• BillDaCatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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!

    • ziggurat@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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

    • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • limelight79@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I laughed the first time I heard a MAGAt talking about how bad Biden was at speaking. I seriously thought they were joking, because Trump’s word salad is far worse than any stutter Biden ever uttered.

      …they were not joking. They seriously believe Trump is some great orator.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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?”

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • ziggurat@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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

  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • D_C@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • Merva@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      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”.

    • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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

  • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

  • gamer@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    This is a stretch. I saw the video, and he just misspeaks by saying “country” instead of “company”, but it’s clear that he understands it’sa company. He says he’ll place tariffs on their toys, not the “country of Mattel”

  • sfled@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    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.