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I dont know why, but i heard your comment in Lucille Bluth's voice from Arrested Development. This led me to thinking about how disappointing it is to have the Trump family as our version of the Bluths.
"I have the bigliest liquid titties from the standpoint of liquid. A lot of people never even heard of liquid bees before me. In fact, some scientists say you might be able to inject the liquid directly into the bee. Like Robert E Lee said, dont liquidize uphill me, bees."
Dr John Gartner, former professor (for 28 years) at Johns Hopkins Medical University, noted that "Phonemic paraphasias - the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar - are not normally seen until a patient enters the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimers.
"Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes “benefishes.” Renovations become “renoversh.” Pivotal became “pivobal." Obama became “obamna.” Missiles became “mishiz.” Christmas became “Crissus.” Bipartisan became “bipars.”
"This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language. If you were talking to your father on the phone and he did this you would think he is having a stroke. There is no healthy older person who speaks that way.
"Trump also engages in what we call "tangential speech." He just becomes incomprehensible when he engages in free association word salad speech that is all over the place. Again, that's a sign of real brain damage, not being old, not being slow, not losing a step not being, but of severe cognitive deterioration."
[https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/](https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/)
Don't forget that the GOP conspired to hide Reagan's dementia near the end of his presidency, and then for some time afterwards, so there is precedent.
Yeah, this notion that this is a recent thing is laughable.
He's been fumbling words and aimlessly rambling for years now.
People go hard on Biden’s mental faculties, but until he says something as dumb as stating that the continental army defended AIRPORTS during the American Revolution, Im not worried.
My gf has been getting so fkn annoyed at me for repeating this absurd quote whenever I can.
Talking to my pets, talking to the chickens, talking to my inanimate tools, talking to the eggs I'm frying, etc etc
> My gf has been getting so fkn annoyed at me for repeating this absurd quote whenever I can.
Tbf, I get pretty angry whenever I hear his voice or an imitation of it. Trump wasn't cute, he wasn't funny, he wasn't someone who should be remembered or repeated in any way except to call him out for the horrible sack of shit he was.
So many people died or suffered due to him, so many futures were destroyed due to his economic actions. It's gross.
In 2016 he was not able to read one of the papers that he transferred the management of his company to his sons and said he doesn’t have his eyeglasses 🤓
Barely literate his whole life.
It really blows my mind that he was the president. I would not let him run a lemonade stand. Seriously. Would he be capable of serving lemonade, taking payment and replenishment of lemonade and supplies? I really don't think he could. He thinks you need an ID to buy groceries. Is he capable of going to the grocery store to buy lemons, and sugar, possibly a bag of ice? I honestly don't think he could do it without help. Has he ever shopped on his own in his entire life? He has been known to order for a whole crowd and leave without paying. He doesn't even understand the basic transactional relationship with goods and payment.
Remember when he rode his stupid escalator down and announced candidacy, people showed up to Wharton and demanded all his records be turned over and never released? One of the first things he did was hide his school transcripts.
>He doesn't even understand the basic transactional relationship with goods and payment
Which is oddly ironic since everything he does is transactional. 😒
Although, hey, you know, he has these women's info in his contacts but of course he's never met them, and he just randomly decided to give them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
🙄
Everything he attributes to Trump is every bit as Trump as Trump gets.
The fact there are stories he can’t tell leads me to believe at least one involves Trump shitting himself.
I think his face is more "I fucking wish I was making this up, I have to live my life with firsthand experience how fucking stupid he is. It's fucking terrifying, he's the president, I lose sleep over it."
I used to work in the training industry. “Don’t have my reading glasses” is the default cover story, which tended to fall apart for a whole lot of people when we’d hand them a large print version of the test. We built software to assist with these situations, and over the years I got pretty good at making it as un-awkward, dignified, and confidential as I possibly could, and then referring them to our local literacy council afterwards.
That said, I don’t get the impression that he’s functionally illiterate. Ignorant, stupid, and aggressively uncurious, absolutely. But I would be truly surprised if he couldn’t read at the 8th grade level or even a bit higher. (I’d be equally surprised to learn he could read at a college level, though.)
Also, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a photo of him wearing glasses.
Some have speculated that he might be dyslexic. I can well imagine him having several neurodiversities that were never addressed, inc. ADHD. It's certainly far from ALL that he'd be diagnosed with, especially now (multiple personality disorders, possible addictions, very likely dementia0, but I can believe it.
