Cognitive Decline? Trump Is Now Making up Protests in His Support

[Eugene]

Cognitive Decline? Trump Is Now Making up Protests in His Support (The New Republic)

Donald Trump gave a completely incoherent response to a question about his crackdown on Harvard University and ended up ranting about fictional riots.

During a phone interview with NewsNation Wednesday, Stephen A. Smith, the firebrand sports pundit turned political commentator, asked the president to expand on a comment he’d made about Harvard University, which has seen $2.2 billion in government grants frozen by the current administration.

Smith asked Trump what he would say to those who view his attacks against the Ivy League school as “an attack on academic freedom, rather than a defense of fairness.”

“Well, I say this. We had riots in Harlem, in Harlem, and frankly if you look at what’s gone on—and people from Harlem went up and they protested, Stephen, and they protested very strongly against Harvard. They happened to be on my side,” Trump said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cognitive-decline-trump-invents-protest-160548898.html

[North Shore Chicago]

1. Wtf

is he yammering about now?!

Psssst Republicants You can stop this!

[tanyev]

2. Maybe we need a requirement that presidential candidates must be able to speak fluent English.

[sop]

3. "Harlem" and "Harvard" do sort of sound the same if you're insane and demented.

[yardwork]

4. People in Harlem protested against Harvard?

People in Harlem are on Trump's side?

What is he on about?

[kwolf68]

5. He's just making up shit

I heard this response and like most of what flows from his pie hole left me speechless, aghast with almost no response to his crap. He literally will say anything, but it doesn’t matter he will just say something as absurd 15 minutes from now and we really have very little media holding him to account.

[newdeal2]

8. My opinion: I think some of his aides are using AI on him

They are showing him doctored photos (MS13 tattoos) and completely made up headlines / videos / images to reinforce his narrative. He's so dumb that he takes everything as literal.

So they probably used AI to create a short video of a pro-Trump protest in Harlem and he believed it without a second thought. He lives in a bubble now.

Dangerous stuff.

[yardwork]

10. Entirely possible. His chief of staff works for the Kremlin.

Who knows how many of Trump's aides are following Putin's orders.

Trump is the American who is most easily manipulated.

[Prairie_Seagull]

6. It's few remaining marbles

are thinking about protesting.

What a comedy of errors.

Every day is a new exercise in personal restraint.

[TommieMommy]

7. What??? This is some crazy bs.

[Xavier Breath]

9. My, how far we've come from the heady days of 'person, woman, man, camera, tv.'