed his ass. They even stuck with him when he promised to bring down their enterprises with tariffs.

Now that they got him elected and they see trouble on the horizon, they don't seem to have his ear anymore. He doesn't GAS about their concerns it seems. It looks like now that he has all the power he wants, he doesn't even care about the GWME anymore. Could it be he doesn't think he needs them?

[DENVERPOPS]

72. He acts as if he

doesn't have to listen to anybody these days...................Even all the individuals and groups that brought him to this place.'
He is giving a humongous gift to the Corporations by destroying all the agencies and regulations put in place by FDR ........
The Corporations wanted to return to the Wild Wild West of Robber Barrons and monopolistic businesses, all part of the Gilded Age that lead us into the great depression........So Trump and the Republicans have given the Corporations exactly what they wanted, along with Citizens United, etc

The problem is that he is serving TWO masters, the Corporations and Putin....and Putin takes precedence.....Putin wants to DESTROY America, which necessitates destroying the economy which necessitates destroying industries and Corporations.....

[BaronChocula]

82. Great analysis

[multigraincracker]

19. Just waiting for someone to leave the mike on...

&t=33s

[John1956PA]

23. "A Face in the Crowd." Thanks for Posting.

[Ping Tung]

20. If found it should be easy to store. Does anyone have a thimble Size small

?odnHeight=640&odnWidth=640&odnBg=FFFFFF

[Irish_Dem]

22. Trump is a vicious, ruthless, sadistic psychopath who will destroy this country,

kill, kidnap, torture human beings for his own pleasure and to make money and gain power.

And no one will stop him.

[lastlib]

25. It appalls me how the basturd gets away in the media with his verbal vomit....

which is a CLEAR and overwhelming sign of his mental rot. The media should be HAMMERING at this hourly--but of course, they won't. - - - - - - - - -

[Goonch]

33. ;-{)

[MorbidButterflyTat]

56. JEEZ

Nine years ago. Feels like nine hundred.

[senseandsensibility]

34. No, no you have it all wrong

At the WHSD (White House Correspondents' Dinner) they told us what should be a bigger story. They should have exposed BIDEN'S mental incapacity more! The people in charge of covering trump on a daily basis did not even allude to any problems with trump's mental acuity.

[flvegan]

35. I'm sure our Dem leadership will get right on that.

And I don't mean the usual openly vocal cast of AOC, Bernie, etc.

I'm pointing directly at the rest of them. Silent...almost appearing complicit.

STERNLY/STRONGLY WORDED LETTER!! lol

[MorbidButterflyTat]

54. NO

Dems are NOT complicit.

Enough of that crap.

[stillcool]

60. really? "The 'rest of them"

I have enjoyed the assist those that represent me have provided our state and benefitted the American people for decades. I don't know why the disdain for the entire Democratic party should bother me. I guess it's because how involved I've been in electing them for all those decades. It's not only Donald no one cares about it's the Republican party. Or maybe people want to elect more of them?

[Chasstev365]

36. Presidential Weekend at Bernies

If Trump dies in office, I full expect the Republicans to still prop him up before giving power to Vance, ala Weekend at Bernie.

[PJMcK]

39. According to Trump's doctor...

... He's going to live to 200.

[dchill]

42. But nobody else will.

[PJMcK]

38. Boasts about Trump's energy

Yeah, that's why he fell asleep at the Pope's funeral.

[dchill]

41. "Sadly, that's not news." But it is...

The problem is that it's not FOX NEWS. Those lying liars are still talking about Biden. And Hillary. And all the malignant crap that the White X House tells them.

[Wounded Bear]

43. Like a cross between Death of a Salesman and The Madness of King George...

[wiggs]

44. Every story or discussion about his actions should BEGIN with questions about his limitations, disorders, past

behavior, and current strangeness. Rather than just trying to figure out the policy feasibility. Context matters and we have more than 10 years of context to draw from. We ignore it at our own peril, not to mention global peril.

There is no bottom, no morality, no roots in logic or science or understanding. Bile, anger, fear, ignorance...all the way down.

[GP6971]

48. Well Hello!! How's Chicago these days?

[pansypoo53219]

49. drumpf NEEDS editing + he has no minders now. this is what he was last time, but he was stopped before.