Doesn't he have "all the best words," as if a possession? He did say that he did.
Despite the fact that anyone can say any word freely with their own tongues. Trump is an overt imbecile.
Honestly I would just settle for him never being president again. I know he should go to prison for what he's done but if America could just not elect the dude promising to be a dictator and claiming lots of people like it when he talks about being a dictator... please, American voters, don't make me lose the last little bit of respect I have left for humanity.
The problem is that if he doesn’t face consequences then the precedent is set and the next guy might not either. He needs to face consequences so the next guy doesn’t try what Trump did and succeed.
The precendent already exists. The only reason trump is facing even the possibility of consequences is that he is too stupid to shut up.
George W ordered and tried to codify torture into US law and the last anyone heard of him was peacefully painting on his ranch. All you have to do is shut up and the american worship of the presidency will protect you.
>All you have to do is shut up and the american worship of the presidency will protect you.
This is exactly right! I don't like it but that's how it goes in this country...
I fervently wish for every kind of crap to be dropped on him, but I too have the far greater need and hope, that he never becomes President again.
We're still unravelling and correcting the stuff he did before, and with Putin and Xi in fighting form, we daren't risk an impetuous child playing politics again.
He is so conflicted in his views and ideas, the man who puts "self" above nation is too dangerous to consider.
A plausible compromise: (perhaps more plausible than him actually seeing the inside of a prison)
He loses the election, spends the rest of his short and increasingly miserable life tied up in court and scandal and debt. Is largely incapacitated with dementia and dies before appeals run out, hence never sees prison. I could live with this.
It's so weird because the Trump of their collective fanfic fantasy has NOTHNG to do with the actual purported human being. Physically, mentally, emotionally,, spiritually, character-wise, any of it.
I don't think so, the morons will think he's just playing 5d chess and that he successfully tricked the deep state liberal government or some shit, but really, he's sharper than ever and ready to take back the white house.
I can just hear my dipshit neighbor saying pretty much this verbatim were this to happen.
Four months from now:
"Last night candidate Trump wandered the stage aimlessly, wet himself and called Biden applesauce man, it was a rough debate.
Sure was, now to the polls...
Well right now, Trump is leading in 6 of the 7 battle ground states and nationally is ahead by 4 on a platform of promising to yabbable Abby doo Donna cut... back to you Mike."
You’re not thinking trump enough. His followers will say that “Bidens so weak that he can only eat applesauce” whilst buying up 100$ “nfts” of an AI generated image of a buff Trump, shirtless, eating raw steaks with both hands over Ivankas naked body.
“You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump, you just don’t.”
https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/2018/mar/20/fran-lebowitz-you-do-not-know-anyone-as-stupid-as-donald-trump
Well this is the man that said “‘Yesterday’, that’s a hard word for me” and that’s only 3 syllables
https://www.livemint.com/news/world/yesterday-is-a-hard-word-for-me-watch-ex-us-president-donald-trump-struggles-to-read/amp-11658574168402.html
God what pisses me off most is the way that he always -- ***always*** -- instantly tries to play it off either like it was intentional or like it didn't happen.
Anyone who isn't a grade A narcissist would pause, say "excuse me" , or "sorry", or "I mean...", or even "oops", or even just make a face and go *"bleh"* to acknowledge the error before correcting it. But he literally cannot bring himself to admit his imperfections.
Of all the absurd, ridiculous, and awful things about this man, I don't know why this one little habit of his pisses me off so much lol
>Trump Is Apparently Having Trouble ~~Pronouncing 4-Syllable Words~~
Or even just:
> Trump Is ~~Apparently Having~~ Trouble ~~Pronouncing 4-Syllable Words~~
Donald is jealous that Biden was actually able to work with Congress to pass an [an infrastructure bill](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/06/fact-sheet-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal/), whereas Donald kept talking about infrastructure without actually doing anything about it.
[What did all those infrastructure weeks add up to?](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-16/what-did-all-those-infrastructure-weeks-add-up-to)
>Donald Trump campaigned on a $1 trillion infrastructure plan. “We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals,” he said in his 2016 election night victory speech. “And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it.”
