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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News cuts away from press conference as Trump begins rambling incoherently about fences & trucks
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/fox-news-cuts-away-from-press-conference-as-trump-begins-rambling-incoherently-about-fences-and-trucks/
If we had the wall, the good people will not be able youll see them on the other side of the wall, said Trump. Number one, they wont come, because theyll say theres no way of getting through. Right now they think theres a way to get through. And the people back home never hear about that, they start to walk. They tell them Houstons half a mile away, but its 300 miles. Its desert.
This is a vast state, its a vast area. You look at it, the states tremendous, said Trump, who seemed genuinely stunned that Texas occupied a large land area. I come from New York. You have Fifth Avenue and that connects you to Park Avenue, its not too far away, but this is hundreds of miles between places.
Theyre very expensive fences, but they dont want to go through the process of going through the fences, so, again, they wait until the fence is open, the gate is open. They wait at the gate and they kill people, said Trump. They want to take the truck, a lot of times they dont even want to go to the house, they want to steal the truck. So you always go to the gate in doubles.
Its been going on for many years, its coming up, Im bringing it out, Trump continued. And these people are coming into our country, some are dying during the walk. Many of those people Ill bet are very good people, but some are dying during the walk. Many, many have died. That is what surprised me.
Aristus
(66,380 posts)I'm sure there were species of dinosaur that had more highly-developed brains...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,858 posts)having more brain power.
onit2day
(1,201 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,706 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)The word salad is rotting.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)he knew he was getting it wrong, you could see him word-searching, and he couldn't find anything but oranges.
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LonePirate
(13,424 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,706 posts)"That was some weird shit." I've never agreed with W on much of anything, but he was spot on. And it's getting worse.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)When W is weirded out by the Republicans in charge, you know that we've hit rock bottom.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)GWB is fucking Churchill compared to Trump.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)It won't be long now.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Nothing is going to happen to trump..
republicans refuse to do anything and I don;t know what the dems should do, but they damn well better do something,
People ought to be in the streets !!!
said people don't care about his tax returns... ..I do. How long will it be till he says people don't care about what I do, they love me. Power is a bitch isn't it???
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)tRump could tiptoe in the nude through the Rose Garden while whistling Dixie and throwing pixie dust about and nothing would happen. The GOP is determined to keep him in office while they try to chip away at their pet projects. We only think that everyone else sees his madness. Not so. Some of them actually view that as an asset.
txwhitedove
(3,928 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)It's on the Gulf you idiot.
The guy is losing it bad.
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)It amazes me that he didn't know that Texas was such a huge state. First clue, look at a darn map.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)and we are all victims of he madness!
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Talks about all of the symptoms of dementia that Trump is showing.
Notes that its worse than it was a year ago and calls for a neurological exam.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Trump really sounded demented.
Its downright scary.
mokawanis
(4,441 posts)If ever the world needed someone to be diagnosed with rapid onset of dementia it's Cheetoboy.
CDerekGo
(507 posts)This complete word salad! When is someone going to make the decision and have Hairplug Himmler thrown into a rubber room? I have no idea, but I'm betting there is a simple test for Alzheimer's. I'm betting all of that hair dye and hair spray for the past few decades has finally gotten to him!
Worst part? This azzhat is our 'president'. And even worst part? He no longer has enough sitting Cabinet Members who can invoke the 25th Amendment!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,706 posts)when he took his physical with Dr. Feelgood Jackson. You have to be able to draw hands on a clock and identify a camel.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)who doesn't know how to measure height and weight.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)abilities and decline. It was a Mini Mental, as I recall. It consisted of several parts, one of which was drawing a clock face showing a specific time. She was asked some basic questions on place, time and date. She also was asked to draw a house and asked to remember three words, which she had to repeat a short time later. It may have taken 20 minutes to complete But was not just two questions.
Based on that and my observations given to the doctor, the doctor told me she believed my mother had Alzheimers and was placed on Aricept to try to slow down the progression of the disease. We were told at that time that only an autopsy could tell us for sure if she had Alzheimers.
My brother-in-law (in his mid 70s) fell ill suddenly and became incoherent, mumbling and repeating numbers over and over. He was very paranoid and in an agitated state. He had fallen and had hit his head a month or so before but had been on vacation and seemed fine. His decline was so rapid that everyone that knew him was curious and dismayed at that turn of events. He eventually regained some ability (with medication) to converse and talk a little but was not ever normal again. The doctors thought he might have Lewey Body dementia and said it was terminal. He chose (earlier in his life via a Living Will) to discontinue feeding and liquids and died a few months after the rapid onset of dementia. He donated his body to University of North Carolina in hopes that theyd be able to figure out his diagnosis for certain.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,706 posts)Dementia really isn't something to make fun of - but it looks more and more like Trump's got it, and if so, something needs to be done. Reagan's Alzheimers was covered up and the government was managed without him, but Trump's administration doesn't have anybody competent and the nitwits who are there are likely to just let him keep on doing his crazy stuff.
The test I alluded to does consist of more than the two questions and is mainly designed to test short-term memory and the ability to recognize things, which is where dementia tends to manifest first. But it's not rocket science and definitely is not an intelligence test - and I'm wondering how well Spanky could handle it today.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)the number of people in on this loosely guarded secret. Everyone that comes in contact with tRump knows something is very wrong with him. Every.single.One. A few come out and tell whatever they dare. Some just keep mum. But no one with authority to do a damn thing is lifting a finger. Or if they are, theyre being damn quiet about it.
