If this doesn't scare the hell out of you ... nothing does

[SFnomad]

Confused Elderly Man Wanders Away From His Limousine, Remains In Control Of Nuclear Weapons

Elderly rich white man gets confused about where his transportation is, kind young man shows him where to go and he safely returns home. Oh, did I mention that "elderly man" is Donald Trump? And that this isn't the first time he got confused and wandered off...same thing happened in Israel in May. Oh, and in April he wandered away from an executive order signing ceremony *before* signing the orders.

Just a reminder - this elderly, confused, utterly lost man remains in control of the largest military in the world and the nuclear codes.

[NightWatcher]

1. We disconnected my grandmother's stove when she started getting confused like this.

(My Uncle lived with her, so she didn't go hungry. We were worried she'd burn the place down)

Repukes cannot and will not exercise the judgment to end this before something terrible happens.

[kimbutgar]

24. I took the knobs off my mother's stovewhen she forget about a pot on the stove and burned up the pot

Afterwards I told her she could only use the microwave.

Her caregiver had stepped out the house to buy food and my mother decide she needed to cook dinner.

[Binders Keepers]

30. No biggie--my wife and I forget pots on the stove a few times a year.

[SFnomad]

36. Re: We disconnected my grandmother's stove ...

I'm sorry to hear that. I went through something similar with my grandmother. When she had a stroke, she didn't lose any motor skills, but she did get vascular dementia. On top of not remembering things, she had this loss of fear so we were worried about her burning herself or falling down stairs. We said she was like living a second childhood with her playfullness. A relative lived with her for the rest of her life ... because we feared similiar things that you did.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I saw that and it does scare the hell out of me. I've commented before that I think his health

is failing. Sometimes he looks like a tired old man. His posture appears to be stooped, his face often has a vacant look and he appears to me to have gained a considerable amount of weight since he took office.

If it weren't for the spray tan and the ridiculous hair style, we'd be looking at a typical aging grandfather who hasn't taken very good care of himself.

[stonecutter357]

3. K&R

[Rorey]

4. His family, and so many others, do nothing

What the hell is wrong with those people?

[WinstonSmith4740]

23. As Lord Acton observed...

""Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

Obama understood The Constitution. He knew the presidency was designed to be the weakest leg of the triad. (And for good reason...the Founding Fathers weren't dumb.) Trump thinks he yields unlimited, unquestioned, and absolute power, because he DOESN'T understand how our government works. What's wrong with his family? They get to wield the power while he rants and tweets. They were raised to be unfeeling and power hungry, so as long as he's wandering around in his bathrobe and yelling at the TV behind the scenes, they're going to be fine with it. As long as he's in office, they have power which they will use for no other reason than to enrich themselves further. Because they're as corrupt as he is, plain and simple.

[progressoid]

5. Give him a break. He was just a little covfefe.

[BSdetect]

6. Its painfully obvious they will not remove him as that would be a huge humiliation

Until he does something horrendous.

Maybe not even then.

[iluvtennis]

8. He's already done something horrendous by colluding with Russia to steal the election from Hill

[LonePirate]

13. It's not the humiliation that stops them - it's the backlash from his unhinged base.

His base loves him. They couldn't care less about other Republicans. If Republicans oust him, then his base will turn on them. They will either back other candidates during primaries or they will sit out general elections. Current Republicans in DC lose in both scenarios.

Not only that but there is the very real possibility that one or more members of his fanatical base respond with violence.

45 and Pence both need to go, be it via resignation or by Mueller, or in the case of 45, his health. Impeachment or 25th Amendment removal are never going to happen, not with these Republicans in charge.

[brush]

37. Yep, they know the trump brand, including all the kid's business would be in the toilet...

with the humiliation of a resignation, forced or voluntary.

[NastyRiffraff]

7. I remember Ronald Reagan

Looking and sounding a bit confused. Of course he was in the early stages of Alzheimer's. But he wasn't THIS bad. As far as I know he didn't "wander off" at least publicly. This looks much more serious.

