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Yay. At last. The "liberal" media is finally waking up to the fact that Trump is seriously deranged.
Wash Post: How big a political problem is mental acuity for Trump?
Polls show it’s nowhere near as big as it was for Biden, but it has grown as a liability for Trump — amid increasingly strange scenes.
Donald Trump’s rallies and public appearances have never been resounding examples of coherence and policy know-how. But even by his standards, things have gone off the rails a lot recently.
Perhaps most striking was a bizarre town hall Monday night in Pennsylvania where Trump, after two people in the crowd had brief medical emergencies, suddenly decided to forgo further questions. He then stood onstage for 39 minutes swaying and dancing while a series of songs played.
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The scene came as Trump’s increasingly rambling performances and failure to summon and pronounce words have highlighted questions about his age and mental acuity — the same issues that effectively ended President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign just three months ago. Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign quickly seized on the events Monday, quipping of Trump, “Hope he’s okay.” It has also pushed for the release of more Trump medical records.
NYT: Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age
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.
The fact of the matter is that Trump has become so unhinged recently--even for him--that even the MSM, which has had a blackout on such observations, is being forced to report the obvious.