So yes, you are right that the mystery about what exactly is wrong with tRump could be solved by professionals with access to him for a few hours. Interviews with family and close associates would add more detail and information. But to the best of our knowledge, that is not happening and will not be allowed.
The question is why and why are so many people willing to try cover up the sad state of his mind? Try to cover is all they can do. It is painfully obvious he is a very sick man with a mind that is shutting down.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)I draw the clock with Roman numerals just to shake them up. They also tell me to remember three words which I'll be asked about later in the visit. Every year they ask for the same three words. I remember them from year to year.
3Hotdogs
(12,382 posts)Hekate
(90,695 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)To parse this shit, paragraph by paragraph. What in the hell is this fathead saying? Please translate him for us. Because he honestly sounds like a raving lunatic.
I have encountered untreated schizophrenics on street corners whose rants made more sense. I mean, there was at least some structure to what they were saying.
colorado_ufo
(5,734 posts)into some kind of word stew, because his brain can't sort it all out. He just got back from the border, where some people told him about drug dealers, some told him about people dying on the migrations, some pleaded with him about children in cages, some told him the law was against him, ranchers near the border may have told him that the "bad ones" sneak in and try to steal the first truck they can find to make a getaway, fences and walls work and don't work, Katie-Bar-the-Door, Who Let the Dogs Out, and who left the gate open.
His brain is on overload. He is trying to manage his inflated reputation, staying in control of everything and everyone, and keeping all his tangled businesses running on the side, and dodging law suits and possible indictments thrown in. And every day, he gets a little older and more sleep-deprived, as he is torn up with hatred and revenge, which he lets loose on Twitter.
He may self-destruct.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)or ability to focus long enough to hear a story more than two sentences long, if that. So you get the morphing about gates, trucks, etc. I'm surprised that he didn't turn, "They'll steal your truck," into "They'll steal your gate."
Blue Owl
(50,383 posts)n/t
louis-t
(23,295 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)to something with more kick? Sniff sniff.
czarjak
(11,277 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)That was the closing paragraph of the Raw Story article linked in my OP.
3Hotdogs
(12,382 posts)DBoon
(22,366 posts)Trump maybe not
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)Link to tweet
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Alwaysna
(574 posts)Are taking advantage of his decline to push his own cruel agendas?
Hekate
(90,695 posts)brucefan
(1,549 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)he's agoraphobic. The vastness of the West is evidently overwhelming to his neighborhood mentality.
marlakay
(11,468 posts)She lives in Alamo the rich area of San Antonio mostly all mansions but a few smaller homes and she is in one of those.
Was walking dogs and because she had no ID on her almost didnt let her go home. She had her iPhone and showed them her address on it but she got stopped many times by 4 policemen.
They were driving in a bus with horrible music she said and something about the wall on it.
My daughter was starting to get more conservative because they are military almost 20 yrs and that stopped with Trump who she says is horrible example for her kids, she is voting for Beto.
DFW
(54,387 posts)'Twas brilly and the slithy toves.........
akraven
(1,975 posts)all mimsy were the borogroves and the mome raths outgrabe. Beware the Jabberwock, my son.....
But I think jubjub birds would rock.
(I had to memorize most of it in 7th grade a long, long time ago!)
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Docreed2003
(16,860 posts)This dotard is becoming more demented daily.
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)them is Fox News which is why they cut away.
Funtatlaguy
(10,877 posts)And he will e worse by then
It will be beautiful for nominee to rip him to shreds
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)There will be a reason for it: some crisis going on at the time, whatever. There is no way that Trump will stand toe-to-toe with another thinking human in the forum of ideas. Right now, I doubt that he can tie his own shoes.
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)then they will feed him the answers via an in the ear (or in his case maybe under the hair) earbud.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Trump is now officially a doddering, crazy old man. His handlers can barely pretend to keep him functional before the public eye. There won't be any debate, because he could never stand up to that. Trump's handlers will provide reasons why he won't be debating. We will be okay with those reasons (tired from national security, etc.)
hunter
(38,313 posts)Reagan was a confused old man who didn't know where the hell he was or what he was doing there.
Nobody in the "mainstream" media reported it.
Reagan's acting skills kicked in for a few seconds, just long enough to look good on television. The newspapers reported by official press release, not by what they saw with their own eyes.
Gerald Ford may have been the last Republican President who wasn't a puppet.
Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)Tell me this doesnt sound like one of his speeches.
Hassler
(3,377 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)All the rural area full of farms and ranches; "between places". Farms and ranches where his voters live.
But they don't care that he doesn't care for them because ... emails.
Lonestarblue
(9,996 posts)Imagine several clips of Trump making absolutely no sense, with subtitles pointing out lies/ignorance, such as a clip from this press conferences with words like Houston is not on the border and theres no desert around it. How can Trump make good decisions when he doesnt even understand basic geography?
docgee
(870 posts)Let that get under his skin after they start discussing it on 'the shows'.
area51
(11,909 posts)Does he still have access to the "nuclear football"?
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)The sooner the better.
Olafjoy
(937 posts)To think that I used to mercilessly make fun of the way Dubya talked. Jaysus. I dont even know what to say anymore....Once again going incognito as a Canadian while traveling overseas. I am just so sick and tired of trying to explain what the #%* is going on here🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)He was better earlier in the day at the signing event. Here hes like a different person.
Hekate
(90,695 posts)Kim Jun Un had it right: Trump is in his dotage.
nolabear
(41,963 posts)And needing guns? And who was stealing trucks and opening gates?
The whole bunch made no sense.