Was he ever cognitively there?

Was he ever cognitively there?
If it were not for his mental decline, he would not have gained the populist support of so many uneducated or uninformed people. Back when Trump was young and sharp the average New Yorker couldn't stand him.
Years ago he was smart, fast, crooked, and completely devoid of ethics or morals. He has an instinct for self-preservation equaled only by New York City's most vicious, flesh-eating rats. Those traits were imparted by a ruthless father and honed by a cold-blooded mentor.
But time has the final word, and J. D. Vance is waiting in the wings like a pudgy undertaker with a bereaved expression on his face and a twinkle in his eye.

Mattel? Pfft. The Hasbro Army is the one to worry about.

magats listen him on right wing sources as part of white noise background noise. they dont pay attention to what hes saying.
i have a family member like this, its to reinforce what they already believe about him.

Can someone confirm this is real? I refuse to watch this piece of shit any more than I have to.
- https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-mattel-country/
  
  As much as I’m not a fan of Trump, based on that snopes article and the context around what he said… it’s pretty obvious that he accidentally said country instead of something like company. He followed up with remarks that made it obvious he knew that it was a toy company.
  
  Thanks

WHALE!

At least you don't have a woman in office, huh America?
- Hillary won the popular vote, so the "you're too misogynistic to elect a woman" take does not have a basis in reality. Also, you might have noticed that AOC is filling football stadiums in red states just by being willing to speak.
  Kamala lost because people got poorer for four years under Biden and she very publicly affirmed she'd change nothing about his policies. Hell, she didn't even put a platform on her website until two weeks before the election. Kamala was a legitimately bad candidate.
  
  Kamala lost because people got poorer for four years under Biden and she very publicly affirmed she'd change nothing about his policies.
  Well I think the problem is people perceived others as getting poorer or worse off but the economy was humming just fine and unemployment reached record low numbers iirc.
  Like, in general terms, people did not get poorer for four years under Biden - but if that's what people think, regardless of the actual truth, that's what they'll act on.
  
  The GOP didn't update their platform since, like, 2015, unless you count Project 2025, which Trump claimed to know nothing about. In the 2020 election, it still referenced running against Obama.
  
  Why is it that female candidates are addressed by first name?
  
  I was with you until the end. People didn't get poorer under Biden, the Dems just did a terrible job of promoting the fact that our economy was literally the strongest in the world, and stronger than it had been in decades.
  Kamala didn't lose for any other reason than the MAGA Nazis cheated in multiple ways, and EVERYONE knows it.
  IF there is another election (I doubt it), the next Democratic candidate needs to run on six issues - Harsh punishment for HitlerPig and his henchmen, declaring MAGA a terrorist hate group and purging it from society, rebuilding the government back to its former glory, completely re-writing the tax code to favor workers and HEAVILY tax the wealthy, and Medicare 4 All.
  Anyone who says that we have to run on something other than not being HitlerPig instantly loses my vote. Prosecuting and punishing HitlerPig is literally the only issue in front of us. Without that, America can never move forward. HitlerPig and MAGA must be crushed and purged mercilessly.
  
  If Hillary or Kamala had been men they would have won. If Kamala had been white I don't think that would have been enough to get her elected.
  But if Kamala had more than a hundred days to campaign, then she might have had a fair shot.
  
  She also had a lot of whispering in her ear about how to run a campaign, including from Joe Biden who still thinks he would have won. That's also partly the reason she started stronger then diluted her platform.
  
  She was a bad candidate in 2020, when she ran in the primary
  
  This among many other reasons is why I want Kamala to leave the governorship of California well enough alone. I don't want her coming here and applying her Republican pandering to the state.

Back before the election, Trump spoke about the fictional character Hannibal Lecter, at least twice, like he was a real person. Trump was never cognitively there!
- He kept talking about Hannibal Lecter because someone mentioned asylum for immigrants, and the only "asylum" he knows is an insane asylum.
  So he started talking about Hannibal Lecter every time he mentioned immigrants, equating them with insane cannibals who want to eat you.
  
  Is there a term for Pavlov's dog but done to yourself?
  
  And only peope who were as extremely stupid as himself would have ever realised that connection.
- Before DJT had symptoms of his father's Alzheimer's, which is a decade since now since it has shown on TV, he was even back then, how he calls it, a low IQ individual. And a racist

"Trump is not cognitively there".
So, he's the perfect representative for the American people.
- His cabal of gamification experts discovered that the flaw in the Electoral college system could be exploited IF they could find a common denominator for all the low population areas with disproportionately high representation in the EC. Turns out it's hate. Who'd have thought.
  
  That’s a strategy as old as Reconstruction, utilizing an antidemocratic compromise baked into the Constitution by slavers who didn’t want the anti-slavery popular vote to have the power to take away their chattel. The brain trust behind Trump’s win aren’t especially clever. They’re just the latest schmucks to be soulless and hollow enough to fully embrace that hate-filled lowest common denominator, half a century after the last bunch finally got pushed out of power.
- In 2016, I'd have argued he isn't.
  But now, after what we've seen out of America since, he is absolutely representative of who we are at our core in this country. Just wait until the supply chain breaks down from tariffs and people start to see empty shelves. You're REALLY going to see who the American people are then.

No shit, that's why he signs whatever they put in front of him, and project 2025 has been followed almost to a T. He doesn't give a crap about anything in project 2025. But he's mentally in lala land and they've been hiding his declining health for a while.
- They haven't been hiding it well. His dementia was apparent even in 2016.
  
  It's not just dementia anymore. That's just a symptom, whatever it is has progressed a lot.
- Can someone sneak in an executive order instituting free basic healthcare and education for all, in one of the bundles of paper he signs?
  
