Undisciplined, unhinged and deranged’: will Trump’s strange behavior hurt him at the polls? Trump, 78, increasingly slurs or stumbles over his words, raising fears over cognitive decline. He is slipping in polls against Kamala Harris and knows that defeat could lead to criminal trials and even prison. Trump could be in the throes of a final meltdown. His verbal output now is “absolute batshittery”, according to Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill. “These are not the musings of a well-adjusted adult. He demonstrates daily how unfit he is to have the most powerful position in the world.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/06/trump-behavior-final-meltdown
8-grade level is avg https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/us/politics/trump-speeches-age-cognitive-decline.html Oct. 6, 2024 He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about his own “beautiful” body. He relishes “a great day in Louisiana” after spending the day in Georgia. He expresses fear that North Korea is “trying to kill me” when he presumably means Iran. As late as last month, Mr. Trump was still speaking as if he were running against President Biden, five weeks after his withdrawal from the race. A review of Mr. Trump’s rallies, interviews, statements and social media posts finds signs of change since he first took the political stage in 2015. He has always been discursive and has often been untethered to truth, but with the passage of time his speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past. According to a computer analysis by The New York Times, Mr. Trump’s rally speeches now last an average of 82 minutes, compared with 45 minutes in 2016. Proportionately, he uses 13 percent more all-or-nothing terms like “always” and “never” than he did eight years ago, which some experts consider a sign of advancing age. Similarly, he uses 32 percent more negative words than positive words now, compared with 21 percent in 2016, which can be another indicator of cognitive change. And he uses swearwords 69 percent more often than he did when he first ran, a trend that could reflect what experts call disinhibition. (A study by Stat, a health care news outlet, produced similar findings.) Mr. Trump frequently reaches to the past for his frame of reference, often to the 1980s and 1990s, when he was in his tabloid-fueled heyday. He cites fictional characters from that era like Hannibal Lecter from “Silence of the Lip” (he meant “Silence of the Lambs”), asks “where’s Johnny Carson, bring back Johnny” (who died in 2005) and ruminates on how attractive Cary Grant was (“the most handsome man”). He asks supporters whether they remember the landing in New York of Charles Lindbergh, who actually landed in Paris and long before Mr. Trump was born. He seems confused about modern technology, suggesting that “most people don’t have any idea what the hell a phone app is” in a country where 96 percent of people own a smartphone. If sometimes he seems stuck in the 1990s, there are moments when he pines for the 1890s, holding out that decade as the halcyon period of American history and William McKinley as his model president because of his support for tariffs. A 2022 study by a pair of University of Montana scholars found that Mr. Trump’s speech complexity was significantly lower than that of the average president over American history. (So was Mr. Biden’s.) The Times analysis found that Mr. Trump speaks at a fourth-grade level, lower than rivals like Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who speaks at an eighth-grade level, which is roughly average for modern presidents. So foggy, in fact, that he forgot Mr. Setoodeh himself. After interviewing Mr. Trump in May 2021, Mr. Setoodeh returned in August. “When I said, ‘Do you remember sitting down with me?’ he said, ‘No, that was a long time ago,’” Mr. Setoodeh said. “It was like we started from square one. He started telling me the exact same stories. He didn’t remember what we had talked about. He didn’t remember me.” He mispronounces names and places with some regularity — “Charlottestown” instead of “Charlottesville,” “Minnianapolis” instead of “Minneapolis,” the website “Snoops” instead of “Snopes,” “Leon” Musk instead of “Elon.”
To think he's slipped from a 6th grade average to a 4th grade average sure as hell makes him one of the least intelligent guys running for President in decades. Dumb it down!!!
Wow! There is something seriously wrong with Trump. His cognitive decline is getting worse and worse. This man is unfit to serve as President. I can't even imagine what he will be like in another year or two. Trump can barely stand as he struggles to read in a confused rant.