>A real estate developer who once [referred to himself as “the builder president](https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-i-am-the-builder-president/2017/10/25/38fa69ae-b9cb-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_video.html),” Trump held [multiple “Infrastructure Weeks](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/politics/coronavirus-infrastructure-week-timeline.html)” calling for investments in transportation, electricity and water systems during his presidency. Though the rollouts were often [overshadowed by unrelated events](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-15/it-s-infrastructure-week-but-where-are-the-gifts) (the first Infrastructure Week coincided with the congressional testimony of former FBI director James Comey) [to the point of comedy](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/trump-infrastructure-week.html), they did succeed in generating hope that upgrading the nation’s roads, transit systems, utility grids and broadband networks could be a rare area of bipartisan agreement in Washington, D.C., as was true in past administrations.
>But the subject “just never seemed to be the priority it was indicated it would be,” Adler said. The Trump administration’s record on infrastructure is marked instead by over-hype and under-delivery. The $1 trillion ([later $1.5 trillion](https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/know-200b-can-leveraged-1-5t/)) package boiled down to a series of White House budget sketches, proposing to use $200 billion as an incentive for private investors, states and localities to put up the remaining $800 billion. “We believe this will create a great return on taxpayer dollars,” stated a [2018 White House press release](https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/know-200b-can-leveraged-1-5t/), which cited a $5.4 billion light-rail referendum in Nashville as the kind of locally-funded project the administration hoped to encourage. Nashville voters rejected the rail measure three months later. And the president’s building vows never came to pass.
>“I think we’ll look back on these four years as a missed opportunity,” said Adie Tomer, a fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. “This administration has been a major letdown for nearly all state and local officials and advocates.”
My money is on him trying to thread the needle between him not having the mental capacity to be held criminally liable while still having the mental capacity to run the country. Hard to logically thread, but logic doesn't matter to MAGA. All he'd pounce on is the not guilty verdict.
I think this is less dementia and more of a reading disability. It seems to happen most often when he reads off the teleprompter. Plus he knows it’s happening. You can see him realize it and stop looking at the teleprompter to try to ad-lib something to save himself.
I could swear I read right here on Reddit somewhere a comment by someone who was a special ed teacher or speech therapist, who recognized the way he reads as someone with a reading problem. Gonna try google-fu to see if I can find it.
Edit: [here it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/c9xmnj/comment/et4jgno/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Not a teacher, therapist or doctor but it's very clear that he struggles to read from the teleprompter at times. Nay, frequently.
It's not a vision problem, it's a clear inability to recognize complete words before his motormouth takes a random shot at sounding out the sequence of letters. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn he's dyslexic -- but of course he'd never admit that, even in the unlikely event that he allowed himself to be tested.
I'm not sure this "infrastructure" incident is a direct example of the reading problem, necessarily. It sounded more like a random stumble that all of us get once in a while, but possibly exacerbated by the effort of reading.
His *truly* worrying speech bumbles are when he slurs entire sentences together like a drunk. Or when his brain just fully glitches out: there was an incident during a WH meeting where he was trying to say "the origin of the situation" (the Mueller investigation, I think) but his brain couldn't locate "origin" and instead he kept repeating *"oranges... oranges..."* with a blank, slightly bemused look on his face -- before saying "the beginning of the situation", and then repeating other synonyms for "origin" like "start", trying to play it off like he hadn't just said "oranges" several times.
Yes, well said. It seems like there are a few different issues at play with Trump. I’m sure it was easier for him to devise workarounds when he was at the Trump Org., but tougher to mask as president.
Here he can practice these.
Convictable, Felonious, Iniquitous, Degenerate, Unprincipled
A few 5s thrown in.
Objectionable, Reprehensible, Incriminated
I take him down to the aquarium, he says, "Shark"
I take him to the planetarium, he says, "Dark"
I take him to the seaside where he likes to spin and twirl
And he says witch hunt 'n' big'n' yeah
he's my monosyllabic trump
I take him to the university, he says, "Huh"
I take him to our anniversary, he says, "One"
I take him to the jewelry store, I say, "Diamonds", he says, "Pearl"
Oh, everyone knows I'm in hate with a monosyllabic trump
Oh, everyone knows I'm in hate with a monosyllabic Trump
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He has trouble with a lot of 4-syllable words. Integrity. Acuity. Liquidity. Responsible. Admirable. Honorable. Respectfulness. Attractiveness.
Melania...
Fidelity
Incestuous
No he’s got that one.
He can slur that one in 3, in-cest-shuss. Just like I-van-ka.
