Donald Trump's Daily Waking Thoughts:

[MineralMan]

Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing here?

Then, slowly, it comes back to him and he starts all over again to reach new lows of stupidity.

That's the world of Alzheimer's Dementia. Each day is a new adventure, colored only faintly by memory of who one is, where one is, and what one is supposed to do. Each day is a little more difficult when it comes to answering those questions. Eventually, they become impossible to answer.

Donald J. Trump is in a relatively early stage of the disease. He can still reconstruct things, with the help of others around him. But he's steadily getting less and less able to do so. He can still go through the motions, but often does and says things that are inappropriate to the situation at hand.

I have seen this at work in people I know and love. It's a terrible progression. Trump is in that position and the progress of it will be relentless and unforgiving. He is barely holding on at this point, but that phase may soon be over and he will lose more and more of his grasp on reality.

It's a painful, relentless illness for those around the person who has it, as well. Soon enough, they will no longer be recognized and will no longer be able to help the person reassemble their reality.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What if he's just an evil asshole?

[MineralMan]

3. Evil assholes can also suffer from Alzheimer's.

They tend to become even more what they are. But, they are less able to control it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. True. If he does have Alzheimer's he will become even more assholish

until he can't function at all and he has to be taken out of the WH in restraints. I hope that day comes soon, but before he does something irreparably crazy.

[MineralMan]

9. Yes. I hope so too.

The people around him know, but they don't know quite what to do about it. As long as he will listen to what they think is reason, they can keep going, but that may end soon enough.

Recently, I had to help my 93-year-old mother recall how I was related to her. She recognized me and knew my name, but couldn't get her mind around the fact that I was her son. To her, I didn't look like the youngster she raised, and she couldn't make the connection.

So, I talked her through the history of it, stepping through the years gently and helping her remember all the changes and events over the 72 years I've been her son. As I did, she understood more and more and finally comprehended how the old man with white hair and a beard talking to her could be her son.

She doesn't have Alzheimer's, according to her doctor. She has simple senile dementia. At 93, her memory is failing, as can happen. Soon, sadly, I won't be able to reconstruct that story for her and I'll be a kindly old man who talks to her sometimes.

Life is strange. The end of life is even stranger, it seems. It's all an adventure.

[Kleveland]

7. Well, that is a given....

But just as Alzheimer's is painful for an individual family to watch, this family of American citizens is in horrible debilitating pain, watching this utter buffoon systematically destroy our Government, and in turn our country.

Does he have any though at all about the millions of soldier's and others who have given their all to serve this country to preserve our way of life?

Yeah, I know, rhetorical question.

He is one terminally selfish being, that I can tell you.

[rzemanfl]

2. Mine are-

Shit, Drumpf is President. What the f**k did he do while I was sleeping? I really have to pee. (Sometimes the last one is first).

[Wounded Bear]

4. So this is a Reality TV version of 50 first dates?

[MineralMan]

6. Not a bad metaphor for it.

It is sort of like that for people with Alzheimer's. I'm certain that it is very confusing for them.

[Kleveland]

8. I guess it could be "First 50 States" in this case! n/t