Trump's cognitive state is more and more disturbing. He's acting more and more unhinged. He can't stop himself from ranting, raging, spreading vicious threats and lies. He is getting more and more combative, and calling everyone the enemy. He is mentally unstable but also showing signs of cognitive decline that can't be ignored. This video addresses the madness. The first part is his latest weird town hall with Kristi Noem talking to him like a caretaker would to a patient in a nursing home, or a small child in Kindergarten. It's bizarre. If you watch at around 8 1/2 minutes in there are 3 minutes of rapid fire clips of his memory glitches, where he struggles pronouncing words, confuses people's names, places and so on. It's not normal. I'm talking about people he calls by the wrong name that he knows personally. Everybody from Matt Gaetz, JD Vance, Jimmy Carter, his own White House doctor, Mike McCarthy, John Bolton, and many more. These brain farts are happening more and more now. Even his decision making and speeches are getting more and more bizarre and violent. Biden wasn't having all these issues before he took office, and Trump will be older than he was then.
It's Crazytown. Discussion of Trump’s recent bizarre public appearances – including his dancing town hall and threatening to use the military on American citizens.
I think it’s you who are unhinged and losing it. The Donald on the hand is fine and will become our next president. Deal with it. Lol
19 lies during Fox's Republican Women's Town Hall. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-fox-townhall/index.html
It's pretty clear from his disastrous few days that Trump is now being hidden from voters due to his mental decline Like, the Chicago economic club interview was just softball after softball, all he had to do was show up and lie, mumble something about tax cuts , walk away. End. But instead he couldn't even complete a tangentially relevant thought - he just burbled? like an unhoused person. John Micklethwait (40:09): Maybe we can change the subject to technology, seeing you wouldn’t answer about the Federal Reserve. The US Justice Department is thinking about breaking up Alphabet as Google likes to be known now, should Google be broken up? Donald Trump (40:24): I just haven’t gotten over something the Justice Department did yesterday, where Virginia cleaned up its voter rolls, and got rid of thousands and thousands of bad votes, and the Justice Department sued them that they should be allowed to put those bad votes and illegal votes back in, and let the people vote. So I haven’t gotten over that. A lot of people have seen that. They can’t even believe it. John Micklethwait (40:52): But the question is about Google, President Trump. Combine that with the weird impromptu Kristy Noem dance party for 30 min where he forgot where he was - it's clear - his brain is cheez whiz.
It is just like Trump fell into his stump speech mode, where he riffed on whatever was top of his mind. Just like. Chief of Staff: Mr President, North Korea has just launched their entire nuclear arsenal at the US. President Trump: You know in Springfield, Ohio. The Haitians immigrants are eating the dogs; they are eating the cats; they are ... Chief of Staff: Mr President, North Korea ... President Trump: Yes, yes, yes. You know that Kim wrote me these beautiful love letters ...
Trump cancels 2nd Amendemnt Georgia rally The wheels are coming off. Maybe Elon can get him some NeuraLink implants to see if his $100+ million investment makes it to election day. @AroundTheWorld @Space Ghost
Georgia is a lock to go for Trump -- Trump is pivoting to states that are now more competitive -- probably Virginia and Minnesota.
He makes idiots feel like they are intelligent. They see themselves as smart, so he helps confirm that for them. In general though, it makes sense the speech writers tend to go for simplicity. Easier for people to grasp, and easier to run away from since you aren't being nuanced.
Yea. Candidates talking "down" or maybe, talking at the "right" level - who knows. Just to be clear, 8th grade level is AVG for modern POTUS. Trump speaks at 4th grade level. A 2022 study by a pair of University of Montana scholars found that Mr. Trump’s speech complexity was significantly lower than that of the average president over American history. (So was Mr. Biden’s.) The Times analysis found that Mr. Trump speaks at a fourth-grade level, lower than rivals like Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who speaks at an eighth-grade level, which is roughly average for modern presidents.
Oh definitely. I was trying to point out why 8th grade is the average. Trump is an embarrassment. I hope it does not lead to a further dumbing down of politics.
Sorry but I keep wondering about the other people on stage in Philadelphia. For the rest of their lives, it could be, "wait... you're familiar... No, you haven't been on TV? Hmmm... Oh! Were you on stage when Trump had his weirdo music party?! OMG! Were you just dying inside? Anyway, for the sake of this interview... you'll clearly do anything your employer says, haha."
Noem was asking him questions like a caretaker talking to an Alzheimer's patient, or like a PK teacher talking to a child. It was weird.
