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womanofthehills

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Wed Apr 19, 2017, 09:01 AM Apr 2017

Donald Trumps mental lapses rapidly worsen as he keeps calling Paul Ryan by wrong name - Hey Ron! [View all]

Trump throwing the kids hats, not knowing the name of Kim Jong-Un and thinking Kim Jong-Un has been be power since the ninties, saying we bombed Iraq, not Syria, having to be reminded to put his hand over his heart and now calling Paul Ryan - Ron.


Full disclosure: I’m not a medical professional. But at this point it doesn’t take a doctor to see the rather obvious pattern in front of us. Donald Trump’s mental lapses are growing more frequent, more alarming, cutting closer to home, and are now occurring multiple times per day. In fact if one were to judge Trump based on his past two days alone, one might conclude his mental capacity is all but fully vacated. Take a look at these several recent examples.

Beginning on Monday morning, Donald Trump was involved in a bizarre incident in which he took a hat from a kid, autographed it, and flung it into the crowd instead of handing it back to him (video link here). The kids yelled out to try to correct his strange behavior, but instead he responded by doing the same thing to another kid’s hat. This was in the same timeframe in which he couldn’t remember to put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem and had to be visibly nudged by his wife. But these minor incidents were merely warning shots.

By Monday evening, Trump had unwittingly revealed during a Fox News interview that he didn’t know the name of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, the one he’s been threatening to blow up for the past week. He also revealed that he believes thirty-two year old Kim Jong-Un is the same guy who’s been in power since the nineties. Trump doesn’t know that Kim and his late father Kim-Jong Il are two different people (Talking Points Memo). Worse, as recently as a few months ago, Trump’s words during the campaign made clear that he did know that these were two different leaders. In other words, he’s completely forgotten the key things that he previously knew about North Korea. And even if his advisers have tried to remind him, it appears he’s now incapable of hanging on to that information.

But perhaps Monday was just a singularly bad day for Donald Trump? As it turns out, he traveled to a political rally today in Wisconsin, the home state of Speaker Paul Ryan. The two Republicans don’t always get along, but they know each other quite well. And yet Trump kept referring to Paul Ryan as “Ron” during his speech today (Bipartisan Report). On their own, any one of these incidents could be seen as a mere gaffe, an absent moment. But strung together, they paint a picture of a man who’s become mentally vacant.


http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/donald-trumps-mental-lapses-rapidly-worsen-as-he-keeps-calling-paul-ryan-by-wrong-name/2352/

Many are commenting:

Claude Taylor‏ @TrueFactsStated

It's a one-two punch that will put Trump down. One is Russia-Putin. Two is his declining mental health. cc @LouiseMensch @docrocktex26
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It's so easy peasy Don greymattermom Apr 2017 #1
I like the way you do this - Rachel always does stuff like this on her show womanofthehills Apr 2017 #27
I taught neuroanatomy in medical school greymattermom Apr 2017 #47
On Old Olymus' Topmost Top, A... 3catwoman3 Apr 2017 #62
DUzy! meow2u3 Apr 2017 #50
Sounds like the starting montana_hazeleyes Apr 2017 #81
Maybe he thought he was talking about RON PAUL! underpants Apr 2017 #2
Yep. dalton99a Apr 2017 #12
Or Ron Johnson? MichMary Apr 2017 #13
Or Ronald McDonald. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #16
I'd say Ron Jeremy for his pills tsuukiyomi Apr 2017 #73
Ron Burgundy? tazkcmo Apr 2017 #76
I think he confused Paul Ryan with Rand Paul and Rand Paul with his father Ron Paul. DetlefK Apr 2017 #15
He does that underpants Apr 2017 #21
I think he had all three (father, son, grandson) including Kim Jong Il's father Kim Jong II sung womanofthehills Apr 2017 #30
Donald Trump before mental decline womanofthehills Apr 2017 #3
These Days Leith Apr 2017 #26
Rosneft enid602 Apr 2017 #71
WOW. I don't care if that's scripted as hell. He's a different person. nolabear Apr 2017 #32
I wasn't party to senility diagnosis for long time but the article & this vid have persuasive effect Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #43
The irony of this, and using this video to explicate his decline, is profound. yodermon Apr 2017 #60
Wow. Pathwalker Apr 2017 #82
Trump is as forgetful and knowledgeable as millions of people. He might have a Doodley Apr 2017 #4
Also he's always had flunkies telling him how smart he is FakeNoose Apr 2017 #35
No Longer Young, RobinA Apr 2017 #63
Forgetting your wife.........many times womanofthehills Apr 2017 #5
You would also eventually take your shiny and new 3rd wife for granted. DetlefK Apr 2017 #11
The saddest thing about this photo is that rTrump had Barron down there on the tarmac with him Texin Apr 2017 #42
He's done that before. calimary Apr 2017 #44
There is a similar video of Biden going around the car to tblue37 Apr 2017 #84
And everyone around him knows it...... dawnie51 Apr 2017 #6
Walking into a room to sign an Executive Order and forgetting what you came for. DetlefK Apr 2017 #7
Presidentin' is complicated and difficult. Turbineguy Apr 2017 #8
That is why I think he does not have access to the launch codes Txbluedog Apr 2017 #9
Let's hope you're right about that FakeNoose Apr 2017 #39
Trump doesnt respect other people Backwoodsrider Apr 2017 #10
Dementia is like this in early stages, good days and bad days. Then all bad days .... L. Coyote Apr 2017 #14
Pence seems to be practicing as the apprentice to step in when rump's no longer able to notdarkyet Apr 2017 #36
Right. Pence is moving in to place. God help us; they're both awful, just in different ways.nt Hekate Apr 2017 #54
+1000 Freethinker65 Apr 2017 #59
getting worse, or just harder to hide? mopinko Apr 2017 #17
All of the above, mopinko Hekate Apr 2017 #55
It doesn't matter what you call it. The bottom line is: world wide wally Apr 2017 #18
Trump is building a defense of mental incompetence. delisen Apr 2017 #19
Not bad, doctor roscoeroscoe Apr 2017 #78
His mental state makes him the perfect Republican President. jalan48 Apr 2017 #20
How long until he starts forgetting to put on his pants? mac56 Apr 2017 #22
He forgot how to tie a tie IronLionZion Apr 2017 #25
How long until they 25th amendment him out of office? IronLionZion Apr 2017 #23
As long as the Repugnants can get him to sign what they order him to sign when they order him to cstanleytech Apr 2017 #52
until the rethuglican brand mopinko Apr 2017 #58
They kept Reagan under wraps for a long time. BSdetect Apr 2017 #24
ronnie was happy to take naps and hang with "mommy". unblock Apr 2017 #31
Which is probably why they havent taken his phone away as its like a giant pacifier cstanleytech Apr 2017 #53
i'm not a doctor, but i think his decline is completely expained by long-term foxnews watching. unblock Apr 2017 #28
I tell fox viewers if they withdraw for awhile, their brains may recover. notdarkyet Apr 2017 #37
And don't forget, Dr. Bornstein said Trump takes hair growth medicine just like him - "Propecia" womanofthehills Apr 2017 #41
Also causes shrinking of hands. :D Duppers Apr 2017 #66
I am not a medical person either, but I'm inclined to PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2017 #69
Could be both - drugs hastening his dementia womanofthehills Apr 2017 #83
I still don't think he has actual dementia. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2017 #85
I think he just can't bothered to care to learn. he just doesn't give a shit. KG Apr 2017 #29
Learning would be work. notdarkyet Apr 2017 #38
He is so arrogant, he doesn't think others know more than he does. Alice11111 Apr 2017 #87
He has dead, lifeless eyes, with a dead empty stare...... Historic NY Apr 2017 #33
He always looks very depressed too womanofthehills Apr 2017 #79
He probably thinks it's Kim Kardasian, all Kims are the same to putz Motley13 Apr 2017 #34
You forgot how he left the room without signing the Executive Orders! secondwind Apr 2017 #40
When Rachel or someone shows photos of campaigning Trump to prez Trump, totally different Justice Apr 2017 #45
Early onset Alzheimer's. And he's got the nuke codes. Yay. n/t SpankMe Apr 2017 #46
We remember Pres. Ronald Reagan. #45 is no Reagan. mwooldri Apr 2017 #48
I agree. Reagan, to me, was more (severely) mis-guided than he was truly an asshole. Still In Wisconsin Apr 2017 #61
why Republicans keep getting him out of the White House to Florida half the week. Pence does ALL. Sunlei Apr 2017 #49
Well, Whatever Jared Doesn't Get Around To Leith Apr 2017 #72
I heard a portion of him calling Ryan by the wrong name. Grammy23 Apr 2017 #51
He is clearly suffering from exhaustion. colorado_ufo Apr 2017 #56
Yes, Totally Overwhelmed RobinA Apr 2017 #65
All DUers should watch this video BSdetect Apr 2017 #57
"Lazy, damaged, unfocused mind - wandering off on its own" - boy Keith is on it!! womanofthehills Apr 2017 #67
K&R BSdetect Apr 2017 #75
Rumored Frontotemporal dementia HAB911 Apr 2017 #64
Republicans loved Wawannabe Apr 2017 #68
There were a lot of JFK busts around unc70 Apr 2017 #74
BREAKING: Trump just omitted Ryan's name in Wisconsin speech... brooklynite Apr 2017 #70
from his comments on the Citizen Kane video: Binders Keepers Apr 2017 #77
Brain damaged (??) from his father hitting Raine Apr 2017 #80
And don't forget area51 Apr 2017 #86
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