[BigDemVoter]

50. Just reading that

the fu*king pig referred to someone as a "national disgrace" just makes my blood boil. He is the biggest national disgrace this country has ever known in every sense of the word. I hate him so much.

[Celerity]

66. How to draw a pig:

[jcboon]

51. Call him "Delusional Don"

[Meowmee]

53. He has always been deranged and incoherent, stop pretending he was ever normal

[Self Esteem]

59. Yeah. He sounds very little unchanged from 2020 or 2016 or 2009 for that matter.

Maybe a bit more rambling but that's common in older people.

I don't think he's losing his marbles because of dementia or something...I think he's just a narcissistic moron - and always has been.

[Orrex]

58. The best thing for him to do right now is just fucking die already

[Godot51]

62. It should be...

... when a Democrat does or says something questionable the media overreacts to the max; a republican, yeah, not so much.

When a fundamentalist christian molests, rapes, abuses, or commutes acts of pedophilia they ask for and receive forgiveness from their gods, their followers and the public in general and the media forgets about it; when a "satanist" (sorry, couldn't think of anyone diametrically opposed to christians in any substantial numbers) is accused, often wrongly, of such crimes, it the story of the century.

So, sure, Joe Biden was completely mentally unfit and we need to have a media shitstorm clusterfuck. He needs to be replaced, discarded, disgraced, and thrown on the trash pile.

Donnie drumpf, eh, nah...

[ananda]

64. Other people are running the country.

Trump is signing things, mouthing off, lying,
and playing golf.

[Grins]

67. He can't complete a sentence!!!!

I’ve listened and read what he has said and came to that conclusion years ago!

How anyone could listen to his disassociated ramblings and think: “Yeah; this putz should be president?”

[Karasu]

68. It amazes me how many fucking people thought he was coherent in his first term. He sure as fuck wasn't. But that said,

he's gotten exponentially worse since then. He literally fucking sundowned for like half an hour on the fucking campaign trail.

Absolutely nothing Biden said or did even remotely compares to this shit.

[Fiendish Thingy]

73. Trump's cognitive decline will never lead to his removal from power

Despite unending efforts over the past ten years by attention-seekers like Bandy Lee, the number of people aware of, or caring about, Trump’s mental state has changed very little. If they don’t care already, they never will.

The only thing that might cause Trump to be removed from power before his term is up (besides death) is a catastrophic economic event, such as the collapse of SS or draconian cuts to Medicaid, which would likely trigger the 3.5% rule. If suffering becomes widespread enough, it will unite the people against the Trump administration, regardless of party, race or economic status.

The 3.5% rule:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

[Tranquil72]

75. Not really a surprise at all, is it?

The tradition of protecting a politician’s infirmities from public knowledge has been with us forever. That whole second term of Reagan’s… FDR’s physical limitations… Biden probably needed it less than most, at least until that debate night. What do we think is going on with Fetterman right now?

It’s axiomatic that the victim of advancing cognitive problems is least likely to recognize his own impairment. Others have to bring it to his attention, and that has to be intervention- style, by those closest to him, whom he trusts and respects the most. Opposition critiques mean nothing, all his defenses are up.

Unfortunately, Trump is surrounded by sycophants. I don’t expect that to change, do you?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

81. Welcome to DU

[Jilly_in_VA]

76. Pretty sure he recently had a mini-stroke

Publicly. Remember when he was speaking and stopped and looked blank for about half a minute and then resumed and it was rambling and made no sense? That was it. And the WH has been covering for it ever since, but most of what he's said since then, including about being Pope, has been a worse word salad than usual.

[Cirsium]

80. I don't see it

I don't think Trump’s cognitive abilities and competence matter at all. It seems to me he is lying, and lying with a purpose, and is discovering that he doesn't even have to work very hard at it to be successful. His supporters admire the way he "owns" his opponents, and his opponents are distracted by the word salad and then head off down a dead end street, endlessly wallowing in the self congratulatory rite of pointing out "what a moron he is!" That weakens us and strengthens his base. His supporters think he is being persecuted, and his opponents think they have somehow "won" somehow when it is shown what an idiot he is.

This constant drumbeat of "he's losing it" is just a way of avoiding facing reality.

Trump is extremely dangerous, and continues to be extremely successful. Whether or not he is a clown, an idiot, demented, incoherent, or whatever is complexity irrelevant.