I am no longer confident Trump will be the 2020 GOP nominee

[Recursion]

Just for what my 2 cents are worth. The physical and mental deterioration evident in the Korea trip are so bad that I don't think they can prop him up for another 18 months. At some point they know he will have to have a neurological test by an actual doctor (not forged by Trump himself) that will have to be made public.

This is important to at least think about because the GOP has been changing how the primaries run, giving the national party more power to essentially overrule or ignore state votes for the delegates.

[cwydro]

1. Lol, I remember the predictions here saying he wouldn't last 6 months.

Dream on.

[Cosmocat]

32. Yeah

People have been doing this thing since the day he announced.

One of the many things exposed by this has been just how absurdly servile the republican party is.

They are like SM cucks, and are so sick and depraved they ENJOY how he treats them.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. They covered up for Reagan for a long time.

I don't think Republicans will consider dumping him unless he becomes totally incapacitated.

[empedocles]

12. Reagan was pretty much totally incapacitated 2 years into his first term.

However, he pretty much did keep his mouth shut, except when he read his prepared lines off the teleprompter.

[sop]

41. Pretty soon it'll be like "Weekend at Bernie's"

But, they'll have to find a couple of really strong guys to haul his dead fat ass around.

[rampartc]

3. they probably have a stunt double ready at a moments notice

the trump brand is important to them.

[imanamerican63]

9. Is that a "stunt dummy"?

If there is a "stunt Donnie dummy"? We are all in more trouble than we thought!

[rampartc]

16. maybe so

but at least the dummy would stfu.

[Thunderbeast]

34. So THAT's why Alec Baldwin is leaving SNL!

[PTWB]

4. Trump totally commands the GOP base

He will be the nominee.

[Recursion]

5. There's only so much dementia they can hide

I agree that if he at least appears functional, he will be the nominee. I'm not sure they can weekend-at-bernies him for 18 more months. There are already jokes about how Ivanka had to stay within 3 feet of him throughout the summit. That's only going to get worse.

[gordianot]

6. In private he should be far worse and abusive than in public.

Someone is enduring his Narcissistic shit 24/7.

[anarch]

31. it really doesn't matter, as long as he keeps saying racist shit

Nothing he says now makes any fucking sense; what difference would it make if he just goes to full-on drooling and babbling?

[USALiberal]

37. What is worse this week than 2 months ago? Nt

[handmade34]

7. called it months ago

interesting times

[USALiberal]

39. Yet he is still POTUS! Nt

[Mike Nelson]

8. They love him...

… and they won't insist on a proper, objective medical exam. If he can't do White Supremacist rallies, they will run Pence or someone worse to continue the "Trump Agenda" - Republicans really only have the base Hillary called "Deplorables" now... the cat is out of the bag.

[Scarsdale]

11. The gop has absolutely NO

self respect. This orange abomination makes their entire "party" look stupid. What is he holding over them? Is he blackmailing them with compromat from Russia? If so, he could make Ivanka his replacement, and they would play along with it, to protect themselves. Seems there are NO members of the gop who really care about this country. Self preservation is all they care about, plus money.

[hlthe2b]

10. There are some physicians on twitter discussing this

Pointing to his loss of balance, his facial contortions and lack of control which were very much in evidence at G20, but also during the Royal visit, the further deterioration of his vocabulary to shortened phrases at about a second grade level, and his inability to read at various times (long having been a problem) among other physical manifestation.

The facial contortions and loss of body control for short periods many believe is highly consistent with FrontoTemporal Dementia (FTD) with progression quite different than Alzheimer's.

Great Britain in early June:

Link to tweet

Close-up:
https://d.tube/#!/v/quantazelle/u8wvrrbj


At G20:

Link to tweet

https://d.tube/#!/v/quantazelle/u8wvrrbj


Very disturbing, but as the latter twitter poster suggests, is this why Pelosi is not moving full speed on impeachment? She has reason to believe his progression is such that it will not be necessary? WOW, if so...

[cwydro]

14. Pelosi is never going to move forward on impeachment.

I’ll eat my hat if that were to happen, but it won’t.

[anarch]

33. I wish I could disagree

and I get it, I guess, but I find it depressing that at this point "politics" takes priority over what is right; and nobody seems to really care about what's right, what the Constitution indicates. If we're abandoning the rule of law, what's the point of going through the motions of bureaucracy, etc.?

[Scarsdale]

17. The gop covered

for St. Ronnie for a long time. They will do likewise for tRump. They will not do what is best for the country, only what is best for them. Shouldn't this mental deterioration be further reason for impeachment? We have a mentally disqualified person running the country, and he is causing great harm. Stop it now, before it gets worse. He should HAVE to take medical tests to prove us wrong, if he really is in true mental health. I mean with REAL doctors, chosen by qualified people, not the gop.

