Is Trump confused?

Looks tired, too. Even his hair is graying.

Here’s a gift article from today’s Washington Post about that rambling, whatever that was. Confused? Indeed, and finally getting reported on.

https://wapo.st/3zwddvv

Not exactly free. You have to create an account to read the “free” article. No cost, just sign up with your e-mail address. No thanks.

Can you give us the gist, or a couple of good quotes from it?

A couple of passages:

Thank you, @kenobi_65 !

Ugh, I didn’t know they changed how their “gift” articles work. Sorry. I added some quotes, but @kenobi_65 beat me to it. I’d love to watch the video (not really); there are some YouTube uploads. I hope to see more news coverage in the next few days.

Probably no point in saying it anymore after years, decades of his BS. But Trump is deranged. Mix with Alzheimer’s and dementia and sociopathy, and there ya go.

In technical terms. He’s a nut. Take his freaking car keys already.

Which he proudly displays next to his ‘Michigan Man of the Year’ award, no doubt :roll_eyes:

It’s about time. This is far too long in coming. trump’s incoherence and egregious lies have been bad for a long time, but are now becoming so ridiculous and outlandish I can’t believe how little it’s been reported on.

This is really reminding me of the last words of the gangster Dutch Shultz:

(Sergeant Conlon questioned Schultz again) - Who shot you?

A.- I don’t know. I didn’t even get a look. I don’t know who can have done it. Anybody. Kindly take my shoes off. (He was told that they were off.) No. There is a handcuff on them. The Baron says these things. I know what I am doing here with my collection of papers. It isn’t worth a nickel to two guys like you or me but to a collector it is worth a fortune. It is priceless. I am going to turn it over to… Turn you back to me, please Henry. I am so sick now. The police are getting many complaints. Look out. I want that G-note. Look out for Jimmy Valentine for he is an old pal of mine. Come on, come on, Jim. Ok, ok, I am all through. Can’t do another thing. Look out mamma, look out for her. You can’t beat him. Police, mamma, Helen, mother, please take me out. I will settle the indictment. Come on, open the soap duckets. The chimney sweeps. Talk to the sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! Please help me up, Henry. Max, come over here. French-Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone.

Oh, that probably means that some resorts or golf courses to which he franchised his name got a recognition for LEED buildings or for conserving water or composting or something like that. Y’know, something the actual management did, not him.

Well, I don’t like it either. But my curiosity over whether a noted mainstream media source would actually STOP sane-washing Trump overcame my distaste. (I gave an email I don’t look at often. I used to be a subscriber to WaPo, by the way, but my budget currently contains no discretionary funds.)

One of the comments to the article suggested that Democrats should make a compilation of Trump remarks such as those @Smapti links to (or those in the article), with a voiceover at the end of Harris saying ‘this is the person who thinks you should vote him into the Presidency and give him the nuclear codes’ or the like.

Seems like a good idea.

“You know the AI. Artificial intelligence. People don’t know. Good or bad. Who knows?”

“The wind is not blowing, darling, let’s turn on the television. I want to see President Trump make a speech tonight. No, darling, the wind is not blowing. We have no juice in the house. We have no juice”

“I call her Lying Comraw. She worked at Mon McDonald’s”

“They stole the FEMA money like they stole it from a bank so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season”

“Jimmy Carter was a brilliant president compared to Hamala Kamala Hamala”

“Jimmy Carter is the happiest man, his wife passed away”

“Awayadeh, it’s true”

“Viktor Orban is the head of prime minister of Hungry”

Ah, so Trump stole money from FEMA during his administration. Interesting, I had not heard that before.

(this falls under the “every accusation is a confession” rule)

I hate to defend him, but your cutting out the whole middle of what he said changes the whole quote. What you wrote isn’t accurate. Either is the selective elision by whoever posted it (“Trump: Jimmy Carter is the happiest man… His wife passed away. Rosalind”)

What he said was “He’s the happiest man in the history… just celebrated 100 years… just celebrated… his wife passed away… Rosalind… yeah, not too long ago… my wife, the great first lady went…”

Still inane, but he’s not saying Carter is happy that Rosalind died. I think he’s trying to make his lame joke about Carter being happy that since Biden, Carter’s no longer the worst president in the history of the country. That part must have come first and was cut off the top.

Then don’t.

Oh, he definitely is. Snide “jokes” about how men hate their wives have been part of his rally schtick for awhile now.

Disagree in this clip. Read what he actually blathered.
The clip started at the point in the joke he always tells about the reason Carter is the happiest man alive is because he’s no longer the worst president in the history of the US, thanks to Biden. He says it all the time. He’s repeating the punchline “…he’s the happiest man in the history…". It clearly is not the beginning of that subject. Then he sequed into the birthday thing in his fake wistful voice.

“[happy voice]…he’s the happiest man in the history… [fake wistful voice] just celebrated 100 years… just celebrated… his wife passed away… Rosalind… yeah, not too long ago… my wife, the great first lady went…”

It doesn’t make any sense for him to bring up Carter’s wife in that context unless he’s saying that it’s one of the reasons he’s happy. It isn’t an expression of grief or sympathy, because he has no capacity for either.

Playing “What Trump MEANT to say is…” is not worth anyone’s time and just contributes to the media’s attempts at sanewashing him so they can get him elected.

It seems to me like Trump was just spewing random thoughts about Carter, especially as the man had just turned 100 (which Trump may have felt was something that he should sound serious and nice about). Yeah, as @needscoffee says, he started with part of a frequent joke he makes, but then just meandered. But, who knows?

Yep, his stream of consciousness is so disjointed, it’s just a big mishmash of fleeting ramblings.