I had responded to Buck_Godot’s reply to your post in the Schadenfreude thread:
As I said in that thread, I hate that trump is making me wish accelerated dementia on anybody, even him. And to be clear, I don’t wish dementia on him, just that if he is coming down with dementia, let the full-blown phase come sooner rather than later. Like, before the election sooner.
There are other, perhaps even more telling, recorded examples out there where trump seems to completely lose his train of thought and does a quick “but anyway…” subject change, which, as has been mentioned many times, is a typical coping mechanism that people in the early stages of dementia adopt. The “re-be-du…” may be one example, or it may just be someone transposing syllables, taking a beat, and moving on. I’ve made it clear which one I’m hoping for, and also that I’m not happy with myself for doing so. But such are the times in which we find ourselves.