Trump's gaffes should raise questions about his fitness for office

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CNN
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A Fox News poll released last week found that 52% of Americans don’t believe that 77-year-old Donald Trump has the “mental soundness to serve” as president. That same poll showed that 61% of Americans have the same concern about President Joe Biden, who is 80. But while there is extensive media coverage about Biden’s age and gaffes, Trump, for the most part, gets a pass.

For example, at a September 8 rally in South Dakota, the 2024 GOP presidential front-runner abruptly stopped mid-speech for 40 seconds as he awkwardly looked at the audience, his eyes darting around. Some of his supporters online asserted that Trump — who had just said the United States was “the greatest nation in the history of the world” — was overcome with emotion. Have you ever seen Trump overcome with emotion? It’s hard for me to buy that explanation.

Regardless of the reason for the pause, imagine if Biden had abruptly stopped a speech midway through and began looking around the audience for more than half a minute? Much of the media — and I don’t mean just right-wing outlets — would likely ask if Biden had become confused or had fallen ill, or if the teleprompter stopped working and he wasn’t mentally able to fill the time? Such a clip of Biden would probably be played nonstop on cable news and dissected by pundits and even doctors specializing in cognitive issues.

But with Trump, there was no notice, although Frank Bruni took note of his lapses into incoherence in a New York Times column last week with the headline “Trump Is Really Old, Too.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/17/opinions/trump-gaffes-obeidallah/index.html

[GreenWave]

1. He caught the Moscow Mitch Itch.

[Rorey]

2. "Overcome with emotion"??? re-thinking my post

I don't want to seem insensitive. Trump doesn't have the ability to feel emotional about anything. He's an evil malignant narcissist.

[Takket]

3. because there are two standards for coverage......

rethugs get the benefit of the doubt for everything, Democrats get questioned about everything.

[FalloutShelter]

5. They both-spidered it on Morning Joe this morning and I turned it off.

Caty Kay said: "Biden does it too."
No one corrected her.
Off it went.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. NBC has clearly decided nothing matters but a two horse race, close as possible. Power and profit!!

Fawning interviews, neutral tone for terrorists and fools…harsh criticism or no coverage of Democratic Party accomplishments….cause that horse don’t need any help, has to be handicapped and weighed down so the slow nag can keep pace!

CBS ABC…same thing, basically same company, riding and coaxing and whipping the same tired terrorized horse with the same old terrorist jockey to the finish line.

[gratuitous]

7. NBC had three days to fact check the defendant before airing the interview

But they didn't. They put up a web page with some fact-checking, but as Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer noted, how many people are going to bother? I think he said 1 percent, which I thought was a generous estimate.

Nope, Welker let the defendant go off on full gish gallop, make a couple of feeble but ineffectual attempts at stopping him or correcting him, but in the end, it was every bit the lie parade people at DU predicted.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

9. NBC executives had 3 days to bask in the glory of their embrace of fascism before foisting

their tru feelings upon the public, trump just the messenger and the tool they always wanted…willing to use terrorism.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

12. It doesn't help

that people I had thought would know better, were praising her on social media, and posting a pic of her with President Obama and FLOTUS Michelle.

See? Not partisan at all.

[IA8IT]

6. He's plenty fit enough for trial and jail. Acting for incompetence??

[RobinA]

8. I Questioned

his fitness for office when he was in the primary the very first time. And not for age reasons.

[republianmushroom]

10. Should but won't for republicans.

They have been dumb downed.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

11. OMFG!

"Gaffes"????

"GAFFES"??????

What the actual fuck is going on? CNN making the "both sides" bullshit, "Oh he just had a few gaffes, so did Biden, donchaknow."

I am truly stunned by how it seems every single day brings more and more normalizing of this INDICTED FUCKING TRAITOROUS CRIMINAL.

Me:

[SouthernDem4ever]

13. If Repugs don't care about his crimes, they certainly don't care about his gaffs

as long as they think they are in power criminal rule will reign.

[raising2moredems]

14. Shades of Vincent Gigante...

aka Vincent the Chin. Except TFG ego won't allow him to keep up "appearances" for very long.

[Aussie105]

15. Trump has never been fit for office.

Who took all these years to work that out?
Who is still pretending he was, is, and will be?

Trump has never been a complete person, never had the insight and intelligence to do the POTUS job.
He learnt little and left behind a trail of destruction while in the White House.

I'm thinking the polls that call this a 'close race' are rigged, and the MSM stuff going on are all designed to keep the Republican voters on their toes and willing to go out and vote next time.

Some underhanded shenanigans going on in the US at the moment. Misled, misfed, mistreated voters - time to switch off until voting time.

My suggestion - turn off MSM, ignore polls, and vote when the time comes.

[Bucky]

16. And yet those gaffes are the only times he tumbles into telling the truth

So, ironically, the thing you're saying makes him unfit for public office is those rare moments when he's unintentionally being honest.

[ecstatic]

17. Wow, so he froze like Mitch and nobody said shit?

Why am I just now hearing about this?

[fredamoss3]

18. Trump's fitness for office was determined on that escalator in 2016.

No further information needed.

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. That's not as bad as airfields during the Revolutionary War. nt

[DFW]

20. Just give him the citizenship test

You know, the one all immigrants must pass in order to become US citizens.

The trouble is, when he scores 27%, Fox Noise will rush to his defense, because 87% of their audience couldn't score any higher.