Expect Trump to pop off as trials pick up: "No governor between his addled brain and big mouth"

[marmar]

Expect Trump to pop off as trials pick up: "No governor between his addled brain and big mouth"
"The only ones seemingly obtuse and unaware of Trump's dementia are the media"

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED MARCH 8, 2024 5:45AM (EST)


(Salon) Donald Trump is not the same man he was eight years ago. Moreover, he is not the same man he was even three years ago in terms of his apparent mental, emotional, and cognitive health. The ex-president and now de facto 2024 Republican presidential candidate is under enormous pressure. He is facing hundreds of years in prison for his political crime spree. He has been ordered to pay almost 500 million dollars in civil penalties and fines. His desire to be America’s first dictator is as much a function of his megalomania and obsession with obtaining revenge against his “enemies” as it is an existential need, literally, to get ultimate power so that he can avoid being put in prison for the rest of his natural life. In all, such pressure would bend if not outright break the average person’s emotional, mental, and physical health.

Trump is 77 years old. Beyond the normal impact of aging on one’s mind and body, at his recent rallies and other events, Trump has been manifesting what appear to be extreme challenges in speaking, memory, and thinking. Like many of us, Donald Trump also has a family history of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Trump has not always had the best diet or otherwise taken good care of his physical health and he was “gravely ill” and could have easily died from the COVID-19 virus in 2020.

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D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters."

.....The little I catch, mostly via soundbites, he’s the same racist, loudmouth he has always been since his days bankrupting casinos and selling steaks in my home state of New Jersey. There is no governor between his addled brain and his big mouth. He can say whatever he wants because everything he says has lost all meaning. He doesn’t even believe half of what he says because he’s a huckster and B.S. artist. He has no command over any subject matter of importance. He’s the guy at the end of the bar who won’t shut up, and talks, and talks, and talks until he finally gets a reaction. Anybody who talks that much is invariably going to stumble and massacre complete sentences. Hell, he might even say something that occasionally makes sense. But who cares as long as he is the center of attention?

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Steven Beschloss is a journalist and author of several books, including "The Gunman and His Mother." His website is America, America.

We have witnessed for eight years the constant pathological lying and the deeply ugly and hateful condemnations and scapegoating of anyone whom Donald Trump perceives as his enemy. We have also watched millions of cult followers sticking by him despite or perhaps more sickeningly because of his malignant verbiage and his desire to end our form of government. Given this, it’s hard to see how the obvious cognitive decline illustrated by his failures in memory and speech will change their minds; this underscores not just their cultist admiration for him and attraction to strongman leadership, but their profound hostility toward liberals and the depth of their angers and resentments more broadly. Honestly, I think Trump could be foaming at the mouth and it still wouldn’t change their minds about wanting him back in the White House. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/08/expect-to-pop-off-as-trials-pick-up-no-governor-between-his-addled-brain-and-big-mouth/

[tanyev]

1. "He's the guy at the end of the bar who won't shut up, and talks, and talks, and talks until he finally gets a reaction.

Exactly. And as long as the only time you have to deal with that jerk is when you go to the bar, you can just about tolerate him.

But FFS, you don't elect that moron to be PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

[Dave in VA]

2. As the grandson of klansmen

what I see is that he hates the same people they do. Everything else is just unimportant. As long as non Caucasian men or women look to gain power they themselves do not possess, they will follow him through hell and back. Just George Wallace version 2.xx

Joe burned their snowflake castles to the ground last night showing he is not an opponent to be take lightly.

Just my $00.02

[Enoki33]

3. His head was once just a noisy empty

barrel. Now it's filled with racism, hatred and corrupted worms. He makes this national security threat evident daily.