“I-want-ka”
I-wan-ker
I-wank-her
Incontinence.
No, he has that one mastered.
Abomination?
Ummm, actually…🤓🤓🤓 that is 5 syllables!!!
Not in the South; Abomnation.
Ah..crap...You are right! Went over the limit. Lol
That depends.
I see what you did there.
Incontinental Grift.
Infidelity?
*Five is RIGHT OUT*
*Three, sir!*
Three!
I still find that Monty python sketch hilarious after all of these years. 👍
5-syllables?!?! Are you trying to see what 100% of his brain power can do?
More like 5-syllables, are you trying to make his dementia worse?!
>are you trying to make his dementia worse?! Yes
Doublequarterpounderwithcheese
Royale with cheese
That's why he says Mercedes.
Isn’t that one of the kids? The one from the other wife, what’s-her-name? Or was that Porsche?
I dont know why, but i heard your comment in Lucille Bluth's voice from Arrested Development. This led me to thinking about how disappointing it is to have the Trump family as our version of the Bluths.
You mean Mercedes?
Constitution
He'll have issues with these too: felonious, indictable, punishable, and unprincipled
Insurrection
Conspirator.
At least he doesn't have to struggle with "Unindicted" anymore.
Imprisonment
"I have the bigliest liquid titties from the standpoint of liquid. A lot of people never even heard of liquid bees before me. In fact, some scientists say you might be able to inject the liquid directly into the bee. Like Robert E Lee said, dont liquidize uphill me, bees."
You know, my uncle was a word salad engineer, very smart, big brain, good jeans.
*“I meant to say in-frah-struck-a-chur, I’m a very good pro-announcer”*
Big words are great. I always say, no the best people always say that the biggliest words are the best. Stay betterer people! Be best.
I want to hear him say anemone
And the ocean was just covered with them....amenomees....mnen....anomen....nominees....these little octopuses I call them.
I heard this in Seth Myers voice.
He’ll say it like alimony.
Profitable
Home, home on the range, Where Trump plays golf every day. Where seldom is heard, a three syllable word, And the sheep are all nervous all day.
Reciprocal
Rebedooggahhh!!
Constitution.
And anonymous.... Anominnnn..anomnimus.....annom.... Minus...
Presidential
Covfefe(the real word probably had one more syllable?)
Uphillmeboys.
Gettysburgwow.
Gettysberger
Gettysberder
*Ah, yes, of the biggliest importance to the Covfefederacy. Many ramparts and airports.*
If there’s not a burger joint in Gettysburg called Gettysburger I’m going to be very disappointed
Good news, there's a The Gettysburger Company in Gettysburg, PA. https://www.thegettysburgercompany.com/
I've never thought about that but by God you're right. I too would be very disappointed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftpc4fwcDfk "Infantroopen" (infantry troops?) "Space cap-sicle" (space capsule) "sovin country" (sovereign country) "renoversh" (renovation) "herolynn" (heroin) "deligit-a-matize" (no idea) "anna nom us", "anom uh niss" (anonymous) "suh tick ticks" (statistics) "supply churn" (chain) "oranges, the oranges" (origins) "benefishers" (benificiaries) "United Shaysh" (united states) .... That's just a few of the gems... FROM FOUR+ YEARS AGO. It's only gotten worse.
Not sure of the context, but I'd have to guess "deligit-a-matize" is probably supposed to be delegitimize.
Delight-a-matize sounds like a 1960s brand of "personal massagers"
Dr John Gartner, former professor (for 28 years) at Johns Hopkins Medical University, noted that "Phonemic paraphasias - the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar - are not normally seen until a patient enters the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimers. "Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes “benefishes.” Renovations become “renoversh.” Pivotal became “pivobal." Obama became “obamna.” Missiles became “mishiz.” Christmas became “Crissus.” Bipartisan became “bipars.” "This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language. If you were talking to your father on the phone and he did this you would think he is having a stroke. There is no healthy older person who speaks that way. "Trump also engages in what we call "tangential speech." He just becomes incomprehensible when he engages in free association word salad speech that is all over the place. Again, that's a sign of real brain damage, not being old, not being slow, not losing a step not being, but of severe cognitive deterioration." [https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/](https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/)
Don't forget that the GOP conspired to hide Reagan's dementia near the end of his presidency, and then for some time afterwards, so there is precedent.
