"they would give him blank papers to sort through and sign"

[muriel_volestrangler]

One area where the family seems united is over the president’s manic tweeting early Monday morning. After Trump sent out more than a dozen all-caps tweets, the Trump children told people they want Trump to stop. ‘They’re all worried. They’ve tried to get him to stop tweeting,’ a source close to the family told me.

The Trump family’s private concern about Trump’s behavior could raise questions about his fitness for office. Trump has been prescribed drugs that medical experts say can seriously impair his cognitive function. Last night the New York Times reported that steroids, which Trump is reportedly taking, specifically dexamethasone, are known to “affect mood, causing euphoria or a general happiness.”

There is a long history in the Trump family of denying serious illness. According to a Trump family friend, Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., insisted on working even after his Alzheimer’s disease advanced in the 1990s. “To retire is to expire!” Fred Sr. would say. The friend said that as Fred Sr.’s disease worsened––he once came down the stairs wearing three neckties––the family created a system so that Fred could think he was still running the Trump Organization. Every day Fred Sr. would go to the office in Brooklyn and they would give him blank papers to sort through and sign. The phone on Fred’s desk was set up so that it could only dial out to his secretary. “Fred pretended to work,” the family friend said.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/don-jr-thinks-trump-is-acting-crazy-presidents-covid-joyride-has-family-divided

Like father, like son ...

[captain queeg]

1. Sounds like it runs in the family

If don jr thinks he’s acting crazy he must be out of control

[0rganism]

2. someone get him that crate of old hilighters magazines, STAT!

he's manic and twitchy as hell, without something harmless to occupy his visual cortex he's prone to causing major irreparable damage
let's just hope W didn't fill out all the mazes in 2005...

[Moostache]

3. Donald has been pretending to work his whole worthless life...

Why would now be any different?
And his staff DID give him blank papers to "sign" in his photo ops at Walter Reed.

I am equal parts mad at him and his flunkies and sad that so many sheep exist in America that obviously fall for his crap.
How in the holy fuck does this man get $400M + TWICE in one lifetime (that he has pissed away BOTH times) and the good hard working people in teaching and law enforcement and fire fighting and public sanitation get literally NOTHING?

Brings about despair all too easily...

[Hugin]

4. This meshes with what Mary Trump said yesterday.

About her grandfather's treatment of their grandmother when she had osteoporosis.