[hlthe2b]

24. More...

Link to tweet

Full thread:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/969459517594394624.html

Given his mobility/balance/occasional tremor issues, he may well be on Levodopa, perhaps Zoloft for anxiety or others. Both of the first two can readily result in the kind of pupil dilation we see periodically with Trump...

[empedocles]

13. Hard to see the 'con pols doing anything about trump before the 'con primaries,

- no matter what trump fouls up.

[blue cat]

15. My guess

He will make Ivanka his VP

[Scarsdale]

20. Well, look at her "qualifications"

Looks like she had them enlarged specially for the occasion.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. Tough to say. Wilson was immobilized by his stroke and they almost...

let him run for a third term.

Of course, even as controversial as he was, he did have some serious accomplishments.

[Recursion]

21. 100 years ago there was no TV

75 years ago the general public could still be unaware that the President was nearly paralyzed from the waist down. We've got essentially 24/7 footage on YouTube now.

[TreasonousBastard]

25. No TV, but they had newspapers with at least 3 editions a day...

But, yes, they did a good job of hiding his condition.

But, but, it wasn't the public pushing for a third term. It was Wilson himself trying to convince his team he could handle it, while they felt he couldn't.

[former9thward]

30. They didn't have to hide conditions in those days.

Reporters knew about Roosevelt's condition and they took pictures of him in a wheelchair. They just did not print them or discuss his condition. Even after TV the same with Kennedy. Some reporters knew that he had life threatening illnesses but they stayed silent. Not that world anymore.

Having said that I disagree with the OP. There are many reporters, most who don't like Trump, who are in close contact with him on a day to day basis. They would love to write a story and they haven't. Also there have been plenty of leaks from this WH. That tells me there is nothing there.

[TreasonousBastard]

40. There are lots of reasons why stories are held...

Apple will let the press play with its new toy if they agree to not write about it until the big day. The state department will let the press see reports or speeches the same way.

And at the daily meeting, editors will decide whether or not the story has enough merit, and evidence, to publish.

Interpretations of Trump's odd actions without proper backup would be irresponsible and dangerous.

[rampartc]

19. trump will be the nominee even "if they find him in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

(credit to my former governor Edwin Edwards. )

[3Hotdogs]

22. I recall reading posts --- right here on D.U., about how McChimp was going bonzo.

No indication that happened.

[delisen]

23. Trump may not be the candidate for other reasons

such as result of investigations leading the party to dump him or he may make a deal to relinquish the office.

I don't seem any firm evidence of physical and mental deterioration, so I don't know what you are specifically referring to.

He is quite capable of faking any deterioration or exaggerating deficits if it assists him in keeping people off balance or if he may need to claim mental incapacity as a defense sometime in the future.

Trump seems to be acting the role of successful strong man leader who is preparing to get elected in 2020 -building a false narrative complete with photo ops of a "successful and politically accomplished family-Meeting with the Queen of England, jetting off to the G-20 where his son-son-law and daughter as being presented as highly respected political heavyweights, making an historic visit with the leader of a hostile nation, N Korea.

ON an NPR audio clip this morning, Trump is heard making a casual, off-the-cuff assessment about his N. Korea initiative. He sounds fully competent.

Although I do not have firm evidence, I believe that the old guard in the Republican Party does have a replacement candidate waiting should they or he decide at any point that the best option for them is for him to make a deal to leave office.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. If you are correct, then I can better understand how Ivanka was rolled out as

the IMAGE of a leader. The visit to Great Britain. Trying to look witty at the G-20 conference on Saturday.

Trump could pull a bait-and-switch in 2020 at the last minute and have Ivanka run in his place. Note that I said Ivanka, not Mike Pence.

Yeah, yeah, I know. RNC, the primaries, the nomination. But how many times has Trump "broken the rules" and got away with it? And why should this situation be any different?

[Vinca]

27. The GOP doesn't care if he's a drooling, pants shitting lump who sits in a corner all day.

As long as he's able to sign their legislation in some fashion, they're happy. They've lost all ability to have shame and they certainly have no common sense. Mitch McConnell is the real president.

[CK_John]

28. I believe he will have his daughter run, and he keeps want is in his political pack.l

[watoos]

29. Trump better hope that karma isn't real,

Remember, Hillary fell and has brain damage, remember the hole in Hillary's tongue, remember Hillary only has 6 months to live?

Be careful what you say about people because karma is listening.

[duforsure]

35. This is all staged by putin and trump now

And he will eventually not run, and keep the campaign funds given to him. He's a fraud. republicans will dump him.

[USALiberal]

36. What was worse korea than any other time? Nt

[lark]

38. Not going to happen, PUtin wouldn't allow it.

No one will take him out besides his master at a time of his masters' choosing, after he's gotten everything he could, all the worldwide destruction possible, before he puts all the dirt and shows drumpf for nothing but an ignorant, criminal, traitrous grifter who sold America down the tubes for personal profit.