Trump's a little out of it again!

[leftstreet]

Link to tweet

[spanone]

1. he's wondering where the gold carriage is...

[JoeStuckInOH]

6. Is that like... real gold cairrage?!?

That's badass. If I were a billionaire, I sign up to be an Uber driver and take people around in that.

People would be so confused at their Uber app until they saw me show up: "Joe will be there to pick you up in 8 minutes driving a golden horse-drawn carriage."

[gratuitous]

2. It's a traditional French dance around the time of Bastille Day

Any visiting heads of state pretend to be a maypole while the French president promenades around him. DeGaulle and Roosevelt used to do it all the time.

Now, let's sit back and wait for that nonsense to become part of Fox News lore.

[leftstreet]

3. LOL

brilliant!

[cwydro]

26. Bwah!

[Jeroen]

31. Lol!

[ffr]

4. That's our Shart-in-Chief alright. Just like his Shart supporters

[lib-ruhl]

5. Looks like a French sobriety test!

[leftstreet]

10. ...

You win!

[True Dough]

11. What a MESS!

A DISASTER! He ought to look in a mirror, and refrain from drinking that French wine!

[brush]

7. He never knows what to do. What an embarrassment.

[Achilleaze]

8. the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

always goes into a swoon whenever real soldiers are around. Mighty PEEculiar behavior. Shame? Should be.

[pirateshipdude]

9. He was wobbly or not planted with feet, coming out of the airplane earlier.

I wonder how much he does things like this on a daily basis, we do not see, because he is not front and center of a camera.

[leftstreet]

12. I saw that clip

And yeah, he looked wobbly

If he's got any dementia related disorders, jet lag would complicate things

[pirateshipdude]

15. I was considering the escalation of issue with jet lag. You may/probably are correct. Eom

[LudwigPastorius]

13. I don't think he's addled in this one.

It would just never occur to him in a million years to turn his back to the media.


"What? Stand here? OK. Hey, wait a minute, Pepe Le Pew, why are we NOT facing the cameras?"

[Brother Buzz]

14. You win the thread

[MineralMan]

16. The Dude's having a TIA.

Transient Ischemic Attack - also called a mini-stroke.

Same thing when he got off AF1 and didn't see the limo. He's still upright, but blood flow to his brain is not up to full volume.

That's my diagnosis of that little episode.

Disclaimer: While I am not a medical doctor, I play on one the Internet.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/transient-ischemic-attack/symptoms-causes/dxc-20314622

[tblue37]

20. I have had a TIA. It didn't cause spacing out, but it did partially paralyze my

right side for a few minutes and also caused me to be unable to speak clearly for that same amount of time.

Maybe spacing out is also a common symptom, but I would imagine that, considering how often we have seen this, we would at least some of the time also see some partial paralysis on one side and/or speech incapacitation for the span of the event.

Much more likely is that he sometimes experiences the sundowning syndrome associated with Alzheimer's. He has the family history, and he is at the age when his father began to show his Alzheimer's symptoms.

[MineralMan]

21. They can have a wide range of symptoms.

[tblue37]

22. Yes, but I would not expect just that one symptom every time if he has

several TIAs.

Also, it happens too frequently. Each TIA drastically increases one's likelihood of a major stroke, so this many TIAs so close together would be unlikely without his having already been felled by a major stroke, especially considering his diet, lack of exercise, rage issues, probable high blood pressure, and overall terrible physical condition.

[MineralMan]

23. Possibly. It could also be a sudden drop in blood pressure,

caused by blood pressure medication, which he is probably taking. That can lead to sudden faintness and deterioration of vision. Often, people know that it's there and sort of walk trough it until the pressure goes up and clears their heads. That one, I'm very familiar with, since it happens to me from time to time, particularly after sitting for a long time and then having to get up and walk somewhere. I'm used to it and can normally just take a couple of deep breaths and keep going. But...not always.

In any case, I won't be surprised if Trump takes a tumble down the stairs from AF1 one of these days. He looked a little unsteady in Paris at the top of the steps actually.

[tblue37]

17. What is the local time in Paris? He does seem to experience sundowning syndrome sometimes.

I have said all along that I believe he has Alzheimer's, just as his father did by that age.

[leftstreet]

18. Yeah, it'd be around 8:15 pm right now

I've wondered about sundowning myself - especially with his bizarre pm tweets

[Sunlei]

19. has to have all his people wear the same tie or he is lost.

[Leith]

24. Is It My Imagination

or is he holding his arms oddly? They seem to be angled just slightly towards the front, not straight down at his side, like Macron.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. Why doesn't that fucking git ever button his jacket?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. He can't get it buttoned over his gut

and he's too vain to admit he needs a bigger size around the middle.

[3catwoman3]

30. Maybe it won't...

...fit across his midsection anymore.

[cwydro]

27. Something is very off.

We are so screwed.

[nykym]

29. Here let me show you how

the guillotine works