[liberal N proud]

9. What scary is that the power happy republicans will not stop him

[Pluvious]

14. He can still scribble his signature to the applause of gathered sycophants n/t

[Javaman]

10. what got me about that footage is:

the limo is at the end of steps. it leads, basically, to an open door that he gets in.

there is no confusing the issue, yet, the orange menace does.

we. are. so. fucked. until. he's. impeached.

[ekelly]

15. And surely this is standard procedure

which he has gone through many, many times. It's not like the car being parked at the bottom of the stairs was a last-minute curveball thrown at him.

No reasonable explanation for him to just walk past the car like that.

[LiberalArkie]

26. I was kind of thinking he was going to try and walk away from all of it.

[SpankMe]

11. Holy cow...WTF was that all about?

I think he's beginning to fake some sort of senility. That way, if and when the impeachment question gets more serious, he can step down well ahead of time with mental issues as an excuse - thus preemptively manipulating all future analyses of the end of his presidency into something more benign than it actually is.

With all hostility set aside, I really believe he's got mental issues that seem to be manifesting themselves more and more.

[monmouth4]

19. I'm sure what you said is absolutely true. This would be his way out and help to save face..n/t

[brush]

38. WTF? Forced out because of dementia is saving face?

What planet does that happen on?

Not this one. All his business and kid's business will tank from that humiliation.

And they all know it so they'll do everything they can to cover for him.

If it gets too bad they might fake a heart attack or something to give him an out because of his health, but dementia will never be admitted.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Senile dementia

formerly attributed to 'hardening of the arteries'

Alzheimer's, going out on a fugue

Who am I? Where am I?

What did I have for dinner? What is dinner?

[Guilded Lilly]

16. While the visual and audio proof of the Cretin's imbalanced mental

state is openly obvious every single day of this nightmare, the genuine terror comes from the layer and levels of "saner" people enabling his treason, treachery and totally criminal and immoral behavior.
In their driven obsessions for power and possession of more money than god to die with, the likes of Pence McConnell Ryan and the fucking Republican Congress are the biggest domestic terrorists in the country.
And the Cretin supporters are a billious cult of anti-humanity and the very worst of America.

[monmouth4]

17. "Sundowning" seems to be the major dx from non-pros but people familiar with the disease. n/t

[gademocrat7]

18. Did he salute the military personnel who were there?

I don't think he was aware of them.

[CCExile]

20. Thank God

I'm a Buddhist!

[Hugin]

21. It's because the self-appointed El Presidente Bannon and his cabal aren't through with him yet.

They only need a pulse with a pen to wreck this country. As he clearly stated at the Crazy Convention a couple of months ago.

[bora13]

22. hopefully

hopefully Mueller is saying something like this daily,
"I'll get to the bottom of this even if i have to go all the way to the top." (heard on M*A*S*H)

[niyad]

25. I had just heard about that--seeing it--YIKES!!!!!! the man is clearly not all there.

[Doreen]

27. The secret service is no longer there

to protect him from other people but to protect him from himself. Sad.

[Historic NY]

28. Would have been interesting to see where he was heading......

terminal? A different vehicle? This was a right up close disembarkation from the plane, didn't look like they even prepared for a rope line etc. He was definitely not aware of his surroundings.

[Guilded Lilly]

29. Perhaps he was looking for his golf cart.

[Historic NY]

31. Bingo, cause he sure walked past the mega-ton Beast.

[Still In Wisconsin]

33. He probably just woke up. n/t

[Still In Wisconsin]

32. I'm so glad this doddering old bastard will be in charge if Kim Jong Un actually goes and launches

an actual ICBM with a warhead on it. He will probably nuke Iceland in response.

[Sneederbunk]

34. Pretty soon he will not know what he is grabbing for.

[Paladin]

35. CALLING ARTICLE 25. ARTICLE 25, REPORT FOR DUTY, IMMEDIATELY. (nt)