Trump, 79, Kicks Off Press Conference by Reading Aloud to Himself | Donald Trump arrived nearly an hour late and proceeded to give a completely disjointed, barely coherent speech.
https://newrepublic.com/post/205457/donald-trump-press-conference-reading-aloud
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From the article:
>It’s been exactly one year since Donald Trump returned to the nation’s highest office. To mark the occasion, the president secured quality time in front of some of America’s top journalists Tuesday to, apparently, do little other than to talk to himself.
>Trump joined the White House press briefing, sidling up alongside press secretary Karoline Leavitt with a large stack of papers that turned out to be more prop than speech. But it was the content of Trump’s remarks—or rather, lack thereof—that caused some onlookers to question whether the president was in a healthy state of mind.
>“Hm, I’m just looking at these charges, it’s just pretty incredible,” Trump said, rifling through the stack of papers, intermittently pausing to hold a page up to the camera. “Many murderers. Many, many murderers. People that murdered.”
>The president did not stop to name names, or to clarify which people he was targeting in his scrambled monologue, but the entries followed a general template that read at the top: “Minnesota: worst of worst.”
>Trump continued to read names and lists of charges, sometimes without even looking at the camera. Instead, it appeared he was simply reading brand-new information aloud to himself.
He moaned about the Nobel Peace Prize again 😀
In true Vogon poetry fashion.
His behavior is reminiscent of how my own father behaved as he was getting dementia. Next he will be accusing people of stealing personal things from him and imagining visits from people at night that never occurred.
He is mentally ill.
To test a dementia patient’s memory:
* orientation (date, place)
* short-term memory (recall three words)
* attention (count backward, spell ‘WORLD’)
* language (name objects, find words)
* visual-spatial skills (copy shapes),
‘Member when Republicans had an issue with the president being too old and too tired to do the job?
I liked how the esteemed news outlet Lindell TV was there to ask the pertinent questions like when we will find out how Venezuela pulled off the greatest caper in American history, and physically changed votes
Tonight on Fox:
“Great and glorious supreme master Trump blesses America with most perfect and magnificent speech. Was it Jesus himself speaking through his divine vessel? We’ll begin discussing how it definitely *was* a message from Christ right after this break.”
::graphic displays::
“If you’ve been feeling anything other than perfect, it may be time to ask your doctor about Zeraplart…”
He thinks he nailed that press conference and there is nobody around him to tell him differently.
Everyone here should now go and watch Canadian PM Mark Carney’s address at Davos today. The contrast is actually astounding.
He was literally mumbling to himself looking down at the potium reading from a bitch and complain list, then he would switch over and read from the brag list of his fake achievements. Never engaged the press for as long as I could watch without throwing up. Pathetic excuse for a president.
I kept seeing “I voted for this!!”
Yeaaa we’re fucked for the foreseeable future
25th Amendment
Republicans in congress had better wake tf up if think they’ll actually have a country to run, let alone a job if they continue sitting on their hands doing absolutely nothing. This could end today if they had any spines whatsoever.
25th Amendment. Now.
Where is his family? Why has none of the Trumps stepped in to take care of their elderly fucking father?
Is it because they’re afraid of him because he killed the mother and buried her under unmowed grass and abused them as kids?
How is this nightmare real?
It was so insane, I genuinely thought they were letting him ramble to throw him under the mental health bus. “OK that’s enough. Nurse? Nurse?”
I have seen him talk some shit, but this was 100% dementia in action. Watching a man’s mental health fall apart live. Anyone else and it would have been heartbreaking.
He used 3 completely different figures for the same achievement in about 3 minutes and then forgot what he was talking about anyway.
Reduced drug prices by 8000% again… ffs. Who is steering that ship?
*”Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”*
This was Trump TEN YEARS AGO.
This is not new.
The Conservative sub has ZERO posts about today’s “press” conference. No discussion thread. No breaking news posts. No recap threads.
I wonder why that is??? Usually they fall all over themselves pushing content for him.
Maybe the killer Binder Clip threatened the mods…
Just a reminder the media ran like 2 weeks of constant stories telling Biden he wasn’t fit to be president because he had a cold making his voice raspy
so it took his handlers an extra hour to get him into THIS state.
his wake up routine must be fascinating.
He’s worse than when Biden left office. I genuinely don’t see him mentally making it much past the midterms.
The guy has never been coherent. He is not a good speaker at all. If you have ever read any of his speeches on paper, it is total nonsense. It’s why the stupid people like him because he talks like them.
This was one of the most mentally deranged speeches he’s ever done… Which says a lot.
The start was incredible – 20 minutes of holding up cards and reading to himself. Quarter of an hour in he states “you’re not bored.” and continues on.
The complete drivel and absence from reality over almost 2 hours, with the vocabulary of a 7 year old. Incredible that Americans think this was normal.
most anticipated obituary in the world
Listening to that rambling mess was genuinely disturbing. He spent way too much time holding up mugshots while ranting about immigrants, then pivoted to bizarre tangents like binder clips. The fact that journalists just laughed along instead of calling out his obvious lies shows how broken our media has become. We’re watching a deeply unfit man who can’t even form coherent sentences get treated like a serious candidate while he spreads racist nonsense and made-up statistics. This country is in serious trouble when someone this deranged can command such attention without any accountability for his constant stream of falsehoods.
I wish a reporter would nuke their current career and just stand up and yell how fucking stupid this is and walk out.
I watched this. It’s actually pretty scary because it’s really evident he’s in cognitive free fall. Did anyone catch the bit about the clamp on the paper almost snapping his finger? I’m watching him start rambling incoherently about this large plastic clip and feeling this existential dread as I’m reminded this idiot is considering going to war with Greenland and, consequently, NATO.
This isn’t a snarky talking point anymore. Congress and the VP really do need to use the 25th Amendment to remove him. The danger his remaining in power represents is incalculable.
The United States is now under occupation by the Nazis. Act accordingly.