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[milestogo]

1. Trump's brain is completely fried.

He is delusional.

[Ocelot II]

2. Could be both, along with his normal, lifelong assholery getting worse.

When people get senile in their old age, their personal quirks often become more exaggerated. Trump has always been an asshole and a bully; now that his brain is turning to tapioca those qualities are especially extreme.

[GoCubsGo]

7. Yup, AND he's an imbecile.

He is too fucking stupid to distinguish reality from whatever his puppeteers and Fox Propaganda have been feeding him. We saw it in his first term, when he was telling us to drink bleach and shove light bulbs up our asses, for instance. It's part of why he's so easily manipulated, and always has been.

[ZDU]

3. The President is ill ....

25th Amendment. Now.

[Blue Owl]

4. Did grandpa wander out of the asylum again?

[genxlib]

5. Third option

They are showing him footage displaced in time and/or location.

Could be footage from any number of other times or places that is being used.

[Torchlight]

6. Plaque buildup on his brain is getting thick.

He's dancing on the bad side of dementia's cusp. I think by Christmas, he'll be in full-on Kay Granger 2.1 mode. Tough to point at anything he's said over the past three years they can't point to and say, "see? he already sounded like that! it's normal... for him!"

[Irish_Dem]

8. Most likely he is just lying out his ass as per usual.

With a bit of the usual cognitive slippage.

[Alice Kramden]

9. All of the above

Profoundly stupid, delusional, demented, AND being misled by those around him

[tanyev]

10. Trump wants it to be true, so it is "true".

The emperor’s wishes override reality.

[Emrys]

11. Trump doesn't need AI to hallucinate for him n/t