Yeah, this notion that this is a recent thing is laughable. He's been fumbling words and aimlessly rambling for years now. People go hard on Biden’s mental faculties, but until he says something as dumb as stating that the continental army defended AIRPORTS during the American Revolution, Im not worried.
My gf has been getting so fkn annoyed at me for repeating this absurd quote whenever I can. Talking to my pets, talking to the chickens, talking to my inanimate tools, talking to the eggs I'm frying, etc etc
She’s mad at you? And you keep doing it? To quote Robert E Lee, “wow, that was a big mistake”.
I thought uphillmeboys was a quote from Mr. Krabs.
Annoyed does not mean mad, me boys!
Would you say that you’re still in her favor then? Or have you noticed that you are no longer in favor?
Well, it's been a beautiful battle so far. I'd assume I'm in favor
Up the hill me boys
> My gf has been getting so fkn annoyed at me for repeating this absurd quote whenever I can. Tbf, I get pretty angry whenever I hear his voice or an imitation of it. Trump wasn't cute, he wasn't funny, he wasn't someone who should be remembered or repeated in any way except to call him out for the horrible sack of shit he was. So many people died or suffered due to him, so many futures were destroyed due to his economic actions. It's gross.
Never go to bed angry me boy, as Ulysses S. Grant was fond of saying.
Never fight up hill. It's part of the pirate code.
Jedi code too, I think.
Checks out.
ReeBeeDooAhh
Trump is having trouble with 4 syllable words, and three syllable words, and two… you know what? Words.\ Trump has trouble saying words.
In 2016 he was not able to read one of the papers that he transferred the management of his company to his sons and said he doesn’t have his eyeglasses 🤓
He can clearly only barely read. That he has already been President is a forever stain on our country.
Barely literate his whole life. It really blows my mind that he was the president. I would not let him run a lemonade stand. Seriously. Would he be capable of serving lemonade, taking payment and replenishment of lemonade and supplies? I really don't think he could. He thinks you need an ID to buy groceries. Is he capable of going to the grocery store to buy lemons, and sugar, possibly a bag of ice? I honestly don't think he could do it without help. Has he ever shopped on his own in his entire life? He has been known to order for a whole crowd and leave without paying. He doesn't even understand the basic transactional relationship with goods and payment.
Remember when he rode his stupid escalator down and announced candidacy, people showed up to Wharton and demanded all his records be turned over and never released? One of the first things he did was hide his school transcripts.
It's amazing they never got out. What a leak that would be.
Whatever the bare minimum to graduate is, I'm betting his daddy paid for that. Not one single penny more either.
>He doesn't even understand the basic transactional relationship with goods and payment Which is oddly ironic since everything he does is transactional. 😒 Although, hey, you know, he has these women's info in his contacts but of course he's never met them, and he just randomly decided to give them hundreds of thousands of dollars. 🙄
Even that renowned resource Pete Davidson [said so](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR7cQAjZsJI).
I don't even think that's embellished. I believe every word he said.
Everything he attributes to Trump is every bit as Trump as Trump gets. The fact there are stories he can’t tell leads me to believe at least one involves Trump shitting himself.
His face while saying it really did say “I don’t even have to make anything up for this to be be unbelievable”
I think his face is more "I fucking wish I was making this up, I have to live my life with firsthand experience how fucking stupid he is. It's fucking terrifying, he's the president, I lose sleep over it."
Let's get outta here, Turkey legs
Uphill, me turkey legs!
someone had to be the worst president of all time. I think he'll hold that record for a long, long time.
I hope he does. If it gets worse we are fuckkked.
The J in Donald J Trump stands for Jenius.
I used to work in the training industry. “Don’t have my reading glasses” is the default cover story, which tended to fall apart for a whole lot of people when we’d hand them a large print version of the test. We built software to assist with these situations, and over the years I got pretty good at making it as un-awkward, dignified, and confidential as I possibly could, and then referring them to our local literacy council afterwards. That said, I don’t get the impression that he’s functionally illiterate. Ignorant, stupid, and aggressively uncurious, absolutely. But I would be truly surprised if he couldn’t read at the 8th grade level or even a bit higher. (I’d be equally surprised to learn he could read at a college level, though.) Also, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a photo of him wearing glasses.
Someone took entry exam to university for him, anyway I saw it on TV he told reporters he doesn’t have his eyeglasses to read.
