Yes, bidding was old. But Trump's intellectual decline is alarming

Trump seems to know little, and he has become increasingly incoherent and extensive, often completely replaced by reality.

For those who spent weeks, months and even years that howled about the “mental decline” of the then President Joe Biden, we read a brief reading about the 78-year-old, Donald Trump's answers to the latest interview questions.

Time Magazine spoke to Trump in the Oval Office and had this exchange.

ZEIT: “Mr. President, they showed us the new paintings that you have behind us. You have put all of these new portraits. One of them joins John Adams. John Adams said we are a government that is ruled by laws, are not men. Do you agree with that?”

Trump: “John Adams said that? Where was that painting?”

ZEIT: “It is here.”

Trump's own words show us that he is not everything

The magazine asked the president about border security and said this about the border wall: “I built hundreds of miles and then (bidges), and we had another, additional hundred miles that I could have put up because I ordered it as extra.

So he completed the wall, but had more to build. The reality is that Trump “built” 458 miles along the almost 2,000 miles long border between the USA and Mexico during his first term, but most of them were the repair of existing barriers.

Trump's memory is not good. Just read this interview transcripts.

And then from the same interview:

Trump: If this were bid, he would not make an interview because he was roughly incompetent. “

ZEIT: “We spoke to him last year, Mr. President.”

Trump: “Huh?”

ZEIT: “We spoke to him a year ago.”

Trump: “How did he do it?”

ZEIT: “You can read the interview yourself.”

Trump: “Not too well. I read the interview. He didn't do it well.”

Obviously, Trump didn't read the interview. And it is even clearer that Trump doesn't make much sense these days.

So where did these bombings happen in Moscow cars?

On board the Air Force One, he had this exchange with reporters.

Reporter: “This morning there was a car bomb in Moscow that killed a Russian general. Did you react to it?”

Trump: Who killed what? “

Reporter: “Russian general general who were killed by a car bomb.”

Trump: Wow, no, I just heard. You just tell me that for the first time. Where did that take place? “

It took place in Moscow, Grandpa, the guy literally just said it!

If bidens “mental decline” was worried, Trump should be alarming

Biden's reported intellectual decline, together with its advanced age, was a relevant topic. However, some of these problems came from bidens poor talks and his lifelong stuttering, both of whom could make his delivery appear added.

In his terrible debate performance against Trump, this culminated, which led to his decision to step aside in the presidential race.

I praised this decision, but the reality was that it was often clear that, despite bidges, he showed his age that he remained sharply and had a deep knowledge and deep understanding of politics and the world. The 82-year-old even managed to leave us with a growing economy that Trump has danced since then.

On the other hand, Trump seems to know little, and he has become increasingly incoherent and extensive, often completely replaced by reality.

Forgetful Trump does not seem to know what is going on around him

Asked about the 9-0 judgment of the US Colonel Court that the Trump government had to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported man from Maryland, home from a Salvadora prison, said Trump:

Indeed, it wasn't something completely different.

Time journalists said to Trump: “You once said you were not sure how the quote of civil rights” out “worked. Would America be better without it?”

Trump said, “I've never heard of it. That has never asked me.”

What the interviewer replied: “You said it in an interview in 2020.”

And Trump said, “I don't remember that I said that.”

A debate about non -existent tattoos is strange

In a recent ABC news interview with Terry Moran, Trump was pushed onto the Abrego Garcia case and insisted that the man is a gang member and tattooed on his fingers “MS13”. That is simply not the case. Abrego Garcia has finger tattoos, and the Trump administration has published a changed image of its hand with the “M”, “S”, “1” and “3” to point out that each of the four tattoos stands for one of the letters or numbers.

It is the most obvious doctoral photo in the history of medical photos, but Trump was convinced that the overlay letters and numbers are actually colored on the skin of Abego Garcias, which led to this amazing exchange:

Trump: “It is called MS-1 three.”

Moran: “That was Photoshop. So just let me …”

Trump: “That was Photoshop? Terry, you can't do that … he … he … hey, you have the big break of a life. You know you do the interview. I chose you because I have never heard of you, but that's okay.”

Moran: “That … I knew that would come …”

Trump: But I selected you, Terry. But you are not very nice. He had tattooed MS-13 … “

Moran: okay. OK. We will agree not to agree. I want to go on … “

Trump: “Terry.”

Moran: “… about something else.”

Trump: “Terry. Should I show the picture?”

Moran: I saw the picture. We will, we will agree to it, will not agree … “

Trump: Oh, and you think it was Photoshop. So … “

Moran: “Here we go. Here we go.”

Trump: “… not Photoshop it. Look …”

Moran: “In order.”

Trump: “… on his hand. He had MS-13.”

Harvard? Harlem? Trump cannot see the difference.

Here, too, there is no MS-13 on the hand of this guy. Period. And no reasonable person could see the sloppy mental photo and think that it is real.

During an interview with Newsnation on April 30, Trump was asked by Stephen A. Smith against Harvard University after his war. The President describes imaginary unrest in Harlem:

“Well, I say that. We had unrest in Harlem, in Harlem, and frankly, when you look at what's going on – and the people out of Harlem rose and protested, Stephen, and they protested very strongly against Harvard. They were accidentally on my side.”

Trump continued with confusing: “You know I have a very high black tuning. You know that? Very, very high black tuning. It was a very big compliment for me.”

Here, too, it was about Harvard, not Harlem. The “unrest in Harlem” does not refer to anything in our current reality, and no one has asked Trump anything about black voters.

Happy Easter to 'Murderer' and 'Drug Lords'?

These examples only scratch the surface. Trump raged against a judge he claimed that he monitored a case in which he had sued a law firm. But the case actually includes a law firm that sues him.

His truth social posts are unspeakably unhinged, included recent lines like: “Happy Easter to all, including the radical left lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring murderers, drug lords, dangerous prisoners, the mentally insane, and well known MS and Wife Beater, Back Into Country.

The president seems to lose it. Maybe we should be worried.

The brain of this man is full of spiders. At best, he seems to have planted a toe in reality.

So where, I ask, is the anger? Where are the hours after hours the FOX News Coverage? Where is the extensive reporting of New York Times?

Trump's melting brain gets a passport, for reasons that I will never understand.

None of this is in the defense of bidges. I am everything for younger, sharper heads that lead the country. But Trump is not younger or sharper.

If we are honest, this aging president hardly makes any sense.

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