  Just call them something like "Repeal Obamacare and institute Trumpcare Act" and "Great American Education Act' and he'll sign them without reading.
  
  I dunno, give it a shot. Maybe he'll just sign it and go for a big mac.
- It's why they want to get rid of PBS, he wants to be the most famous puppet.
- But at least he isn't using autopen! /s
  That dumb motherfucker is the autopen.
- The Ronnie Reagan 2 the dementia boogaloo

Trump is one of those guys you find on one of those "lol shit Americans say" videos where someone approaches "random" people on the street to ask them history or geography questions.
Except he's your president, and because your country is "nice" enough to have the world exchange currency we all have to suffer for it.

He’s also an idiot

did he watch the barbie movie and thought barbie land was real?

- AMERICA, FUCK YEAH
- be afraid. be very afraid. they can do anything.

lol. But Sleepy Joe. FJB. I dunno. Fuck maga, trump and Elon.
- Sleepy Joe was very publicly cognitively impaired for years. I don't think "our guy is as bad as their guy" is a good point to make on this one.
  
  I don't remember him saying things like "Mattel is a country". I remember him agreeing to do a debate while sick, which was stupid.
  I think the difference between a very bad day and mentally impaired is a lot wider than you speculate.
  That said I agree with you only because he DID step back from the race, and had he done that A LOT FUCKING EARLIER then Kamala might have been able to dodge the bus she got thrown under.

My brother in law, without skipping a beat: "obviously he meant Micronesia"
My reply, apparently not enough to get a response: "So you're okay with a president who's so cognitively vacant he can't tell the difference between two very different sounding words?"
- "obviously he meant Micronesia"
  These people are goners. Completely in lala land now. Trump could have an episode where he sits on stage digging into his diaper and eating his own shit and these people would go "Trump is a very smart man returning those nutrients to his body" and they'd all start eating their own shit too.
  
  Don't you mean scooping his diaper since it's all liquid. I doubt he has a solid bowel movement since his cocaine abuse permanently damaged his intestines
- 100% guarantee that Trump doesn't know what Micronesia is
- It's a cult.
- As well as the fact Micronesia is also not a country...
  
  micro-asia.
  
  Psst
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia
- was totally unaware that fsm was a toy manufacturing powerhouse.
- Obviously got his countries mixed up - it's the Microplastesia that is invading every bit of USA (and indeed the world).

Man thought the Barbie movie was a documentary and is ready to nuke the country Mattel for making a woke movie in their country.

He's mixing Mattel and Malta...

Mfw Mattel secedes from the union

By the power of GREYSKULL!!!

This one isn't so bad. Simple misspoken word. Meant to say "company" not "country." He referenced their "CEO" a moment later.
Literally a zillion valid thing to complain about Trump. This was nothing.
- What makes it sting is that when it was Biden or Obama misspeaking, the right wing troll farms and the entire corpoganda machine would have a great day with it. And god help them if they wore beige.
  So yeah, I don't feel a need to play fair anymore. He asked for every whiff of smoke he's getting.
  
  Beige, hot dog, sipping from a straw, walking barefoot
- Wow, your arms must be sore carrying all that water.
- He needs to be judged harshly on everything he does. Everything.
  Let's just imagine if Biden had said something like that. Or if Obama did it (whilst wearing a tan suit for extra fake rage). The us media would've been shouting about it and there'd be TV shows about it. Oppositional politicians would've been demanding impeach this and impeach that etc etc etc...
  But, oh, it's tRUMP who may have misspoke? Oh, well, he's done much worse so let's give him a pass, shall we? How about this...NO.
  That fat, dumb, racist, rapist, orange cunt gets no pass, ever.
  It's the small passes over the years that have had no consequences for him that have allowed him to move to bigger and bigger stuff to the big horrible shit that he's doing now. And has been doing for decades.
  No passes, just harsh criticism. That's all he deserves.
- For anybody else in his position it would have been a pretty big deal. But because it is Trump and we know how he is with words (as in not at all), this is "nothing".
- I kinda agree. I think the much bigger story would be the fact that he's threatening a singular company with a specific tariff of they don't do what he likes. I don't even think that's legal, especially without congressional approval tho I could be wrong. In any case if we start going down the road of picking and choosing which specific companies get to have tariffs or not we are going to fly so fast down the slippery slope of corruption my ass will break the sound barrier

Contextually, there's no indication he had confused Mattel with a country, likely just said the word because of speech habit when talking about tariffs. To think he confused it, you'd have to subscribe to the idea he thinks it's a country that makes toys and is run by an executive, or had an ear piece correct him mid-sentence.
He fucks up multiple times a day. There's much more low-hanging fruit than this. Come on, peeps.
- Right. Just so we're clear then, he knows Mattel is a company, and he thinks companies can impose tariffs on the USA.
  And that's better?
  
  I'unno. Watch the video. It's...somethung. Stupid as always, but didn't think Mattel was a country, that's for sure.
- I'm tired, boss.
  
  You're a thurd of the way to first base; you're practically home!

So I guess Barbieland is part of the Axis of Evil now?

Maybe they successfully groomed a better younger asset & this one has done its part & now gets polonium garnish.

I wonder if he thinks Barbieland from the Barbie movie is the country of Mattel 🤔
- Its just Alzheimer's, and hes trying to talk like he thinks people doesn't see it.
  His father also had it. And it is linked to both bad diet and genetics
  
  Hasn't he been seen picking up the phone when it's not ringing
- Or the coined term barbeheimer

No, but he strayed further.

He's 100% cognitive. Problem is, he's stupid.
- Both can be true.