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Trump has always had some crazy ideas, believed wild conspiracy theories, and given rambling speeches, but hes getting worse.
He recently made a delusional claim that his uncle John taught the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, at MIT despite Kaczynski attending Harvard and not becoming the Unabomber until after his Uncle had died.
Trump claimed Biden appointed Jerome Powell as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, forgetting that he appointed Powell during his first term.
Trump also appeared to be unaware that his administration had paused military aid shipments to Ukraine. When a reporter asked who ordered the pause, Trump said, I dont know. You tell me.
Trump recently claimed gas prices have
gone to the lowest level in decades. Youre seeing $1.99, $1.98, I saw $1.95 at certain states. Hes very much out of touch, as the national average is $3.16.
Bragging about his big, beautiful bill, Trump said it would eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits and wouldnt cut Medicaid or Medicare. This is demonstrably false.
At times, Trump seems unaware of what is happening inside his own administration, appears clueless about major policy events, and doesnt seem to understand the very legislation that hes promoting or bragging about.
Hes become disconnected from reality.

eppur_se_muova
(39,452 posts)doc03
(38,147 posts)any change in Trump mentally. That is what he does he can say gas is under a dollar and the cult will beleive that it is somewhere. He just comes up with crazy shit to distract the morons in the MSM.
groundloop
(13,142 posts)Never forget that tRump is a master con artist, he made a very good living for many many years conning people.
KPN
(16,760 posts)a gaslighter extraordinaire. That is the one thing he actually excels at.
GoodRaisin
(10,345 posts)Krasnovs mental decline is an M$M talking point to cover for the stupid things he says and does which he has been doing for years.
Diamond_Dog
(37,647 posts)Mike 03
(18,568 posts)However, an equally frightening explanation for the rest is that he relies exclusively on a handful of his closest appointees to tell him what his administration is doing, and that he no longer watches and peruses (as he used to) any major news platforms or cable stations besides Fox so he is never exposed to facts or criticism of any kind. So there may be an intentional disconnect between what he is telling people to do and what they are doing, and, in turn, they tell him what he wants to hear while carrying out Project 2025 in total indifference to what Trump actually wants.
For that I'd blame guys like Miller and Vought and maybe some other behind-the-scenes people.
Neither one of those possibilities should comfort any of us.
Starbeach
(179 posts)Is there any running catalogue of these episodes daily or weekly? List keeps getting longer.
Norbert
(7,170 posts)We're 1.98 to 1.99 wholesale. This was when we were paying around 3.00 a gallon at the pump.
The f@cking idiot don't know wholesale from price at the pump.
W_HAMILTON
(9,340 posts)Johonny
(24,189 posts)And thus shit us spiraling out of control. Presidency by reality TV is what he does. But there's so much moving shit as president he can't keep track of it, isn't interested in it, and basically sucks at it.
First term he had way better people around him. This time around his people suck and are causing him problems.
atreides1
(16,786 posts)But he's not faking that!
His first term, there were people who told him no...not only advisors but in Congress as well! In this term every single person he has nominated should not be trusted with a box of rubber hammers...he's surrounded himself with racists and bigots...like Miller and Homan...unqualified butt lickers like Hegseth, Rubio, Bessent, Kennedy, and Duffy...and let's not forget the puppy killing cunt who revels in the misery of humans and has enough plastic in her face, you could make a dozen 7-11 giant drink cups!
And he brought a few back from his first term like Navarro, who is completely lacking in any qulifications...to include cleaning a toilet at Burning Man!
Trump has always sucked at anything he's done...the mans only accomplishment is convincing stupid women to marry him, and two out of three were foreigners trying to get their citizenship!
Texin
(2,770 posts)billionaire-owned Fourth Estate don't care to treat it as newsworthy (not to mention, scary has hell).
Martin Eden
(14,632 posts)Belief, truth, and/or facts do not enter into it at all. He says whatever he wants his followers and the public to believe. If that doesn't work, he'll deny saying what he actually said.
That method of communicating has, overall, worked very well for him.
Nevertheless, I concur his mental decline is showing. Some of his semi incoherent ramblings serve no useful purpose. Going off on tangents (what he calls "weaving" was a means of showing the masses he's a relatable, regular guy. But now those weaves are getting more bizarre.
As he physically declines and loses support from his cult over this Epstein affair, I expect his mental decline will get worse.
notinkansas
(1,268 posts)LIES constantly trying to deceive his base. Equally probable.
Ping Tung
(3,046 posts)homegirl
(1,795 posts)from today forward, every time I refer to (CONVICTED FELON) Donald Trump the preceding is exactly how I will format my post.
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gfarber
(53 posts)There once was a fellow named Trump,
Whose grasp on reality slumped.
With tales quite absurd,
Each nonsensical word,
From his mind, truly unhinged, he's just jumped.
sop
(15,221 posts)Trump is the perfect useful idiot: he will say anything they want, sign anything they put in front of him on the Resolute desk and do whatever crazy thing he's told, so long as his handlers tell him he's brilliant, Americans love him and everything is a success.
Orrex
(65,561 posts)pat_k
(11,473 posts)...rarely have any connection to reality.
How do you get "worse" than that?
His brain has been packed with self-aggrandizing delusions and nonsequiters for decades. They drop from his brain and out his mouth like a lunatic gumball machine.
Evolve Dammit
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Cha
(313,086 posts)he can get Away with Shit.
Who's going to call him on it? The Manipulative $$$$$ Media?
Godot51
(558 posts)Unfortunately most of the "media" is so caught up in the excitement of the moment they cannot focus on any one issue, such as his insanity.
Whereas when it was Joe Biden's supposed decline, the media piranha swarmed in a feeding frenzy.