"Donald Trump is not well. ...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"At other points, Trump barely seemed able to get words out. ...

Trump, however, reliably gets help from a mainstream press that too often sanewashes his speeches for readers and viewers who aren’t watching them live and may not spend a lot of time on social media.

The New York Times, for instance, described Trump as 'swaying soberly' during his musical 'detour' in Pennsylvania, adding that he’s known 'for improvisational departures.'”

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #NewYorkTimes
/5

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
/6

Harris continues to take her message directly to the people

October 16, 2024

(roberthubbell.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The campaign did not, though, cancel a scheduled live interview today with Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago. That interview echoed last night’s train wreck. ...

Trump has multiple meltdowns each day and major media looks on with mild bemusement. The NYTimes dismissed Trump's 39-minute interlude of listening to music at a rally on Monday as an 'improvisational detour.'”

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #NewYorkTimes
/7

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Really?! If Harris had done the same thing, the Times would have described the event as 'disqualifying.' Perhaps that explains why Kamala Harris would rather be interviewed by Fox News than the NYTimes."

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #NewYorkTimes
/8

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Noting the media's deep concern -- "almost an obsession" -- with Biden's age and mental stability, Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump asks,

"How bad does it need to be before they sit up and take notice [that Trump is decompensating before our eyes]?"

~ Mary L. Trump

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #media
/9

He's Decompensating before Our Eyes

Evening Dispatch

(www.marytrump.org)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"This should be a five-alarm fire across all media organizations, and yet the AP headline [about Trump's onstage breakdown in Pennsylvania] read, 'Trump turned his town hall into an impromptu concert.' The write-up in The New York Times was, if possible, worse."

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #AP #NewYorkTimes #media
/10

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"If nothing else matters—the criminality, the cruelty, the misogyny, the racism, the viciousness, the freaking fascism—than surely the steep cognitive decline of a man who is running to be the leader of the free world should matter."

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #AP #NewYorkTimes #media
/11

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Donald Trump continued his pre-election economic event tour on Tuesday with a lengthy interview with Bloomberg at the Economic Club of Chicago. It was a total mess."

~ Nikki McCann Ramirez

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
/12

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-crumbles-pressed-economic-policy-bloomberg-interview-1235134459/

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Micklethwait spent most of the interview attempting to break Trump out of what the former president repeatedly referred to as 'the weave,' his term for his rambling digressions — with ever-decreasing intelligibility — and general inability to focus on a given topic for more than a few seconds during his rallies and interviews."

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
/13

[dave@europhiles.uk]

@wdlindsy I'm not sure what "decompensating" means, but it's near enough to "decomposing" so I'll go with that.

[huntn00@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy Town hall events where no questions are asked, just music played, the perfect event for The Old Dementia Guy who does not have a discussable plan, nor could he discuss it without jeopardizing himself, the conversion of the United States from a democratic Republic into a Russian style dictatorship with show elections, and show trials to lock up his political adversaries. 🧟‍️

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"His aversion to questions, especially tough or unexpected ones, has become alarmingly evident. Just consider:

His refusal to debate Kamala Harris a second time for a variety of garbage excuses;

Canceling his 60 Minutes interview, shattering over half a century of tradition;"

~ Brian Tyler Cohen

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
/14

Trump takes "swing state" too literally

MVP Harris dominates the final stretch while the former President cowers from questions by making rally-goers listen to his workout playlist

(plus.briantylercohen.com)

[mishavanmollusq@sfba.social]

@wdlindsy
Halloween and/or the day of the dead is when he ripens into the low hanging fruit this chick collects.
MAGA will scream.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"His ludicrous proposal that his rambling responses are in fact an intentional 'bob and weave' narrative device he uses to stitch together his gurgling thoughts;

And, most recently, shutting down last night’s Q&A portion of his rally in favor of spending 39 MINUTES on stage, doing this

While this 78 year old man sways, bobs, weaves, and makes a muddled mockery of engaging with other humans, his opponent is in 'excellent health.'”

#Trump #KamalaHarris #age #MentalDecline #dementia
/15

[tharpa@hear-me.social]

@wdlindsy Vintage Trump. Putting a positive spin even on his mental-collapse, incapable is he of admitting to suffering human-frailty. Experience shall teach him, and the final lesson will be his death.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

As Heather Cox Richardson reports, Trump showed up nearly an hour late for his interview tin John Micklethwait, and "things went downill fast." Micklethwait asked "real questions," and Trump responded with "aimless rants and campaign slogans," with Micklethwait correcting his disinformation. Trump then became "angry and combative."

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
/16

October 15, 2024

After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen.

(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

He deigned to school Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, about how tariffs work, and took pot shots at Wall Street Journal, claiming it knows nothing about economics. Harris writes,

"Aaron Rupar of Public Notice, who watches and clips Trump’s speeches, called the appearance 'bonkers.' Journalist David Rothkopf of Deep State Radio wrote: 'The past 24 hours seem to have been a dividing line in the Trump campaign...and in Trump."

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
/17

[laloofah@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
@DavidCorn: “This is a man incapable of listening to others. His aides have said that for years. He cannot absorb information that challenges anything in his big brain. It’s hyper-narcissism. And the business class ought to worry about this & not just drool over tax cuts.”

Trump is a petulant toddler who will never mature. He will only dangerously regress.

[greengordon@spore.social]

@wdlindsy

The Republicans are trying desperately to get Trump across the finish line, then they will do their best to sideline him in favour of Vance.

"After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box"

[huntn00@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy The the last thing we want is a chameleon who has shaped himself into the form of the Younger, Healthier, Second In Command Liar who see women in red.