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Botany

(77,868 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 05:19 AM Aug 2025

Trump is destroying all of this because he is clinically insane. We are truly fucked.



And not just the beauty of Jackie's Rose Garden but our democracy and the supportive capacity of our
planet too.

American Democracy Ended This Weekend …. “This is documented competitive authoritarian consolidation.”

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220537225

NASA ordered to destroy two climate change monitoring satelites

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220537042

Yesterday afternoon I watched the smoke from Canadian wildfires which are the result of climate change from
my little house in Columbus, OH.





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no_hypocrisy

(55,390 posts)
2. He's behaving like my 92-year old father before he died.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 05:38 AM
Aug 2025

He would start cooking stuff on the stove (1-2 pots) and then literally leave the kitchen to return to his den to watch FOX News. Burners still on.

He wouldn't walk his dog. Had a neighbor do it. The dog then shit all over my late mother's $40,000 Persian rugs (rendering them worthless). And he'd yell at me (!) when I bent over to pick up the dried shit on the carpet of his den.

The house fell to wrack and ruin, including prominent leaks in the roof.

He put a window air conditioner in an adjoining room to cool off, but not in the window in his den where he stayed most of the day. (Nothing wrong with the two windows in the den)

On summer days when the temperature was over 90 degrees, he purposely left his dog in his locked car, where the temperature was over 120 degrees.

He got into dozens of fender-benders but kept his license because he paid off the damages in cash in return for not calling the police.

He had trees cut down on our property that were over 100 years old, just because.

During SuperStorm Sandy, he intended to get a generator. Nothing wrong with that except he thought he could pick up the phone during this crisis and get one delivered within hours -- and he intended to install it in the garage underneath the house (where you should never install it.)

SS Sandy Part II: Even though we still had propane gas for the stove, Dad refused to eat breakfast that I prepared. He insisted on driving about 10 miles away to dine at a nearby regional hospital where visitors were served. This is significant because: 1) Having no electricity, the garage door couldn't be engaged. Dad pushed it opened, and it was a heavy door; 2) Heavy tree branches and downed electrical wires covered the streets. That didn't stop Dad. 3) The region was in crisis with no electricity, no heat, no gas. And Dad essentially took a joy ride to a hospital where one would guess that only people in crisis would go to. 4) Gas stations were closed, making gas limited. Everyone was saving their fuel -- except Dad.

There's more, but you get the gist.

Botany

(77,868 posts)
5. Mental illness and dementia are hard to deal with. I am dealing with my 94 year old mom's dementia right now.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 06:14 AM
Aug 2025

Last edited Thu Aug 7, 2025, 02:40 PM - Edit history (1)

It is hard to deal with.

Tell me that is not the room of a crazy man. All that gold crap, the tacky ass gold things mounted on the white
marble over the fire place, his golf trophies “he won” @ his own courses, a model of the plane that some
country unloaded on him, and just the look on his face.



MadameButterfly

(4,160 posts)
8. What is confusing about Trump
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 07:28 AM
Aug 2025

Is he didn't need dementia to act like this.
it may be worse because of his dementia, but you can't really tell what is dementia and what is the original Donald Trump.

 

womanofthehills

(11,040 posts)
15. The part about having to eat breakfast out reminds me of my mother
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 12:29 AM
Aug 2025

When she stayed with me - I live rural - closest tiny town (900 population) she refused to eat my breakfasts and I’m a great cook. Wanted me to drive her (25 miles round trip ) every morning to a not very good restaurant. Needless to say, against her wishes I got her into senior living.

Walleye

(45,506 posts)
6. All that shit about windmills, destroying the beauty of landscape, it was just shit. He wants to drill in the Anwar.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 06:18 AM
Aug 2025

gordianot

(15,799 posts)
7. Trump is not insane yet.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 07:17 AM
Aug 2025

When you have been adjudicated, clinically, insane the court excuses your behaviors. Clinically insane is not a psychiatric or psychological term but entirely a legal term. Donald Trump is well aware of his behavior. Having got to observe several of these court proceedings. I know the difference. Someday, some court somewhere may determine Donald Trump is insane and not responsible for his behaviors. I wish people would stop giving Donald Trump a pass. He may be mentally ill, but thank God he’s not been determined to be insane.

C_U_L8R

(49,537 posts)
10. He's a criminal, desperate to evade accountability
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 08:23 AM
Aug 2025

And a really awful person. I don't care about his clinical conditions, he needs to pay for his misdeeds.

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