Donald Trump’s frequently bizarre public appearances, which this month have seen the president claim, wrongly, that his uncle knew the Unabomber and rant unprompted about windmills on his recent trip to the UK, have once again raised questions about his mental acuity, experts say.
For more than a year Trump, 79, has exhibited odd behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in his spontaneous remarks and at press conferences. The president repeatedly drifts off topic, including during a cabinet meeting this month when he spent 15 minutes talking about decorating, and appears to misremember simple facts about his government and his life.
Over the weekend Trump, during a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, abruptly switched from discussing immigration to saying this: “The other thing I say to Europe: we’ve – we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery.”
Trump proceeded to speak, non-stop and unprompted, for two minutes about windmills, claiming without evidence that they drive whales “loco” and that wind energy “kills the birds” (the proportion of birds killed by turbines is tiny compared with the amount killed by domestic cats and from flying into power lines).
This is literally how he’s been for the past decade, it’s his version of gish gallop. If he says something stupid that he knows is easily refutable, he just keeps talking and changing the subject and saying stupider and stupider things so it’s impossible to even remember all the bullshit he said, much less what your response was going to be.
At least it’s a recognized rhetorical technique. That way nobody falls victim to it repeatedly, right?
The Gish-Gallup.
Call out the strategy by name, saying: “This is a strategy called the ‘Gish Gallop’—do not be fooled by the flood of nonsense you have just heard.”
I personally like to paraphrase the following: https://youtu.be/LQCU36pkH7c
It has been so many years since I watched Billy Madison, and yet, that is one of the scenes that still comes to mind frequently.
It’s a perfect retort. Or… Should be.
He probably forgot he raped all those children too right
We didn’t!
I just watched comedian Mark Normand do a bit in Australia making multiple jokes about Joe Biden’s mental status. I’m thinking who the hell is even still talking about Biden, let alone in Australia?
bizarre public appearances, which this month have seen the president claim, wrongly, that his uncle knew the Unabomber and rant unprompted about windmills
He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.
First time in a while that a comment has made me laugh out loud 😂
That explains the quietly brewing heir competition in maga world.
For me the most bizarre thing with Trump is his obsession with windmills. It was fine if he brought it up once or twice but it feels like every time he opens his mouth he has to mention windmills. Maybe he was molested by a windmill or something?
He’s been mad about windmills ever since Scotland built some within viewing distance of his golf course there. He tried to argue they’d lower his property values and whatnot but he has been ranting about windmills ever since.
This, a lot of his weird takes can be traced back to his days as a slimeball New York real estate developer.
There is a cadre of rich fucks that hate wind for some reason. Idaho’s weird-toothpaste billionaire Frank VanDerSloot has a vendetta against them too and uses some of the same rhetoric. Frank is more coherent but nonetheless still uses vitriolic ridiculousness when talking about them.
For me it’s his obsession with the raping of all those children, and being on the Epstein list.
He thinks they’re giants
It’s funny how if Biden forgot the middle name of a person he met in 1980, everyone called for impeachment.
It should be no surprise that Trump can fade out in the middle of a sentence and the same people keep their mouth shut.
Pretty soon Trump will be older than Biden was when Trump said he was too old to govern. Think he’ll step down then?
Yeah, feels like Trump’s being set up for the fall. Never forget the rest of the politicians (and populace) complicit in this government. An insulting minority of politicians put up even the slightest resistance.
Edit: Let alone the overwhelming majority of Republicans that operated in slavish
gooselockstep, slavering at the thought of what they could finally do to minorites in the open.As if reporting on it for the 60th time will surprise anyone or cause change.
“The WEAVE”. 🤣
“The Lazy Geriatric Weave” is now happening. He knows he doesn’t have to put much effort into it.
You say that like it was an actual skill he had before but it has always just sounded crazy lol
“The Guardian is a left-wing mouthpiece that should be embarrassed to pass off deranged resistance leftists as ‘experts’. Anyone pathetic enough to defend Biden’s mental state – while being labeled as unethical by their peers – has zero credibility. President Trump’s mental sharpness is second to none and he is working around the clock to secure amazing deals for the American people,” said White House spokesperson Liz Huston.
Liz Huston is a right-wing mouthpiece that should be embarrassed to pass off deranged physicians (ie: Dr. Phil, et al.) as ‘experts’. Anyone pathetic enough to defend Trump’s mental state – while being labelled as unethical by their peers – has zero credibility.
wait, is any of this new? couldn’t tell the difference
It’s just like Stephen Colbert said back in the day: “facts have a well-known liberal bias”
Who exactly is still in doubt about his dementia?
Anyone that wants him out has no idea how fucked up Vance (Yarvin jr) is.
