Well, if you are a nitwit narcissist who has become used to reading your lines off cue cards when in front of cameras, I can see how walking out without signing anything could happen. His tiny brain is concentrating on his lines.
Keep in mind, DJT was a performer, a cast member of Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice. The role he played on The Apprentice was his greatest success prior to being cast as POTUS. In fact, so many people confused the character he played with the actual man, they fell for his shtick and elected him.
Keep in mind, Trump was not in charge of the outcome of the program in any way. He was playing a character named Donald Trump. All the decisions about who to fire were made by the producers. Every bit of the boardroom scenes and his other appearances on the show were very much scripted. No shocker he does so poorly when speaking off the cuff. Particularly when it is about things of which he has no knowledge.
Possibly if Mark Burnett were producing DJT’s presidency things would be working out better.
Yes; it’s the difference between “wrong inna head” (which he’s always been) and “demented” (which he probably is, now, but wasn’t 20 years ago). “Demented” is a specific type of “wrong inna head”.
And thanks to Wesley Clark and the article quoted for teaching me new vocabulary. My Grandmother used to do the first thing (semantic paraphasia), where she would clearly use one word for a similar-sounding (and usually related) different word: what she meant was correct, what she said was not, and we could clearly see the first through the second.
I recommend then, that you listen to this (and other examples) instead of reading it. It’s just as disjointed and makes just as little sense. In fact, at least with the transcript you can at least look at the whole jumble and try to superimpose a coherent point; when you’re listening to this word salad, it’s almost impossible to understand.
I truly don’t understand why people are claiming not to see this clear deterioration in his demeanor, speech, and affect. If your parent displayed this behavior, you’d pack them off to a neurologist in a New York minute.
If you don’t remember him being any other way (and most probably don’t), then it isn’t deterioration, just the stir-shit-up personality they voted for.
In today’s speech he said (supposedly about the revolutionary war):
"Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory.”
That doesn’t seem to be the output of an entirely healthy mind.
I think a lot of how you act in your seventies depends on how you lived your first 70 years. If you spent a fair amount of time reading, followed the news from fair sources, and took responsibility for your own actions your entire life there’s a good chance you won’t look like an old fool in your seventies.
With the airports things, there are only three possibilities:
1 - Trump is really spectacularly uninformed.
2 - Trump is not mentally well.
3 - Trump is both.
Based on all of the evidence, I’d had to vote #3 personally. It is already obvious that Trump has some kind of narcissistic personality disorder. I don’t think it is much of a stretch to imagine that his mental faculties are in serious decline.
I think it’s a red flag in the linked OP’s analysis that he sees a bulge in the back of Trump’s jacket, thinks it might be a back brace, and then thinks a back brace is further proof of a neurological problem.
Even though Trump is a bit of an absentee president, he still has a schedule that would be crazy for any of the 70 yr olds that I know. He also doesn’t get to pick and choose when he’s going to be interviewed or what the subjects he gets questioned on as much as when he was granting interviews in his 50s.
Far be it from me to actually defend Trump, but that isn’t what he said. He talked about increased amount of filth. He’s talking about garbage and trash piling up. He talks about it being a health hazard for policemen on the beat. He says it’s hell for the people that live there. At no point in the interview did he mention homelessness.
He says that it wasn’t like this three years ago. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it’s *plausible *it’s got noticeably worse in that period.
“Homelessness started two years ago” is something he didn’t say.
Excuse me very much! :dubious: Some of us Dopers are close to him in age (though not, thank God, close in any other way) and we can still use bigly words correctly and know shit. Lots of shit. My mother at age 90 was more coherent, lucid, and well-informed that Donnie. Of course, she read voraciously her whole life.
