Trump reveals his dementia in an interview with Bloomberg, as...
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Oct 16, 2024
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Trump reveals his dementia in an interview with Bloomberg, as Harris puts his fascism in the context of his dementia. A THREAD
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1. I don’t know who thought it was a good idea for Donald Trump to do an interview with the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg, but I do know he hates his boss. I mean, could anyone buy better proof of his dementia? That’s how bad today’s event was.
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2. He couldn’t answer simple questions. He sure-as-hell couldn’t answer complex ones. He failed to show basic knowledge and understanding of economics and business, especially tariffs, not even after the host, John Micklethwait, patiently explained how they do and don’t work.
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3. Trump drifted away from the topic repeatedly. He showed repeated annoyance when Micklethwait steered him back. At least once, he seemed to realize he was humiliating himself and covered it up.
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4. At one point, after Micklethwait interrupted one of his reveries, Trump scolded him for “moving too quickly.” Trump said, “You gotta be able to finish a thought, because it’s very important. This is big stuff. You can’t go that quickly.”
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5. Micklethwait said, “you’ve gone from the dollar to [French President] Macron.” Trump said, “I’m just telling you basic … It’s called ‘the weave’ … it’s all these different things happening.”
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Trump: You gotta be able to finish a thought because it’s very important. This is big stuff.
Micklethwait: You’ve gone from the dollar to Macron
Trump: It’s called the weave
Micklethwait: You’ve gone from the dollar to Macron
Trump: It’s called the weave
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6. Trump is putting everything he has into putting one word in front of another, though the effort is taking him places he does not intend to go.
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7. He gets frustrated when the people he’s talking to “interrupt” him when they bring him back on subject. These “interruptions” make him forget his train of thought and that makes him struggle even more.
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8. Trump is also taking what is a growing mental deficit and making it seem like it’s a mental asset. He’s even given it a name – “the weave.”
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9. In reality, the weave is what happens when an aging brain flits from topic to topic without any apparent reason for doing so. Trump, however, wants us to believe that cognitive decline is extraordinary.
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10. Early last month, at a rally in PA, he explained that “the weave” is talking about “nine different things and they all come back brilliantly together. And friends of mine who are, like, English professors, they say: ‘That’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen!’”
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11. Trump must have been getting worried about Micklethwait’s “interruptions,” because the weave came back around for a second appearance during today’s disastrous interview.
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12. After a lengthy digression about tariffs and steel and “World War III,” etc., Trump paused, as if he had to explain why he had been digressing.
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13. The weave *is* important. If voters do not see ordinary dementia as an amazing rhetorical tactic that impresses the likes of English professors, they might see it as, well, ordinary dementia. They might see Trump in an ordinary human light. That’s death to the strongman.
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14. Trump knows what’s happening to him. He’s aware that something is wrong, that he’s not well. We know this is true, not only because he rambles, not only because he can’t answer simple questions, but because he keeps bringing it up.
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15. He’s given his disability a name! He used it twice today, using almost the same language in each instance. Trump brought up, as he has frequently over the last year, the time when he “aced” a pair of tests designed to detect dementia.
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16. But the most obvious evidence that he’s aware of his cognitive decline is the fact that he accuses Kamala Harris, a woman 20 years younger, of having cognitive decline. After another long exposition, he said, “I don’t think she could pass a cognitive test.”
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17. In accusing her of what’s happening to him, he’s hoping no one notices what’s happening to him.
It’s in the projection that we see the admission of the truth.
It’s in the projection that we see the admission of the truth.
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18. Trump’s frustration boiled over at one point. Micklethwait broke into yet another of his divagations and insisted on facts.
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19. Micklethwait said tariffs on the scale Trump proposes would cost trillions and his plan would run up enormous debt. Micklethwait went on to say that even the Wall Street Journal, “hardly a communist organization,” has criticized him.
Trump crossed his arms.
Trump crossed his arms.
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20. Trump’s deteriorating mental health hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves, but it is now. The Harris campaign is insisting on it. Over the weekend, Harris told a reporter that the public should
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21. Later, at a rally, she said he’s
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22. Then last night, at another rally, and after enumerating the ways that Trump is a danger to democracy and freedom, Harris put all those fascist tendencies in the *context of his deteriorating mental health*.
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23. Her conclusion landed with a thunderclap.
“Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged.”
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“Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged.”
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