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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI make every attempt to be medically objective
and without any hesitation I will state for the record or whatever the heck this is, that he is spiraling downward and the rate of change, so to speak, is increasing. The first derivative (d-shithead/d-trump for you calculus fans) is growing rather rapidly.
If a formerly cogent, high-functioning individual attended my office and possessed the affect which he had at the Davos speech, I would immediately contact the spouse or next-of-kin and recommend a full professional evaluation.
Now because he makes me violently ill, I can only watch and worse, listen to him very occasionally. It had been some time since I had and that performance demonstrated a significant decline from the last time I saw him. It is definitely a marked decline.
This is not a sentient individual and is decompensating more rapidly than ever. Hold onto your hats, its gonna get exciting.
Kid Berwyn
(23,328 posts)After the record is clear for history, he can continue the necrosis.
Kennah
(14,569 posts)tinrobot
(11,971 posts)Trials or not, the sooner he croaks, the better.
CaliforniaPeggy
(156,221 posts)MiHale
(12,690 posts)If he decides to have one should be fun. Democrats should be heckling him all throughout
government is a joke now anyway may as well drive him into a ketchup rage.
Chants of release the Epstein Files, maybe Jack is right, loudly point out every lie..Thats a lie works well. Show us the proof at some of his statements.
No PedoPrez comments
keep it a little civil.
Ilsa
(63,939 posts)I won't watch him blather shamelessly.
MLWR
(814 posts)Joinfortmill
(20,258 posts)vapor2
(3,950 posts)sop
(17,668 posts)Ocelot II
(129,442 posts)He's still waddling around, though unsteadily; he can still make word-adjacent sounds with his face that are understood well enough to scare the entire world; and he is still able to ingest grease-exuding foodlike substances sufficient to keep that quivering bundle of meat that passes for his body in an apparently undead state. By decompensating I hope what is really meant is something more like deliquescing. I won't be happy until some minion walks into the Oval Office and finds nothing behind the Resolute Desk but a puddle of foul-smelling goo.
littlemissmartypants
(31,993 posts)"word-adjacent sounds"... with his face...had to be added there to clarify and that is brilliant. Big bonus points for "deliquescing" too.
I'm right there with you.
Pacifist Patriot
(25,202 posts)leftieNanner
(16,124 posts)And so eloquent too.
LoisB
(12,448 posts)medical intervention. They are probably as anxiously awaiting "that day" as we are.
Kennah
(14,569 posts)LoisB
(12,448 posts)3Hotdogs
(15,094 posts)from my neighbors. I don't care if their celebration keeps me up all night.
crimycarny
(2,044 posts)I think part of the spiraling is due to his malignant narcissism and the pathological intolerance for criticism and ridicule. There is a name for it: "narcissistic collapse," and I think that's what we're seeing. That, combined with some cognitive decline.
radical noodle
(10,495 posts)The things he is saying and doing are only different in that they're more extreme versions. He's still the lying con man he's always been, only more so.
erronis
(22,847 posts)As in the curse: May you live in exciting times.
Fil1957
(600 posts)His mother lived to be 88.
So he can easily finish out his term, although he may be less functional than he is now. And as long as doesn't drool, throw feces or run into the middle of the street naked and screaming, no matter how mentally incompetent he gets, there's no way the 25th amendment will be invoked by this Republican party.
PCIntern
(28,020 posts)his daddy didnt eat mcDonalds three times a day.
littlemissmartypants
(31,993 posts)NJCher
(42,593 posts)He has three sandwiches at each "meal" from McD's. I posted about this a few weeks ago. Can't recall my source at the moment, but when I do I'll edit this post.
Back in the early 80s, McDonalds national headquarters in Oak Brook, IL had a regular employee cafeteria.
They changed it over to serving only McDonald's food, i.e., what you would find at their restaurants. They called this cafeteria "The Golden Arches."
Within a few years their executives began keeling over with heart attacks and other illnesses caused by such a diet. Needless to say, the company cafeteria went back to the prior format.
keep_left
(3,178 posts)He also recently berated McDonald's executives for being too skimpy with his "Fish Delights" when it comes to the tartar sauce!
https://democraticunderground.com/100220940403#post26
https://democraticunderground.com/100220792773#post27
Anyone remember this scene?

spanone
(141,137 posts)FakeNoose
(40,411 posts)... but he was also seriously jet-lagged, probably on speed or some other drug as a pep-me-up.
Even in Chump's first term, he used to show up in Europe, or Japan, or wherever on the day of his appointment and never a day early. The jet-lag (super-tired goofiness) was always noticeable even then. I can't believe his minders allowed this, old people are really affected by it much worse than younger people.
He should have arrived at least 24 hours ahead, and slept or rested for most of the first day. THEN he would have been ready and perhaps a little more coherent.
Not that it mattered, because his speech was ridiculous anyway. But his delivery would have been a little better.
hatrack
(64,360 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,691 posts)paleotn
(21,699 posts)Maybe even factorial! n! The faster the better not only for our sanity but to limit the damage.
mercuryblues
(16,191 posts)new excuse.
Trump is merely getting Botox in his hands to make them bigger. The bruise was caused by the Dr. getting distracted by Trump's big brain, Trump knows more about this than the Dr's. They are so impressed that the gave him a Medical degree.
They gave him some needles and Botox. On the way out the door, they told him he knows more about it than they do, he can go ahead and do it himself.
ColoringFool
(347 posts)ancianita
(43,060 posts)hay rick
(9,406 posts)We are in a bad place and the hoped-for fair 2026 elections are an unreliable lifeline.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,619 posts)... finding a next-of-kin who actually gives a shit.
mr715
(2,937 posts)Wow! Pigeons are sentient. I love your assessment.
Horse with no Name
(34,223 posts)What was that other movie? Dave?
This bastard is not long for this earth. Thanks god.
struggle4progress
(125,463 posts)Botany
(76,543 posts)Just a few days ago he said, that was an insane asylum and the democrats in New York closed them
So in California they have a problem
and did I tell you that I was the best baseball in N.Y. state?
. Skipping over the whole Mickey Mantle thing
Or some kind of gibberish like that
Kennah
(14,569 posts)... I used to be a very activist Union Shop Steward. More than once, I've had the experience of a person going through medical issues, Reasonable Accommodation, and unfortunately, Medical Separation. I would tell people not to tell me their medical issues as I didn't need to know, but I would say if they wanted to share to feel more comfortable, then they could. I know more than I ever wished to know about so many people.
There is one person who sticks in my mind. HR contacted me and said this person needs a Steward. I said, well okay, but it's up to them, and if they tell me to fuck all the way off, then I have to step out. HR understood. Five minutes talking to this person, and I was reasonably confident they'd suffered a stroke and their short-term memory was shot. I never got confirmation, and fortunately, no one ever shared what they should not have shared. I never asked the person, and the person never volunteered their medical issues. I remain 99% certain about what they'd been through.
I am even more certain that Trump suffered a stroke, dementia, or a combination thereof.