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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 110 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The media will keep acting like dementia claims are new and just a "maybe" until he's fucking 90 and unable to speak actual words and babbles like a newborn and they'll still be like "Is it dementia? Trump aides say no, everyone with a brain says yes. Tonight we'll have a roundtable with nine Trump aides and one person with a brain to discuss..."

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 44 points 1 week ago

The only words I want to hear from Trumps mouth, and I’m going to quote Charlie Kirk here, are “grrggglph”.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Bro if he lives to 90 I’m not gonna have a shred of my sanity left

[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Moderate dementia, incontinent x2, and probably an elopement risk.

The man belongs on a locked dementia unit.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 19 points 1 week ago

I would be in favor of any sort of locked unit.

Ideally, he insists that he's mentally fit to stand trial, to keep prison as a viable option.

[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Lets Talk about Graves.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tbf there's not much practical difference between the two.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah guys this is the red flag. He was hiding it so well but this is the big one

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the businessmen who control him should be charged with elder abuse.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And sedition or treason or something

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 week ago

That should have happened a couple of centuries ago, tbf.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The guy even shits his pants in the middle of a press conferences, like it's nothing:

https://youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg

Watch at :34, you hear him shart, and the lady in green behind him hears it, and looks at him. A few seconds later she starts to react to the smell, and then the staffers jumped in and cleared the media from the room.

How many symptoms of dementia do you need?

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We can assess his brain for abnormalities during autopsy. Until then, we should treat a world leader as though everything they do and every outcome it has it calculated and intentional: Through that lens, which is the only lens worth considering, Trump is a domestic terrorist, traitor, insurrectionist, enemy of the US of constitution, rapist / child rapist, and many, many more. He should be charged, convicted, and sentenced to the according to the absolute most severe extent of each crime he's committed.

This whole "oh he's crazy" or "stupid" or "incompetent" etc all just mitigate his culpability. What he is is fucking guilty - everything else is moot.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 1 week ago

There are criminal asylums.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A draft dodger just like his grandfather

[–] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Being a draft dodger is something to be proud of.

[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago

It is when you’re a regular citizen who doesn’t want to kill people for oil or because of the whims of a psychopathic warlord.

It isn’t when you’re the Commander-in-Chief sending people to their deaths in an unnecessary war.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

seemingly mixed up his U.S.-born father, who died in 1999, with his German-born grandfather, who died decades before Trump's birth.

"My father was born -- he knows all about my father -- my father was born there," Trump said. "These are places you automatically feel warmly about."

Saying confidently wrong things based on feelings. Yep, that's Trump all right.

I'm not surprised that feelings elicited a memory for him, but he lost track of the exact details. It's absolutely in line with dementia. When I worked with dementia patients, a lot of them liked me, and when they saw me they felt better. But they didn't remember who I was exactly, or what my relation to them was. I was often mistaken for a granddaughter, not because I resembled their grandkids, but because they felt warmly toward me.

The only thing is, Trump has always acted based on feelings. As a spoiled nepo baby, things have always worked out for him, so I doubt he ever developed a strong mind in the first place. The patients I worked with used to be sharp, and dementia made a marked difference in their decision-making. Trump's still Trump, just more unhinged (somehow.)

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Thats wild.

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe his father actually was born in Germany.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hah, could be. Illegal immigrant who faked his place of birth to claim US citizenship. That'd be quite a plot twist.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Not for the Accusation=Admission President

[–] socsa@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

I'm not concerned I'm rooting for the dementia

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This is dementia

Don't catch him slippin' up

Look what he's whippin' up

This is dementia

Look at how we're livin' now

Police/ICE be trippin' now

They just want the money

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Demented Don is not remotely fresh info.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is not what the title suggested.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Dafuq? Title literally says "fresh concerns".

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ok the country. I routinely forget what cities my parents were born in. Yeah you should remember what country your parents were born in unless it's something like Yugoslavia where the location kept changing country over the course of their life.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Remember the scene from “The Apprentice” where Trumps dad says that he built Trump tower?