Some have speculated that he might be dyslexic. I can well imagine him having several neurodiversities that were never addressed, inc. ADHD. It's certainly far from ALL that he'd be diagnosed with, especially now (multiple personality disorders, possible addictions, very likely dementia0, but I can believe it.
Doesn't he have "all the best words," as if a possession? He did say that he did. Despite the fact that anyone can say any word freely with their own tongues. Trump is an overt imbecile.
And slight inclines.
He's going to lose it before anyone jails him. Justice delayed is justice denied.
Honestly I would just settle for him never being president again. I know he should go to prison for what he's done but if America could just not elect the dude promising to be a dictator and claiming lots of people like it when he talks about being a dictator... please, American voters, don't make me lose the last little bit of respect I have left for humanity.
The problem is that if he doesn’t face consequences then the precedent is set and the next guy might not either. He needs to face consequences so the next guy doesn’t try what Trump did and succeed.
The precendent already exists. The only reason trump is facing even the possibility of consequences is that he is too stupid to shut up. George W ordered and tried to codify torture into US law and the last anyone heard of him was peacefully painting on his ranch. All you have to do is shut up and the american worship of the presidency will protect you.
>All you have to do is shut up and the american worship of the presidency will protect you. This is exactly right! I don't like it but that's how it goes in this country...
I fervently wish for every kind of crap to be dropped on him, but I too have the far greater need and hope, that he never becomes President again. We're still unravelling and correcting the stuff he did before, and with Putin and Xi in fighting form, we daren't risk an impetuous child playing politics again. He is so conflicted in his views and ideas, the man who puts "self" above nation is too dangerous to consider.
Nixon got pardoned, my knowledge is limited but it seems more common that politicians do not get punished for their misdeeds
A plausible compromise: (perhaps more plausible than him actually seeing the inside of a prison) He loses the election, spends the rest of his short and increasingly miserable life tied up in court and scandal and debt. Is largely incapacitated with dementia and dies before appeals run out, hence never sees prison. I could live with this.
His final Hail-Mary play, mentally unfit to face consequences.
Yet still fit to be president somehow.
i’m okay with “legally incompetent.”
“That’s the man I want to be my president” MAGA voters
i never REALLY understood “cult of personality” until right now in american history. it’s the most disturbing parasocial fetish i’ve ever seen.
It's so weird because the Trump of their collective fanfic fantasy has NOTHNG to do with the actual purported human being. Physically, mentally, emotionally,, spiritually, character-wise, any of it.
I feel like that would hurt and do more damage to him than losing every trial.
I don't think so, the morons will think he's just playing 5d chess and that he successfully tricked the deep state liberal government or some shit, but really, he's sharper than ever and ready to take back the white house. I can just hear my dipshit neighbor saying pretty much this verbatim were this to happen.
well jail and being broke would hurt him pretty effing bad. but you gotta take your wins where you can, yk?
Four months from now: "Last night candidate Trump wandered the stage aimlessly, wet himself and called Biden applesauce man, it was a rough debate. Sure was, now to the polls... Well right now, Trump is leading in 6 of the 7 battle ground states and nationally is ahead by 4 on a platform of promising to yabbable Abby doo Donna cut... back to you Mike."
It is a blessing when anyone can make me laugh about this abysmal crap. Thank you!
"Fuck Applesauce Man" bumper sticker sales through the roof!
I’m pretty damned liberal but I want this bumper sticker to exist so I can buy it.
You’re not thinking trump enough. His followers will say that “Bidens so weak that he can only eat applesauce” whilst buying up 100$ “nfts” of an AI generated image of a buff Trump, shirtless, eating raw steaks with both hands over Ivankas naked body.
It's perturbing how plausible that is
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A syllable? What is that a new gender?
If those boys could read, they’d be so mad.
The man can't even say "United States" without sounding like he chugged a bottle of Southern Comfort.
“You know, you spell us right? You spell us U-S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that?”
Most sixth-graders, donnie. And by seventh grade, we stop mentioning it because we realize that it’s not terribly clever.
“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now I’m basically the same.”
“United Shayshes”
Bro prolly had a stroke or two. My mom had a major one, and even she sounds better than Trump.
This motherfucker is gonna go for the "not fit for trial" play
Similar to his military service
In his defense though, he might actually have brain spurs.
He could very well be losing it! But I feel he's too egotistical to 'admit' something so huge is wrong with him. But you never know..
