Has Donald Trump gone nuts? This is obviously a difficult question to raise about any person, let alone a candidate, who has demonstrated vicious, paranoid, and violent behavior. (A civil trial in a federal court found him guilty of sexual abuse, after all.) So, everything is relative. Still, all the armchair gerontologists parsing every utterance from President Joe Biden, trying to distinguish his congenital stutter from his natural aging, should look at Trump, whose behavior has gone from bad to weird to bizarre. Is he suffering from a palpable form of dementia? I leave that to the medical experts, but I’d implore you to absorb what the 45th president has been saying recently and how it’s even more worrisome than what he’s been saying and doing since he came down the escalator at Trump Towers in 2015.

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    48
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 years ago

    Anyone who listens to this fucker talk for even a minute and thinks “yep, that’s my guy” is either evil, an utter moron or both

    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      I’ve said this before, but he knows how to lull people into a semi trance. It’s a sing-song way of gently speaking that they use in cults. If you speed up what he’s saying on youtube, you can see the effects immediately disappear and something I would suggest trying on relatives who are caught in his spell. Tell them you want to hear the speech but you’re in a hurry and 1.5x it.

      • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        28
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        You know who was considered an idiot by contemporaries and mocked for his bizarre, rambling speeches? Hitler.

      • meco03211@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        2 years ago

        Should try deepfaking some of his speeches with Biden’s voice. Change things like “leftist” or “liberal” to “right wing” or “conservative” and similar. All except for like the last one or two. Then as they are seething, reveal that it was trump all along.

        • nilloc
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          2 years ago

          Could do the same thing in reverse and reveal it as Biden’s speech. Lots of them agree with most of what Biden says. They’re just brainwashed into hating the other side.

  • Hairyblue@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    28
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Trump is seeing either a prison cell or authoritarian leader in his future. I think he is feeling the stress of these futures. He may be thinking he has nothing left to lose.

    Trump and Biden are both too old to be running for president. Biden has been a good president but should have just did the one term. Trump was a terrible president who packed the supreme court with right wing religious nuts, tried to destroy our democracy, enabled bigots and racist, and gave the rich tax cuts…and much more.

    I will vote for Biden and our democracy. Because Trump is un-American and a criminal president.

    Stop voting for Republicans, they don’t believe in our democracy.

    • nilloc
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      I will vote for Biden and our democracy.

      This is the only option if you don’t want to seriously damage our country and its democracy.

  • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 years ago

    Yes. Eight years ago, he sounded more like George Wallace circa 1968 and 72. He was just missing a syrupy south Alabama drawl and a country band to warm up the crowd.

    Now he sounds like Hitler trying to do the Nuremberg Rallies in English.

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    “Crazy” kinda lets him off the hook. When you say crazy people think like his Twitter fight with Kim Jong Un, sort of wild that it would happen but not core to his presidency. It’s more important to emphasize his actual bad performance at the job.

    • spaceghoti@lemmy.oneOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      I mean, if people are going to criticize Biden for misspeaking and being old, it’s fair to apply that same standard to Trump. The signs of cognitive decline in the latter are hard to ignore unless you’re really determined to not see it.

  • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Several criminal prosecutions, a fubar civil trial, a sketchy Presidential bid, likely out of money, is one of the most hated (and simultaneously beloved) people in human history, and he’s looking down the barrel of turning 80 in a couple years…

    He’s not gonna get any saner, folks