• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The media will keep acting like dementia claims are new and just a “maybe” until he’s fucking 90 and unable to speak actual words and babbles like a newborn and they’ll still be like “Is it dementia? Trump aides say no, everyone with a brain says yes. Tonight we’ll have a roundtable with nine Trump aides and one person with a brain to discuss…”

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    seemingly mixed up his U.S.-born father, who died in 1999, with his German-born grandfather, who died decades before Trump’s birth.

    “My father was born – he knows all about my father – my father was born there,” Trump said. “These are places you automatically feel warmly about.”

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      Saying confidently wrong things based on feelings. Yep, that’s Trump all right.

      I’m not surprised that feelings elicited a memory for him, but he lost track of the exact details. It’s absolutely in line with dementia. When I worked with dementia patients, a lot of them liked me, and when they saw me they felt better. But they didn’t remember who I was exactly, or what my relation to them was. I was often mistaken for a granddaughter, not because I resembled their grandkids, but because they felt warmly toward me.

      The only thing is, Trump has always acted based on feelings. As a spoiled nepo baby, things have always worked out for him, so I doubt he ever developed a strong mind in the first place. The patients I worked with used to be sharp, and dementia made a marked difference in their decision-making. Trump’s still Trump, just more unhinged (somehow.)

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      Hah, could be. Illegal immigrant who faked his place of birth to claim US citizenship. That’d be quite a plot twist.

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    This is dementia

    Don’t catch him slippin’ up

    Look what he’s whippin’ up

    This is dementia

    Look at how we’re livin’ now

    Police/ICE be trippin’ now

    They just want the money

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    Ok the country. I routinely forget what cities my parents were born in. Yeah you should remember what country your parents were born in unless it’s something like Yugoslavia where the location kept changing country over the course of their life.