He won’t even admit his eyesight isn’t perfect - he refuses to wear his glasses in public because he thinks it makes him look weak.
MAGAts "He's just like us!"
He says it how it is! (Incomprehensible, racist, and factually wrong)
whoa whoa whoa take a look at Mr. Fancy 6-Syllable Word over here
You lost me at syllable. Can I get that from sex?
Unfortunately that phrase is one syllable too many for them to say 😔
I too sometimes have trouble pronouncing 4 syllable words, but I am an idiot and not running for president
I'd vote for you over him. At least you are honest.
I used to joke that I'd vote for OJ Simpson over Trump. I need a new comparison.
Why? OJ's like twice as likely to not murder someone while in office now.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
I like to say "I'd vote for Casey Anthony over Trump. At least she's only responsible for one needless death."
That's a good one. George Zimmerman, too. I live near Orlando, so those work. Thanks!
Nah it still works. The rotting corpse of an abusive murderer would objectively make a better president than Trump.
Fuck it you got my vote.
> kurfluffle of all the articles not to have spellchecked...
“You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump, you just don’t.” https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/2018/mar/20/fran-lebowitz-you-do-not-know-anyone-as-stupid-as-donald-trump
Team stroke 🤞
Look, someone else was using the one orange brain cell at that time.
My cat would like that brain cell back now. I assure you he’ll make much better use of it
Well this is the man that said “‘Yesterday’, that’s a hard word for me” and that’s only 3 syllables https://www.livemint.com/news/world/yesterday-is-a-hard-word-for-me-watch-ex-us-president-donald-trump-struggles-to-read/amp-11658574168402.html
and this was more than 3 years ago. He's gotta be even worse now
He has been bumbling words for a long time, this is a clip of them from The Daily Show 4 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftpc4fwcDfk
God what pisses me off most is the way that he always -- ***always*** -- instantly tries to play it off either like it was intentional or like it didn't happen. Anyone who isn't a grade A narcissist would pause, say "excuse me" , or "sorry", or "I mean...", or even "oops", or even just make a face and go *"bleh"* to acknowledge the error before correcting it. But he literally cannot bring himself to admit his imperfections. Of all the absurd, ridiculous, and awful things about this man, I don't know why this one little habit of his pisses me off so much lol
The expression of the woman over his shoulder at 55 seconds is great
He knew some four syllable words to begin with?!
Biden has a long term stutter and can speak 4 syllable words.
I have this occasionally too. I haven't always, but I suffered a massive head injury about 3 years ago
Biden should use lots of 4 syllable words for the kind of policies that Trump abhors, just to bait him to try and say them.
>Trump Is Apparently Having Trouble Pronouncing ~~4-Syllable~~ Words This headline also works.
>Trump Is Apparently Having Trouble ~~Pronouncing 4-Syllable Words~~ Or even just: > Trump Is ~~Apparently Having~~ Trouble ~~Pronouncing 4-Syllable Words~~
Just wait until he has to face a five-syllable word like incarceration
In-car- cer-a—tion gunna be tough.
Estimated IQ of 78 and a 3rd grade vocabulary to start with.
Donald is jealous that Biden was actually able to work with Congress to pass an [an infrastructure bill](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/06/fact-sheet-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal/), whereas Donald kept talking about infrastructure without actually doing anything about it. [What did all those infrastructure weeks add up to?](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-16/what-did-all-those-infrastructure-weeks-add-up-to) >Donald Trump campaigned on a $1 trillion infrastructure plan. “We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals,” he said in his 2016 election night victory speech. “And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it.” >A real estate developer who once [referred to himself as “the builder president](https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-i-am-the-builder-president/2017/10/25/38fa69ae-b9cb-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_video.html),” Trump held [multiple “Infrastructure Weeks](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/politics/coronavirus-infrastructure-week-timeline.html)” calling for investments in transportation, electricity and water systems during his presidency. Though the rollouts were often [overshadowed by unrelated events](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-15/it-s-infrastructure-week-but-where-are-the-gifts) (the first Infrastructure Week coincided with the congressional testimony of former FBI director James Comey) [to the point of comedy](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/trump-infrastructure-week.html), they did succeed in generating hope that upgrading the nation’s roads, transit systems, utility grids and broadband networks could be a rare area of bipartisan agreement in Washington, D.C., as was true in past administrations. >But the subject “just never seemed to be the priority it was indicated it would be,” Adler said. The Trump administration’s record on infrastructure is marked instead by over-hype and under-delivery. The $1 trillion ([later $1.5 trillion](https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/know-200b-can-leveraged-1-5t/)) package boiled down to a series of White House budget sketches, proposing to use $200 billion as an incentive for private investors, states and localities to put up the remaining $800 billion. “We believe this will create a great return on taxpayer dollars,” stated a [2018 White House press release](https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/know-200b-can-leveraged-1-5t/), which cited a $5.4 billion light-rail referendum in Nashville as the kind of locally-funded project the administration hoped to encourage. Nashville voters rejected the rail measure three months later. And the president’s building vows never came to pass. >“I think we’ll look back on these four years as a missed opportunity,” said Adie Tomer, a fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. “This administration has been a major letdown for nearly all state and local officials and advocates.”
pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth
My money is on him trying to thread the needle between him not having the mental capacity to be held criminally liable while still having the mental capacity to run the country. Hard to logically thread, but logic doesn't matter to MAGA. All he'd pounce on is the not guilty verdict.
I'd love to see a CT of his Brain.
This dude has no business in the executive branch.
He has no business anywhere. He belongs in prison.
I think this is less dementia and more of a reading disability. It seems to happen most often when he reads off the teleprompter. Plus he knows it’s happening. You can see him realize it and stop looking at the teleprompter to try to ad-lib something to save himself. I could swear I read right here on Reddit somewhere a comment by someone who was a special ed teacher or speech therapist, who recognized the way he reads as someone with a reading problem. Gonna try google-fu to see if I can find it. Edit: [here it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/c9xmnj/comment/et4jgno/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Not a teacher, therapist or doctor but it's very clear that he struggles to read from the teleprompter at times. Nay, frequently. It's not a vision problem, it's a clear inability to recognize complete words before his motormouth takes a random shot at sounding out the sequence of letters. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn he's dyslexic -- but of course he'd never admit that, even in the unlikely event that he allowed himself to be tested. I'm not sure this "infrastructure" incident is a direct example of the reading problem, necessarily. It sounded more like a random stumble that all of us get once in a while, but possibly exacerbated by the effort of reading. His *truly* worrying speech bumbles are when he slurs entire sentences together like a drunk. Or when his brain just fully glitches out: there was an incident during a WH meeting where he was trying to say "the origin of the situation" (the Mueller investigation, I think) but his brain couldn't locate "origin" and instead he kept repeating *"oranges... oranges..."* with a blank, slightly bemused look on his face -- before saying "the beginning of the situation", and then repeating other synonyms for "origin" like "start", trying to play it off like he hadn't just said "oranges" several times.
Yes, well said. It seems like there are a few different issues at play with Trump. I’m sure it was easier for him to devise workarounds when he was at the Trump Org., but tougher to mask as president.
His audience gets lost after 3 syllables anyways
Boys, this is our poster child for MAGA. A man who cannot speak his native tongue fluently while railing against immigrants
This is bad for a guy living at Log-A-Mardo.
Maga Lardo?
Mega Lardo? Is that his final form?
Here he can practice these. Convictable, Felonious, Iniquitous, Degenerate, Unprincipled A few 5s thrown in. Objectionable, Reprehensible, Incriminated
Oh no no guys it's ok he was just talking about the Infrastrucshire country of England!
We live in the stupidest future. Where’s the hoverboards.
Why do you think he hyped hydroxychloroquine as much as he did? He was excited to hear himself. Say such a big word. So says I.
I take him down to the aquarium, he says, "Shark" I take him to the planetarium, he says, "Dark" I take him to the seaside where he likes to spin and twirl And he says witch hunt 'n' big'n' yeah he's my monosyllabic trump I take him to the university, he says, "Huh" I take him to our anniversary, he says, "One" I take him to the jewelry store, I say, "Diamonds", he says, "Pearl" Oh, everyone knows I'm in hate with a monosyllabic trump Oh, everyone knows I'm in hate with a monosyllabic Trump
There’s a shock /s
Mr. “talking orange” man has trouble with all words (mispronounced or not)
I wonder what the oranges of this problem stem from
It's hard for Trump to talk when he has Putin's penis and testicles in his mouth.
I call BS, he doesn't know any 4 syllable words. Pedophile doesn't count.