Donald Trump complains about being called "cognitively impaired"
Donald Trump complains about being called "cognitively impaired"
Donald Trump has complained that the media portrays him as "cognitively impaired" in contrast to President Joe Biden.
...a perfect, brilliant, beautiful statement that I make...
Doesn't anyone else notice how often he makes these cringily exaggerated statements, and more to the point, recognize how clearly they illustrate the staggering depths of his delusions?
That's still the thing I most notably don't get about Trump - the man is obviously profoundly mentally ill, so why and how is he even taken seriously? How in the world is it even possible for such a painfully obvious gibbering lunatic to not only run for public office, but quite possibly win?
Because his supporters don't care if he's a gibbering idiot as long as he tells them their particular deplorable -ism is perfectly valid and fine. He gets the racist votes because he tells them that they're right and all the non-white people are inferior and out to get them. He gets the Christian votes because he tells them that the US has, is, and always will be a Christian nation that should be run by their particular flavor of Christianity and btw all the non-Christians are out to get them. He gets the homophobe and transphobe votes because he tells them yes, LGBTQ+ is a choice, they're all perverts, and they're all out to get them and their children.
Basically he tells everyone that's on the wrong side of history who have been told that they are terrible people for decades that they are in fact not terrible people, that they've been right all along, and that it's all a conspiracy by liberals/democrats/minorities/homosexuals/satanists/whoever to get them, and they eat that shit up. As long as he keeps spouting support for their particular prejudices he'll keep getting their votes, because they rather elect a gibbering moron who validates them than someone sane and competent that tells them their prejudice is wrong.
Well...
You're absolutely right, and that was very well-written to boot. But it's not the part that perplexes me. I likely just did a poor job of explaining myself.
I fully expect his intellectually and/or psychologically compromised supporters to fail or refuse to recognize his glaringly obvious insanity. As you note, he affirms their prejudices and tells them that the condemnation they so deservedly receive is actually some sort of evil conspiracy, and they grovel at his feet, lapping it up.
But that just accounts for a portion of his supporters and none of his opponents, and it's that remainder I wonder about - all of the people who are certainly rational enough to recognize his glaringly obvious derangement for what it is, but somehow just don't, or won't.
I have this recurring experience in which I read an essay or article from some more or less neutral site or even an oppositional site in which someone relates something that Trump said, then parses and analyzes it, as if it's a legitimate statement of supposed fact rather than the deranged ranting of someone who's painfully obviously profoundly mentally ill, and I can't even see how they managed to make it that far - how they didn't just stop halfway through relating whatever it was he said and throw their hands up and say, "This guy is a fucking lunatic!" Because he so blatantly obviously is.
That's what I don't get.
How in the world is it even possible for such a painfully obvious gibbering lunatic to not only run for public office, but quite possibly win?
"Quite possibly"? I don't know if you're American or how closely you follow our politics, but... he did win the presidency, in 2016. Definitely disheartening and embarrassing for our country.
It was exactly the shitshow everyone expected: He was impeached twice, but never removed from office. He pulled out of international climate deals, and the strategic nuclear one with Iran. His administration was corrupt, ineffective, fumbled the COVID-19 response, and catered to giant corporations at the expense of working Americans. The fact that he was our president is pathetic, but the worst part is it could happen again, but now with his fascist intentions and planned political revenge...
He lost the general election by over 3 million votes. The EC needs to be abolished.
If the Superbowl had some committee that overturned almost 20% of the results of the game, the US would be burning shit to the ground. Why do we accept that roughly 20% of all presidential elections have been overturned by people we cannot vote for?
Remember: this is the guy some people here want you to NOT vote against. Don’t listen to them.
I’m actually surprised he got those words out.
They must have fixed his teleprompter.
Double-dose of adderall.
That implies that he remembers how to read.
Then he should act as if he isn’t cognitively impaired.
He is, very clearly, cognitively impaired. Someone pull up the fucking nuclear quote, or the soliloquy about Elton John’s organ. I’d do it, but I’m just fucking exhausted by how fucking stupid everything has become.
Someone must have explained to him what those words mean.
Has he tried not being Cognitively Impaired?
Don’t fight uphill, me boys! But it was too late. Wow.
I guess this was all said in Newspeak then:
Now they'll say all these stories are terrible. Well, these stories have, you know, you heard my story in the boat with the shark, right? I got killed on that. They thought I was rambling. I'm not rambling. We can't get the boat to float. The battery is so heavy. So then I start talking about asking questions. You know, I have an, I had an uncle who was a great professor at MIT for many years, long, I think the longest tenure ever. Very smart, had three different degrees and you know, so I have an aptitude for things. You know, there is such a thing as an aptitude. I said, well, what would happen if this boat is so heavy and started to sink and you're on the top of the boat. Do you get electrocuted or not? In other words, the boat is going down and you're on the top, will the electric currents flow through the water and wipe you out? And let's say there's a shark about 10 yards over there. Would I have to immediately abandon or could I ride the electric down and he said, sir, nobody's ever asked us that question. But sir, I don't know. I said, well, I want to know because I guarantee you one thing, I don't care what happens. I'm staying with the electric, I'm not getting over with it. So I tell that story. And the fake news they go, he told this crazy story with electric. It's actually not crazy. It's sort of a smart story, right? Sort of like, you know, it's like the snake, it's a smart when you, you figure what you're leaving in, right? You're bringing it in the, you know, the snake, right? The snake and the snake. I tell that and they do the same thing.
~Orange Turd 22 June 24.... Double Plus Good!
If you told me an AI generated this random ass speech, I would tell you to go back to the drawing board.
Where did you get this transcript from?
Whaaattttt hahahah is there a recording of this?
Yup! It happended during a rally. Google Trump boats and sharks.
Edit: why the downvotes?
This made my day 🤣
Ok. I'll just call him stupid then.
This thumbnail looks like a cutscene from Robot Chicken
The real question is sharks or electrocution.
We can capitalize on his greatest fear... Electric Shark Boats
I imagine it's because he thinks cognitively impaired means something to do with sprockets in a pear.
lol he should seriously stop being so arrogant.
Hey, he’s aced multiple dementia tests, okay? Multiple! Heck they were easy! Of course, he lied. But.
It's one thing that Trump believes that telling an elephant and Giraffe apart makes him a genius, the truly horrible thing is that a lot of Americans agree, and are prepared to elect him president of USA.
I never said that. I never used the words "cognitively impaired" on him. I always call him things like "demented nitwit" or "stupid idiot", but never, ever "cognitively impaired". Because I think he would be challenged to understand those long, multi-syllable words. Which were probably not coined by him, but someone of his team.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump complained at a rally that he's portrayed by the media as being "cognitively impaired" if he says "one word slightly out."
At a rally in Philadelphia on June 22, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee compared his press coverage with that of President Joe Biden, who he said could "fall off the stage" without receiving a similar treatment from the media.
In March, Trump, 78, secured enough delegates to be his party's presumptive nominee following a string of primary victories, likely setting up a rematch of the bitter 2020 contest against Biden, 81.
Biden's and Trump's ages and their propensity for making gaffes have sparked concern about their mental agility and ability to serve a second four-year term.
Trump said at the rally, referring to the media: "If I blow it up here, though, they—actually, they take a perfect, brilliant, beautiful statement that I make.
Newsweek contacted representatives of Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign for comment by email outside usual business hours.
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